Charting deep waters
Navy personnel work in the radar plot room aboard the U.S.S. Lexington as the ship maneuvers into enemy waters during a strike in the Gilbert and Marshall...
Commander in Chief of the American Fleet
Commodore Esek Hopkins, Commander-in-Chief of the American Fleet, Continental Navy, Revolutionary War, 1776
Crashed and captured!
George M. Neal wrote this September 13, 1954, letter to relatives of Navy officer Lieutenant John K. Koelsch. Neal, a crewmember of Koelsch, describes events...
December 7 destruction
This photograph of the damage to Ford Island Naval Air Station, Hawaii, was originally taken by a Navy photographer. It was later an exhibit in a court case...
Enrolling for flight training
Civilians line up to enroll in U.S. Navy flight training during World War II, ca. 1941
Escaped!
U.S. Navy Lieutenant Eduard Isaacs wrote this report to the Secretary of the Navy in November 1918, describing how he escaped from German imprisonment after his ship...
Final situation report
On August 4, 1964, the commander of Navy Task Group 72.1 filed this report on the attack in the Gulf of Tonkin. The Task Group was conducting electronic eavesdropping...