The Tyranny Of Red Tape

By Lieutenant (J.G.) William D. Lanier, Jr., U. S. Naval Reserve
July 1942
Paper work has long been the bane of a naval officer’s existence and the subject of continual complaint. During peace time, however, it was usually dismissed with the observation that ...

Naval Academy Entrance Requirements

By Lieutenant Franklin G. Percival, U. S. Navy (Retired)
July 1942
In the last war Germany discovered that 22 out of about 400 submarine captains scored over 60 per cent of her sinkings. In other words, one captain in the upper ...

How To Keep Fit On A Restless Ship

By Captain F. S. Craven, U. S. Navy
July 1942
This is intended as a minor contribution to Rear Admiral Ingram’s article about maintaining physical fitness. It should be of particular interest to those who, like the writer, find it ...

Steam Schooner Sagas

By Jackson C. McNairn
July 1942
The fortunes of war have smiled on a group of old wooden steam schooners that have long been tied up in obscure waterways of San Francisco Bay. Abnormal demands for ...

Heritage Of The Navy

By Robert Park MacHatton
July 1942
The year 1942 might be said to mark the hundredth anniversary of the United States Botanic Garden. In 99 cases out of 100 a statement of this nature would have ...

His Majesty’s Submarines

By Walton L. Robinson
July 1942
“The Board of Admiralty regrets to announce that His Majesty’s Submarine is overdue and must be considered lost. The next of kin have been informed.” Thus reads the terse official ...

The Tragi-Comedy Of Corcubion

By Harrison P. Martin, Quartermaster, 3c, U. S. Naval Reserve
July 1942
Between the mid-part of January, 1809, when the forces of Sir John Moore were evacuated from Corunna, and the latter part of April, when Sir Arthur Wellesley landed at Lisbon ...

Damage Control Of Minds

By Captain W. H. Michael (M.G.), U. S. Navy
July 1942
On December 7, 1941, I saw the U.S.S. Shaw blown up by a Japanese air bomb in Pearl Harbor. “That tin can is pau ,” remarked a sailor who prided ...

Guam - Before December, 1941

By Captain Lucius W. Johnson (M.G.), U. S. Navy
July 1942
“My father, she say you having too many good-morning flowers on your house.” The words might have been taken as implying criticism, but the smiling face of the plump, brown-skinned ...

Book Reviews

July 1942
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Notes On International Affairs

Prepared by Professor Allan Westcott, U.S. Naval Academy
July 1942
From May 10 To June 10 AMERICAN WAR MEASURES New War Declarations.—The President on June 2 sent a message to Congress requesting declarations of war against Rumania, Hungary, and Bulgaria ...

Professional Notes

July 1942
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