Naval History and Heritage Command

This page is designed to assist veterans who are attempting to locate records relating to their military service.

• See also: Military Service Records and Unit Histories: A Guide to Locating Sources.
  
  
• Information about obtaining Official Service and Medical Records.
  
  
• For information about obtaining replacement medals and ribbons, please contact the Navy Personnel Command.
  
  
• Information about obtaining copies of crew lists and muster rolls.
  
  
• For general research on ship histories, please consult the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
  
  
• For general research on aviation squadrons, please view our many resources on the Aviation History page.
  
  
• For Navy photographs, please visit the Photo Archives page.
  
  
• List of carrier and squadron deployments for Korea and Vietnam (PDF, 977 KB).
  
  
• List of port visits by carriers deployed to Vietnam.
  
  
• For a list of carrier and squadron deployments from 1991 to 2005.
  
  
• For a list of aviation units involved in combat operations from 1983 to 2010 (PDF, 311 KB).
  
  
• For Vietnam veterans trying to obtain benefits relating to Agent Orange, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has a list of U.S. Navy ships that operated in and around Vietnam. The list also includes eligibility for service outside of Vietnam or Korea. Please visit the VA website for more information. 
  
  
• For veterans trying to verify events that occurred while assigned to a particular ship, squadron, or shore establishment, the unit's Command Operations Report (COR) might be useful. The COR provides a chronology of significant events and operations that occurred during a given year. The Navy Archives has temporarily removed all command operations reports from the NHHC website. For more information on obtaining a command operation report, please visit the COR archive page. 
  
  
• Events may also be verified using a ship's deck logs. Deck logs are a daily chronology of a ship's movements and certain events documented for administrative purposes.