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By Jim Barber
August 1990
An interest in history can be a family affair. One of the founders of the Naval Historical Society was Admiral Joseph Strauss (1861- 1948), a distinguished naval officer noted for ...

The Stick Wavers

By Master Sergeant Clay Barrow, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired)
August 1990
General David M. Shoup planned the Tarawa landing while operations officer of the Second Marine Division.

The Deflektor Defector

By Commander Tyrone G. Martin, U.S. Navy (Retired)
August 1990
Yuri Petov literally jumped off a Soviet intelligence-gathering trawler in 1966 to jump off, figuratively, to start a new life in the West

Marshals of the Seas

By Captain John M. Waters, USCG (Retired) Sidebar By Irving H. King
August 1990
The outcome will ultimately depend on the people’s will and determination to prevail over a threat to the welfare of the nation and to our very way of life.

In Contact

August 1990
Winter 1990 Naval History (See Winter 1990 Naval History) Laura F. Brown, University of Baltimore Library —In addition to the fine article covering the John W. Brown, the issue contained ...

In Profile—William S. Phillips

By Barrett Tillman
August 1990
It is lunchtime in Ashland, Oregon, as artist William S. Phillips wipes off a brush to receive a visitor. He has been finishing a painting of three World War II ...

Technical Report—Inside the Alabama

By Stephen C. Kinnaman
August 1990
Arguably the most successful commerce raider the world has ever known, the CSS Alabama deserves a special place in U.S. naval history. During the American Civil War, she, together with ...
USS Yorktown

Revenge at the Coral Sea

By Kenneth A. McIntosh
August 1990
The USS Yorktown (CV-5) reentered Pearl Harbor on 6 February 1942. The sight of all the devastation caused by the Japs sickened those of us on board. We felt sad ...

Don’t Crucify the Boatswain’s Mate

By Rear Admiral Elliott B. Strauss, U.S. Navy (Retired)
August 1990
Only the old-timers will remember that there was a USS Hannibal (AG-1) on the Navy List, though she met her end, as a bombing target, as recently as 1945. The ...

Book Reviews

By Tom Pocock Reviewed by Major Richard A. Stewart, U.S. Marine Corps, Ensign Jack Satterfield, U.S. Naval Reserve
August 1990
Lord Nelson: A Selected Bibliography By Tom Pocock In 15 years, the bicentennary of Lord Nelson’s death in action off Cape Trafalgar will be celebrated, or, rather, mourned because his ...

In Progress

August 1990
U.S. NAVAL INSTITUTE Proceedings/Naval Review: Many Americans who watched with joy and relief as the Berlin Wall and other Eastern European frontier barriers crumbled last year are not old enough ...

Buffalo’s Naval Park

By James W. Swinnich
August 1990
The Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Servicemen’s Park in Buffalo, New York, features a World War II destroyer and submarine, a guided-missile cruiser, an Army tank, a Marine Corps ...