Annual Symposia

2025 WNHA SYMPOSIUM

The program this year is still under development but it includes: workshops and historical presentations including:

Richard Frank"Did U.S. Submarines Kill More Japanese than the USMC in WWII."
Carla Rahn Phillips: “Juan Cabrillo Controversy &Spanish Exploration of San Diego Bay”
Steven Shay, Secretary of Universal Ship Cancellation Society: “Collecting Naval Postal Covers”
Len Heinz: “Radar in Pacific Night Battles, 1942-1943”
Parks Stephenson: CEO USS Kidd Museum: “Diving on Warship Wrecks”
Ed Offley: “USS Scorpion—Buried at Sea”
Larrie Ferreiro: “The British-American scientific cooperation that won the Battle of the Atlantic”
David Winkler & David Kohnen: “Editing and publishing Combat Diaries and Memoires”
Brian Walter: “Central Role of Maritime Logistics in WWII”
Hal Friedman: “U.S. Navy Planning for the Pacific, 1946”

Other topics will include the Vietnam War, a roundtable discussion of the Scorpion debate, and the participation of other speakers including Norman Polmar and Jon Parshall.

Physical attendance is $60, which includes lunch, refreshments, admission to the USS Midway, and WNHA membership. The program will be live with just one remote presentation scheduled. It will be streamed as in past years and registrants who are not able to attend will receive a link.

For questions write Vince O'Hara at vohara@gmail.com