Dec 18, 2025 | NSW Historical Perspectives
Korea December 1950 UDT-3 Destroys Hungnam Harbor By CDR (SEAL) Tom Hawkins, USN (Ret.) On Christmas Eve 1950, United Nations forces had reached the Yalu River, which served as the border with China. Responding to that threat, Beijing sent more than 180,000 People’s...
Dec 7, 2025 | NSW Historical Perspectives
Pearl Harbor and the Underwater Demolition Teams By CDR (SEAL) Tom Hawkins, USN (Ret.) On 7 December 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, killing over 2,400 Americans and severely damaging or destroying 19 U.S....
Nov 5, 2025 | NSW Historical Perspectives
Korea – September 1952 Operation FISHNET By CDR (SEAL) Tom Hawkins, USN (Ret.) As described by the writer James Berry in the U.S. Naval Institutes “Proceedings” of December 1990: “I helped document one of the strangest military actions of the war: A commando ship (USS...
Oct 16, 2025 | NSW Historical Perspectives
Navy SEAL FROGMEN By CDR (SEAL) Tom Hawkins, USN (Ret.) This story was written in 2011 in collaboration with Captain (SEAL) Norm Olson, USN (Ret.), who was the founding director of the Navy SEAL Museum. The story has been condensed and updated with revisions. In...
Sep 18, 2025 | NSW Historical Perspectives
Saving Jessica Lynch Operation Iraqi Freedom By CDR (SEAL) Tom Hawkins, USN (Ret.) U.S. Army Private First Class Jessica Lynch deployed to Iraq in 2003 as part of the Army’s 507th Maintenance Company. Their primary mission was to provide logistical support to field...
Aug 11, 2025 | NSW Historical Perspectives
Korean War – August 1950 UDT’s First Combat Action By CDR (SEAL) Tom Hawkins, USN (Ret.) On 23 June 1950, U.N. observers inspecting the border area between North and South Korea saw nothing amiss. In a stunning surprise just two days later on the 25th of June, the...
