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By Sam Cox (Rear Adm. USN, Ret.), Director, Naval History and Heritage Command “In no engagement of its entire history has the United States Navy shown more gallantry, guts and gumption than in those two morning hours between 0730 and 0930 off Samar,” – Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison in …

By Sandy Gall, Communication and Outreach Division, Naval History and Heritage Command It’s a somewhat rare event to know when history is about to happen. Even rarer that you get to plan for it, but when our office learned the commissioning date for the USS Zumwalt would be October 15th, …

By Sandy Gall, Communication and Outreach Division, Naval History and Heritage Command It’s a somewhat rare event to know when history is about to happen. Even rarer that you get to plan for it, but when our office learned the commissioning date for the USS Zumwalt would be October 15th, …

By Sandy Gall, Communication and Outreach Division, Naval History and Heritage Command. Close your eyes and picture Yogi Berra. If you’re a baseball fan, you see him in the iconic Yankee stripes, but before that uniform, did you know he wore the Navy’s iconic Dixie cap? He started his legendary …

Story by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Dennis Grube, USS Makin Island Public Affairs The term “Gung Ho,” a Chinese expression meaning “working together,” was adopted by Marine Lt. Col. Evans F. Carlson, as the slogan of his Marine Raiders. It soon spread throughout the U.S. Marine Corps as an …

From Naval History and Heritage Command, Communication and Outreach Division Joel T. Boone might have been the Forest Gump of his day because, if something big was happening, Boone was there. Unlike Gump, though Vice Adm. Boone, wasn’t in the background; he was at the forefront of historical events when he …