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Vietnam Magazine
Gulf of Tonkin - A secret report reveals how easily soldiers, spies and politicians can jump to a conclusion and plunge the country into war....
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MHQ Departments, MHQ Reviews, Reviews
Sam Willis's latest book highlights seven great naval battles that together gave the Royal Navy command of the seas...
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MHQ Departments, MHQ Reviews, Reviews
A series of mini-stories that illuminate the nitty-gritty of colonial America’s desperate struggle at sea...
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Gear, MH Tools
The oldest steel warship still afloat, USS Olympia embodies the United States' historic transition into a global seapower....
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Military History Book Reviews, Reviews
George Daughan relates Captain David Porter's truly epic 17-month Pacific voyage on USS Essex during the War of 1812 in The Shining Sea....
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Military History Book Reviews, Reviews
Air Conflicts: Pacific Carriers transports players to key aerial conflicts from that theater of World War II, while allowing for a measure of historical revision....
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Vietnam First Person, Vietnam War
A few hours after the Gulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964, Navy A4 pilot Everett Alvarez was shot down on a bombing mission near Hanoi, the first U.S. aviator taken captive during the Vietnam War...
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World War II
In the battle for Guadalcanal, Imperial submarines ruled the sea—until rigid doctrine dragged them down....
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Ask Mr. History
Dear Mr. History, My father fought in the Aleutian Islands during WW2. I have spent the last 5 years trying to find out what unit he was with. He arrived on June 2, 1942, at Dutch Harbor and left Kiska in Sept ’43. Do you have any...
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Ask Mr. History
During WWII, did the war at sea make a possible projection of Allied power against the Axis and at the same time impose a severe limitation on further Axis expansion? And then I am not sure what the Allied and Axis naval strategies were...
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Battle Films, World War II
The battleship might have severely harried the British war effort....
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MHQ Departments, MHQ Reviews, Reviews
James L. Nelson reviews Stephen Taylor's biography of Sir Edward Pellew...
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America's Civil War Magazine
War on the Waters: The Union & Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 by James M. McPherson University of North Carolina Press, 2012, $36 James M. McPherson, perhaps the greatest historian of the Civil War, continues to find aspects of the...
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Gear, World War II Weapons Manual
Hard-charging hybrids, these U.S. Navy vessels were built on hulls meant for cruisers...
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MHQ Magazine
James L. Nelson gives proper credit to overlooked naval geniuses...
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Ask Mr. History
Who were the U.S. Navy “Armed Guards” and what did they do? Joseph Forbes, Pittsburgh, PA ? ? ? Formed as the United States was entering the war, the U.S. Naval Armed Guard was a contingent of personnel charged with defending...
