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Naval History Magazine - December 2009 Volume 23, Number 6
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    'Go Ahead, Go Ahead'
    By Robert M. Browning Jr.
    With the Battle of Mobile Bay's outcome hanging in the balance as his squadron's ships quickly piled up before Confederate Fort Morgan's blazing guns, Rear Admiral David Glasgow Farragut coolly took...
     
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    Cornered at the Bottom of the East China Sea
    By Robert Schultz and James Shell
    On her tenth war patrol, the USS Tambor survived one of the worst depth-charge attacks experienced by an American submarine during World War II. In one of the most complete accountings of such an...
     
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    How the Japanese Did It
    By Robert J. Hanyok
    Most studies of the Pearl Harbor attack focus on what American commanders and leaders did wrong. But the key to understanding why the surprise assault was so successful lies in realizing what the...
     
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    More Than Just Blockade Duty
    By Robert M. Browning Jr.
    The Union Navy's West Gulf Blockading Squadron did more than merely maintain "a vigorous blockade at every point." In helping subdue Confederate forts, close down Rebel ports, and secure...
     
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    On Our Scope
    Richard G. Latture, Editor-in-Chief
    Nearing a publishing deadline is always a hectic time for editors. That's especially true when the Naval History issue we're working on includes a bonus gatefold package. And as you probably know by...
     

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    Book Reviews

    The Age of the Ship of the Line: The British and French Navies, 1650-1815 Jonathan R. Dull. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. 250 pp. Maps. Notes. Index. $29.95. Sir Samuel Hood and...
     
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    Confluence of Careers Mobile Bay

    By Craig L. Symonds
    David Glasgow Farragut and Franklin Buchanan each served for decades in the small antebellum U.S. Navy. But their naval careers largely took different courses until finally converging in battle on 5...
     
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    Growing Up with the Pearl Harbor Story

    By Jim Adams
    Years after he accompanied his father, a Pearl Harbor veteran, back to the scene of the 7 December 1941 attack, the author fulfilled the final solemn wishes of deceased USS Arizona survivors by...
     
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    Historic Aircraft

    By Norman Polmar
    The First to Go Up and Down The Hawker Siddeley Kestrel was not a naval aircraft. But the British airplane had a profound impact on U.S. naval aviation: It was the progenitor of the widely flown...
     
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    Historic Fleets

    By Robert J. Cressman
    Cool Courage Under Hot Fire Clearly, a fight lay ahead in late July 1864, and Commander J. R. Madison Mullany keenly desired to take part in it. Commanding the sidewheeler Bienville, one of the West...
     
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    In Contact

    'Book Review: Battle of Surigao Strait' (See T. Bean, p. 68, October 2009 Naval History) Paul M. Hupf The reviewer notes that author Anthony P. Tully rejects the traditional view that the Fuso broke...
     
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    Looking Back

    By Paul Stillwell
    A Survivor's Tale Some people are particularly gifted at describing the lives they have experienced. One man who had that narrative ability in large measure was Richard Harralson, who joined the Navy...
     
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    Museum Report

    By Robert S. Bolia
    The World's Oldest Battleship
     
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    Naval History Digital Edition

    A digital edition of the December issue of Naval History is available for current USNI members to view. The magazine image below is a link to the online magazine and will take you outside the USNI...
     
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    Naval History News

    Found: The Alexander Hamilton
     
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    Who Will Hear the Bells?

    By Jack Sweetman
    A German Navy chaplain's letter s home highlight his efforts to bolster the spiritual, emotional, and patriotic sentiments of his shipmates in the weeks, days, and hours before two of World War I's...
     

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