'Every Marine'

By Phil McCombs
April 1999
A "Style" staff writer for The Washington Post details the real story of the weary Marine in Frank Johnston's Vietnam War photo, "Peace Church."
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE AUTHORS /INSET: ADRIENNE RICHARDSON

Blood on the Baltic

By John Dunn and Donald Stoker
April 1999
After a weeklong siege in 1939, Polish coastal forces in Danzig surrender to German invaders in what comes to be known as "Poland's Alamo."

Breakers Ahead!

By Captain Edward L. Beach, Jr. U.S. Navy (Retired)
April 1999
In his new Naval Institute Press book, the boat’s communication officer recounts the scene.

A Quarter-Century Past

By Paul Stillwell
April 1999
It was a cool, sunny day in mid-February 1974 when I alighted from the old Greyhound bus station on West Street in Annapolis. There to greet me was Commander Bob ...

In Contact

April 1999
“Something About Ships” (See K. Burns, pp. 18-21, January/February 1999 Naval History) Richard A. Klein, Universal Archives, Inc. We read your Ken Bums interview and only could feel disappointment ...

Book Reviews

Reviewed by Commander Tyrone G. Martin, U.S. Navy (Retired) & Harold D. Langley
April 1999
Jester’s Fortune Dewey Lambdin. New York: Dutton, 1999. 373 pp. $25.95 ($23.35). Reviewed by Commander Tyrone G. Martin, U.S. Navy (Retired) After three years of silence, Alan Lewrie is back ...

The Runner-up: AM-1 Mauler

By Norman Polmar, Author, The Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet
April 1999
One of the shortest-lived—and least-known—Navy attack aircraft was the AM-1 Mauler, produced by the Glenn L. Martin Company. The AM was developed as a competitor to the highly successful Douglas ...

Historic Fleets

By A. D. Baker III, Editor, Combat Fleets of the World
April 1999
Commissioned on 2 July 1945 as a standard Gearing-class destroyer, the USS Gyatt (DD-712) later became the Navy’s first guided-missile destroyer and its first combatant to be equipped with gyro- ...

Naval History News

April 1999
Battleship Happenings The final disposition of the battleship New Jersey (BB-62) is uncertain; while Congress already has agreed to release the ship to her namesake state so that she could ...

Salty Talk

By Commander Ty Martin, U.S. Navy (Retired
April 1999
Eking out an existence two centuries ago required much more effort than it does for most of us today, and far fewer amenities were available. Most of the population had ...

Navy Yarns

By Captain Roy C. Smith, III, U.S. Navy (Retired)
April 1999
At Greenock, the port of Glasgow, Scotland, during the summer midshipmen's cruise of 1931, four classmates of the Naval Academy Class of 1934 were marching abreast down the pier to ...