Naval Aviation in the Jet Age

By Dr. Gerald E. Wheeler
November 1957
Fifteen years ago, Robert M. Stanley of Bell Aircraft Corporation flew the United States into the jet age. The XP-59A (Navy XF2L-1) Airacomet freed American aviation of the many limitations ...

Is U. S. Aid to the Orient Working?

By Joseph Z. Reday
November 1957
There is an old sarcastic saying to the effect that “you have to know so-and-so pretty well in order to dislike him.” That is about what seems to be happening ...

Recruits and Basic Leadership Opportunities

By Captain W. J. Catlett, Jr., U. S. Navy
November 1957
Over a quarter million men have passed through my command during the past three and one-half years en route to the fleet, shore stations, and class “A” schools. These same ...

Toward A Nuclear-Powered Seaplane

By Commander Arthur D. Struble, U. S. Navy
November 1957
Following Operation Alert, in which fifty-eight American cities were subjected to theoretical nuclear and thermonuclear attack, Federal Civil Defense Administrator Val Peterson reported, “Almost one out of three persons in ...

The Coin of Individual Dignity

By Lieutenant Commander Keith N. Sargent, U. S. Navy
November 1957
How can the U. S. Navy maintain a cadre of trained personnel with a reasonable experience level? This is a question which has been facing Navy planners since the conclusion ...

The U. S. Merchant Marine And National Defense

By Rear Admiral Walter C. Ford, U. S. Navy (Retired)
November 1957
Our national policy today requires that the United States maintain a Navy and Merchant Marine capable of carrying on warfare anywhere in the world. The strategy of naval warfare securing ...

First Landing At The Pole

By Chief Journalist Joseph E. Oglesby, U. S. Navy
November 1957
Last October 31 one of the most spectacular events in recent naval history took place. Seven Navy men had landed an airplane at the geographic South Pole, marking the first ...

Middle East Challenge

By Captain Brown Taylor, U. S. Navy
November 1957
The proclamation of the Eisenhower Doctrine represents a point of departure for development in the general area of the Middle East of vast and as yet generally unappreciated importance. Prior ...

Tsunamis, The Strangest Waves On The Sea

By Captain Elliott B. Roberts, U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey
November 1957
Soon after going to work on the bright morning of April 1, 1946, the seismologist in charge of the earthquake detection instruments at the University of California in Berkeley started ...
Commander Scott's article was actually written aboard the USS Bennington (above) when the ship was a member of Task Force 58 off Okinawa in 1945. Men on the flight deck of the carrier Hornet in the foreground watch intently as the Bennington has a close call. The kamikaze hits the water between the carrier and the destroyer in the screen.

No Hiding Place—Off Okinawa

By Commander J. Davis Scott, U. S. Naval Reserve
November 1957
For more than ten years this has been an untold story. Written aboard the USS Bennington (CV-20)—by a member of Task Force 58—during the weeks when the Bennington was a ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

November 1957
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Book Reviews

November 1957
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Professional Notes

November 1957
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