Man And Materials in the Polar Regions

By George W. Grupp
August 1949
The term “Polar Regions” conjures up images of daring explorers in grim struggle against great obstacles. It is doubtful if the United States Navy explorers DeLong, Melville, and Peary fully ...

Jungle Allies

By Major John L. Zimmerman, U. S. Marine Corps Reserve (Inactive)
August 1949
Three days after the Marines of the First Division landed on Guadalcanal, a strange group of men came out of the jungle and walked through the lines. It was a ...

The Riddle of Combined Arms: 1949

By Major Guy Richards, U. S. Marine Corps Reserve
August 1949
Wars not only bring cruelty and heroism, victories and defeats. They speed discoveries of all sorts, both terrible and benign. And they produce miracles which in the minds of military ...

The Navy's Colossal Crane

By Warren Hughes
August 1949
One of the Navy’s strangest craft, unromantically titled YD 171, might be called by the more meaningful and appealing name of “Seagoing Samson,” for it can toss freight-train weights ...

The Uniform Problem

By Lieutenant J. C. Busby, S.C., U. S. Navy
August 1949
Captain Seker carefully buckled on his undress sword belt, smoothed out the wrinkles in his white cotton uniform, and briskly stalked out of his cabin to inspect the crew at ...

The Naval Officer As A Speaker and Instructor

By Captain I. E. McMillian, U. S. Navy
August 1949
In these times of rapidly advancing techniques and scientific complexities it is necessary, more than ever before in our history, for naval officers to become effective speakers and good instructors ...

The U. S. Navy's First Seagoing Marine Officer

By Captain Lucius C. Dunn, U. S. Navy (Retired)
August 1949
In this present "triphibious" era when the United States Marines constitute such a dynamically potent component of the Nation's armed forces, on land, on sea, and in the air, it ...

Inshore Navigation with Radar and VPR

By Captain William Hugh Organ, U. S. Navy
August 1949
During the night of July 27, 1948, the U.S.S. Marias, a Naval Transportation Service tanker, steamed down Cook Inlet, enroute from Anchorage, Alaska, to San Francisco, California. Visibility was ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

August 1949
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Book Reviews

August 1949
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Professional Notes

August 1949
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