Today's Challenge To Officers

By Commander G. B. Myers, U. S. Navy
June 1942
On Sunday, December 7, 1941, war fell upon the United States. Neither the fact that it had threatened this country for a long period of months nor the sudden startling ...

Flow

By John R. Howland
June 1942
Our newest war has already been recognized, at least in some of its phases, as a war of machines. It is doubtful, however, if it is generally realized how broadly ...

Professional Notes

June 1942
UNITED STATESHow One Man Saved a CruiserBaltimore Evening Sun, April 14, by George Weller, Perth, Australia, April 14,—A 22-year old aviation machinist’s mate, with a handful of other flying personnel ...

Notes On International Affairs

Prepared by Professor Allan Westcott, U.S. Naval Academy
June 1942
From April 10 To May 10 FRANCE AND THE UNITED POWERS Seizure of Madagascar—On May 4 British forces began operations for the occupation of Madagascar, and three days later were ...

Book Reviews

June 1942
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Discussions, Comments and Notes

June 1942
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Aluminum

By Lieutenant John D. Thompson, U. S. Navy (Retired)
June 1942
In a general way, everyone knows what aluminum is. Before it is manufactured into kitchen utensils, and hundreds of useful articles that we know as aluminum ware, it is hardly ...

Slide Films For Training Use

By Lieutenant Commander Henry W. Dusinberre, U. S. Naval Reserve
June 1942
Slide films are so simple to produce and have so many advantages over motion pictures for training purposes it is surprising that there has not been more discussion of them ...

Japan's Mandate In The Southwestern Pacific

By Lieutenant Earnest G. Campbell, U. S. Navy
June 1942
It is common knowledge that the probability of strong air and naval bases in Japan’s mandated islands in the Southwestern Pacific has prevented the United States from sending reinforcements by ...

Readying The Naval R.O.T.C.’s For War

By Lieutenant (j.g.) William Exton, Jr., U. S. Naval Reserve
June 1942
The Navy in 1939 had 8,612 officers. The annual attrition rate was approximately 4.2 per cent, requiring annual replacement of 363 officers. Every year the Naval Academy graduated a class ...

The Remarkable Wreck Of H.M.S. Atalante

By Harrison P. Martin
June 1942
Tales of shipwrecks on rocky coasts are almost invariably tragic if heroic sagas. Perhaps unique in the annals of marine disasters was the casting away on the Nova Scotia shore ...

The Use Of The Eyes At Night

By Commander Eric Liljencrantz (MC), U. S. Naval Reserve, Commander Clifford A. Swanson (MC), U. S. Navy, and Lieutenant Commander Leon D. Carson (MC), U. S. Navy
June 1942
We are familiar with Napoleon’s statement that “an army travels on its stomach.” This statement is as true in this war as it was in Napoleon’s wars. Napoleon might have ...

Old-Navy Stuff

By Chief Yeoman Fred J. Buenzle, U. S. Navy (Retired)
June 1942
Of course the commanding officer of my first cruising ship represented to me the epitome of all authority—he was more important than our President. Inasmuch as he had the un- ...

Power—In The Shadow Of A New Tomorrow

By Robert Sibley
June 1942
We face a new tomorrow in the utilization of hitherto unharnessed forces of nature. The Athenians of old built a civilization, through the labor of some 15,000 slaves, which stimulated ...

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