Floating hangar
The U.S. Navy experimented with lighter-than-air ships during the 1920s and 30s. Based at Lakehurst Naval Airstation in New Jersey these vessels needed special...
Gathering secrets of the German submarines
In May 1918, the German submarine U-90 attacked and sank the U.S.S. President Lincoln. Lieutenant Edouard V.M. Isaacs was captured and taken prisoner. While a...
Getting shipshape
Recruit Fred Roberts from Greenville, Tennessee, received his first “G.I.” haircut in this World War II-era photograph, dated September 28, 1943. Roberts enlisted...
I have not yet begun to fight!
This is a photograph of a print of John Paul Jones, created in the 1930s by the George Washington Bicentennial Commission. Jones, an officer in the Continental Navy...
Icebergs!
This United States Hydrographic Office memorandum summarizes conditions in the North Atlantic for the first half of April 1912. Paragraph five records the...
Integrated but not equal
An integrated crew served on this U.S. gunboat, probably the Mendota. During the Civil War, 18,000 black men<&ndash>and more than a dozen women<&ndash> served...
Japan surrenders
This log from the U.S.S. Missouri records preparations for the September 2, 1945, surrender of Japan to the Allied powers, which ended World War II. The...