06 July 2023 Navy Department Library Historic Relocation Underway WASHINGTON NAVY YARD – The Navy Department Library has commenced its relocation to a refurbished site on the historic Washington Navy Yard. The new Naval History and Research Center, a state-of-the-art, 2-floor structure, seamlessly combines two former ordnance factories and warehouses. ...
07 June 2023 World War II veteran presented Presidential Unit Citation Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa M. Franchetti presents the Presidential Unit Citation to Chief Petty Officer Bill Norberg, a World War II veteran who served during the Battle of Midway...
06 June 2023 NSA Souda Bay Holds D-Day Remembrance Ceremony Naval Support Activity Souda Bay hosted a D-Day Remembrance Ceremony at The Anchor on June 6, 2023. The ceremony included a presentation of the sequence of events that occurred during the D-Day attack by allied forces during World War II...
25 May 2023 Wreck Site Identified as World War Two Destroyer USS Mannert L. Abele (DD 733) WASHINGTON NAVY YARD - Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) confirmed the identity of a wreck site located in Japanese waters as USS Mannert L. Abele (DD 733) May 25...
22 May 2023 Military Sealift Command Honors Merchant Mariners Past and Present with National Maritime Day Celebration NORFOLK, Va. -- Military Sealift Command (MSC) hosted a National Maritime Day celebration aboard hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), May 22, honoring United States Merchant Mariners...
16 May 2023 The U.S. Naval Observatory: Providing Precision Time and Location Data for the U.S. Department of Defense—and the Entire World Stennis Space Center, Miss. -- The U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO), the historic origin of METOC, today performs some of the American Military’s most technical, far-reaching, and critically-important work. ...
09 May 2023 2023 New Year’s Day Deck Log Contest Winners Announced WASHINGTON NAVY YARD, D.C. - “As New Year’s bells ring out tonight/ We celebrate our warship’s might/ In poetic form we must recall/Bunker Hill’s life before her 2023 mothball” wrote Lt. Artem Sherbinin on the first night of 2023 while aboard USS Bunker Hill (CG...
03 May 2023 Navy Medicine at War: Stories of Service and Sacrifice at the Battle of Coral Sea FALLS CHURCH, Va. -- Following the fall of Corregidor and Singapore, the Imperial Japanese Navy shifted their focus to Port Moresby, the strategically important capital of Papua New Guinea. Their goal: to cut off allied supply lines to Australia. Standing in their way were two Navy U.S. Carrier...
04 April 2023 Center for Information Warfare Training Celebrates the 130th Birthday of the Chief Petty Officer Rate PENSACOLA, Fla. - Center for Information Warfare Training (CIWT) headquarters held a Khaki and Cake cutting ceremony for the 130th Birthday of the rate of Chief Petty Officer (CPO) on March 31, 2023...
17 February 2023 The Hospital Corpsmen of Iwo Jima: Stories of Valor and Sacrifice FALLS CHURCH, Va. - At 0900 on February 19th, 1945, the first assault waves from the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions hit the beaches of Iwo Jima. Embedded within these units were corpsmen like Pharmacist’s Mate Second Class Stanley Dabrowski, of New Britain, Conn., who remembered the...