ITOMAN, OKINAWA, Japan (June 22, 2025) — U.S. Navy Sailors and family members joined local Okinawan volunteers at Peace Memorial Park on June 22 to prepare nearly 7,000 candles for a vigil on the eve of Okinawa Memorial Day. The event honored the 80th anniversary of the end of the Battle of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

WASHINGTON NAVY YARD – Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) has confirmed the wreck site of World War II submarine USS Harder (SS 257)...

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...

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...

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...