A year and a half before President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia, his life was put in peril on Nov. 14, 1943, all because of a torpedo inadvertently ...

The national obsequies after the death of former President Gerald Ford were a reminder of the awesome significance of the presidency to the American people. It is hard to imagine any other nation g… ...

Did FDR tell a fib? Well, he definitely didn’t tell the whole truth about the transformation of little San Diego into a major Navy base that now serves as the home of the Pacific Fleet. Roosevelt made ...

A Navy courier brought the thirteen parts of the message to the White House between 9:30 and 10:00 p.m., where he found Harry Hopkins, newly emerged from the Naval Hospital, with the President.

For more than 70 years, the Navy has had a love-hate relationship with baseball caps. Sailors have loved them; leadership hated them. Well, maybe not all leaders — just those making the ...

Tranchida: FDR was the undersecretary of the Navy at the time. It’s questionable what and how much he knew. We know that he knew that this happened, but he may not have known the tactics.