📝 The 2024 CNO Naval History Essay Contest is still open for submissions until April 30th! The USNavyCNO invites all entrants to share their insights by applying lessons from naval history to tackle today's Navy challenges. mynavyhr.navy.mil/Portals/55/Mes… #NavyHistory

Sgt. Myron Chambers and his son, 2 and half year-old 'colonel' Marvin Chambers, salute the colors during recruit graduation ceremonies for the 304 series, on 8 April 1965.

#EasterSunday - Marines and Navy Seabees attend Easter services atop Mount Suribachi on blood-stained Iwo Jima, while fellow Marines and Soldiers were assaulting Okinawa a few hundred miles away.

Have you ever wondered what life was like aboard a historical U.S. Navy Vessel? Check out this footage of the day-to-day aboard the USS Kitty Hawk, date unknown.

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Talk about the Goat Locker! Sailors aboard a U.S. Navy battleship, circa 1907-1908.

#TodayInHistory - 1945 - The first heavy kamikaze attacks begin on ships at Okinawa. USS Bush (DD 529), USS Colhoun (DD 801), USS Emmons (DMS 22) and LST 447 are damaged beyond repair.

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Check out what happened on this day in Naval History!

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NHHC is in Montgomery, AL for #NavyWeek with #STEM activities at the Maxwell AFB Air Show. Come out and visit and see the show. NavyOutreach

#FineArtsFriday - Assault Wave, Coxswain, a watercolor painting by Dwight C. Shepler; 1944.

#OTD  in 1973, Operation Homecoming was formally disestablished after returning 566 U.S. military personnel, 23 American civilians, and 5 country nationals from captivity in Vietnam. Read more about the U.S. Navy's involvement in the operation here:

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#WeirdWednesday - Shortly after midnight on 16 June 1968, according to witnesses, the Swift boat PCF-19 “disappeared in a flash of light” while on patrol off the coast of Vietnam, just south of the DMZ.

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#OTD - 1942, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, is named Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas (CINCPOA) and also retains the title of Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC)

Check it out! From the Sea to the Stars:
A Chronicle of the U.S. Navy's Space and Space-related Activities,
1944-2009

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Fair winds and following seas, Shipmate.

No fooling! The US Navy had a 700lb mascot pig named “King Neptune” that helped raise almost 19million in war bonds from 1942-46. Learn more while #NHHCvisits for Montgomery #NavyWeek Montgomery Alabama NavyOutreach U.S. Naval History

No fooling! The US Navy had a 700lb mascot pig named “King Neptune” that helped raise almost 19million in war bonds from 1942-46. Learn more while #NHHCvisits for Montgomery #NavyWeek Montgomery Alabama NavyOutreach U.S. Naval History

#OTD  in 1944, U.S. Navy carriers, fast battleships, cruisers, and destroyers attacked the Western Caroline Islands. Carrier-based planes made shipping their primary target, sinking 3 destroyers, 17 freighters, 5 oilers, and 3 small vessels, while damaging 17 additional ships.

In the spring of 1999, U.S. Navy aviation contributed land-based EA-6B Prowlers, EP-3E Aries IIs, and F/A-18D Hornets to the air campaign over Kosovo known as Operation Allied Force. Allied aircraft dropped Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs) operationally for the first time.

Celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth  by checking out our latest article in which Dr. Heather Haley draws connections between (what seemed to be) the imminent passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, the shift to the All-Volunteer Force, and CNO Zumwalt's Z-grams.

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U2 or UAP? Mid-50s, most airliners flew between 10,000-20,000ft, military aircraft like the B-47s operated below 40,000ft. Once U-2s started flying at altitudes above 60,000 feet, air traffic controllers began receiving increasing numbers of UFO reports. bit.ly/3ZDiWY