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Photo collage shows George the cat in his enlistment photo and the floating battleship USS North Carolina

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

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Donald McPherson, America’s last World War II fighter ace, dies at 103

By Miguel Ortiz

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NASCAR is coming to San Diego to turn Coronado into a racetrack

Naval officer and Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell dies at 97

By Miguel Ortiz

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The Navy is spending $1.1 billion on the most successful air-to-air missile in the world

By Miguel Ortiz

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Here are the untold perils of renaming a vessel

By Blake Stilwell

Pearl Harbor USS West Virginia

Today in Military History

Today in military history: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

Today in military history: US forces invade Guadalcanal

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

Navy chief petty oficers

Everything you need to know about military ranks and what they mean

By Jessica Evans

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USS Wisconsin: The big battleship with a bad temper

25 incredible photos of life on a US Navy submarine

By Orvelin Valle

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This is what happened when the Navy banned alcohol on its ships

By Blake Stilwell

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8 bizarre Navy traditions and their meanings

By Harold C. Hutchison

This C-130 landing on an aircraft carrier will make you rethink physics

This C-130 landing on an aircraft carrier will make you rethink physics

By Orvelin Valle

A depth charge explodes astern, as the crew of the USS PC-1264 practices a simulated submarine attack during the ship's shakedown cruise off southern Florida.

A historic US Navy subchaser USS PC-1264 is slowly rusting away in Staten Island Sound

By Anderson Harp

13 lessons every new sailor learns the hard way

By Orvelin Valle

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The wife of the famous ‘kissing sailor’ is in the iconic 1945 photo–and it’s not the nurse

By Blake Stilwell

This American admiral planned the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1932

This American admiral planned the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1932

The freak accident that saved a carrier at Pearl Harbor

The freak accident that saved a carrier at Pearl Harbor

How Navy SEALs captured the first POWs of Desert Storm

By Miguel Ortiz

The Coalition destroyed the entire Iraqi Navy during the first four days of Desert Storm

By Blake Stilwell

The true history behind the Air Force basic training ‘Stress Cards’ myth

By Blake Stilwell

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

By Blake Stilwell

Tom Cruise Top Cun

Our ranking of 14 call signs from ‘Top Gun’

Battleships helped pull off the biggest military deception of Desert Storm

Battleships helped pull off the biggest military deception of Desert Storm

By Blake Stilwell

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12 surprising facts about the War of 1812

By Blake Stilwell

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Why Clark Griswold may be one of the most perfect veterans in film

By Eric Milzarski

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

By Blake Stilwell

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The ‘tanker war’ was the Navy’s largest war at sea since World War II

By Stephen Carlson

oldest ship in the US Navy

The only ship in the US Navy to sink an enemy ship is also the oldest ship in the US Navy

By Blake Stilwell

9 WTF? questions Navy recruits have at boot camp

By Orvelin Valle

Operation praying mantis

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

By Blake Stilwell

79 surprising insider errors in ‘Top Gun’

79 surprising insider errors in ‘Top Gun’

By Ward Carroll

A US Navy blimp turned into a flying ghost ship during World War II

A US Navy blimp turned into a flying ghost ship during World War II

By Alex Hollings

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The Navy had a massive party the day it banned alcohol on ships

By Blake Stilwell

Littoral Combat Ship USS Detroit

The Littoral Combat Ship’s checkered past and how it all went wrong

By Stephen Ruiz

Tthe Ghost Blimp: A World War II Navy blimp crew mysteriously disappeared

Tthe Ghost Blimp: A World War II Navy blimp crew mysteriously disappeared

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

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

This is what makes the Mark 48 one of the deadliest torpedoes ever built

This is what makes the Mark 48 one of the deadliest torpedoes ever built

harpoon missile

The incredible history of the deadly Harpoon Missile System

By Orvelin Valle

tomahawk land attack missile

Video of the US Navy testing a ‘game-changing’ missile

How the Growler disabled Venezuela’s air defense system

By Stephen Ruiz

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Here’s the Tom Cruise classic ‘Top Gun’ in under 3 minutes

By August Dannehl

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The Navy’s investigation of the USS Iowa turret explosion was seriously bungled