The Navy Art Collection reflects on the Navy's Dilbert, a foolish but cheerful character who was a complete menace to his fellow naval cadets and aviators. Dilbert was created by Robert Osborne, who based his light hearted work off his own observations and factual situations that occurred, creating approximately 2,000 unique Dilbert posters. Navy Art Reflects is a video series intended to show historic and impactful moments in U.S. Naval history through the various art works held in the Navy Art Collection.
Within the buildings that make up Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC), there are corridors of archives. The long aisles of documents, hosted at the Washington Navy Yard, are home to one of the Navy’s most comprehensive documentation of naval operations, the Command Operations Report (COR).
For over two centuries the U.S. Navy has operated across the globe, each ship documenting its every move. The meticulous time keeping and tracking of a ship’s events and movements provide the Navy with detailed records for historical safekeeping. Entries made 24 hours a day, seven days a week without fail can get rather repetitive so in keeping with the holiday spirit the Navy has a time-honored tradition – the New Year’s Deck Log poem...
WASHINGTON NAVY YARD – Naval History and Heritage Command released its newest publication, Best Beloved: The Wartime Letters of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz to His Wife, Catherine, online, Nov. 19, 2024.
WASHINGTON NAVY YARD – Naval History and Heritage Command released its newest publication, The U.S. Navy and Innovation: Twentieth-Century Case Studies, online, September 24, 2024.
