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By Jim Barber
January 1990
In putting together a magazine called Naval History, we define “naval” broadly. In addition to the Navy itself, it also covers the other two sea services, and it deals with ...

Battleship Floatplanes

By Major John M. Elliott, U. S. Marine Corps (Retired)
January 1990
From 24 February 1930 until the beginning of World War II, the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps had some of the most colorful aircraft in the world.

The Argentine Navy Revisited

By Rear Admiral Fernando A. Milia, Argentine Navy (Retired)
January 1990
The Argentine Navy has learned lessons from the Martin Garcia battle of centuries ago, and has progressed smoothly into the age of the attack submarine.

In Contact

January 1990
“Arthur Beaumont” (See D. Beaumont, pp. 72-75, Fall 1989 Naval History) Lieutenant Colonel Horace S. Mazet, U. S. Marine Corps (Retired)—After meeting Arthur Beaumont at a hospital in Santa ...

Oral History—Draper Kauffman and the UDTs

By Captain Francis R. Kaine, U. S. Naval Reserve (Retired)
January 1990
I had graduated from Loyola College in Montreal in 1941 and was considering pursuing medicine in graduate school when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. That changed everything. I went to ...
Harry Truman

Oral History—President Truman’s Yacht

By Rear Admiral Donald J. MacDonald, U. S. Navy (Retired)
January 1990
In the spring of 1948 I got a call from President Harry Truman’s naval aide. Captain Robert L. Dennison, saying he’d like me to come over and talk to the ...

Technical Report—New Life for a Liberty

By Chief Warrant Officer Theodore A. Dietz, U. S. Navy (Retired)
January 1990
She made the landings at Anzio and Salerno, ferried elements of the U. S. Army’s First Armored Division overseas in preparation for the Normandy invasion, returned Royal Navy seamen from ...

In Profile—Howard I. Chapelle

By Peter H. Spectre
January 1990
Few historians have dominated their field quite as thoroughly as Howard I. Chapelle did his. He studied the history of naval architecture—more specifically, ne technical development and evolution ships and ...

Book Reviews

Reviewed by Patrick Abbazia, Captain George Hagerman, U. S. Navy (Retired), James W. Cheevers, & Colonel Wendell N. Vest, U. S. Marine Corps (Retired)
January 1990
Admiral Harold R. Stark: Architect of Victory, 1939-1945 B. Mitchell Simpson, III. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1989. 326 pp. Notes. Bib. Ind. $24.95 ($22.45). Reviewed by Patrick ...

In Progress

January 1990
U. S. NAVAL INSTITUTE Proceedings/Naval Review: Several years ago, at the request of his daughter Ann Jensen, the late Marine Colonel Frederick R. Dowsett recorded his recollections of his long ...

The Great Eclipse of 1878

By Jan K. Herman
January 1990
The wild West might seem to be an unlikely place for the Navy, but on 29 July 1878, astronomers working for the U. S. Naval Observatory occupied the Rocky Mountains ...