Early on D-Day, several U.S. destroyers exchanged fire with German artillery atop cliffs just east of Omaha Beach, a scene likely depicted in Coast Guard combat artist H.B. Vestals watercolor of the USS Doyle.

Using a flooded swamp as his classroom, an instructor at the Army Ranger Camp in Florida conducts a lecture on survival and military operations in swamp and jungle areas on 6 February 1962 This Photograph was featured in the FEB 2019 issue of Proceedings magazine.

U.S. Navy Monitor with officers (top row) Albert B. Campbell, Mark Trueman Sunstrom, Wm. F. Keeler, L. Howard Newman, (middle row) Louis N. Stodder, George Frederickson, Wm. Flye, Daniel C. Logue, Samuel D. Greene, (bottom row) Robinson W. Hands, and E.V

1st Marine Division troops march south from Koto-ri in the mountains and sub-zero weather, 9 December 1950.

Seaman John Sharr watches as the USS Newport News fires on a target in North Vietnam. In the early hours of 10 May 1972, the heavy cruiser?s 8-inch guns pounded a North Vietnamese military airfield south of Haiphong as accompanying U.S. warships hit targets on the Do Son Peninsula.

Seaman John Sharr watches as the USS Newport News fires on a target in North Vietnam. In the early hours of 10 May 1972, the heavy cruiser?s 8-inch guns pounded a North Vietnamese military airfield south of Haiphong as accompanying U.S. warships hit targets on the Do Son Peninsula.

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

USS Newport News (CA-148) fires her guns during Vietnam, 1972.

Two WAVES learn how to repair an aircraft engine at NAS Lakehurts, World War II.

The USS West Virginia (BB-48) and the USS Tennessee (BB-43) after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. 80-G-32725 NH94378

USS California (BB-44), commissioned on 10 August 1921, was moored by itself at the southern end of Battleship Row on 7 December 1941. She was hit by two torpedoes and a bomb, which caused the ship to settle in the mud. Only her superstructure remained

SBD Dauntless during Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 18-19, 1944.

US Navy landing craft awaits orders to make its run to the beach.

USS Shaw exploding during Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941.

Torokina Field, Bougainville @ 15-19 December, 1943. Marines manning a 75 mm. pack howitzer position at the field. Note the captured Japanese battle flag.

On board USS Lexington (CV-16), LCdr. Paul D. Buie, CO of VF-16, briefs his pilots for an upcoming mission, during the Gilberts Operation, November-December 1943.