Daniel Martinez
NPS Pearl HarborDaniel Alan Martinez
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1989-Current: Chief Historian at USS Arizona Memorial (WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument)
2005-Present: Adjunct Professor, Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island
2002-2006 Host & Historian-in-Residence for “Unsolved History”, Discovery Channel
1979-1985: Seasonal (summer) park ranger for the National Park Service at Little Bighorn Battlefield, Montana.
1981-1984 History & Journalism Teacher at Bishop Montgomery High School , Torrance, Ca
MEDIA CONSULTANT & TELEVISION PERSONALITY:
• Host and Historian-in-Residence for The Discovery Channel’s television series “Unsolved History” from 2002-2006. Thirty-six productions on topics involving the use of forensic science and history.
• Researcher and co-creator of “Unsolved History” for The Discovery Channel
• Appeared as on-camera personality in seventy-three various documentaries for The History Channel, Discovery Channel, The Military Channel, National Geographic Channel, The Travel Channel, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, FOX and CNN
• Recent “On Camera Host” for the following documentaries:
Arizona: Death of a Battleship-Discovery Channel 2002
Hawaii Visitor's Bureau Promotional Documentary
Tour Talk Hawaii
Pearl Harbor Declassified, Military Channel 2014
• Television Interviews:
The Today Show, NBC 1991, 2001 Good Morning America, ABC, 1991, 2001
Tom Brokaw’s Pearl Harbor 50th Anniversary Program, NBC, 1991
Primetime Live with Sam Donaldson 60th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor, ABC, 2001
War Stories with Oliver North, Fox News, February 2006.
Long Story Short with Leslie Wilcox 2016
PUBLICATIONS:
• Centennial Observance: Little Big Horn, 1976, co-author, Old Army Press, 1977
• Pearl Harbor Remembered, Historical Editor and wrote Forward, 2003
• Kimmel, Short & Pearl Harbor: The Final Report Revealed 2005. Naval Institute Press. co-author
SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS:
• Board of Director, Order of Indian Wars, 2009-Present
• Presidential Counselor, National World War II Museum, 2008-Present
• Board of Director, USS Bowfin Submarine Memorial & Museum, 1989-2014. Emeritus Member