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Admiral Nimitz, on July 28, 1944, explains U.S. naval strategy for (left to right) General MacArthur, President Roosevelt and Admiral Leahy.
The right door gunner of a Navy armed gunship prepared for a firing run over a Viet Cong ambush site in the Mekong Delta. The helicopter was answering a distress call from the burning river patrol boat (PBR) which had been hit by recoilless rifle fire m
Corporal Alvin Tony Ghazlo, senior bayonet and unarmed combat instructor at Montford Point, North Carolina, disarms his assistant, Private Ernest Judo Jones, taken in the 1940s.
Commodore Commandant Ellsworth Price Bertholf, USCG. Photograph was taken in 1898 when Bertohalf was a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service and a member of the Jarvis Overland Expedition.
Naval Reserve Captain Edmond J. Moran receives urgent and specific instructions from Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Dwight D Eisenhower on board the destroyer USS Thompson after D-Day. The general ordered Moran back to the United States for more supplies and equipment to keep the invasion going. Photo courtesy of Edmond J. Moran, Jr.
President George H. Bush gives a rather startled look after an unannounced F-14 creates a sonic boom overhead on the U.S.S. Forrestal, December 1, 1989.
Yeoman First Class Joy Bright Hancock, 1918. Her naval career spanned both World Wars and culminated in her assignment as the third director of the Waves. She retired from the Navy in the rank of Captain.
Five Sullivan Brothers from the USS Juneau (CL-52) at commissioning ceremonies in New York Navy Yard, on 14 February 1942. All were killed in action when the ship sank in November, 1942. From left to right: Joseph, Francis, Albert, Madison, and George
'Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.' (Peter Drucker, 1909-2005).// The bridge of the USS Newark, most likely between 1891-93, presents a very workmanlike and professional scene. With the exception of the sin