Someone Had to Be First

                                              13 FEBRUARY 1917                                      SOMEONE HAD TO BE FIRST The seaplane was essential to our Navy and Marine Corps in the earliest days of military aviation.  With the aircraft carrier years away from reality, planes operating from ships at sea needed to Read More

The Firing of Judah

                                             14 SEPTEMBER 1861                                            THE FIRING OF JUDAH Had other theaters of the early Civil War not been in the limelight, the tension at Pensacola might have been keener.  The Confederates held the Pensacola Navy Yard and Forts Barrancas and McRee guarding Read More