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On Our Scope

By Richard G. Latture, Editor-in-Chief
December 2007
This issue of Naval History commemorates a monumental anniversary for the U.S. Navy: the centennial of the Great White Fleet’s departure on its round-the-world cruise. James R. Reckner, author of ...
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'You Were Most Deceitful'

By Master Chief Communications Technician Thomas H. Helvig, U.S. Navy (Retired)
December 2007
A top-secret hoax pulled off by Admiral William F. Halsey's "Dirty Tricks Department" had the Japanese believing a single cruiser, the USS Tucson, was an entire carrier task force.
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The Marines' Written Record

By Colonel Jon T. Hoffman, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve (Retired)
December 2007
Interested in reading more about the Corps' dramatic and colorful past? Our guide to outstanding Marine histories, biographies, and memoirs is a great place to locate the right book.
Peter Flahavin

In Contact

December 2007
"Flying in the Cactus Air Force" (See R. E. Galer, pp. 30-31, August 2007 Naval History) Captain Elton N. Thompson, U.S. Navy Reserve (Retired) The picture of the Marine ...
COURTESY OF BRUCE, BRAD, AND JOHN ABELE

Naval History News

December 2007
Help Solve a Mystery On 23 August, a team headed by three brothers—Bruce, Brad, and John Abele—discovered the sunken remains of a submarine in the Bering Sea. Almost exactly a ...
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The Rebirth of the Fleet

By James R. Reckner & Sidebar by David Stevens
December 2007
While the global cruise of the Great White Fleet had far-reaching international consequences, one of the voyage's most important results was to harden the Sailors and ships of the fleet ...
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Who Was Henry Eckford?

By Andrew C. A. Jampoler
December 2007
Born in Scotland in 1775, Henry Eckford learned his trade in Canada and died in distant Turkey. History, however, remembers him as one of the United States' greatest 19th-century shipbuilders.
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Mom Remembers Pearl Harbor

By Randolph Bartlett
December 2007
While U.S. Sailors were fighting and dying during the opening months of the war in the Pacific, Navy wives living in Hawaii were enduring their own fearful, uncertain ordeal.
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Star-Crossed Sisters

By Robert J. Cressman
December 2007
Congressmen and naval constructors quarreled over their design, and once the ships were built, they had poor seakeeping qualities and proved to be poor gunnery platforms. Often overlooked by history ...
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A Very Able Mariner

By Norman Polmar, Author, Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet
December 2007
The Martin PBM Mariner—the world's largest twin-engine flying boat—was noted for its range, bomb load, ruggedness, and seaworthiness. This graceful aircraft succeeded the PBY Catalina as the U.S. Navy's principal ...

Book Reviews

Reviewed by Commander Joseph Leonard, U.S Navy, Edward J. Sheehy, Commander Tyrone G. Martin, U. S. Navy (Retired) & Robert Fahs
December 2007
Inferno: The Epic Life and Death Struggle of the USS Franklin in World War II Joseph A. Springer. St. Paul, MN: Zenith Press, 2007. 320 pp. Illus. Index. $24.95. Reviewed ...
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Hands-on History of the Navy

By Kevin M. Hymel
December 2007
The U.S. Navy's oldest museum—the Navy Museum at the Washington (D.C.) Navy Yard—makes experiencing the history of the service from its origins through the Korean War a hands-on experience. Located ...