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By Jim Barber

July 1989

In 1975 the Navy and Marine Corps celebrated the bicentennial year of their founding. Now it is the turn of the third sea service, the U. S. Coast Guard. The ...

Marines in the Rhineland Occupation, 1918-1919

By Colonel Rolfe L. Hillman, Jr., U. S. Army (Retired)

July 1989

For the next seven months, the Marines would stay on as part of the large American contingent sent into Germany on a mission of peacekeeping and presence.

Ambassador Castle’s Role in the Negotiations of the London Naval Conference

By Alfred L. Castle

July 1989

While William Castle was in Tokyo trying to soothe the Japanese, Secretary of State Henry Stimson met with the Japanese delegation in Washington.

“Thar She Spaouts and Blows!”

By R. J. C. Butow

July 1989

The dusty canvas-bound logbooks found in the Delano family attic unveil the adventures of the 19th century whalemen.

Life As ‘Employed Enemy Personnel’

By Helmut Raumann Sidebars by P.C. Coker III

July 1989

In Bremerhaven in 1946 the stars and stripes were about to be raised to make our German heavy cruiser part of the U. S. Navy.

The Coast Guard Celebrates its 200th Birthday

By Robert L. Scheina

July 1989

On 4 August 1790 the U. S. Congress authorized the construction of ten cutters to insure the collection of revenues.

In Contact

July 1989

“When Courage Was Not Enough” (See R. G. Graves, pp, 36-41, Spring 1989 Naval History ) Commander Tyrone G. Martin, U. S. Navy (Retired) — Ensign Graves’s assessment of James ...

Salvaging the S-51

By James F. Roberts

July 1989

The salvaging of the S-51 took ten months of dangerous and innovative work by Navy divers and salvage personnel.

Technical Report—Seamines and the U.S. Navy

By Captain James M. Martin, U. S. Naval Reserve (Retired), and Bertrand P. Ramsay

July 1989

This is the first part of a two-part feature on U. S. Navy seamine developments.

The Hellcat-Zero Myth

By Allan M. Lazarus

July 1989

Early F6F Hellcat

Oral History—The Alsos Mission

By Rear Admiral Albert G. Mumma, U. S. Navy (Retired)

July 1989

Excerpt from Admiral Albert G. Mumma's oral history.

What Became of the Pioneer?

By James E. Kloeppel

July 1989

For more than a century, historians have been convinced that this oddly shaped vessel was the Pioneer.

In Profile—Clark G. Reynolds

By Dennis Chamberland

July 1989

Hollywood’s version of the 1925 court-martial that convicted General Billy Mitchell of insubordination dramatized an impassioned historical event. The 1955 film advanced the “conventional view” that the Army railroaded Mitchell ...

Book Review

By Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr., U. S. Army (Retired), Captain John Coote, Royal Navy (Retired), & Captain T. C. Pullen, Royal Canadian Navy (Retired)

July 1989

The Korean War: A Selected Bibliography By Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr., U. S. Army (Retired) Clay Blair was only too accurate when Be entitled his 1987 Korean War epic ...

In Progress

July 1989

U. S. NAVAL INSTITUTE Proceedings/Naval Review: The hearts of submariners everywhere will be farmed by Captain William J. Ruhe’s stirring account of World War II action, "Blowing the Japanese Out ...

New Life for an Old Kidd

By Tim Rizzuto

July 1989

On 27 August 1983 the USS Kidd (DD-661) was opened as a museum- memorial in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She is the third, and in all probability the last of the ...