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Kamikaze at Leyte Gulf
The USS St. Lo after being hit by a kamikaze attack, 1944 On 25 October 1944, kamikaze sank an American ship for the first time, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. A group of 5 kamikaze and 4 escort...
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A Short-lived Success
The H.L. Hunley by Conrad Wise Chapman The submarine H.L. Hunley was built in 1863 in Alabama and shipped by rail to South Carolina, where it sank on its first training mission. Five men drowned with...
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Ships in Disguise
Q-ship HMS Dunraven fighting a U-boat. The Dunraven sank after this encounter. (Artwork by Charles Pears) German U-boats were the scourge of British shipping during World War I, and until the convoy...
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Can You Spot it?
The HRMS Abraham Crijnssen hiding in the Dutch East Indies Somewhere in the photo above is the Dutch minesweeper HRMS Abraham Crijnssen. Can you find it? This is what it looks like close up. A close up...
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A Crucial Ten Minutes
A depiction of the bomber attack on the Japanese carriers, by Norman Bel Geddes The turning point of the Battle of Midway came rather unexpectedly—at the hands of the hard-earned skill and sheer luck...
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“I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight!”
Painting of the Battle of Flamborough Head, by Thomas Mitchell (1780). Bonhomme Richard and Serapis are fighting in the center. 23 September 1799—American Commodore John Paul Jones utters his famous...
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Richard Antrim: A POW Hero
USS Pope, the ship Antrim was serving on when taken as a POW Following World War II, Richard Antrim of the U.S. Navy received the Medal of Honor for the selflessness and bravery he showed while being...
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The Quasi-War
An American and French ship battle during the Quasi-War (artwork by John William Schmidt) You may think that following the Revolutionary War, the United States wasn’t involved in another war with a...
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America vs. The Barbary Pirates
The burning of the USS Philadelphia off the coast of Tripoli during the First Barbary War (artwork by Edward Moran) Did you know that in between the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, America was...
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Hero of the High Seas
Stephen Decatur’s capture of a Tripolitan gunboat in 1804 (artwork by F.O. Darley) Stephan Decatur just might be the most famous military hero you’ve never heard of. Born in Maryland in 1779, at age...
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