Paul R. Ignatius, a management consultant who served as secretary of the Navy at the height of the Vietnam War and spent two ...

In fact, the Navy owned the Jeffboat shipyard during World War II. Jeffboat builders constructed more than 100 warships for ...

Dozens of Navy airplanes were returning to their carriers in the South Pacific short of fuel and after dark after battling Japanese forces in the World War II Battle of the Philippine Sea. It could ...

There’s an old saying that “an army marches on its stomach.” It could be said that a navy sails on its stomach. And during World War II the United States Navy wanted to make sure its cooks knew how to ...

The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the war—flying messages from submarine-hunting blimps during a time when radio ...