Naval History Magazine - June 2010 Volume 24, Number 3

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Incredible Voyage
Issue: Naval History Magazine - June 2010 Volume 24, Number 3
By: Carl LaVO
Intended to offset a Soviet scientific coup in outer space, the secret undersea mission of a huge American submarine was fraught with difficulty and several near failures.

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  • Looking Back
    By Paul Stillwell

    Korean Surprise

    Sixty years ago this summer, the United States was figuratively caught with its pants down on the other side of the world...

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    Twenty-five years ago the FBI finally shut off the biggest espionage leak in U.S. Navy history when it arrested former senior warrant officer John A. Walker.
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    After scrambling to assemble a fighting force, the Marines Corps battled with characteristic élan in a conflict that had more than its share of ups and downs.

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    By Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Armstrong, U.S. Navy
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  • Looking Back
    By Paul Stillwell

    Korean Surprise

    Sixty years ago this summer, the United States was figuratively caught with its pants down on the other side of the world. What we have come to know as the Korean War began on 25 June 1950, when six North Korean infantry...

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  • Museum Report
    By James J. Joyce

    Birthplace of the Flying Boat

    In New York's Finger Lakes region, Hammondsport sits at the southern end of Keuka Lake. It is home to the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum, which is within walking distance of the aviation pioneer's...

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    Young Nelsons: Boy Sailors during the Napoleonic Wars

    D. A. B. Ronald. Foreword by Alexander Kent. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2009. 304 pp. Illus. $25.95.

    Reviewed by Roy Adkins

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    By Carl LaVO
    Intended to offset a Soviet scientific coup in outer space, the secret undersea mission of a huge American submarine was fraught with difficulty and several near failures.

    Submarine commander Edward L. "Ned"...

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    Marines in an airfield control tower got a shock when a plane loaded with Japanese commandos made a belly landing and the raiders began blowing up U.S. aircraft.
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    One Last Time

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