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By Jim Barber Publisher

August 1996

In this edition, we take on several historic issues that still resonate today. Robert Timberg writes about the wide gap between Vietnam veterans and draft evaders, many of whom became ...

The Vietnam Fault Line

By Robert Timberg

August 1996

The author spoke frankly about those who served in Vietnam and those who did not at the U.S. Naval Institute’s 123rd Annual Meeting.

Fisher’s Naval Revolution

By Jon Sumida

August 1996

As First Sea Lord Vice Admiral Sir John Fisher launched a strategy based more on economic reality and the real needs of the Royal Navy.

Operating Under Pressure

By Robert C. Bornmann and Jan K. Herman

August 1996

Faced with emergency cases of appendicitis in their patients, submarine pharmacist’s mates in World War II did what they had to do.

Flying Coach

By Max Brand

August 1996

In this excerpt from Fighter Squadron at Guadalcanal, Lieutenant Colonel Harold W. “Joe” Bauer tears up the sky over the Pacific island.

Bombshell at Bikini

By James P. Delgado

August 1996

Displaced Bikinian Joji Laijo still wonders—50 years later—what we really learned.

Dateline Crossroads

By Lloyd J. Graybar

August 1996

The tests were perhaps of most immediate importance to the Navy.

Ernie Harwell for Leatherneck Magazine of the Marines

By John F. Wukovits

August 1996

If you’re a Detroit base ball fan, you know his engaging voice. But to the Marines, he was known best as Pacific correspondent for Leatherneck.

North Carolina’s Ironclad

By Commander Tyrone G. Martin, U.S. Navy (Retired)

August 1996

In 1861, the ironclad appeared to be the Confederate Navy’s great hope.

A Question of Wood and Time

By Jessamine A. Calhoun

August 1996

The rare remains of the CSS Neuse are losing the battle against the elements.

Looking Back

By Paul Stillwell

August 1996

When Vice Admiral John Bulkeley died on the day before Easter, the April issue of the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings was in the hands of readers. On page 71 of ...

In Contact

August 1996

“It Really Did Carry the Kitchen Sink” (See F. A. Johnsen, pp. 36-41, January-February 1996 Naval History) George A. Spangenberg I have delayed forwarding comments on the subject article ...

British Naval History on the Thames

By Rear Admiral J. F. Callo, U.S. Navy Reserve (Retired)

August 1996

Inside and out, Britain’s National Maritime Museum is a monument to that country’s nautical heritage.

Book Reviews

Reviewed by Homer Hickam & Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler, U.S. Navy (Retired)

August 1996

Torpedoes in the Gulf: Galveston and the U-Boats, 1942-1943 Melanie Wiggins. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1995. 265 pp. Illus. Notes. Bib. Ind. $29.50 ($26.55). Reviewed by Homer ...

Naval History News

August 1996

Sweetman Named Author of the Year Jack Sweetman is the 1995 Naval History Author of the Year, an award presented for the best work published in the magazine during the ...

Salty Talk

By Commander Ty Martin, U.S. Navy (Retired)

August 1996

Pirates were nasty fellows. Think of Captain William Kidd or Edward Teach (“Blackbeard”) or Anne Bonny, and you think of dreadful people willing to do almost anything to other human ...

Historic Fleets

By A. D. Baker III, Editor, Combat Fleets of the World

August 1996

The Wyoming (BB-32), along with her sister the Arkansas (BB-33), shared the distinction of mounting the largest number of main battery turrets installed in a U.S. Navy battleship: six, each ...