The United States Navy And Polar Exploration

By Captain Louis H. Roddis (M.G.), U. S. Navy
October 1942
The subject of exploration in the arctic and antarctic regions either by official expeditions of our Navy, or by officers and men of the Navy as leaders or members of ...

Air Supply — A Requisite Of True Air Power

By Lieutenant J. Raymond Dyer, U. S. Naval Reserve
October 1942
The lessons of the present war have taught many things. The most significant, beyond any doubt, has been the importance of air power. With air power Poland was conquered, Norway ...

The Springfield Rifle

By Harrison P. Martin, Quartermaster, 3c. U. S. Naval Reserve
October 1942
The Army and Marine Corps having adopted the M 1 (“Garand”) semiautomatic rifle, the Navy and Coast Guard remain the only branches of the United States armed forces to retain ...

Robert Fulton And The Nautilus

By David Whittet Thomson
October 1942
Robert Fulton is famous as the inventor of the steamboat, and in his -day he was well known as a painter; nevertheless, art and steam navigation were of but subordinate ...

The History Of San Clemente Island

By Lieutenant Commander S. E. Flynn (M.C.), U. S. Navy
October 1942
San Clemente Island lies off the coast of Southern California, 60 miles out from San Diego and 20 miles west of Santa Catalina Island. It is one of the largest ...

The Tide At Pensacola

By H. A. Marmer, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
October 1942
Over the greater part of the world, the tide rises and falls twice daily, giving two high and two low waters in a day. At Pensacola this is not the ...

The Case For The Club

By Lieutenant James Hanna, U. S. Naval Reserve
October 1942
Somewhat in the neighborhood of a million years ago, warfare among mankind was an affair of tooth and claw. Teeth were notably sharper in those days, and claws longer. Victory ...

Captain Clark’s Thumb Rules

By Captain Walter E. Brown, U. S. Navy
October 1942
These rules supposedly originated with Captain Clark of U.S.S. Oregon fame. At least the officer that passed them to me said he had received them from an officer who got ...

German Submarine Action In World War I

By Lieutenant Commander Robert H. Barnes, U. S. Navy (Retired)
October 1942
Now that we are at war, and submarines are playing an important role, it is interesting to recall when and where the submarine came into its own. Although today they ...

Book Reviews

October 1942
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Notes On International Affairs

Prepared by Professor Allan Westcott, U.S. Naval Academy
October 1942
From August 10 to September 10 BRITISH EMPIRE Churchill in Moscow.—In mid-August Prime Minister Churchill, making his journey via the Mediterranean, paid a four-day visit to Moscow, August 12-16 ...

Professional Notes

October 1942
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