Naval Stories
Centennial of Naval Aviation: Carriers at War
By Dwight Jon Zimmerman in Naval under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured, History, Print Edition with no comments
For almost seventy years, the pre-eminent symbol of a nation’s sea power has been the aircraft carrier. Today nine nations are members of the aircraft carrier fraternity (with China presumably about to become ...more »
Naval Aviation Centennial: From Props to Jets and Angled Decks
By Robert F. Dorr in Naval under Featured, History, Print Edition with no comments
Advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, wrote futurist Arthur C. Clarke. Today’s aircraft carrier surely is the closet thing to wizardry that modern man can create.
A ship like the Navy’s newest carrier, USS ...more »
Naval Aviation Centennial: Blimp vs. U-boat
By Robert F. Dorr in Naval under Featured, History with 4 comments
A close-quarters slugfest between a Navy blimp and a German U-boat lit up the sea and sky off the Florida coast on the night of July 18, 1943, and produced moments of remarkable ...more »
Naval Aviation Centennial: The Coast Guard’s Vertical Leap
By Robert F. Dorr in Naval under Featured, History, Print Edition with no comments
In 1915, the Revenue Cutter Service and Life-Saving Service were merged to create the United States Coast Guard. The beginning of a Coast Guard air arm came soon afterward: On August 29, 1916. ...more »
Naval Aviation Centennial: The Marines Pioneer Air Support in Central America
By Robert F. Dorr in Naval under Featured, History, Print Edition with no comments
What does Nicaragua mean to a Marine?
Plenty. Here, in 1928 and again in 1932, the most famous Marine of all, Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, won two of his five awards of the Navy ...more »
Might Have Beens: McDonnell Douglas’ Unique MPA Contender
By Robert F. Dorr in Naval under Defense Technology, Featured, History with 1 comment
During the Cold War when the West was oncerned about the Soviet Union’s undersea fleet, McDonnell Douglas Corporation (MDC), which later merged with Boeing, offered the U.S. Navy an anti-submarine patrol aircraft that ...more »
Squalus Disaster, Rescue, Gripped a Nation on the Eve of War
By Robert F. Dorr in Naval under Featured, History with no comments
A naval disaster that evolved into a mass rescue captured the attention of the American public while the nation approached the end of the Great Depression and the start of World War II.
When ...more »
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