Cape Matapan

By Jack Sweetman
June 1995
Late on 28 March 1941, three British battleships formed a line to fire on the Fiume, Zara, and four destroyers at point-blank range.

Pearl Harbor

By Jack Sweetman
June 1995
On “a day that will live in infamy,” as President Franklin D. Roosevelt said of 7 December 1941, the Japanese achieved tactical success at Pearl Harbor but ensured ultimate defeat.

Java Sea

By Jack Sweetman
June 1995
As formidable as the unified ABDA Command was in early 1942, the Japanese destroyed the striking force in the Battle of the Java Sea.

Coral Sea

By Jack Sweetman
June 1995
The first carrier air battle in history resulted in the first serious defeat of the Japanese in the war.

Savo Island

By Jack Sweetman
June 1995
The savage night action in August 1942 off Guadalcanal has been called the worst defeat in U.S. naval history.

The Komandorskis

By Jack Sweetman
June 1995
In a relatively little-known gunnery action, the Salt Lake City (CA-25) was disabled by her own engineering department. The crew restored populsion in time to fire the final shots.

Leyte Gulf

By Jack Sweetman
June 1995
While the battle of Leyte Gulf dealt the Imperial Japanese Navy a crushing blow, the victory came at a cost to U.S. forces.

Operation Barney

By Jack Sweetman
June 1995
The powerful U.S. submarine offensive against Japan, which culminated in “Operation Barney," a night attack off the China coast in early 1945.

Looking Back

By Paul Stillwell
June 1995
The term “skeletons in the closet” is most often used in a figurative sense, with a negative connotation. In the case of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum ...

In Contact

June 1995
“Pasó por Aqui . . (See B. Greeley, p. 8-17, March-April 1995 Naval History) Claude R. Phillips, Jr When I received my March-April 1995 Naval History, I was startled ...

Historic Fleets

By Arthur D. Baker III, Editor, Combat Fleets of the World
June 1995
The decommissioning of the Navy’s oldest active commissioned vessel, the repair ship Jason (AR-8) in June, will mark the end of 71 years of repair ships (ARs) in the U.S ...

The Living Memorial

By Captain Thomas Coldwell, U.S. Navy (Retired)
June 1995
The U.S. Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C., serves as a reminder of the power and majesty of the sea—and as a tribute to those who have sailed upon it.

Naval History News

Edited By Bert Hubinger
June 1995
Mason Vets Visit Ireland The sailors of the destroyer escort Mason (DE-529), the first crew of blacks assigned to technical jobs on a U.S. warship in this century, were stunned ...

Salty Talk

By Commander Ty Martin, U.S. Navy (Retired)
June 1995
In previous “talks” we have mentioned the seagoing practice of flogging as the principal form of punishment, and how the recipients of such punishment usually were triced up in a ...

Books of Interest

By Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler, U.S. Navy (Retired)
June 1995
The War in the Pacific Harry A. Gailey. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1995. 528 pp. Bib. Ind. Maps. Photos. $29.95 ($26.95). Emphasizing the clash of Oriental and Occidental cultures and ...