Naval Bases—Past And Future

By H. Gard Knox, Rear Admiral Frederic R. Harris (C.E.C.), U. S. Navy (Retired) and Husband E. Kimmel U. S. Navy Retired)
October 1945
Naval bases in the theater of operations are an essential part of any modern fleet. Their mission is to refuel, revictual, and rearm ships, as required by operations, and to ...

Naval Academy Athletics—1845 To 1945

By Walter Aamold
October 1945
Some of the first midshipmen to enter the Naval Academy for its opening exercises a hundred years ago rode to Annapolis behind iron engines of midget design that alternately snorted ...

Naval Research In Peace And War

By Captain Leonard B. Loeb, U. S. Naval Reserve
October 1945
(I) The Necessity for and the Value of Naval Research in Peace and War (A) Introduction.—The Navy as a whole is the most highly mechanized . of all the ...

One More River to Cross*

By Commander Walter Karig, U. S. Naval Reserve, and Lieutenant Stephen L. Freeland, U. S. Naval Reserve
October 1945
By the first of March, 1945, three great fissures had been blasted in Hiller’s Fortress Europe. Fleets of the United States and Great Britain steadily, relent­lessly poured through them the ...

Sound Recording Has Gone To War

By Lieutenant Commander George W. Dyson, U. S. Naval Reserve
October 1945
A visitor to a modern combatant ship is always amazed at the extent of the communications used to control the movement of the ship and the fire of its guns ...

Modernizing Naval Courts-Martial

By Lieutenant Commander B. M. McMullin, U. S. Naval Reserve
October 1945
The navy’s court-martial system has been under unusual pressure since 1941. More than three million men, no longer all volunteers, drawn from every stratum of society, have brought to the ...

Magnetic Compass Adjustment By Stars

By Lieutenant Commander Hayden Crocker, U. S. Naval Reserve
October 1945
“These six vessels are scheduled for a convoy sailing at dawn. Can you adjust their compasses tonight?” To this urgent request from the Port Director, the Navy Compass Section at ...

Flotilla Flagship

By Ira Jacobs, C.E.M., U. S. Coast Guard
October 1945
America’s Naval Amphibious Force is the most rapidly expanding portion - of the United States Navy. A good percentage of the metal that has gone into the construction of these ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

October 1945
“One More River to Cross”(See page 1193 this issue)Selecting photographs and designing maps for Battle Report, the narrative histories de­scribing the U. S. Navy’s participation in World War II, was ...

Book Reviews

October 1945
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Notes on International Affairs

October 1945
FAR EAST Occupation of Japan.—On Sunday, September 2, aboard the 45,000-ton U. S. battleship Missouri, Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitzu on behalf of the government and General Umezu ...

Professional Notes

October 1945
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