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Bookmark or Share- Navy Divers - NHHCSince the middle of the 19th century, the U.S. Navy has used divers on the salvage and repair of ships, construction, and other military operations. During the Civil War’s Battle of Mobile Bay, swimmers were sent ahead of Adm. David Farragut’s ships to locate and disarm Confederate mines, and in 1898, Navy divers investigated the mysterious explosion of USS Maine while anchored in the ...
- Casualties: US Navy and Marine Corps Personnel Killed and ... - NHHCNote: Data are based on incomplete and sometimes conflicting sources. Official US Navy sources have been used when they are available in the collection of the Navy Department Library. The date provided at the end of each entry is the date of the accident/incident, rather than the date of death of individuals who may have died subsequently to the event.
- Women in the U.S. Navy - NHHCThe first women to serve in the U.S. Navy were nurses, beginning with the “Sacred Twenty” appointed after Congress established the Navy Nurse Corps on 13 May 1908. The first large-scale enlistment of women into the Navy met clerical shortages during World War I, and the second came months before the United States entered World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Public Law 689 ...
- US Navy in Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001-2002 - NHHCThe Navy Department Library. The US Navy in Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001-2002. On the morning of 11 September 2001, terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda perpetrated the most devastating attack on the United States since the Japanese strike on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in December 1941.
- Pt. 2 - Unit Awards - NHHCThe insignia of the Unit Citation authorized by the above Executive Order shall be in the following form and design: 1. A burgee pennant design of blue, gold, and scarlet of 27 units on the hoist by 57 units on the fly, with the gold measuring 13 units on the hoist and 48 units on the fly centered between the blue above and the scarlet below. 2.
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