On Our Scope

By Fred L. Schultz Editor-in-Chief
April 2003
The parent organization of Naval History, the U.S. Naval Institute, soon will be posting sea service reunion announcements on its Internet Web site. In the past, we tried to perform ...
NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER

How Korea's Web Got So Tangled

By Vice Admiral Jerry Miller, U.S. Navy (Retired)
April 2003
Neglect of Korea as a diplomatic issue during and after World War II spawns the Korean War, and a dispute over disposition of the prisoners of war prolongs the conflict ...
CUSHING MEMORIAL LIBRARY OF TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY

A Rudyard Kipling Sea Story

By Frederick G. Hoyt
April 2003
The popular poet and storyteller embarks in one of Her Majestys third-class light cruisers and emerges more appreciative of all things naval. Of the ship, he writes, "all your heart ...

A Tragedy of Errors

By Lieutenant Robert Haines, U.S. Naval Reserve (Retired)
April 2003
Throughout the Cold War, US. and Soviet aircraft played a dangerous game of electronic cat and mouse. In spring 1950, one flight by a US. Navy aircraft—shown here at Gibraltar ...

Kitty Hawk Far Forward

By Paul Stillwell
April 2003
One of the great values of history is the reminder that whatever exists in the present is the result of something that happened in the past. For Julian Burke, a ...

In Contact

April 2003
“Looking Back” (See P. Stillwell, p. 4, February 2003 Naval History) “We’ll Go Around the World” (See E. Beach, pp. 20-23, February 2003 Naval History) Captain Frank S. Virden ...

Historic Fleets

By A. D. Baker III, Editor, Combat Fleets of the World
April 2003
Following British lead, the U.S. Navy made use of several Q'ships—armed merchant vessels intended to lure German submarines to destruction—during World War I but achieved no successes. Anticipating heavy merchant ...

A Big Texan

By Norman Polmar, Author, Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet
April 2003
More U.S. Navy and Marine Corps pilots trained in the SNJ Texan in the 1940s and ’50s than in any other aircraft. The U.S. Army Air Forces and (from 1948) ...
JAMIE HOWREN QUINN

Naval History News

April 2003
'Open Doors' Reveals Lives of Vietnam POWs On 27 January 1973, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam's chief negotiator, Le Duc Tho, signed the Paris Peace Accords ...

Book Reviews

Reviewed by John E. Carey and Jack Sweetman
April 2003
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before Tony Horwitz. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2002. 480 pp. Photos. Maps. Bib. Index. $26.00. Captain Cook: A Legacy ...

Salty Talk

By Commander Tyrone G. Martin, U.S. Navy (Retired)
April 2003
Just as sailing ships were limited in their sailing direction and speed by what the wind was doing, so, too, did the tide impose certain limitations. And it was not ...