Naval History and Heritage Command

Electronic versions of the following publications, broadly categorized by subject, are available on the NHHC website. Unless otherwise indicated, titles are publications of NHHC and its predecessor organizations.

Conflict or Time Period

American Revolution and Early Navy

Civil War

World War I

World War II

Korean War

Cuban Missile Crisis

Vietnam War

Topic

Aviation

Space Exploration

Histories of Fleets and Shore Establishments

Histories of Operation Types

U.S. Navy Historiography 

Partnerships and International Relations

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American Revolution and Early Navy

• Naval Documents of the American Revolution (12 volumes)
  
  
• The Constitution Gun Deck
  
  
• Register of Officer Personnel, U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps, and Ships' Data, 1801-1807
  
  
• John Paul Jones's Locker: The Mutinous Men of the Continental Ship Ranger and the Confinement of Lieutenant Thomas Simpson by Jonathan Feld. NHHC Histories Branch article detailing an important, but lesser-known incident from Jones's naval career. 
  
  
• Officers of Peculiar Skill: Petty and Forward Officers of the U.S. Navy, 1797–1860  by Michael J. Crawford. Monograph by NHHC's senior historian discussing shipboard functions, service details, and career paths of early U.S. Navy petty and warrant officers. 


• Sea Stories: Forays into American Naval History During the Age of Sail  by Michael J. Crawford. A collection of the NHHC senior historian's papers and presentations, covering a variety of fascinating—and often long-forgotten—aspects of naval history.

Civil War

• The Autobiography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren, edited by Peter C. Luebke. Dahlgren's legacy to the Navy is profound and lasting. His contributions to ship armament and design include the ingenious Dahlgren gun, which became the Navy's chief ordnance during the Civil War. 

World War I

• Digest Catalogue of Laws and Joint Resolutions: The Navy and the World War

• The Navy's First Enlisted Women: Patriotic Pioneers 

World War II

• Winning a Future War: War Gaming and Victory in the Pacific War
• Operation Torch: The American Amphibious Assault on French Morocco, 1942
• United States Submarine Losses: World War II
• Guide to United States Naval Administrative Histories of World War II
  
• A Grave Misfortune: The USS Indianapolis Tragedy
• World War II Office of Naval Intelligence Combat Narratives Series

Korean War

• History of U.S. Naval Operations in Korea

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Cordon of Steel: The U.S. Navy and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Vietnam War

• War in the Shallows: U.S. Navy Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam 1965-68

• By Sea, Air, and Land

The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War (series)

1.) The Approaching Storm: Conflict in Asia, 1945-1965

2.) Nixon’s Trident: Naval Power in Southeast Asia, 1968-1972

3.) The Battle Behind Bars: Navy and Marine POWs in the Vietnam War

4.) Navy Medicine in Vietnam: Passage to Freedom to the Fall of Saigon 

5.) Combat at Close Quarters: Warfare on the Rivers and Canals of Vietnam

6.) Naval Air War: The Rolling Thunder Campaign

7.) Knowing the Enemy: Naval Intelligence in Southeast Asia

8.) Fourth Arm of Defense: Sealift and Maritime Logistics in the Vietnam War

9.) End of the Saga: The Maritime Evacuation of South Vietnam and Cambodia 

Aviation

• United States Naval Aviation 1910-2010

• Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons

  • Volume 1: The History of VA, VAH, VAK, VAL, VAP and VFA Squadrons

  • Volume 2: The History of VP, VPB, VP(HL) and VP(AM) Squadrons

• A History of U.S. Navy Aviation (Technical Note No. 18, Series of 1930; publication of the U.S. Navy Department, Bureau of Aeronautics)

• Naval Aviation in World War I (publication of the Chief of Naval Operations)

• The First Flight Across the Atlantic (publication of the National Air and Space museum)

• Naval Aviation Combat Statistics: World War II (publication of the Office of Naval Intelligence)

• U.S. Naval Aviation in the Pacific (publication of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations)

• Evolution of Aircraft Carriers (publication of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations)

• Wings Over the Ocean: A History of Sea-Air Aviation

• Naval Aviation 1911-1986: A Pictorial Study (publication of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air Warfare) and the Commander, Naval Air Systems Command)

• 75th Year of Naval Aviation: Commemorative Collection (Volume One, publication of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air Warfare); Volumes Two through Five, publications of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air Warfare) and the Commander, Naval Air Systems Command)

  • Volume One: Naval Aviation Training

  • Volume Two: Pistons to Jets

  • Volume Three: U.S. Naval Air Reserve

  • Volume Four: Kite Balloons to Airships…the Navy’s Lighter-than-Air Experience

  • Volume Five: U.S. Marine Corps Aviation

Space Exploration

• Space and the United States Navy

• From the Sea to the Stars: A Chronicle of the U.S. Navy’s Space and Space-Related Activities, 1944-2009 (publication of Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (C3I and Space))

Histories of Fleets and Shore Establishments

• Ready Seapower: A History of the U.S. Seventh Fleet

• Anchor of Resolve: A History of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/Fifth Fleet

• The Washington Navy Yard: An Illustrated History

Histories of Operation Types

• Mud, Muscle, and Miracles: Marine Salvage in the United States Navy

• Riverine Warfare: The U.S. Navy’s Operations on Inland Waters

U.S. Navy Historiography

• Needs and Opportunities in the Modern History of the U.S. History

Partnerships and International Relations

• Maritime Partnership Studies

  • You Cannot Surge Trust

  • Networking the Global Maritime Partnership (publication of Sea Power Centre-Australia)

• The World Cruise of the Great White Fleet: Honoring 100 Years of Global Partnerships and Security