The USS Constituion Celebrating Washington's Birthday in Malta. Courtesy of the United States Naval Academy Museum.

Digital reproduction of Inspection of a Merchant Ship by Gil Cohen. The Revenue Cutter Morris prepares to board the passenger ship Benjamin Adams on July 16, 1861. The vessel was carrying 650 Scottish and Irish immigrants from Liverpool to New York. In an era of rapidly increasing immigration to the United States, Congress passed laws regulating the space allotted to the passengers. The enforcement of these laws was an early example of Coast Guard efforts in merchant marine safety. Acting as the enforcement arm of the Collectors of Customs, the Revenue Cutter Service had responsibility for collection of import and export duties, quarantines, examining vessels for contraband, and in the case of this boarding, some authority for regulating living conditions on passenger ships. When no irregularities were found, the Benjamin Adams was allowed to continue on its way to New York City.

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.

LVTs and tanks roll across terrain on Okinawa from the beaches as the Amphibious Task Force unloads, 3 April 1945.

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.