Naval Battles
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:12 pm
Battle of Manila Bay: Commodore Dewey's Victory
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:11 pm
When French Vice Adm. Pierre de Villeneuve emerged from Cadiz with his 33 mammoth warships, Britain's Royal Navy awaited him with only 27, often smaller, ships of the line. But the British also had Lord Horatio Nelson.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:11 pm
The waterway at deck's edge was neatly lined with shoes, and...a short while later, terrible to behold, every doorway, hatch or open space was ablaze.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:07 pm
If you think the U.S. Navy's activities off Korea were limited to offshore bombardment and carrier strikes, you don't know CIA's front organization, Joint Advisory Commission, Korea (JACK).
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:07 pm
A callous disregard for the rules of war doomed the Allied prisoners on a Japanese merchantman to death at the hands of their own countrymen.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:06 pm
Surrounded by smoke and flame, the battleship made for the open sea in an attempt to escape the devastation at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:04 pm
With Oliver Hazard Perry's flagship dead in the water, the British had apparently won the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie. But then the quick-thinking American commander turned the tables and snatched an astounding victory in the bloodiest naval fight of the War of 1812.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:03 pm
During the March 28, 1941, Battle of Cape Matapan, British Admiral Andrew B. Cunningham decided once and for all who would be master of the Mediterranean.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:02 pm
Organization and training were essential to coordinate the activities of the hundreds of men who crewed a Union man-of-war.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:01 pm
As the escort carrier Liscome Bay turned to launch its aircraft off Makin Atoll on November 24, 1943, Lt. Cmdr. Sunao Tabata of I-175 found himself presented with a target that submariners dream of.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:01 pm
As their escorts turned away, the ships of the doomed Allied convoy followed orders and began to disperse in the Arctic waters.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Forty years after North Vietnamese patrol boats reportedly attacked U.S. destroyers, the sequence of events surrounding the Gulf of Tonkin incident is finally coming into clearer focus.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 7:59 pm
The Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal spelled the difference between victory and defeat for the United States in the Pacific war.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 7:59 pm
Battle of Guadalcanal: First Naval Battle in the Ironbottom Sound
Published: June 12, 2006 at 7:59 pm
After a botched Union naval effort on the Mississippi River, Rear Admiral David D. Porter resorted to trickery to prevent one of his captured ironclads from being used by the Confederates.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 7:59 pm
As Union warships steamed past the Confederate defenses near Port Royal, Flag Officer Samuel Du Pont proudly noted that army officers aboard his ship looked on 'with wonder and admiration.' A revolution in naval tactics had begun.
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