Doggie Rayl was a perfectionist, and a man lucky to be alive to make the trip to the North Pole. Rayl was a signalman aboard the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He...
I encourage everyone to visit the exhibits and then walk up the ramp and go aboard Nautilus. Check out the torpedo room, wardroom, officer quarters, attack center, galley, and crew’s mess and quarters...
Speaking of baseball, a small group of Nautilus crew members arrived during a game at Yankee Stadium. Even though the famous slugger Mickey Mantle was at bat, the crowd stood and gave the submariners...
A pointed letter from Senator Henry M. Scoop Jackson, from Washington State, a very powerful member of Congress and one who took special interest in military matters. Jackson had just returned from an...
A lot of interest had developed on the contest to design a cachet or postal mark for envelopes that were to be mailed at the North Pole. I had reasoned that we could assume and later get confirmation...
I know there were many prayers of thanks offered up at that quiet moment. Let us pause also in tribute to those who have preceded us, whether to victory or failure, I spoke into the microphone, and in...
That I had been selected to receive an award known as the Medaglia de Grifone, or Christopher Columbus medal, given every year for outstanding contributions to sea travel. Admiral Rickover had been th...
