Naval History Magazine - February 2010 Volume 24, Number 1

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Slaughter in Paradise
Issue: Naval History Magazine - February 2010 Volume 24, Number 1
By: Holger H. Herwig
Germany's World War II U-boat offensive in the Caribbean managed to jeopardize the Allies' oil supply before falling victim to high-command bickering and superior technology and...
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  • Another Piece of the Torpedo Junction Puzzle
    The discovery of the wreckage of a U.S. Navy patrol craft that lost a heroic but lopsided duel with a U-boat offers a chance to...

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  • The Sad Case of Sir George
    More than nine years after the Constitution gave a pursuing Royal Navy squadron the slip, the episode came back to haunt the...

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Open Content

A Naval Tragedy's Chain of Errors
A lean budget and distrust of new technology combined to help precipitate a naval tragedy at Honda Point, California. On an early...
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Two Coconuts and a Navy Cross
In a stranger-than-fiction Pacific war encounter, Navy Lieutenant William A. Read Jr. successfully fended off a bayonet-wielding...
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The South Carolina Sisters: America's First Dreadnoughts
The products of a flawed process, the revolutionary USS South Carolina and Michigan nevertheless heralded a new era in battleship...
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On Our Scope

 

This issue of Naval History focuses on a tried-and-true war-at-sea topic-battleships. But instead of studying the behemoths'...

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Slaughter in Paradise
Germany's World War II U-boat offensive in the Caribbean managed to jeopardize the Allies' oil supply before falling victim to high...
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Another Piece of the Torpedo Junction Puzzle
The discovery of the wreckage of a U.S. Navy patrol craft that lost a heroic but lopsided duel with a U-boat offers a chance to...
Read More
The Sad Case of Sir George
More than nine years after the Constitution gave a pursuing Royal Navy squadron the slip, the episode came back to haunt the...
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Book Reviews

The Civil War at Sea

Craig L. Symonds. (Reflections on the Civil War Era Series) Santa Barbara, CA.: Praeger Publishing, 2009....

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Cat on a Cold Steel Dive Plane
With morale on board his nuclear-powered submarine way down, the skipper of the Finback came up with a novel-but risque-solution....
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Naval History Digital Edition

A digital edition of the February issue of ...

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Battleship Sailors of the Dreadnought Era
For the men who served on board the U.S. Navy's battleships in the 1910s, life at sea often meant backbreaking work shoveling coal...
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Historic Fleets

Fifty Years Ago, an Unusual Vessel Made History

Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh, a Naval Academy classmate once observed, "had adapted...

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Historic Aircraft

The Flying Banshee

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Naval History News

Trafalgar Artifact Sold

The only surviving Union Jack from the Battle of Trafalgar was sold at auction in late October for a world-record...

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In Contact

'More Than Just Blockade Duty'

(See R. M. Browning Jr., pp. 14-21,...

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Looking Back

A Step Forward

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Museum Report

Where the History of Yachting Comes Alive

Newport, Rhode Island, is arguably the capital city of American yachting. The glory days of the...

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