Naval History and Heritage Command

Digital editions of the following publications, broadly categorized by subject, are available on this website. Unless otherwise noted, titles are publications of Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) and its predecessor organizations.

Conflict or Time Period

American Revolution and Early Navy

Civil War

Early 20th Century

World War I

The Interwar Navy

World War II

Korean War

Cuban Missile Crisis

Vietnam War

Topic

Naval Aviation

The U.S. Navy and Space Exploration

Histories of Fleets, Shore Establishments, and Agencies

Histories of Types of  U.S. Navy Operations

Histories of Significant U.S. Navy Strategies, Plans, and Policies

U.S. Navy Historiography 

Colloquia

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American Revolution and Early Navy

Documentary History Collections

• Naval Documents of the American Revolution (13 volumes)

• Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France, 1797–1801

• Naval Documents Related to the United States Wars with the Barbary Powers, 1785–1807 (6 volumes)

• Register of Officer Personnel: U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and Ships' Data, 1801–1807

• The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History (4 volumes)

Other Titles

• John Paul Jones's Locker: The Mutinous Men of the Continental Ship Ranger and the Confinement of Lieutenant Thomas Simpson

• The Constitution Gun Deck

• Officers of Peculiar Skill: Petty and Forward Officers of the U.S. Navy, 1797–1860

• Sea Stories: Forays into American Naval History During the Age of Sail 

Civil War

• The Autobiography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren (NHHC "Contributions to Naval History" No. 8)

Early 20th Century

• The Boxer Rebellion: Bluejackets and Marines in China, 1900–1901

• "A Pacific Effect": The United States Navy, Naval Engagement, and the World Cruise of the Great White Fleet

World War I

NHHC "World War I Commemorative Series"

• The Navy's First Enlisted Women: Patriotic Pioneers 

• Ensuring the Lifeline to Victory: Antisubmarine Warfare, Convoys, and Allied Cooperation in European Waters During World War I

Other Titles

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

The Interwar Navy

• Winning a Future War: War Gaming and Victory in the Pacific War

World War II

NHHC "U.S. Navy Operations in World War II"

• Operation Torch: The American Amphibious Assault on French Morocco, 1942

• Galvanic: Beyond the Reef—Tarawa and the Gilberts, November 1943

• “Calmness, Courage, and Efficiency”: Remembering the Battle of Leyte Gulf

• "On the Verge of Breaking Down Completely": Surviving the Kamikaze off Okinawa, 1945

• Richmond Kelly Turner: Planning the Pacific War

• Contested Logistics: Sustaining the Pacific War

Other Titles

• A Grave Misfortune: The USS Indianapolis Tragedy (NHHC "Contributions to Naval History" No. 7)

• United States Submarine Losses: World War II

• Guide to United States Naval Administrative Histories of World War II

• World War II Office of Naval Intelligence Combat Narratives

Korean War

• History of U.S. Naval Operations in Korea

• Assault from the Sea: The Amphibious Landing at Inchon

• Naval Leadership in Korea: The First Six Months

• Long Passage to Korea: Black Sailors and the Integration of the U.S. Navy 

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": Nine-volume series covering specific facets of the Navy’s engagement in Vietnam including the lead-up to the war; the naval air campaigns; combat in the rivers and canals; the experience of POWs; the evacuation of South Vietnam and Cambodia; and the vital efforts made by naval intelligence, medical personnel, and merchant mariners in providing operational  and lifesaving support.

Naval 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)

• Aircraft Carrier Requirements and Strategy, 1977-2001 (NHHC "Contributions to Naval History" No. 9)

• 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 1, publication of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations [Air Warfare]; Volumes 2 through 5, publications of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations [Air Warfare] and the Commander, Naval Air Systems Command)

• Volume 1: Naval Aviation Training

• Volume 2: Pistons to Jets

• Volume 3: U.S. Naval Air Reserve

• Volume 4: Kite Balloons to Airships…the Navy’s Lighter-Than-Air Experience

• Volume 5: U.S. Marine Corps Aviation

The U.S. Navy and 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, Shore Establishments, and Agencies

• History of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 1915-2015

• 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

• Tingey House: Silent Witness to Our Navy's History

Histories of Types of U.S. Navy Operations

• A Global Force for Good: Sea Services Humanitarian Operations in the Twenty-First Century

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

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

Histories of Significant U.S. Navy Strategies, Plans, and Policies

• Our Greatest Strength: Navy Wives and the Manpower Crisis in the 1970s Navy

U.S. Navy Historiography

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

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

Colloquia

Colloquium on Contemporary History 1989-98: Selected proceedings of the Colloquium on Contemporary History, a conference series sponsored by the Naval Historical Center (NHHC's predecessor organization) from 1989 to 1998.

• No. 1: A Time of Change: National Strategy in the Early Postwar Era
• No. 2: Caribbean Tempest: The Dominican Republic Intervention of 1965
• No. 3: A New Equation: Chinese Intervention into the Korean War
• No. 4: Command and Control of Air Operations in the Vietnam War
• No. 5: Gearing Up for Victory: American Military and Industrial Mobilization in World War II
• No. 6: Stalin's Cold War Military Machine: A New Evaluation
• No. 7: A New Look at the Cuban Missile Crisis
• No. 8: Inter-Allied Naval Relations and the Birth of NATO
• No. 9: "More Bang for the Buck": U.S. Nuclear Strategy and Missile Development 1945-1965
• No. 10: Conflict and Cooperation: U.S. and Soviet Navies in the Cold War
• No. 11: Tet: The Turning Point in Vietnam