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Incredible Victory
By Walter Lord. New York: Harper &
Row, 1967. 307 pages. Illustrated. $5.95.
Rendezvous at Midway
By Pat Frank and Joseph D. Harrington.
New York: John Day, 1967. 240 pages.
Illustrated. $5.95.
REVIEWED BY
Clark G. Reynolds
(Professor Reynolds, who received his doctorate in military
history from Duke University, teaches naval history at the
Naval Academy. His book, The Fast Carriers: Forging
of an Air Navy, will be published next summer.)
Midway—glorious Midway—seems destined to bypass Leyte Gulf as the most- written-about naval battle of World War II (Pearl Harbor was a one-sided air raid, a slaughter rather than a battle). But justly so; the miracle-like victory of the inferior U. S. Pacific Fleet over the massive strength of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto’s undefeated Japanese Combined Fleet at the battle of Midway in June 1942 will remain an epic as long as wars are studied.
Both of these books are journalistic in style, being written by master story-tellers who are primarily interested in the human aspects of their stories. Walter Lord, whose excellent Day of Infamy introduced him to readers of
naval history, focuses on the events leading up to and during the action at Midway. Pat Frank and Joseph D. Harrington, lesser known writers of fiction and naval history respectively, follow the U. S. aircraft carrier Yorktown (CV-5) from 7 December 1941 to her sinking at Midway. The two works, rather than seriously overlapping, maintain their distinct approaches and, therefore, complement one another. So much is new in both works that they provide fresher and in some ways better treatments of the battle than does Samuel Eliot Morison’s Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions and Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya’s Midway: The
Battle That Doomed Japan, written two and one decades ago respectively.
The battle of Midway, the reviewer states, "will remain an epic as long as wars are studied.” This U. S. Navy photograph from Incredible Victory shows the USS Yorktown (CV-5) under attack by dive bombers and an enemy submarine, which caused her to sink on 6 June 1942.
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Incredible Victory contributes much color to American naval lore and solves some of the questions of the battle, still lingering 25 years later. Priceless tales include Admiral Raymond A. Spruance’s fondness for vile coffee made from green beans (while expecting his staff to sip it with him!), also the Japanese pilot speaking over his radio in English ordering the attacking American planes to return to base. The book is very complete on the American preparations to defend Midway against the anticipated Japanese assault. The author makes the best educated guesses so far concerning which U. S. squadrons sank which Japanese carriers, and he proves once-and-
for-all that the U. S. submarine Nautilus did not contribute to the sinking of any Japanese carrier, correcting Morison and most other historians on the subject.
Lord’s treatment of Commander Joe Rochefort and his code-cracking unit at Pearl Harbor deserves special attention. The importance of this much-ignored aspect of the victory helps to broaden the story of Pacific Fleet intelligence and code-breaking, which was begun in Ladislas Farago’s The Broken Seal (1967). A full treatment of code-breaking will not be possible, of course, until the U. S. Navy declassifies its documents on this aspect of the war, an unlikely event as long as we continue to use similar cryptographic techniques against our present enemies.
A glaring weakness of Incredible Victory is the constant, imprecise reference to the battleships escorting Admiral Nagumo’s four carriers, as well as to the apparently equally impressive number of cruisers and destroyers of the carrier task force screen. The fact is that the screen included only two battleships, one light and two heavy cruisers, and 11 destroyers, carrying enough antiaircraft barrels for one or two carriers but hardly enough for four. This weak screen, which maneuvered apart under air attack due to lack of practical training or combat experience in co-ordinated tactics, was the main hole in the Japanese defense, along with rather shoddy techniques of combat air patrol.
The fact that Walter Lord interviewed 388 veterans of the battle is impressive, but why he did not talk to the Enterprise’s former air officer, Rear Admiral A1 Malstrom, U. S. Navy (Retired), is a mystery. Had he done so he would have learned that Captain Miles Browning, Admiral Spruance’s chief of staff, had wanted to arm the SBDs with 1,000- pound bombs rather than the 500-pounders, as advocated by Wade McClusky and Malstrom; Spruance himself had decided for the former, though finally a combination sank the four Japanese carriers as they were rearming their planes. Neither did Lord question Rear Admiral Tom Jeter, U. S. Navy (Retired), executive officer of the “Big E” during the battle. Jeter has one of the clearest memories this writer has ever tapped in his researches.
In building up to the battle, Lord neglected to mention the potentially important approach of the carrier Saratoga, en route from San Diego to Hawaii. Had she arrived in time to participate in the battle, her inexperienced pilots might have made no contribution to the victory, but “Sara” flew the flag of Rear Admiral Jake Fitch. And the presence of this air admiral, who was senior to Spruance, might conceivably have affected command relationships at Midway. The Saratoga’s cruise deserved some treatment.
Lord’s short, choppy paragraphs spoil the flow of the narrative, while the constant jumping about in time and space occasionally affects the coherence of his drama. For instance, the introduction of the important Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi comes much too late in the book. Factually, Lord stresses the purely-Japanese design of the Zero fighter, contrary to the observation of Eugene E. Wilson, wartime president of United Aircraft Corporation, who tells us the famous Zero was the “spitting image” of the Vought-Northrop V-142, a prewar plane rejected by the U. S. air forces which the Japanese had purchased and fitted with a bigger engine. Finally, Lord need not be distressed when contradictions emerge from the U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey’s Interrogations oj Japanese Officials. According to one of the interpreters present, those interrogated were kept so tired and hungry during the grueling hearings that they often unintentionally made incorrect statements.
Rendezvous at Midway, with a narrower topic, makes fewer contributions to the history of the battle, but also suffers from fewer omissions. Its major asset is in recalling day-today life on board one major fighting ship during those lean days of early 1942. Running out of toilet paper was a matter as distressing as the shortcomings of the new F4F-4 Wildcat fighters, which fired fewer rounds per gun than the older F4F-3, thus, the authors say, leaving the path open for the aerial torpedoing of the Torktown in
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battle. The book takes Morison’s history to task on several points, and goes to great lengths defending the Japanese strategy and tactics, a viewpoint that deserves consideration by other historians. Also, the legendary John C. Waldron of Torpedo 8 is criticized as having been a sometimes reckless leader, a fact essential to understanding fully the reasons for the annihilation of that ill-fated squadron.
Frank and Harrington, like Lord, help set straight the correct timing of the U. S. air strikes, but they make some minor errors elsewhere. William F. Halsey, Jr., was a vice, not rear, admiral, and Ted Sherman was a captain and not an admiral. The carrier Lexington displaced not 27,000 tons but about 6,000 more than that. Franklin D. Roosevelt was never Secretary of the Navy, and the New Jersey should be added to the list of surviving U. S. battleships. Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher’s Medal of Honor at Vera Cruz in 1914 was not so special, as the Navy abused the medal by issuing it to a great many undeserving participants in that incident.
Fletcher’s foreword to the book drags up the old 1942 myth that the Axis powers were out to divide up the world between them; he should read Johanna Menzel Meskill’s Hitler & Japan: The Hollow Alliance (1966).
Both Rendezvous at Midway and Incredible Victory give only superficial treatment to the one aspect of the battle that is very touchy to official Navy historians, the personal abilities of the key men influencing command decisions. One of the Torktown’s great weaknesses was the lack of resolute leadership on the bridge. Admiral Fletcher knew next to nothing about naval aviation; he never exhibited any skill in commanding carrier task forces, before, during or after Midway. Captain Elliott Buckmaster, a ceremonious, skillful peacetime officer, was no leader of men in battle. His premature decision to abandon ship on 4 June 1942 culminated one year of worrying about it ever since the Torktown had begun her neutrality patrol in the U-boat infested Atlantic. The ship responded as well as she did in battle thanks to her two superb executive officers, Jocko Clark and Dixie Kiefer. For another view of Torktown's bridge, see also the former’s recent book Carrier Admiral (McKay, 1967).
Credit for the crucial planning at Midway, this reviewer concludes, goes not to carrier Admirals Nagumo and Spruance, neither of whom were pilots. They depended upon their chief advisers, who did have wings, for the crucial advice: Commander Minoru Genda and Captain Miles Browning. And since the American Navy won, Browning emerges as a key figure in the outcome. And so reads his Distinguished Service Medal, “By his judicious planning and brilliant execution, [he] was largely responsible for the rout of the enemy Japanese fleet in the Battle of Midway.”
Miraculous as was the great victory so well portrayed by these two books, one must be careful in assessing the impact of the battle on the over-all prosecution of the war by Japan. As this reviewer would judge it, Japan’s offensive was halted, its Fleet badly hurt, but most of the aviators were rescued after abandoning their stricken carriers. Japan still had another year during which to judiciously employ these pilots and the surviving carriers before American industry began to outdistance that of Japan. But when the Japanese carelessly committed these pilots and carriers piecemeal in defense of the remote Solomons, recovery became impossible.
Rather than spelling ultimate defeat, as these and most books on the subject seem to indicate, the battle of Midway was only the beginning of the end for Japan.
Russia 1917: The February Revolution
George Katkov. New York: Harper & Row, 1967. 480 pages. $8.50.
REVIEWED BY
Mary Kilbourne Matossian
(Professor Matossian attended Stanford University and received her master’s degree from the American University of Beirut. She received a doctoral degree from Stanford University in Russian history. After holding posts at various universities, including Columbia and Harvard, she now leaches at the University of Maryland.)
This is a kind of historical work which is useful to men of action. The author tries to show which men were responsible for the particular events of the February Revolution in Russia. He attempts to explain why they chose to act as they did in each instance, and why they succeeded or failed. By studying this great drama with George Katkov, men of action today may be able to function more effectively in similar revolutionary situations.
Not only is Katkov’s work useful, but also it represents a significant step forward in historical scholarship. It is based upon a careful study of Russian-language sources, which are usually neglected by English-speaking scholars. However, the author does not propose a dramatic new “Katkov Thesis” about the February Revolution. He sticks to the gritty business of tearing apart well-woven myths about the Revolution. He feels that available evidence suggests new explanations for much of what happened, but he fully realizes that suggestive data is not the same as convincing proof.
Specifically, Katkov examines in detail the schemes of various Russian liberals for overthrowing the Tsar in wartime. He explores the avenues by which German money was, or may have been, used to create disturbances among Russian factory workers. He tries to show that there was no truth in the rumors of
German influence in the Russian ruling class, and in particular over the Empress: if the Germans “subverted” anyone, he thinks, it was the Russian proletariat. He shows that the way the Russian government treated the Russian Jews before and during World War I predisposed many of them to support the 1917 Revolutions.
Katkov makes little effort to conceal his antipathy to the liberals and his sympathy for the “betrayed” Nicholas II. He is skeptical of the supposed patriotism of the Russian liberals and radicals, whom he accuses of using the war to further their particular schemes:
But the fear of defeat and humiliation of Russia was, if we are not mistaken, only the ostensible and avowable expression of an un- avowable, deep-seated fear that the war might end in victory before the political aspirations of the opposition had been fulfilled, and that the exceptional opportunities offered for their fulfilment by war conditions would be lost.
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Western historians have been describing the liberals as being rather naive, but patriotic; Katkov would have us believe them to be
sophisticated political schemers with weak patriotic sentiments.
Katkov censures not only the liberals for disloyalty, but also the leading Russian generals who, acting on information from Rodzianko, pressed the Tsar to abdicate. The result was a weak Provisional Government without the power to prevent revolutionary ferment from spreading to the army in the field.
As for the Tsar, the author’s harshest criticism is that Nicholas II acted according to his conscience, believing that “righteous” decisions would prevail through some kind of magic power inherent in them. Katkov seems to feel that Grand Duke Michael, by abdicating, betrayed the conservative cause and made it nearly impossible to rally effective opposition to the Revolution.
But Katkov neglects to answer the familiar indictments of the tsarist regime: that it got Russia into a war for which it was badly unprepared; that it led the army badly at the front and had to turn to the Voluntary Organizations to supply the army; that it failed to make timely concessions to its political opponents; that it failed to shake charges of German influence in high places with effective counter propaganda; and, that it failed to remove Gregory E. Rasputin in time from the scene.
Katkov also neglects to discuss Russia’s longterm problems, especially modernization. He does little to describe the “Big Situation” which was the matrix of particular events. That is why this book cannot have the place of a definitive short history of the February Revolution.
Nevertheless, this is a sophisticated book, written within the limits chosen by the author. He shows that men make history, although not just as they please. To be sure, many men shared responsibility for the events of February 1917; but they were men, nevertheless, and not Great Impersonal Forces.
Katkov also rejects the theory that the February Revolution was a “spontaneous” movement of the Russian working class. He states:
In fact what we observe during the war, apart from Petrograd and perhaps one or two other industrial centres, is precisely the absence of any disposition among the working masses for sustained and purposeful political action, just as in the months following the revolution we see no sign of any such inherent tendency in the Petrograd population as a whole. The assumption that there was a particular quality of “spontaneity” which explains the scope and strength of the February demonstrations in Petrograd is wholly gratuitous. The theory of “spontaneity” only serves to cover up our ignorance.
The author believes that the February Revolution was the result of several conspiracies, the most important of which was the conspiracy of the German government to instigate a popular Russian revolt. He also believes that Guchkov’s plot, involving some of the officers of the Petrograd garrison in 1917, was a cause of their fatal indecision on 26 and 27 February, and thus contributed to the success of the Revolution.
I am not convinced that Katkov has fingered the right conspirators, but I think he does us a service by emphasizing the element of human planning and decision-making in what has appeared to many as a “happening.” By stressing the importance of human judgment and will, the author provides a most helpful version of this revolution for political and military decision-makers today.
The American Naval Revolution
By Walter R. Herrick, Jr. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1966. 274 pages. Illustrated. $7.50.
REVIEWED BY
Armin Rappaport
(Professor Rappaport holds a master's degree from Tale and a doctorate from Stanford. He is author of Henry L. Stimson and Japan, 1931-33 (1963) and The Navy League of the United States (1962), and editor of Issues in American Diplomacy (1965) and Sources in American Diplomacy (1966). He is Provost and Professor of History, University of California at San Diego.)
Mr. Herrick has performed a useful service in describing the tremendous changes which the U. S. Navy underwent in the years preceding the War with Spain and which amounted to a “revolution.” From a position of eighth in 1871 and twelfth in 1878 in the ranking of the navies of the world, the United States had moved to sixth place by 1898. An archaic Navy of wood and iron, sail, solid
shot, and smooth-bore guns had been replaced, by the same year, by modern ships propelled by steam, constructed of steel, and firing explosive shells from breech-loading rifled guns. And of the greatest significance was the change in doctrine. The traditional and deeply rooted concept of naval warfare, cherished by civilian and by naval officers alike ever since the earliest days of the Republic was the passive, coast defense-commerce raiding theory. By the end of the century, the concept had been abandoned in favor of the command of the sea-capital ship-offensive fleet operations theory. Indeed, by 1898, a new Navy had been born, modern in size, technology, and doctrine.
The transformation, Herrick points out, was not easily accomplished. During the period of transition, many men strenuously resisted innovations and clung to their ancient views. There were those who opposed increasing the Navy’s size on the grounds of economy and others who did not think the
United States needed many ships, since it was a peace-loving country with no aggressive designs and no interest in intervening in t e affairs of other nations. These people refused to accept the possibility that their nation s increasing trade, industry, and wealth might propel it into conflict with rival powers. As for technological advances, many naval officers looked with horror upon new-fangled devices, especially steam, which they considered “noisy and dirty” and as leading to making the Navy “a fleet of sea monsters.” In the matter of doctrine, few congressmen from coastal constituencies were willing to accept the idea that a Fleet operating thousands of miles away from American shores could defend their regions as well as gunboats or monitors stationed right outside their harbors.
As was to be expected, the change came about gradually, beginning in the early 1880s. The creation of a Naval Advisory Board, the building of the first steel vessels, the
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organization of the Naval War College, and the authorization, at the end of the decade, for construction of more modern ships marked the movements for the Navy’s modernization. The year 1890 was the annus mirabilis. It was the year of the publication of Alfred Thayer Mahan’s epic Influence of Sea Power Upon History, of the revival of the Naval War College which had been permitted to decline, of a great naval bill that was passed by Congress, and of the coming of age of the doctrine which changed a “loosely organized array of small coast defenders and light cruisers into a unified battle fleet of offensive capability.” As was also to be expected, the change was sparked by a group of able, courageous, and bold leaders. William E. Chandler and William C. Whitney, the two Secretaries of the Navy in the 1880s, did important work. But it was Benjamin F. Tracy, President Harrison’s Secretary, who made the chief contribution to the modernization of the U. S. Navy; he is Herrick’s hero. Tracy was a Darwinian, an expansionist, and an imperialist of much the same persuasion as Henry
Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt. He wanted to have his country take a place alongside the other great powers of the world and saw the Navy as the instrument of the fulfillment of that ambition. It was he who, in the famous Annual Report of 1889, called for the official acceptance of the command-of-the-sea doctrine and recommended the creation of two fleets of sea-going armored battleships. It was Tracy, too, who espoused such pregnant and far-sighted proposals as the organization of state naval militias, the introduction of a new system of officer promotion by merit rather than by seniority, and the abandonment of the “spoils system” in navy yard employment. The two Secretaries who followed Tracy, Hilary A. Herbert and John D. Long, also made significant contributions to the revolution, particularly Long, who did much to prepare the Fleet for war in 1898 and who created the Naval Board which was the precursor of the General Board.
Herrick gives due credit to others who played major roles in the transformation: Alfred Thayer Mahan’s work on sea power and history laid the theoretical and philosophical foundations for the revolution in doctrine; Stephen B. Luce’s encouragement of Mahan, his own articulate support of the doctrine, and his founding of the War College were crucially important; and, David D. Porter’s service as the link between Mahan and Tracy made possible Tracy’s acceptance of Mahan’s ideas. Theodore Roosevelt, too, is applauded as the man responsible for beefing up the Asiatic Fleet on the eve of the war and for getting George Dewey appointed to command it.
The story which Herrick tells is, of course, not new. Other historians of the Navy, such as Mitchell, Davis, and the Sprouts, have made it a familiar one. The virtue of Herrick’s book is that it focuses on Tracy and places his role in a new perspective. He also makes an original contribution in an Epilogue which contains a frank and critical appraisal of the role of the Navy in the Spanish-American War. That chapter forms a fitting climax to the study for, in Herrick’s opinion, the Navy’s operations in that war “vindicated the theories of Mahan as applied by Tracy’s policy revolution of 1890.”
Herrick’s book is a good one, written in clear and attractive prose and lucidly organized. It would have been a better one had it been more analytical. Many questions which occur to the reader are not answered. The author talked of the birth of professionalism in the Navy during the period of post-Civil War regression and one justifiably wonders why and how it caine about. One would have liked to know something of the officer corps as it affected the revolution. What of the geographic, social, economic, and political background of the officers and of their education? Herrick might have done more, too, with the ideological background of the revolution and might have given more detail on the struggle in the Congressional naval committees which accompanied the transformation. None of these comments, however, detract from the usefulness and the interest of the study.
Sail and Power
By Richard Henderson and Lieutenant Bartlett S. Dunbar, U. S. Navy. Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute, 1967. 284 pages. Illustrated. 87.00.
REVIEWED BY
Captain Jacob Vandergrift, Jr., U. S. Navy
(Captain Vandergrift, a graduate of the Naval Academy. served in surface ships and submarines. He attended the Armed Forces Staff College, and served with shore and operational commands. He is now Commander, U. S. Naval Station, Annapolis, and as such he is Commodore of the Naval Academy Sailing Squadron.)
The book was written as a small boat handling and seamanship textbook for the Naval Academy. As such, it hits the target precisely.
I must applaud the authors for a very fine sense of just what information should be in a book of this nature and what should not. Omission of nonessential material, and the inclusion of some excellent photographs and drawings make Sail and Power a very useful
tool in the instruction of midshipmen. The book simply and skillfully sets forth the essential and basic information, nomenclature, theory, and operation. Then each of the classes of Naval Academy boats is handled in some detail. The book is rounded-out with appendixes containing Rules of the Road, Racing Rules, USNA Regulations concerning Sailing Craft and YPs, and the entire volume is nicely enclosed between a color reproduction of C&GS Chart 550 marked with specific Annapolis sailing areas and a color plate of Allied Signal Flags and Pennants.
Power boat enthusiasts will note that the book devotes more space to sailing than it does to power; however, this is as it should be Operating a sail boat requires more knowledge than does a power boat. Also since “boat people” are usually individualists, critics may object to the prescribed manner of doing certain evolutions. In my opinion, such criticism would be unwarranted. Sail and Power prescribes an accepted manner and by using the book’s solution, the learner will not become confused by “instructors” who have their own ways of doing things. This is not to say that the trainee must forever adhere to the prescribed methods, but it is a good way to begin. When no longer a “learner,” a midshipman will develop his own ideas and be able to test them in competition with others.
While Sail and Power was written as a Naval Academy textbook, it should prove to be a very useful text for other sailing instructors. The USNA fleet of over 100 small craft, ranging from Finn Dinghies, 26-foot Rnockabouts, 44-foot Yawls, 50-foot Motor Launches, to Yard Patrol Craft and an 89-foot schooner, serves as an excellent laboratory for a fully rounded education in small boat handling and seamanship. Sail and Power will serve well as a text for use of this facility and at the same time, stand on its own as a complete treatise on small boat handling and seamanship.
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By Vice Admiral Friedrich Ruge, German Navy. 1957. 440 pages. Illustrated.
The French Navy in World War II.............................................................................................. $6.00 ($4.80)
By Rear Adm. Paul Auphan, French Navy (Ret.), and Jacques Mordal.
Translated by Capt. A. C. J. Sabalot, USN (Ret.). 1959. 413 pages. Illustrated.
The Hunters and the Hunted........................................................................................................ $3.50 ($2.80)
By Rear Adm. Aldo Cocchia, Italian Navy (Reserve). An account of Italian Submarines in World War II. 1958. 180 pages. Illustrated.
The Italian Navy in World War II............................................................................................... $5.75 ($4.60)
By Cdr. Marc’Antonio Bragadin, Italian Navy. 1957. 380 pages. Illustrated.
Midway, The Battle That Doomed Japan, The Japanese Navy’s Story .... $7.50 ($6.00)
By Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya, former Imperial Japanese Navy.
Edited by Roger Pineau and Clarke Kawakami. 1955. 266 pages. Illustrated.
White Ensign, The British Navy at War, 1939-1945 $7.50 ($6.00)
By Capt. S. W. Roskill, D.S.C., RN (Ret.). 1960. 480 pages. Illustrated.
SEA POWER
Air Operations in Naval Warfare Reading Supplement................................................................. $2.00 ($1.60)
Edited by Cdr. W. C. Blattmann, USN. 1957. 185 pages. Paperbound.
Geography and National Power . $3.50 ($2.80)
Edited by Prof. W. W. Jeffries, U. S. Naval Academy. A summary of the physical, economic, and political geography of the world. 3rd Ed., 1962.
180 pages. Paperbound.
Naval Logistics............................................................................................................................ $7.50 ($6.00)
By Vice Adm. G. C. Dyer, USN (Ret.). 2nd Ed., 1962. 367 pages. Illustrated.
Naval Review 1962-1963 ............................................................................................................. $10.00 ($8.00)
14 essays. 3 appendixes. 1962. 373 pages. Illustrated. Maps.
Naval Review 1964 ........................................................................................................................ $10.00... ($8.00)
12 essays. 5 appendixes. 1963. 393 pages. Illustrated. Maps.
Naval Review 1966 ........................................................................................................................ $12.50. ($10.00)
11 essays. 4 appendixes. 1965. 353 pages. Illustrated. Maps.
Naval Review 1967 ........................................................................................................................ $12.50. ($10.00)
12 essays. 4 appendixes. 1966. 335 pages. Illustrated. Maps.
Naval Operations Analysis................................................................................................................ $7.50... ($6.00)
Naval Science Dept., U. S. Naval Academy. 550 pages.
SEAMANSHIP
The Art of Knotting and Splicing........................................................................................................ $5.00... ($4.00)
By Cyrus Day. Step-by-step pictures and text. 2nd Ed., 1955. 224 pages.
Heavy Weather Guide....................................................................................................................... $6.00... ($4.80)
By Capt. E. T. Harding, USN, and Capt. W. J. Kotsch, USN. 1965. 210 pages.
Illustrated.
Naval Shiphandling........................................................................................................................... $7.00... ($5.60)
Bv Capt. R. S. Crenshaw, Jr., USN. 3rd Ed., 1965.533 pages. Illustrated.
Sail and Power................................................................................................................................. $7.00... ($5.60)
By Richard Henderson and Lt. Bartlett Dunbar, USN. 1967. 304 pages.
Illustrated.
NAVIGATION—PILOTING
Dutton’s Navigation and Piloting........................................................................................................ $8.00... ($6.40)
Prepared by Cdr. J. C. Hill, II, USN, Lt. Cdr. T. F. Utegaard, USN, and Gerard Riordan. 1st Ed., 1958. 771 pages. Illustrated.
Simplified Rules of the Nautical Road................................................................................................ $2.00... ($1.60)
By Lt. O. W. Will, III, USN. 1963. 112 pages. Illustrated. Paperbound.
PROFESSIONAL HANDBOOKS
The Bluejackets’ Manual, U. S. Navy................................................................................................. $2.60... ($2.08)
Revised by Capt. J. V. Noel, Jr., USN, and IV. J. Miller, JOCM, USN (Ret.).
17th Ed., 1964. 684 pages. Illustrated.
The Coast Guardsman’s Manual.................................................................................................. $4.75... ($3.80)
Prepared under the supervision of The Chief, Training and Procurement Division, Commandant, U. S. Coast Guard. Original edition prepared by Capt. W. C. Hogan, USCG. 4th Ed., 1964. 885 pages. Illustrated.
Command at Sea............................................................................................................................... $6.50... ($5.20)
By RAdm. H. F. Cope, USN (Ret.). Revised by Capt. H. Bucknell, III,
USN. 3rd Ed., 1966. 540 pages.
Division Officer's Guide...................................................................................... $3.00... ($2.40)
By Capt. J. V. Noel, Jr., USN. 5th Ed., 1962. 282 pages.
The Marine Officer's Guide......................................................................................................... $7.50.. ($6.00)
Revised by Rear Adm. A. A. Ageton, USN (Ret.), and Col. R. D. HeinI, Jr.,
USMC (Ret.). 3rd Ed., 1967. 625 pages. Illustrated.
The Naval Aviator’s Guide................................................................................................................ $6.50... ($5.20)
By Capt. M. W. Cagle, USN. 1963. 305 pages. Illustrated.
The Naval Officer’s Guide................................................................................................................ $7.75... ($6.20)
By Rear Adm. A. A. Ageton, USN (Ret.), with Rear Adm. W. P. Mack, USN.
7th Ed., 1967. 650 pages. Illustrated.
Watch Officer's Guide...................................................................................................................... $3.00... ($2.40)
Revised by Capt. J. V. Noel, Jr., USN. 9th Ed., 1961. 302 pages. Illustrated.
REFERENCE
Almanac of Naval Facts.................................................................................................................... $3.50... ($2.80)
1961. 305 pages. Paperbound.
Dictionary of Militarv and Naval Quotations................................................................................... $15.00 ($12.00)
Compiled and edited by Col. R. D. Heinl, Jr., USMC (Ret.). 1966. 367 pages.
List of Rubrics (800). Index of Sources (1,200).
Weyer’s Warships of the World 1968.................................................
$15.00 ($12.00)
Compiled by Alexander Bredt. 1967. Over 400 pages.
The Henry Huddleston Rogers Collection of Ship Models............................................................... $3.00 ($2.40)
U. S. Naval Academy Museum. 2nd Ed., 1958. 117 pages. Illustrated.
Naval Terms Dictionary.............................................................................................................. $5.50 ($4.40)
By Capt. J. V. Noel, Jr„ USN (Ret.), and Cdr. T. J. Bush, USNR. 1966.
379 pages. Paperbound.
Sailing and Small Craft Down the Ages........................................................................................ $8.50 ($6.80)
By E. L. Bloomster. 1940. 280 pages. 425 silhouette drawings. Trade edition.
The Ships and Aircraft of the U. S. Fleet...................................................................................... $3.50 ($2.80)
By James C. Fahey. 8th Ed., 1965. 64 pages. Illustrated. Paperbound.
Ships of the United States Navy and Their Sponsors
Vol. IV—1950-1958 ........................................................................................ 81000 ($8-00)
Compiled by Keith Frazier Somerville and Harriotte W. B. Smith. 1959. 291 pages. Illustrated.
LEADERSHIP
Naval Leadership, 2nd edition...................................................................................................... $4.50 ($3.60)
Compiled by Cdr. M. E. Wolfe, USN, Capt. F. J. Mulholland, USMC, Cdr.
J. M. Laudenslager, MSC, USNR, Lt. H. J. Connery, MSC, USN, R. Adm.
Bruce McCandless, USN (Ret.), and Assoc. Prof. G. J. Mann. 1959. 301 pages.
Selected Readings in Leadership.................................................................................................. $2.50 ($2.00)
Compiled by Cdr. M. E. Wolfe, USN, and Capt. F. J. Mulholland, USMC.
Revised by Leadership Committee, Command Department, U. S. Naval Academy. 1960. 126 pages. Paperbound.
ENGINEERING
Descriptive Analysis of Naval Turbine Propulsion Plants................................................................ $6.00 ($4.80)
By Cdr. C. N. Payne, USN. 1958. 187 pages. Illustrated.
Fundamentals of Construction and Stability of Naval Ships............................................................. $6.00 ($4.80)
By Prof. T. C. Gillmer, U. S. Naval Academy. 2nd Ed., 1959. 373 pages.
Illustrated.
Internal Combustion Engines........................................................................................................ $6.00 ($4.80)
By Cdr. P. W. Gill, USN, Cdr. J. H. Smith, Jr., USN, and Prof. E. J. Ziurys.
4th Ed., 1959. 570 pages. Illustrated.
Introduction to Marine Engineering............................................................................................... $6.00 ($4.80)
By Prof. R. F. Latham, U. S. Naval Academy. 1958. 208 pages. Illustrated.
SCIENCES
Elements of Applied Thermodynamics.......................................................................................... $5.00 ($4.00)
By Prof. R. M. Johnston, U. S. Naval Academy, Capt. W. A. Brockett, USN, and Prof. A. E. Bock, U. S. Naval Academy. 3rd Ed., 1958. 496 pages.
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Fundamentals of Sonar................................................................ $10.00 ($8.00)
By Dr. J. W. Horton, 2nd Ed., 1959.417 pages. Illustrated.
The Human Machine, Biological Science for the Armed Services $72)0 ($6.00)
By Capt. C. W. Shilling, MC, USN. 2nd Ed., 1965. 307 pages. Illustrated.
Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables....................................... $1.65 ($1.32)
By the Department of Mathematics, U. S. Naval Academy. 1945. 89 pages.
Ocean Sciences......................................................................... $10.00 ($8.00)
Edited by Capt. E. J. Long, USNR (Ret.). Written by 18 eminent oceanographers. Fills the gap between popular and technical writing. 1964. 304 pages. Illustrated.
The Rule of Nine............................................................................. $.75 ($.60)
By William Wallace, Jr. An easy, speedy way to check addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. 1959. 27 pages. Paperbound.
LAW
A Brief History of Courts-Martial................................................... $.50 ($.40)
By Brig. Gen. James Sncdcker, USMC (Ret.). 1954. 65 pages. Paperbound.
International Law for Seagoing Officers..................................... $6.00 ($4.80)
By Cdr. B. H. Brittin, USN, and Dr. Liselotte B. Watson, 2nd Ed., 1960.
318 pages. Illustrated.
Military Law.................................................................................... $2.00 ($1.60)
Compiled by Capt. J. K. Taussig, Jr., USN (Ret.) and Cdr. H. B. Sweitzer,
USN. Edited by Cdr. M. E. Wolfe, USN, and Lt. Cdr. R. I. Gulick, USN.
Revised by Lt. Cdr. J. W. Des Jardin, USN. 2nd Ed., 1963. 94 pages.
LANGUAGES
Dialogues on Russian Culture................................................... $2.00 ($1.60)
By Assoc. Prof. W. H. Budum, Assoc. Prof. H. R. Keller, and Prof. C. P.
Lemieux, U. S. Naval Academy. In Russian with English notes for rapid reading at the second-year level. 1956. 97 pages. Illustrated. Paperbound.
Introduction to Brazilian Portuguese........................................... $4.50 ($3.60)
By Assoc. Prof. J. Riccio, U. S. Naval Academy. 1957. 299 pages. Paperbound.
Naval Phraseology....................................................................... $3.50 ($2.80)
Common naval terms and phrases in English-French-Spanish-Italian-Ger- man-Portugucse. 1953. 326 pages. Paperbound.
Russian Conversation and Grammar, 3rd edition, 1960 By Prof. C. P. Lemieux, U. S. Naval Academy
Vol. One—109 pages. Paperbound........................................... $2.50 ($2.00)
Vol. Two—121 pages. Paperbound........................................... $2.50 ($2.00)
Russian Supplement to Naval Phraseology............................ $4.00 ($3.20)
By Prof. C. P. Lemieux, U. S. Naval Academy. 2nd Ed., 1954. 140 pages.
SERVICE LIFE
The Best of Taste, The Finest Food of Fifteen Nations.......... $5.00 ($4.00)
Edited by the SACLANT-NATO Cookbook Committee. 1957. 244 pages.
Naval Customs, Traditions, and Usage.................................... $6.50 ($5.20)
By Vice Adm. L. P. Lovette, USN (Ret.). 4th Ed., 1959, 358 pages. Illustrated.
Prayers at Sea............................................................................... $3.50 ($2.80)
By Chaplain Joseph F. Parker, USN. 1961.287 pages.
The Sailor’s Wife.......................................................................... $1.50 ($1.20)
By Lucy Wright. Practical explanations of daily problems facing Navy wives and how to solve them. 1962. 112 pages. Illustrated. Paperbound.
Service Etiquette........................................................................... $6.50 ($5.20)
By Capt. Brooks J. Harral, USN, and Oretha I). Swartz. Revised by Oretha I). Swartz. Guide to correct social usage on official and unofficial occasions for men and women in all the services. 2nd Ed., 1963. 447 pages. Illustrated.
Welcome Aboard.......................................................................... $6.00 ($4.80)
By Florence Ridgely Johnson. A guide for the naval Officer’s bride. 6th Ed.,
1964. 263 pages.
Intramural Programs . . . $4.00 ($3.20)
Revised, 1950. 249 pages.
Modem Fencing .... $3.50 ($2.80)
1948. 289 pages. Illustrated.
Paperbound.
Soccer......................................... $4.50... ($3.60)
3rd Ed., 1961. 172 pages.
Squash Racquets .... $3.50 ($2.80)
1966. 94 pages. Illustrated.
Paperbound.
Swimming and Diving . . $4.50 ($3.60)
4th Ed., 1965 . 345 pages.
Paperbound.
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1963. 152 pages. Illustrated. |
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Championship Wrestling . , | $4.50 | ($3.60) |
1964. 230 pages. |
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Conditioning Exercises . . | . $4.50 | ($3.60) |
3rd Ed., 1960. 275 pages. |
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Gymnastics and Tumbling . | $4.50 | ($3.60) |
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Hand to Hand Combat . . | $4.00 | ($3.20) |
1943. 228 pages. Paperbound. | ||
How to Survive on Land and Sea . . . . | $4.50 | ($3.60) |
3rd Revised Ed., 1936. 366 pages. Paperbound.
SPORTS—ATHLETICS
U. S. NAVAL ACADEMY
Annapolis Today..................................................................................................................... $6.00 ($4.80)
By Kendall Banning. Revised by A. Stuart Pitt. Complete description o£
U. S. Naval Academy activities. 1963. 329 pages. Illustrated.
The Book of Navy Songs......................................................................................................... $3.00 ($2.40)
Compiled by the Trident Society of the Naval Academy. 160 pages. Illustrated. Sold only to Midshipmen and Naval Institute members.
The Prayer of a Midshipman.................................................................................................... $-25 ($.25)
The midshipman’s prayer printed on quality paper, suitable for framing.
FULL-COLOR REPRODUCTION
Proceedings Cover Paintings
Separate prints, 26 X 22 inches, suitable for framing:
USS Enterprise (June 1962) by C. G. Evers.......................................................................... $5-00 ($4.00)
USS Bainbridge (November 1962) by C. G. Evers................................................................. $5.00 ($4.00)
USS Thresher (March 1964) by C. G. Evers.......................................................................... $5.00 ($5.00)
(No discount on Thresher prints. All proceeds to Thresher Fund.)
USS Long Beach (August 1964) by C. G. Evers..................................................................... $5.00 ($4.00)
Flying Cloud (April 1964) by Warren Sheppard..................................................................... $5.00 ($4.00)
Aristides (April 1965) by Robert Salmon (26 X 21 in.)........................................................... $5.00 ($4.00)
"Attack on a Galleon” (May 1965) by Howard Pyle (22 X 29 in.) .... $5.00 ($4.00)
USS America (April 1966) by C. G. Evers (29 X 22 in.) ....... $5.00 ($4.00)
U. S. Sch. Yacht America (September 1967) by C. G. Evers (21 X 26 in.) . . $5.00 ($4.00)
Complete sets of 12, on 13 X 13-inch mats, for any of the following years:
1955, 1956, 1957, 1958 $2-50 ($2.00)
Portfolios of the American Sailing Navy
Full color renderings, suitable for framing. Carefully researched and authentic to the last detail. Painted by Melbourne Smith, a licensed Master in Sail in Canada. Six 18 X 211/s>-inch prints, matted, in a portfolio with a separate sheet, also suitable for framing, giving specifications on each ship and details from her history. Priced as follows:
Six Frigates of the American Sailing Navy 1776-1825. Sold only as a set . . . $35.00 ($28.00)
Raleigh—1776; Constitution-1797; Essex-1799; Philadelphia-1800; President-1800, and Brandywine—1825.
Six Schooners of the American Sailing Navy 1775-1838. Sold only as a set . . . $3a.00 ($28.00)
Hannah-1775; Vixen-1803; Alligator-1821; Grampus-1821; Boxer-1831, and Flying Fish—1838.
MISCELLANEOUS
How to Write a Research Paper . . .......................................................... $1.00 ($.80)
Prepared in the Department of English, History, and Government, U. S.
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Naval Institute Insignia. Sold only to Membeis.
Cuff Links_______________ $2.50 Tie Bar------------ $1.50 Tie Tac----------- $1.50
Lapel Button ... .$1.00 Lapel Clutch Pin ... .$1.00 (No discount)