On Our Scope

By Fred L. Schultz Editor-in-Chief
October 2001
Literally out of the blue, just before we went to press we heard the second phase of the Navy-National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Monitor 2001 Expeditions was over. Navy ...

Champion of the Navy

By David McCullough
October 2001
John Adams was the first of the Founding Fathers to champion the U.S. Navy as a force of balance and peace, as award-winning author and historian David McCullough reveals in ...

When the Right Words Counted

By Ronald H. Carpenter
October 2001
Thanks to Admiral George A. Anderson—acting as speech- writer for the speechwriter—President Kennedy’s televised response to the discovery of Soviet missile sites in Cuba was strong, but diplomatic.

R.G: Regular Guy

By Paul Stillwell
October 2001
The world is still filled with thousands of men named Robert Smith, but with the passing this spring of one such man, the world is a poorer place. Throughout the ...

In Contact

October 2001
Pearl Harbor: Bombed Again” (See L. Suid, pp. 20-23, August 2001 Naval History) Commander Walter Dunn Tucker, U.S. Naval Reserve (Retired) I did not waste my time reading Larry ...

Historic Fleets

By A. D. Baker III, Editor Combat Fleets of the World Combat
October 2001
Among the few World War II-construction ships and craft remaining in U.S. Navy service are the Benewah-class berthing barges Mercer (APL-39; ex-IX- 502, APB-39, and APL-39) and Nueces (APL-40; ex-IX-503 ...

Stoofs, Trackers, and Hunter-Killers

By Norman Polmar, Author, Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet
October 2001
For the U.S. Navy, the Cold War in large part meant preparing for an antisubmarine campaign against the Soviet Union. U.S. antisubmarine warfare forces developed to counter them included air ...

Naval History News

October 2001
D-Day Memorial Dedicated On 6 June 2001, President George W. Bush dedicated the new National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia, on the 57th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy ...

Book Reviews

Reviewed by Sarandis Papadopoulos, Robert C. Jones & Glenn Grasso
October 2001
Unrestricted Warfare: How a New Breed of Officers Led the Submarine Force to Victory in World War II. James DeRose. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2000. 310 pp. Photos ...

Flagship Portsmouth

By William Galvani
October 2001
The main street leading to the historic naval dockyard at Flagship Portsmouth is called The Hard. It is the street closest to the water, the place where the sea gives ...

Navy Yarns

By Captain Roy Smith III, U.S. Navy (Retired)
October 2001
In 1924 Rear Admiral Montgomery Meigs Taylor was commanding the Control Force, Atlantic Fleet (roughly a combination of what today are the submarine and service forces), with his flag in ...

Salty Talk

By Commander Tyrone G. Martin, U.S. Navy (Retired)
October 2001
Mutiny is an ugly word. It brings instantly to mind an overturn of established order, one often accompanied by horrible acts of savagery, as in the notorious mutiny on board ...