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The Coast Guard’s long-sought heavy icebreaker, the Polar Security Cutter, was among the programs to receive funding when Congress passed a spending...
Much has been told of the exploits of Uncle Sam’s submarines, his aircraft carriers, and even of his Merchant Marine. Every popular magazine in some issue has carried a feature article on...
By Lieutenant Commander William P. Mack, U. S. Navy
Much has been told of the exploits of Uncle Sam’s submarines, his aircraft carriers, and even of his Merchant Marine. Every popular magazine in some issue has carried a feature article on this or that “Silent Service.” To the...
More than a year has passed since I answered the telephone late at night in Honolulu. As usual, I fell over a bulky object in the blackout. The message was from the Navy Evacuation Committee telling me to be on pier nine with my three children...
The Yangtze is a mighty river; mighty in every sense of the word. Unlike most of the world’s other great rivers, moreover, the Yangtze can meet every expectation, and seldom is the traveler disappointed in it, as he so often is when he...
By Commander William C. Chambliss, U. S. Naval Reserve
For smoothing out wrinkles in a troubled sea, an oil treatment is the traditional corrective. And, as such, it does passing well. But oil is also an excellent producer of wrinkles—wrinkles on the brow of the harassed individual upon whom...
The Byzantine Invasion of North Africa, Sicily, and Italy
By Professor Charles Lee Lewis, U. S. Naval Academy
The recent operations by the Allies in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy have caused many of us to refer to works on ancient history to refresh our memories as to the striking events in this area of the world long years ago. The unfortunate...
By Commander Fred Kingsley Elder, U. S. Navy (Retired)
St. paul wrote to the Thessalonians, “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.”1 And with such philosophy this article intends to scrutinize the program of studies in the United States Naval Academy with a view to...
By Lieutenant Commander Richard C. Drum Hunt, U. S. Navy
The man who reads the papers these days is interested in Bougainville Island. He knows that this island, most northerly of the Solomons, is held by the Japanese as one of their advanced bases, covering the eastward approaches to Rabaul....
First settled by Americans, with its initial flag planted by Commodore Perry in a prophetic gesture to the future nearly a century ago—such is the strange history of Japan’s Pearl Harbor, Ogasawara Jima.
By Lieutenant Commander Harry J. Alvis (M.C.), U. S. Navy
The general alarm “battle stations” has various meanings to different men. To the ship’s surgeon of a couple of centuries ago it meant for him to proceed to the cockpit. In this poorly ventilated be- tween-decks space, he and...
By Major Horace S. Mazet, U. S. Marine Corps Reserve
In all attacks on surface craft in the present war, air forces have employed bombs and torpedoes as their offensive weapons of swift result. Yet there have been countless incidents involving aircraft and surface craft in which bombs were lacking...
By Lieutenant Commander Juan P. Domenech, U. S. Navy
The subject of damage control has gained importance in these times of war. More and more, it has passed from the field of theory to that of practice as the various situations presented by damaged ships increase. With the realization that...
Detached Command—Multiple Duties of Armed Guard Officers
By Lieutenant (j.g.) Frank R. Briggs, Jr., U. S. Naval Reserve
Just as the war has brought new strategic methods and techniques of sea and amphibious warfare, so has it created a new and anomalous officer-type, the Armed Guard commander. On detached duty, the U. S. Naval Armed Guard officer—in every...
By Lieutenant William H. Hessler, U. S. Naval Reserve
A theater commander has plenty to do without the worries involved in dealing with the civil population of an occupied island or mainland area. And the operations officers subordinate to his command usually have their hands full, without the...