Makassar Strait Action

                        24 JANUARY 1942                      MAKASSAR STRAIT ACTION With the wreckage of the American fleet awash in Pearl Harbor, the Navy’s western Pacific squadron, known then as the Asiatic Fleet, found itself isolated.  For the first four months of the war this fleet Read More

The Gun from USS SHUBRICK

                    15 FEBRUARY–16 MAY 1865                    THE GUN FROM USS SHUBRICK                (outside the NMCSD Command Suite) RADM William Branford Shubrick’s Navy career was long and distinguished.  Born on 31 October 1790, Mr. Shubrick received his midshipman’s warrant in the Spring of 1806 Read More