Professional Notes

December 1942
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Notes On International Affairs

PREPARED BY PROFESSOR ALLAN WESTCOTT, U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY
December 1942
FROM OCTOBER 10 TO NOVEMBER 10 AMERICA AND THE WAR Break with France.—Following the entry of American troops into North Africa, the Vichy Government declared diplomatic relations with the ...

Book Reviews

December 1942
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Discussions, Comments and Notes

December 1942
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Miniature Art Groups

By Captain Harry A. Baldridge, U. S. Navy (Retired)
December 1942
Perhaps a better title for the subject under consideration would be the one chosen by Mr. Dwight Franklin “It’s a Small World” in his article published in the September, 1940 ...

Suggested Attack On Seasickness

By Captain W. H. Michael (M.C.), U. S. Navy
December 1942
When the volumes of water are boiled out of the literature about the cause of seasickness this single fact remains: seasickness is caused primarily by the effect of motion on ...

The Coast Guard in the War

By Lieutenant (J.G.) Claiborne Pell, U. S. Coast Guard Reserve
December 1942
Over a year ago “The Coast Guard as a Naval Asset” appeared in these pages. Since then we have had our declaration of a war which has so far been ...
Seabees hammer lumps of coral into sand to enlarge the runway on the Eniwetok atoll.

Seabees

By Commander E. J. Spaulding, U. S. Naval Reserve
December 1942
Somewhere out across the Pacific a small island is buzzing with activity. Sixty-foot palm trees fall at the lusty blows of an axe marked “made in the U.S.A.” In their ...

The Revenue Cutters in the Quasi-War with France

By Lieutenant (J.G.) R. W. Daly, U. S. Coast Guard Reserve
December 1942
In 1798, the United States drifted into an undeclared war with the Republic of France. The necessity to fight found us ill-prepared. Such naval vessels as we possessed were under ...

Direction, Course, And Bearing

By Lieutenant Commander Delwyn Hyatt, U. S. Navy (Retired)
December 1942
There seems to be considerable confusion among writers on navigational subjects in regard to the meanings of the terms “direction,” “course,” and “bearing.” It is hoped that this discussion will ...

Three Years Of Warfare At Sea

By C. H. Spilman
December 1942
Now that the war has run through 36 months, an examination of losses among naval vessels and vessels in use by the armed forces or other agencies of the belligerent ...

The Tactically Logical Cruiser For Modern War

By Peter Marsh Stanford
December 1942
Late one Sunday afternoon in December the panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee settled to her grave oil Montevideo, as explosion after explosion racked her battered hull. Above her hovered a plane ...

Poland's Navy Fights On

By Walton L. Robinson
December 1942
One of the most unusual features of World War II is the continued participation in hostilities by the armed forces, particularly the navies, of countries which have been overrun and ...

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