United States Navy
The United States Navy is a branch of the United States Armed Forces. The Navy was created on October 13, 1775 when the American Continental Congress "voted to fit out two sailing vessels, armed with ten carriage guns, as well as swivel guns, and manned by crews of eighty, and to send them out on a cruise of three months to intercept transports carrying munitions and stores to the British army in America."[1]
As is the case with other nations' navies around the world, the U.S. Navy is charged with sea operations in both international and United States waters.
"The mission of the Navy is to maintain, train and equip combat-ready Naval forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggression and maintaining freedom of the seas."[2]
History
American Revolution
see American Revolution, naval history
New Nation: 1789-1860
Civil War
1865-1898
1898-1940
World War II
Cold War
Since 1990
Bibliography
- Bern Anderson. By Sea and by River: The Naval History of the Civil War (1989) excerpt and text search
- Bart Brasher; Implosion: Downsizing the U.S. Military, 1987-2015 (2000) online edition
- A. B. Feuer; The U.S. Navy in World War I: Combat at Sea and in the Air 1999 online edition
- Harrod, Frederick S. The Manning of the New Navy: The Development of a Modern Naval Enlisted Force, 1899-1940 (1978). By 1930 the navy successfully recruited and trained a nearly
permanent force of technically skilled career seamen
- Hoyt, Edwin P. Submarines at War: The History of the American Silent Service (1983), popular
- Ernest J. King; U.S. Navy at War, 1941-1945: Official Reports to the Secretary of the Navy (1946) online edition
- Robert W Love. History of the US Navy: 1942-1991 (1992) excerpt and text search
- Robert W Love. History of the US Navy: 1775-1941 (1992) excerpt and text search
- E. B Potter. Nimitz (1988)
- E. B Potter. Sea Power: A Naval History (1982)
- E. B Potter.
- W. D. Puleston; The Life and Work of Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, U.S.N 1939 online edition
- Ian W. Toll. Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy (2006)
- Polmar, Norman. The American Submarine (1981). well-illustrated popular history
- Reynolds, Clark G. The Fast Carriers: Forging of an Air Navy (1968).
- Turnbull, Archibald D. and Clifford Lord. History of United States Naval Aviation (1949).