17 JUNE 1942 AGENTS-PROVOCATEUR The waters off Ponte Vedra, Florida, were not particularly rough this dark evening of June 17th, 1942, certainly not enough to prevent four men from shuffling onto the deck of a German submarine. They worked quietly inflating Read More
12 JUNE 1948 WOMEN’S ARMED SERVICES INTEGRATION ACT The roles open to women in our WWII Navy were limited. The Navy Nurse Corps had been accepting women exclusively since 1908, and women had also entered service through the Navy and Marine Read More
7 JUNE 1981 ATTACK ON OSIRAQ Amos Yadlin dropped the nose of his heavily loaded F-16 straight down the “chute” out of the setting sun at 480 knots. The 30-foot arching dome of Saddam Hussein’s nearly completed nuclear reactor Osiraq (a Read More
1 JUNE 1857 THE “PLUG-UGLIES” Few may remember today that the January 6th, 2021, Capitol riot was not the first violent threat against our election process. The tempestuous 1857 Presidential campaign pitted the Democratic ticket of James Buchanan and John Breckinridge Read More
23-25 MAY 1939 SS-192 (cont.) It had been 26 hours since SQUALUS (SS-192) slipped below the waves off New Hampshire’s coast, only to be partially flooded and sink 240 feet below. The McCann Rescue Chamber had arrived lashed to the fantail Read More
17 MAY 2025 BROOKLYN BRIDGE COLLISION ARM CUAUHTÉMOC (BE-01) is the Mexican Navy’s three-masted sail training ship. She remembers the last Aztec emperor during the 1520-21 Spanish conquest and associated smallpox epidemic. Launched in September 1982, she is one of four sisters, Read More
12-13 MAY 1862 ESCAPE OF PLANTER Robert Smalls was a 23-year-old slave who was contracted by his owner to Charleston, SC, tradesmen in exchange for the pay he earned. The Spring of 1862 found Smalls in the employ of C.J. Relyea, Read More
6 MAY 1942 FALL OF CORREGIDOR The Japanese invasion of the Philippines began within hours of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Landing in the Lingayen Gulf, they swept southward across the island of Luzon toward Manila, Subic Bay, and the Bataan Read More
1 FEBRUARY-2 MAY 1997 LAST CRUISE OF LPH-11 On the sunny Friday morning of 2 May 1997 the amphibious assault ship NEW ORLEANS (LPH-11) nudged toward Pier 6 at Naval Station San Diego. A seasoned 28-year veteran, she was returning from Read More