Japan’s 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise to most people in the United States—but Hawaii had been preparing for decades.

In James Michener’s classic novel, The Bridges at Toko-ri, protagonist Harry Brubaker comes to Korea as a reluctant warrior, a reservist who wants nothing more than to get back to...

The mortal danger faced during the three-month struggle to take Okinawa was not the end of the war for LCS-18.

Rear Admiral Thomas Richards' actions in 1971 stand as the embodiment of conspicuous gallantry under fire.

In this issue we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Marine Corps with a variety of offerings showcasing various chapters of their illustrious history.

A multinational expedition led by the Ocean Exploration Trust completed a groundbreaking archaeological survey of more than a dozen World War II–era shipwrecks.

The City of Philadelphia’s celebration commemorating the 250th anniversary of the establishment of America’s Navy and Marine Corps continues this November with Marine-themed events.

The winners of the 2025 CNO Naval History Essay Contest were announced in an awards ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis in September.

This is the story of two ships that contributed to Herman Wouk’s Pulitzer Prize–winning 1951 novel The Caine Mutiny and the 1954 movie.

Circulating on the internet is a faked composite photograph of the airship USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) resting on board the carrier Saratoga (CV-3) that was the focus of “The Caption...

From the early years of the 20th century into about the mid-1930s, airplanes shared the world’s skies with much larger aircraft—huge rigid airships commonly known as zeppelins.

The land where Eastern Europe meets Asia Minor has been a crossroads of history—and a fiercely contested territory between rival powers—from antiquity to our own fractious times.