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FDR letter to parents who lost 3 sons during WWII goes up for auction
The Rogers family lost three sons aboard the USS New Orleans during the Battle of Tassafaronga.
By Sarah Sicard
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That one time the US Navy torpedoed FDR
The USS William D. Porter endured a series of calamitous events during its brief history.
WWII’s Sullivan brothers remembered at Mayport
All five brothers died when a Japanese torpedo struck their ship, the light cruiser Juneau, on Nov. 13, 1942.
By Matt Soergel, The Florida Times-Union
The Operation Dragoon drama of Douglas Fairbanks
Famed for his heroics on screen, a Hollywood idol topped himself at war as leader of a band of seaborne deception specialists
By David Sears, World War II Magazine
Miracle at Midway?
At 10 o’clock on the morning of June 4, 1942, the Japanese were winning the Pacific War; an hour later, three Japanese aircraft carriers were on fire and sinking.
By Craig L. Symonds, World War II Magazine
Trump reads from FDR’s prayer to the US on D-Day
Trump, with images of an American flag and Roosevelt projected behind him, read to crowd: “Almighty God, our sons, pride of our nation, this day, have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our republic, our religion and our civilization and to set free a suffering humanity.”
By Jonathan Lemire, The Associated Press
Undefended shore: American antisubmarine operations in 1942
In 1942 American merchant ships up and down the Atlantic Coast were being relentlessly attacked by German U-boats. Why did the U.S. Navy secretly decide to leave them unprotected?
By Ed Offley, MHQ — The Quarterly Journal of Military History
Investigators probe why barge capsized at secret base
Treacherous weather conditions might have contributed to the mishap, officials say.
How naked World War II sailors ended up riding Mongolian ponies in the Gobi Desert to shoot bazookas at the Japanese
“Set off explosives and run like hell.”
By Linda Kush, World War II Magazine
Sea change: How the Navy kept reinventing itself over the past century
How the U.S. Navy reinvented itself — and its sailors — during a century of radical change in technology and warfare.
By Ronald Spector, Military History Quarterly
The incredible life and terrible death of the Navy’s first World War II ace
By the end of the action, he had downed five of the attacking Japanese planes and damaged a sixth, approaching close enough to the aircraft carrier Lexington that some of its gunners had fired on him.
By Geoffrey Norman, Military History Magazine
At this time in 1941, a Clipper plane was trying to get home the hard way — flying around the world!
The attack on Pearl Harbor forced one Pan Am crew to attempt a round-the-world flight to escape Japanese warplanes. Others weren't so lucky.
By C.V. Glines, Aviation History Magazine