Navy War Heroes #5

"The First Armored Ship" recounts the history of the USS Monitor, the government's ironclad answer to the Confederate warship Merrimac, describing how the Monitor's revolutionary design—with only two feet of freeboard and a rotating turret—allowed it to successfully engage the Merrimac in battle. The Monitor's superior innovation introduced armor and modern gunnery into naval warfare, ending the era of wooden warships and heralding a new age of naval combat. A separate story follows navy personnel executing "Operation Cork," a covert radio silence mission where soldiers must locate a sunken Japanese ship and retrieve intelligence while avoiding enemy detection and airborne threats.