HONIARA, Solomon Islands — A multinational expedition led by the Ocean Exploration Trust aboard the Exploration Vessel (E/V) Nautilus has completed a groundbreaking archaeological survey of more than a dozen World War II era shipwrecks in Iron Bottom Sound, August 1, 2025...

WASHINGTON - Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) confirmed the identity of a wreck site off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan, as USS Albacore (SS 218) Feb. 16...

When the Naval Air Transport Service (NATS) Douglas R4D broke through the clouds of volcanic dust and smoke to land on Iwo Jima on March 6 1945, it carried more than whole blood and medical supplies for the wounded. On board this inaugural air evacuation flight was a 22-year old nurse named Jane...

WASHINGTON NAVY YARD - “A starry night in 7th fleet/ Another year we sail to meet/ 3,000 miles across the mighty Pacific/ Dreaming of home, how could we not miss it?/ Leaving San Diego’s June gloom in our wake/ Deployment ’21 a salty Sailor will make” wrote Ens. Sarah Weinstein, on the first night...

WASHINGTON - For the past 29 years, an elite group of Reserve Sailors attached to Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) have crisscrossed the globe to document and record fleet oral history for future generations...