USS Arizon sunk and burning at Pearl Harbor

Top Secret Assignment

By Takeo Yoshikawa, Former Ensign, Imperial Japanese Navy, with Lieutenant Colonel Norman Stanford, U.S. Marine Corps
December 1960
It was late in the evening and the Japanese Consulate at Honolulu was deserted except for myself at my desk in the Vice-Consul's office and a bored code clerk waiting ...

Military Assistance In The Far East

By Commander C. Alphonso Smith, USNR
December 1960
Since the end of World War II, eight nations in the Far East have been engaged in a struggle of epic proportions. These eight—Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Burma ...

Rating The Russians As Fighters

By Captain Roland E. Krause, USN (Ret.)
December 1960
Able statesmen and military leaders have always been influenced and guided in their actions by their appraisal of their foes relative to own forces and allies. They wisely respect the ...

The Perennial Fallacy

By Lieutenant Commander Allan N. Glennon, USN
December 1960
Not only the military history of this country but of every other country gives indisputable proof of the advantages of maintaining in time of war the integral control of the ...

Our First New England

By Edward P. Von der Porten
December 1960
On the California coast above San Francisco, great white cliffs box in a snug harbor. At their foot once lay a small encampment, secure behind a stone-faced rampart. Its 60-odd ...

Sheep In Wolf's Clothing

By Lieutenant Commander Howard R. Lund, USN, and Major Winston D. Chapman, USMC
December 1960
“I don’t want to be a soldier, I don’t want to go to war; I just want to ’ang around the Piccadilly underground, livin’ off the earnin’s of a ’igh ...

Navigating By Man-Made Stars

By Lieutenant Commander Edmund L. Castillo, USN
December 1960
The launching last spring of the Navy’s first experimental Transit satellites marked the beginning of a new era in the history of navigation.As long as man has put to sea ...

Last Chapter For U-853

By Ensign D. M. Tollaksen, USN
December 1960
A sunken Nazi U-boat in 20 fathoms of water a few miles south of Newport has aroused keen interest in skin-diving circles in Rhode Island. During the past year, newspapers ...

Musée de la Marine (Pictorial)

By Captain Russell S. Crenshaw, Jr., USN
December 1960
Musée de la Marine[1]Paris, blasé in her wealth of old world charm and ultra modern chic, draws all the world to her. Architects, engineers, his­torians, stylists, and tourists flock ...

Comment and Discussion

December 1960
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Book Reviews

December 1960
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Notable Naval Books Of 1960

By Associate Professor Robert M. Langdon, USNA
December 1960
In 1942, Harvard historian Samuel Eliot Morison proposed directly to President Roosevelt that the history of the naval side of the war be prepared by an experienced and competent historian ...

Professional Notes

December 1960
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