The USS Los Angeles cruises on a surface transit with the setting sun behind her in Laura Ross’ painting 1st Flight SSN 688. Our package of feature articles about U.S. submarines begins on page 16.

A gaff-rigged schooner and the larger midshipman training vessel USS Severn approach each other against the backdrop of the U.S. Naval Academy and Annapolis during the city’s bicentennial year, 1908. Eric Mills gives readers a look at Annapolis’ rich history and tricentennial events with: Where Naval Tradition Lives - A museum without walls, Annapolis, Maryland, beckons history lovers with an irresistible mixture of maritime lore and colonial and naval attractions.

A burning merchant ship heads to the bottom as its attacker, a Type VII U-boat, makes her escape in Grzegorz Nawrocki’s painting, Lone Attack. This issue’s coverage of the Battle of the Atlantic, which commemorates the 65th anniversary of the campaign’s turning point, begins on page 12. (http://grzegorz-nawrocki.com; www.subart.net)

With the Royal Navy’s White Ensign flying above the Stars and Stripes, the defeated frigate USS Chesapeake is led into Halifax, Nova Scotia, by her captor, HMS Shannon, on 6 June 1813.

A British View of the Naval War of 1812 By Jeremy Black - Initially challenged on the high seas by oversized U.S. Navy frigates, the Royal Navy countered by implementing a tight blockade of American ports.
 

Cover Story: An officer of the deck in the USS Nehenta Bay (CVE-74) recounts riding out “Halsey’s Typhoon” in Battling the Pacific’s Most Deadly Force By Thompson Webb Jr.

On the 25th years anniversary of the Beirut Marine barracks bombing a veteran recollects the horrific blast in Courage in the Face of Terror By Major Robert T. Jordan, USMC (Ret.)

Cover Story: Marines struggle past knocked-out landing vehicles onto Betio Island in Tarawa, 20 Nov. 1943, by Colonel Charles Waterhouse, USMCR (Ret.). Our package of articles and art commemorating the 65th anniversary of Tarawa begins with A Bloody Proving Ground by Colonel Joseph H. Alexander, USMC (Ret.).