Some Shall Escape

By Commander John L. Chew, U. S. Navy, As Told to Professor Charles Lee Lewis, U. S. Naval Academy
August 1945
THE HELENA SINKS We steamed to the south of the New Georgia Islands all day on July 6, 1943, and had some much needed rest after recent engagements with the ...

The Navy

By Fred Witman
August 1945
I recently came into possession of a number of back issues of U. S. Naval Institute Proceedings. I had never heard of the publication but you can imagine with what ...

Mr. Damper Also Went To Guam—In 1686

By William T. Pickering
August 1945
In 1697 there was published in London a volume entitled A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier. The “voyage” lasted from 1679 to 1691, during which period Dampier ...

Current And The Running Fix

By Commander Donald McClench, U. S. Naval Reserve and Lieutenant Commander George W. D. Waller, U. S. Naval Reserve
August 1945
It is common practice among navigators to carry forward a morning sun line and cross it with a sun line from a meridian altitude. The running fix thus obtained is ...

Will We Learn The Value Of Sea Power?

By Lieutenant (j.g.) James L. McGuinness, U. S. Naval Reserve
August 1945
When the grinning sons of Nippon opened their bomb bay doors at Pearl Harbor, they not only pounded a vital portion of our Pacific Fleet, but also brought home to ...

Yorktown, September - October 1781

By Captain D. W. Knox, U. S. Navy (Retired)
August 1945
The decisive influence of naval power in winning the Revolution is clearly- portrayed in this impressionistic view of the joint land and sea situation about Yorktown in the autumn of ...

Book Reviews

August 1945
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Notes on International Affairs

August 1945
UNITED NATIONS MOVES Potsdam Conference.—Sailing on the cruiser Augusta, President Truman arrived at Antwerp on July 15 and proceeded directly by airplane to Berlin for the Potsdam conference. With ...

Professional Notes

August 1945
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