This issue features several individuals who helped shape the naval history of this country and the world.
Admiral Sampson had acted distant—even sometimes completely removed—from the tasks at hand. Now, a naval historian and a retired neurosurgeon diagnose the progressively debilitating malady that struck the respected naval commander during the Spanish-American War.
Award-winning author Joe Alexander goes back to Tarawa and profiles Colonel David Shoup’s performance as a leader of Marines during that bloody struggle.
The U.S. Naval Institute’s editor of Combat Fleets of the World, A. D. Baker, III, takes an entertaining look at Will Baker, the inspiration for James Clavell’s novel, Shogun.
We visit with Ben Bradlee, recently retired executive editor of The Washington Post, and talk about what some might think an unlikely subject for him: his love of the Navy.
Also in this issue, we return to the World War II Pacific, go inside the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and plot a dive for sunken war treasure.