When a young upstart by the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt came to the Navy Department in 1913 as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he helped engineer one of the largest naval build-ups in world history. By the time the U.S. entered World War I officially in 1917, it may have been Mr...
Denney took command of the navy’s F/A-18 and EA-18G programme office in 2019. Known as PMA-265, the office manages acquisition, delivery and sustainment of the two aircraft for the service. The year earlier, then-defence secretary James Mattis had mandated that all fighter types ...
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USS IOWA represents the largest — and last — class of battleships built by the United States Navy. The IOWA class battleships served in every US conflict from World War II through the Gulf War in 1991. Visit USS IOWA naval museum and experience a piece of living history. Why is the bat...
Invasion of Normandy: (D-Day; June 6, 1944): The landing on the beaches of Normandy was the largest amphibious assault in history. VE Day (May 8, 1945): The official end of WWII in Europe. Battle of Iwo Jima(Feb. 19 to March 26, 1945): The U.S. Navy and Marines take Iwo Jim...
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Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, 1918.Naval History and Heritage Command After efforts to purchase the adjacent land failed, the Navy obtained the present site of the Navy Yard, Kauhua Island, and a strip on the southeast coast of Ford Island through eminent domain. Work also began dredging the ent...
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balloons still had numerous defensive and reconnaissance applications. They were useful enough thatthe United States Navy produced a training film entitledHistory of Balloonswhich takes viewers through the early days of manned ballooning. Examples of how the core technology developed and matured over time...