Atomic Energy - Whither Bound

By Rear Admiral W. S. Parsons, U. S. Navy
August 1947
The impact of the German V-2 and the American atomic bomb on the minds of most thinking people has been so great that the time scale and effort involved in ...

Taranto - "ABC" Copenhagens the Enemy

By Commander F. C. Acker, U. S. Navy
August 1947
The Mediterranean Sea today bears the dubious distinction of first rank among the world’s critical areas. Perhaps this was to have been expected of a sea that has played a ...

The Present Promotion Situation

By Commander David L. Martineau, U. S. Navy
August 1947
Considerable doubt and perplexity exists today in the minds of many officers regarding the present status of promotions and other closely related matters dealing with permanent and temporary appointments in ...

Red Shingle

By Lieutenant Theodore C. Wyman, U. S. Naval Reserve (Inactive)
August 1947
It has always seemed to me that the Anzio Campaign never received its full share of publicity and that there was a tendency on the part of anyone not connected ...

G. I. Payoff

By Lieutenant Commander Lawrence A. Marsden (SCR), U. S. Naval Reserve
August 1947
Out in Great Lakes, Illinois, a Navy captain recently received a letter reading: “Sir, if I don’t get my leave check within a week I’m going to put you on ...

Lest We Forget

By Loring W. Batten, III
August 1947
The navies of the Axis are now nonexistent as factors in world power. The ships are either junk or subjects for scientific study. The men and their activities are matter ...

H. O. Publication No. 218

By Lieutenant Colonel E. A. Haine, Army of the United States
August 1947
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Japan's Rambling Balloon Barrage

By John Brook Penfold
August 1947
With their national perversity toward galloping from the rabid to the ridiculous, the Japanese endeavored in the last months of the war to combine the discoveries of the years 1776 ...

Mr. Madison's Secretary of Navy

By Kenneth L. Brown
August 1947
Any history of the War of 1812 is incomplete without an evaluation of the role of William Jones, Secretary of the Navy during 1813 and 1814. Evidence obtained from Jones' ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

August 1947
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Book Reviews

August 1947
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Notes on International Affairs

August 1947
PROBLEMS OF MAJOR POWERS Red Coup in Hungary.—On June 1 Ferenc Nagy, Hungarian Premier and a member of the majority Small Landholders Party, while on vacation in Switzerland was ...

Professional Notes

August 1947
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