Pete Mitscher and Armored Cruiser Aviation

By Rear Admiral George van Deurs, U. S. Navy (Retired)
November 1969
In November 1915, a month after Lieutenant (j.g.) Marc Mitscher reported to Pensacola for flight training, the first shipboard catapult was tried on board the North Carolina. After four live ...
A Marine reconnaissance team leader calls air and artillery upon an unsuspecting enemy force.

Stingray ’70

By Francis J. West, Jr.
November 1969
The success of U.S. strike teams suggests that even massive U.S. troop withdrawals in the 1970s may not be fatal to our military effort in Vietnam.

Inactivation of the Randolph

by Cdr. H. L. Hussmann, USN
November 1969
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The Marine Corps Emblem: "The First Hundred Years…"

By Richard A. Long and Colonel Don P. Wyckoff, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired)
November 1969
It is typical of the tradition-conscious Marines that the official car of their Commandant bears District of Columbia license number 1775—the year the Continental Marines were organized.Other officials in Washington ...

HMS Centaur at Dar es Salaam

by Cdr. David K. Hankinson, RN (Ret.)
November 1969
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Olive Branch and Lightning Bolts

by John C. Ausland
November 1969
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Seapower and the Satellites

by Capt. Frank M. Murphy, USN
November 1969
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The Bear and the Dragon

by John B. Wolf
November 1969
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Pictorial—"A Chain of Ships"

"Photography by Byron S. Whitehead, Jr., JOC, USN Text by Capt. Edward F. Oliver, USCG"
November 1969
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Comment and Discussion

November 1969
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Book Reviews and Book List

November 1969
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