Chairman’s Message

Message from the Chairman ★ ★ ★ ★

Let me offer my sincere appreciation to all who attended our August luncheon in Arlington and our September dinner at Annapolis and convey a special thanks to the sponsors who underwrote the expenses associated with these two celebratory events. Your presence and support enabled the Naval Historical Foundation (NHF) to host these first in-person events in a year and a half. We are pleased to be able to resume live events to demonstrate that our organization remains vibrant and relevant, particularly in this pivotal time in history as sea power plays an increasingly important role in the defense of democracy and the freedoms we cherish.

As we forge ahead into the 21st century, the historical understanding of past events and the role of seapower will be more important than ever. The individuals we are honoring have brought these important messages to light and shared their work with other people. The five individuals honored with the Knox Medal at our luncheon and dinner have spent their careers enhancing our knowledge of the significance of the maritime domain and have served as role models for future naval history practitioners. Some of those future practitioners also have their names printed in this program—finalists in the U.S. Naval Academy’s Voices of Maritime History Competition for the Superintendent’s Annual Leadership and Vision Award. Perhaps someday we may see their names again highlighted in this program, this time as Knox Medal recipients!

Our DeMars Award recipient, former NHF president “Bud” Langston, and our Volunteer of the Year, “Chuck” Chadbourn, are finally recognized publicly for their service to the NHF—long overdue but understandably delayed as a result of the pandemic. Thank you again for your efforts on behalf of naval history.

Finally, on a somber note, we had hoped to present our NHF Distinguished Service Award for significant contributions to the naval historical enterprise to Dr. James D. Hornfischer at one of these two events but, unfortunately, we lost him on June 2. Thankfully, I did have the opportunity to present the award virtually during a gathering of family and friends on May 26. We will continue to remember Jim in our thoughts and prayers along with two other former leaders in our organization, Dr. J.P. “Jack” London and Rear Adm. John T. Mitchell, as well as our long-standing champion, Senator John W. Warner, all of whom passed away recently. These individuals left wonderful legacies that will benefit us all for years to come.

Thank you,

Adm. William J. Fallon, USN (Ret.)

Naval Historical Foundation Since 1926

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GENERAL DYNAMICS SALUTES THE NAVAL HISTORICAL FOUNDATION COMMODORE DUDLEY W. KNOX MEDAL RECIPIENTS: DR. ROBERT BROWNING, JR DR. TOM HONE & DR. KATHLEEN B. WILLIAMS

The awardees shown above are flanked by Admiral Fallon and presenters Dr. Sal Mercogliano, Trent Hone, and Capt. William Peerenboom. Photos taken by Sean Walsh.

About the Volunteer of the Year Award—The NHF relies on dozens of volunteers who have performed a wide range of chores, including judging essay contests, writing book reviews, editing, collecting oral history, handling correspondence, conducting research, and organizing events. The award recognizes an individual who donated their time and skills to further the mission of the NHF above and beyond the call of duty.

About the Recipient:

In 1963, Dr. Chadbourn earned his B.S. in zoology at Louisiana Tech University. Three years later he earned an M.A. in history at that school and then joined the Navy to serve as a Surface Warfare Officer on destroyers in the Western Pacific with two tours to Vietnam. After leaving active duty, in 1976 he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in the field of U.S. naval and diplomatic history. He continued serving in the Navy Reserve, retiring as a captain. He held three commands, including two of the largest reserve units in

the United States. He was selected by Vice Adm. Stansfield Turner to open the first nonresident Fleet Seminar Program in Washington, D.C., which has now expanded to more than 1,000 students at fleet concentration sites around the country. A recipient of the Department of the Navy’s Meritorious Civilian Service Award, Dr. Chadbourn is the editor-in-chief of the NHF-supported International Journal of Naval History and has been the foundation’s point person at National History Day ceremonies, Dr. Charles C. Chadbourn presenting the NHF Captain Kenneth Coskey Prize to selected junior- and senior-level contestants. He also helped to initiate the NHF Teachers of Distinction Program, which recognizes teachers who supported their students’ naval history projects.

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The Commodore Dudley Wright Knox Medal

About the Commodore Dudley Wright Knox Medal—The award is named for Commodore Dudley Wright Knox (1877–1960). A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and Naval War College, Knox had a distinguished career as a naval officer with service in the Spanish American War, Boxer Rebellion, Great White Fleet, and World War I. But it was his abilities as a historian, librarian, and archivist that earned him respect and admiration among his peers and later generations.

Transferred to the Retired List of the Navy on 20 October 1921, Knox had served as Officer in Charge, Office of Naval Records and Library, and as Curator for the Navy Department. The publication of his clarion call Our Vanishing Naval History in the Naval Institute Proceedings in January 1926 led to the establishment of the Naval Historical Foundation. He would serve as secretary of the organization for decades and was its president at the time of his passing in 1960.

Established in 2013, the Medal is presented to individuals who have dedicated a lifetime of work to further our understanding of naval history. Besides the publication of work of scholarly significance, factors germane for award consideration include mentorship of future naval historians and participation and leadership in organizations that promote maritime/naval/military history.

Following is a list of the previous recipients of the Knox Medal:

• 2013: James C. Bradford, Philip K. Lundeberg, William N. Still, Jr. • 2014: William S. Dudley, John B. Hattendorf, Harold D. Langley, Craig L. Symonds • 2015: Dean C. Allard, Thomas J. Cutler, Kenneth J. Hagan • 2016: Christopher McKee • 2017: Jon Sumida, Paul Stillwell, Edward Marolda • 2019: Tyrone G. Martin, Norman Polmar, David Curtis Skaggs, Jr.

The U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1957 Salutes the 2018-2019 Holder of The Class of 1957 Chair in Naval Heritage

Kathleen Broome Williams

Joining previous chairs James C. Bradford and Craig L. Symonds As recipients of the Naval Historical Foundation’s Commodore Dudley W. Knox Medal

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Congratulations to the 2020–2021 Knox Medal Recipients!

Dr. Michael J. Crawford (2020)

Dr. Crawford earned his Ph.D. from Boston University in 1978 and briefly taught at Texas Tech before joining the staff of the then Naval Historical Center in 1982 as the assistant branch head of the Research (Early History) Branch. He made significant contributions to the American Revolution: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection volume series that was recently digitized by the NHF, and he subsequently assisted and then succeeded Dr. William S. Dudley as the lead editor of the four-part The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History. His efforts have made thousands of documents accessible to researchers who collectively have broadened our understanding of our Navy during the early years of the republic. He authored or edited 17 books and contributed 30 articles or chapters in books, encyclopedias, and peer-reviewed journals. He wrote 27 book reviews and presented three dozen papers at professional conferences, always finding time to work with interns and fellow scholars working on a myriad of projects. From 2008 until his retirement from the NHHC in 2017, he held the distinguished title of Senior Historian of the Navy.

Capt. Peter M. Swartz, USN (Ret.) (2020)

Captain Swartz is an expert on 20th- and 21st-century Navy strategy, policy, and operations and on military history, organization, and culture. His recent work examines Navy strategy, the organizational history of the Navy and OPNAV, U.S. Navy international relationships, and U.S. interservice relationships, policies, and doctrine. He has analyzed alternative Navy global fleet deployment models; lessons learned from past Navy operations in homeland defense, counterpiracy, and irregular warfare; the Navy’s role in the Unified Command Plan; and the relationships among Navy strategy, programming, and budgeting. Prior to joining the Center for Naval Analyses, Swartz served for 26 years as a Navy officer, primarily in the areas of strategy, plans, and policy. A member of the Secretary of the Navy’s Advisory Committee on Naval History in the 1980s, he served as an advisor to the Naval Historical Center/Naval History and Heritage Command for more than three and a half decades. He has mentored scores of junior and senior naval officers, including dozens of senior flags and civilian senior executives, on the facts and use of naval history in strategic planning and national policy.

Robert M. Browning, Jr. (2021)

Dr. Robert Browning earned a Ph.D. in history at the University of Alabama as well as a master’s degree at East Carolina University. Browning published five monographs on American naval and maritime history between 1993 and 2015. The first of these treated the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron; it garnered the North American Society of Oceanic History’s John Lyman Award (1994). Dr. Browning’s latest book, From Cape Charles to Cape Fear (2015), analyzed Lincoln’s blockading navy in the Gulf. In addition to his books, Dr. Browning has published nearly 40 scholarly articles on the history of the USN and the U.S. Coast Guard, two of which appeared in Naval History in 2020. He began his career with the Coast Guard Historian’s Office in 1989 and eventually became the USCG Chief Historian until his retirement in 2015. Early on, Dr. Browning assembled a “History Action” team that did yeoman’s service recording the Coast Guard’s role in the events following 9/11/2001, in Operation Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, and throughout the heroic responses to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Beyond immediate crises, Dr. Browning’s relentless determination ensured that the Coast Guard Historian’s Office effectively continued to maintain the service’s written, oral, and tangible history for the benefit of future generations of Americans.

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Thomas C. Hone (2021)

Dr. Hone earned his bachelor’s from the Ohio State University (1966) and a doctorate in political science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison (1973) and graduated from the DOD’s Defense Acquisition University’s program managers course (1988). Between 1985 and 2018, Dr. Hone held at least 13 academic positions ranging from an initial one-year stint at the Naval War College (1985–1986) to faculty positions at the George C. Marshall Center for European Studies (1994–1997) to the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (1991–2001) and the Faculty of Joint Military Operations Department at the Naval War College (2006–2009) to his final appointment as a contract historian with the Navy History and Heritage Command (2014–2018). He also served as Principal Deputy Director for the Office of the Secretary of Defense Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation in 2001–2002 and was Special Assistant to the Commander, Naval Air Systems Command, in 1992–1994. In 2003–2006, he was Assistant Director for Risk Management, Office of Force Transformation, Office of the Secretary of Defense. He published his first naval history article, “Battleships vs. Aircraft Carriers: The Patterns of U.S. Navy Operating Expenditures, 1932-1941,” in 1977. Since then he has written at least 40 articles, book chapters, and reviews of books on naval history, ranging in topics from arms control treaties following World War I and II to portraits of pioneering naval leaders and to the early 2000s “AirSea battle concept.” Dr. Hone is the coauthor of the following books: the Naval History and Heritage Command centennial History of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 1915-2015; American & British Aircraft Carrier Development, 1919–1941; Battle Line: The United States Navy, 1919–1939; Innovation in Carrier Aviation; and Vol. 1, Part 2 of the Gulf War Air Power Survey as well as the author of Power and Change: The Administrative History of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 1946–1986.

Kathleen Broome Williams (2021)

Professor Williams holds a bachelor’s degree, with honors in history, a master’s, and a Ph.D. from Wellesley, Columbia, and City University of New York (CUNY), respectively. Prior to settling permanently as an adjunct professor at Holy Names University in Oakland, Ca. (2014–present), she taught at Sophia University in Tokyo, the Panama Canal College, and CUNY. She reached her teaching pinnacle in 2018 as the 10th Class of 1957 Chair in Naval History at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Beyond the classroom, she first exhibited her fascination with applied science, the Navy, and World War II in Secret Weapon: U.S. High-Frequency Direction Finding in the Battle of the Atlantic (Naval Institute Press, 1996), followed by Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II (Naval Institute Press, 2001) and Grace Murray Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea (Naval Institute Press, 2004, 2013). She also published an appreciative biography of her father, a Marine who fought at Saipan in World War II: The Measure of a Man: My Father, the Marine Corps, and Saipan (Naval Institute Press, 2013). In addition, she has published six chapters in other books, written 15 scholarly articles, delivered 50 scholarly papers at academic gatherings, and reviewed 24 books.

Voices of Maritime History Competition for the Superintendent’s Annual Leadership and Vision Award Finalists

About the Award—Sponsored by the late Dr. J. Phillip London, USNA ’59, and administered by the NHF, the award is intended to promote potential new naval perspectives, narratives, tactics, investments, adoption of innovative technologies, and capabilities including public education and interests in the maritime environment, freedom of the seas, or productivity of the ocean. To sustain this award in the coming years, the NHF has created the Dr. J.P. “Jack” London Fund. Additional contributions to this fund are welcome. Please make checks available to “Naval Historical Foundation” and annotate “Dr. London Fund” on the comment line and send to the NHF at PO Box 15304, Washington, DC, 20003. Conversely you may donate online at www.navyhistory.org.

First Place ($5,000) Midshipman 3/C Jennifer Sun

“Fleet Problems and Integrity” extolling the necessity of Fleet exercise rigor, integrity, and thoroughness. A clarion call, with superb examples, on raising the bar in Fleet exercises to enhance training and readiness.

Second Place ($2,500) Midshipman 3/C Nels J. Waaraniemi

“Sea Control: How the Battle of the Atlantic Illuminates Today’s Challenges,” a juxtaposition of the Battle of the Atlantic and emerging Pacific Rim threats specifically focused on hypersonic missiles.

Third Place ($1,500) Midshipman 3/C Brett Brady

“Maritime Challenge,” a treatise and call for greater use of technology in providing better maritime situational awareness to facilitate decision making and teamwork to prevent maritime accidents.

The Naval Historical Foundation also Salutes!

The 2021 Vice Admiral Robert F. Dunn NROTC Essay Contest Grand Prize Winner:

Midn. Will Stefanou of the University of San Diego for his paper on “The Six Cornerstones of Naval Tactics and our Future.”

The 2021 National History Day Captain Kenneth Coskey Prize Winners:

Junior Division: Rebecca Bemiss of Platsville, CT, “Mavis Batey and the Geese That Never Cackled” Senior Division: Jessie Henderson of Cleveland, TN, “Aerographer’s Mates: Communicating Weather from Sea to Shining Sea”

The 2021 NHF National History Day Teachers of Distinction Awardees:

Julie Mitchell, Bradley Central High School in Cleveland, TN; Brian Zawadniak, teacher at John F. Kennedy School, Platsville, CT; Stephanie Hammer, teacher at William Monroe Middle School, Stanardsville, VA; Megan Souchek, teacher at New Caney High School, New Caney, TX; Justin Carroll, teacher at Deer Creek Middle School, Edmond, OK; Alfred Meadows, teacher at Wilbur Cross High School, New Haven, CT; and Cathy Kaus, teacher at Chadron Senior High School, Chadron, NE.

Naval Historical Foundation

About the Naval Historical Foundation: The NHF preserves and honors America’s naval heritage. We seek to inform, educate, and inspire current and future leaders and the public in understanding the importance of our Navy, sea power, and the maritime domain. Working closely with the U.S. Navy, we ensure that naval history remains in the forefront of American thought. NHF is a 501(c)(3) membership organization based in the historic Washington Navy Yard.