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Explorers provide views of USS Yorktown wreckage from Battle of Midway
The expedition team aimed to document the wrecks and analyze the state of the ships lost in the Battle of Midway.
By Diana Stancy
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
Sea of White ceremony honors those who fought at Midway
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson urges today's sailors and Marines to rededicate themselves to the core lessons learned during the victory at Midway — initiative, integrity, toughness and accountability
By Navy Times staff
The lessons we learned from the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942
In geostrategic matters, hubris is often a fatal character flaw.
By Joseph F. Callo, Military History Magazine
That time the US dropped an atomic bomb on a fleet of 95 ships
Mistakes were made.
By Timothy J. Jorgensen, Georgetown University
Sunken aircraft carrier Hornet — best known for Doolittle Raid — located miles below the waves
The members of the research vessel Petrel crew are no strangers to historic underwater archaeological discoveries.
By Jon Simkins
Coast Guard suspends search for missing child, suspected smuggler
The Haitian child and the suspected smuggler, a Bahamian citizen, went missing after their 18-foot boat overturned with 11 people on board Sunday in what authorities believe was an underworld operation from Freeport to Miami.
By Carl Prine
Coast Guard, Navy continue rescue efforts after commercial ship fire
Navy, Coast Guard and several commercial vessels searched for a handful of mariners who abandoned a burning ship.
By Carl Prine
In the last hours of war, blood and heroism and irony and loss
World War II was clearly in its closing days — or was it?
By Sam Moses, World War II Magazine
This is what happened when an Air Force pilot got assigned to a Navy carrier
Ron Williams remembers his temporary duty assignment flying Douglas A-3B “Whales” from a carrier as the most challenging two years of his career
By Chester Peterson Jr., Aviation History Magazine
Coast Guard evacuates federal crew off remote Pacific islands as hurricane looms
The Monday operation spirited away four Fish and Wildlife employees, a field biology crew that’s encamped yearlong at the National Wildlife Refuge.
By Carl Prine