Historians will often seek to understand the motivations and causality behind a historical event by looking at other events leading up to it. In the historiography of Japan's role in World War II, the Russo-Japanese War is a common starting point...
One of the more common questions on History Hub is how to request a Department of Defense Form 214 (DD214):Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty or a Report of Separation, a complete Official Military Personnel File (OMPF), and a servi...
Finding veterans who served in the US Navy during World War II just became digital. At the Still Picture Branch we have multiple indexes to search for various branches of the US Military. Our index, 80-GX: Index to Photographs of Personalities in th...
During World War II, all major belligerents fielded submarines of one kind or another, and each met with different levels of challenges and successes. The German Kriegsmarine and the American Submarine Service in the Pacific received a lot of p...
The topic for the fourth and last part of this blog series is on Cold War Submarine deck logs. I devoted a separate blog to the submarine deck logs because there is a devolution in the content of the deck logs through the Cold War period, which...
In this third installment on how to use National Archives records in researching Cold War Submarines and the development of the Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) submarines, we will need to backtrack to Part I and review the development of the guided mis...
In this second segment, we will continue our discussion on Cold War Submarines by exploring NARA records that can be utilized to research the developmental shift from diesel-electric boats to nuclear fast-attack submarines with the modern, more...
At the conclusion of World War II, the political landscape shifted from suppression of aggressive fascist regimes to the threat of Soviet communist influence over war torn Allied occupied countries, and territories still under colonial rule calling f...
One interesting topic that people like to research is the period between the World Wars, and how the United States evolved from an equal ally of Western Europe at the end of World War I to the Arsenal of Democracy in World War II. The U.S. Navy is a ...
From a historian’s perspective, it’s easy to see how the stresses and strains between nations lead to the outbreak of war. But what about at the time? What was known? What was missed? President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted answers to thes...
On August 9, 2019 the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) entered into an agreement to digitize the Vietnam-era US Navy and Coast Guard deck logs from 1956 through 1978. On 28 September 202...
In the aftermath of World War I with the rise of American global status, a colonial power in the Carribean and Pacific and a component of a European alliance with Great Britain and France, the United States Navy began to take their theories of fleet ...
In the last few years, the National Archives has been partnering with online services like Ancestry.com and Fold3.com to digitize microfilm and microfiche series of records. The intent was that after a span of time on these sites, these materials eve...
The National Archives entered into an agreement on August 9, 2019 with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to digitize U.S. Navy and Coast Guard deck logs from vessels with Vietnam-era service.“Our goal is to support the processing of ...
Vessel & Station Log BooksThe National Archives and Records Administration preserves the log books of the vessels and stations of several Federal agencies (see list), capturing different levels of information and time spans. Related: Update on Av...
Come out and join us for a U.S. Coast Guard Logbook Scan-a-Thon on Wednesday, April 25, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Innovation Hub at the National Archives in Washington, DC. This event is part of the Innovation Hub’s effort to digitize...
