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  1. World War II

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    Artifacts Battle Flag of the Flying Fish U.S. Navy Museum PT 309 National Museum of the Pacific War Grumman FM-1 (F4F-4) Wildcat National Air and Space Museum More >>>

  2. “Ice Ahead!”

    By Ralph K. Andrist, August 1966, Volume 17, Issue 5

    One of his ships was rotten, his cold-weather gear was totally inadequate, and his officers resented him. But Lieutenant Wilkes had his orders—and off into the unknown Antarctic he sailed More >>>

  3. The Battle of the Saintes

    By C. S. Forester, June 1958, Volume 9, Issue 4

    No American ships were involved, yet on its outcome hung Great Britain’s recognition of our independence More >>>

  4. “Our Little War with the Heathen"

    By Andrew C. Nahne, April 1968, Volume 19, Issue 3

    Our first Korean war, in 1871, was fought to open the Hermit Kingdom to Western trade. But the hermits wanted very much to be left alone More >>>

  5. One Who Survived

    By Anonymous (not verified), June 1956, Volume 7, Issue 4

    Day after day, the sun, the sea, and the sharks cut down the men who clung to the “doughnut” raft: Seaman Heyn’s Story from the Naval Archives More >>>

  6. Gunboat War At Vicksburg

    By Daniel F. Kemp, August/September 1978, Volume 29, Issue 5

    A Union seaman’s nightmarish memories of shot, shell, and shoal waters in Grant’s Mississippi River campaign, 1862–63 More >>>

  7. The Adventures Of A Haunted Whaling Man

    By Anonymous (not verified), August 1977, Volume 28, Issue 5

    The exacting, colorful, and often perilous career of a whaleman of the last century is known to most readers only through such fiction a Moby Dick . But many a real American went “down to the sea i More >>>

  8. The Fall Of Corregidor

    By Hanson W. Baldwin, August 1966, Volume 17, Issue 5

    “The Rock” was a proud island fortress, impregnable to attack from the sea. Unfortunately, the Japanese didn’t come that way. Its capture climaxed the bitterest defeat in our history More >>>

  9. Christopher Columbus, Mariner

    By Samuel Eliot Morison, December 1955, Volume 7, Issue 1

    The discoverer of the New World was first and foremost a sailor says the historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for his brilliant biography of Columbus. More >>>

  10. The Fantastic Adventures Of Captain Stobo

    By Robert C. Alberts, August 1963, Volume 14, Issue 5

    Into seven crucial years of American colonial history, a young Scots-American officer packed more of the stuff that makes heroes than perhaps a dozen more illustrious men. Yet today his name has slipped into almost complete obscurity More >>>

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