Jarvis: Destroyer That Vanished

By Commander James C. Shaw, U. S. Navy
February 1950
On August 9, 1942, the damaged American destroyer U.S.S. Jarvis with 246 officers and men on board vanished in the Coral Sea southwest of Guadalcanal. Before dawn that day a ...

The Problem of a New Transithmian Canal

By William H. Hobbs
February 1950
The American Continent, which stretches from the Arctic to the Antarctic, has opposed a barrier to ocean traffic between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, which unite all the great ...

Biological Warfare—The Equalizer

By Lieutenant James Bernard Kelley, U. S. Naval Reserve (Inactive)
February 1950
A few years ago a short story appeared in one of the popular magazines. The theme of the story was biological warfare. The plot was quite simple—just as biological warfare ...

Mediterranean Convoys in World War II

By Commander M. A. Bragadin, Italian Naval Reserve
February 1950
To date, the Mediterranean naval struggle during World War II has been reviewed, even by eminent authors, without giving any weight to the Italian viewpoint and to specific information to ...

North Atlantic Weather Stations

By William O. Foss
February 1950
The cold and treacherous North Atlantic Ocean is the scene of one of the most effective and humanitarian projects ever to be created by a group of nations. No—it is ...

The Cinque Ports

By Jerome Allen Weil
February 1950
Certainly one of the greatest feats of history, the building of the British ^ Empire, can be attributed in the main to the unchallenged supremacy of the Royal Navy. Today ...

Experiences of a Naval Port Director 1939-45

By Commander David D. Mercer, Royal Navy (Ret.)
February 1950
Most laymen and quite a few professional naval officers have little idea of the large world-wide organization, the problems, and the hard work involved in transporting millions of tons of ...

Back Door in the Pacific

By Lieutenant Edward E. Wilcox, U. S. Naval Reserve
February 1950
Our back door in the Pacific today stands open to a potential aggressor. Must we again wait until the dropping bombs (on Okinawa perhaps) signal the commencement of open hostilities ...

A Fish Story

Contributed by Admiral W.H. Standley, U.S. Navy (Ret.)
February 1950
FEBRUARY 25, 1927 U.S.S. MARYLAND FROM CAPT CRAVEN TO U.S.S. CALIFORNIA FOR CAPT STANDLEY CONGRATULATIONS TO THE GREATEST FISHERMAN IN THE WORLD—THE WHALE SWALLOWED JONAH BUT YOU GOT THE WHALE ...

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