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A Navy veteran’s unintentional discovery led to the microwave

By Stephen Ruiz

Here’s what happened when North Korea actually hit an American battleship

By Blake Stilwell

Trailblazing Vietnam veteran helped reveal how humans came to be

By Stephen Ruiz

How these Navy submariners worked to save themselves after their sub sank

By Stephen Ruiz

Sailors relive the 1980s ‘Tanker War’ amid today’s Hormuz Crisis

Amos Chapple, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

The ‘Gray Ghosts’ of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By Daniel Tobias Flint

The US Navy’s first submarine was a hand-cranked wooden egg

By Daniel Tobias Flint

How trailblazer Grace Hopper taught the US military all about computers

By Daniella Horne

How a Navy veteran basically invented the sports drink industry

By Stephen Ruiz

This is what a broom tied to a mast means in the US Navy

A sailor painted a 42-foot mural inside an aircraft carrier. The colors are still vivid 3 miles underwater, 80 years later.

By Daniel Tobias Flint

How a sailor remembered 256 prisoners of war through song

By Blake Stilwell

How a trip underwater propelled Teddy Roosevelt to improve submariners’ pay

By Stephen Ruiz

He fought seven MiGs and kept it secret—70 years later, he’s getting the Medal of Honor

By Miguel Ortiz

These are the Navy’s rules for being buried at sea

By Blake Stilwell

Russia’s only aircraft carrier was a floating hell for the crew

By Blake Stilwell

This former Navy pilot became one of the unlikeliest Super Bowl champions ever

By Stephen Ruiz

How Mafia boss Lucky Luciano joined World War II from his prison cell

By Daniel Tobias Flint

‘Operation Underworld’ was a secret wartime pact no one saw coming

By Daniel Tobias Flint

‘Ramage’s Rampage’ saw a World War II sub sink 5 ships in 40 minutes

Here’s what happened to the US Navy’s original six frigates

By Blake Stilwell

This Intrepid pilot went from zero to ace in 13 minutes

The US Navy unloaded on Iran in the most explosive surface battle since World War II

By Blake Stilwell

How cribbage became the card game that rules the Navy’s Submarine Force

By Daniella Horne

‘Psspsspss:’ American sailors enlisted a cat aboard a battleship during World War II

Naval officer and Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell dies at 97

By Miguel Ortiz

Here are the untold perils of renaming a vessel

By Blake Stilwell

First American pope, Pope Leo XIV, is the son of WWII Navy veteran

By Tessa Robinson

Peter Buck, Subway founder and nuclear physicist, worked on nuclear reactors for the US Navy

Medal of Honor Month: Lt. Michael P. Murphy

By Jessica Evans

39th President and Navy veteran Jimmy Carter dies at 100

By Miguel Ortiz

Tom Cruise receives Navy’s highest civilian honor

By Miguel Ortiz

The ‘unluckiest’ U-boat of World War II couldn’t even sink itself

Happy 100th birthday, Jimmy Carter! President, humanitarian and US Navy veteran

The US Navy used to rent out this luxury hotel in Hawaii

Today in military history: Union victory at Mobile Bay

How privateering worked in the American Revolution

Aerial gunner Loyce Edward Deen was the only sailor buried at sea inside his aircraft

By Blake Stilwell

The real story behind John F. Kennedy’s Purple Heart

By Orvelin Valle

The Navy and Coast Guard are still finding mysterious ghost ships

The USS Texas flooded itself…on purpose

By Miguel Ortiz

The most successful submarine commander ever was captured by the Japanese

This 12-year-old boy became a Navy hero in World War II

Two Navy SEALs were KIA. Does America even notice?

By Tessa Robinson

The C-2 Greyhound is subbing in for the grounded CMV-22 Osprey

By Miguel Ortiz

5 of the rarest unofficial US Navy ‘certificates’

By Eric Milzarski

9 times a submarine sank an aircraft carrier

The Israeli Navy fought the first surface battle between missile boats

By Miguel Ortiz

Apollo 16 astronaut Rear Adm. Ken Mattingly dead at 87

By Miguel Ortiz

The Navy’s new top officer is the first female Chief of Naval Operations

By Miguel Ortiz

F-8 Crusader: The last gunfighter of Vietnam

Today in military history: USS Constitution launched

The complete guide to Navy ranks and insignia

By Jessica Evans

This raid was one of the America’s first overseas military operations

By Stephen Carlson

Today in military history: Continental Congress authorizes first naval force

This was the last enemy ship sunk by the US Navy in combat

By Blake Stilwell

Today in military history: USS Cole attacked by terrorists

A fake smokestack made this German ship an unstoppable predator

Today in military history: Birth of the Naval Academy

Today in military history: US forces capture British ships on Lake Erie

What happened to HMS Glowworm?

A US Navy destroyer once won a surface engagement with potatoes

This is what the average sailor ate aboard a WWII era ship

This legendary Navy skipper sank 19 enemy ships

By Tim Kirkpatrick