On guard
In May of 1945, Quartermaster 2nd Class R.H. Swickard operates a searchlight aboard the U.S.S. Sand Lance while on war patrol. The diesel-powered submarine was...
One gun and a ram
The CSS Manassas, a one-gun Confederate ironclad ram, rammed the USS Richmond at the Head of Passes at the mouth of the Mississippi River on October 12,...
Pearl Harbor casualty
The December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base on Oahu began at 7:53 a.m.; the second wave came at 8:55 A.M. In less than 2 hours, the United States...
Pearl Harbor, January 1941
This aerial photograph shows the naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii (then the Territory of Hawaii), on January 17, 1941. The U.S. Navy was in the process of...
Photograph of the U.S.S. Maddox
This photograph was taken in May 1964, as the U.S.S. Maddox sailed into Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The Maddox served during World War II and the Korean War...
Preparing for an air raid
Sailors man four 20 mm cannons on the starboard afterdeck of the U.S.S. Indiana on May 28, 1945. The battleship was commissioned in 1942 and saw action in the...
Racing to attack
Three North Vietnamese P-4 torpedo boats attacked the U.S.S. Maddox, an American destroyer patrolling the Gulf of Tonkin, on August 2, 1964. This photograph...