On Our Scope

By Fred L. Schultz Editor-in-Chief
April 2004
Military buzzwords come and go, but much of the art of war, or rather, the art of preparing for war, remains the same. One ubiquitous term being tossed about currently ...

Detour at Longelyville

By Edward Magnani
April 2004
The more than 2,500 doughboys on the troopship Northern Pacific hoped to spend the 1919 New Year’s holiday on dry land after a week’s voyage from France. But their docking ...

Saving a Warship for France

By Baron Paul de Bourgoing; translated and edited by Jack Sweetman, Illustration by Jan Adkins
April 2004
Summing up the Royal Navy’s role in defeating Napoleon, Alfred Thayer Mahan wrote, “Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the ...

At the Top of the Pyramid

By Paul Stillwell
April 2004
In The Right Stuff, his celebrated 1979 book on test pilots and astronauts, author Tom Wolfe wrote about a pyramid of aviation skill. Those few at the very top have ...

In Contact

April 2004
“Shooting Down the Kamikaze Myth” (See J. Delgado, pp. 36-41, June 2003 Naval History) Commander Ryo Sakai, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Mr. Delgado is to be commended for his ...

Historic Fleets

By A. D. Baker III
April 2004
The first seagoing ship built in the United States with electric propulsion also was the first fuel-carrying auxiliary built to U.S. Navy plans and later the Navy’s first aircraft carrier ...

Which Does Not Fit?

By Norman Polmar, Author, Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet
April 2004
Which aircraft does not fit: The F4U Corsair, F-4 Phantom, Concord supersonic airliner, or X-35B Marine variant of the Joint Strike Fighter? They all fit—into the new Steven F. Udvar-Hazy ...

Naval History News

April 2004
San Diego Welcomes Midway to New Home After a nine-year effort to acquire an aircraft carrier to serve as the centerpiece of a museum in San Diego, California, dedicated to ...

Salty Talk

By Commander Tyrone G. Martin, U.S. Navy
April 2004
The officer of the deck of an operating ship is a busy man. He must attend to the safe navigation of the ship, ensure she keeps a proper station if ...

Book Reviews

Reviewed by John B. Lundstrom, Don Wallace & Don Walsh
April 2004
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage James Bradley. Boston: Little, Brown, 2003. 398 pp. Photos. Map. Bib. Index. $25.95. Sorties into Hell: The Hidden War on Chichi Jima Chester Hearn ...