10 January 2025 Navy Super Hornets Honor President Carter with Historic ‘Missing Man’ Flyover PLAINS, Georgia - Twenty-one U.S. Navy F/A-18E/F Super Hornets conducted a missing man formation flyover to honor the former U.S. President James Earl “Jimmy” Carter on Jan. 9...
04 December 2024 USS Carney: a Destroyer at War On Oct. 19, 2023 USS Carney (DDG 64) was involved on in the most intense combat engagement by a U.S. Navy warship since WWII...
31 October 2024 HSC-26 Embraces History and Heritage Ahead of Veterans Day 2024 NORFOLK, Va. – Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 26 hosted a former aviator from its predecessor squadron, Helicopter Combat Support Squadron (HC) 6, to walk through squadron history and heritage following the 249th birthday celebration of the U.S. Navy...
21 October 2024 Site for National Museum of the United State Navy formally announced WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro formally announced the site for the new National Museum of the United States Navy, Oct. 18, during a ceremony at the new museum location...
16 July 2024 Blue Ridge CO Visits DPAA Site CAM RANH, Vietnam -- U.S. Navy Capt. Nicholas DeLeo, commanding officer of the U.S. 7th Fleet flagship, USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) visited the crash site of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter, lost in the Bay of Nha Trang during the Vietnam War, while Blue Ridge was in Vietnam for a scheduled port visit,...
24 May 2024 WWII “Hit ‘em HARDER” submarine wreck site confirmed WASHINGTON NAVY YARD – Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) has confirmed the wreck site of World War II submarine USS Harder (SS 257)...
12 March 2024 NHHC's "History of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations: 1915-2015" Now Available WASHINGTON NAVY YARD - Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) announces the release of the hard copy edition of History of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations: 1915-2015...
23 February 2024 NHHC Remembers Operation FLINTLOCK WASHINGTON NAVY YARD – February 2024 marks a significant period of U.S. history – the 80th Anniversary of the end the invasion of the Marshall Islands and Operation FLINTLOCK. On Feb. 5, Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) Senior Historian Timothy L. Francis participated in a...
25 January 2024 U.S. 6th Fleet Visits Nettuno, Participates in Battle of Anzio Commemoration Ceremony NETTUNO, Italy - American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) hosted a ceremony to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings during World War II at Anzio and Nettuno, Jan. 24, at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery in Nettuno, Italy. The Office of the Secretary of Defense designated...
12 January 2024 Navy Completes Work on Naming Commission Recommendations WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced that the Department of the Navy completed the renaming of 33 ships, buildings, and streets ahead of the Department of Defense’s 2024 deadline to rename all military property that honored the Confederacy...