Peter Charlie—A Plea for Recognition

By Lieutenant Commander Ralph S. Stevens, Jr., U. S. Naval Reserve
August 1946
The first PC was a handsome ship. (May I digress to say here that the expressions “small craft,” and “PC craft,” uttered by many embryo operations officers never strike a ...

Officer Specialization and the Postwar Navy

By Lieutenant Maynard Kniskern, U. S. Naval Reserve
August 1946
While it may seem presumptuous for a reserve officer to hold forth in the august pages of the Proceedings with proposals affecting the careers of regular officers, let it be ...

Threat to Japan

By Rear Admiral Ralph Otis Davis, U.S. Navy
August 1946
Those of us who knew Cavite in the old days found it a depressing sight when we visited it after the recapture of the Manila Bay area in February, 1945 ...

Kamikaze!

By Paul W. Martin
August 1946
During the last seven months of the late war, from February 1 to September 1, 1945, American naval forces in the Pacific suffered almost twice as many casualties as they ...

The Tarawa and Makin Area a Century Ago

By Ralph Z. Kirkpatrick
August 1946
Prior to Pearl Harbor most of us thought of the southerly and westerly Pacific as an indefinite conglomeration of widely distributed islands, peopled by missionaries, ex-cannibals, romantic and glamorous native ...

The Role of the Coast Guard within the Navy

By Captain R. T. Merrill, U. S. Coast Guard Reserve
August 1946
On January 1, 1946, the Coast Guard was transferred from the Navy Department back to its pre-war place the Treasury Department. The Navy’s jurisdiction over the service ceased except with ...

Solving a Logistics Problem

By Commander Thomas A. Brown (S.C.), U. S. Navy
August 1946
Time and time again military men, commentators, writers, and the general public have referred to the recent war as “a war of logistics.” Certainly there is every justification for this ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

August 1946
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Book Reviews

August 1946
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Notes on International Affairs

August 1946
UNITED NATIONS ACTIVITIES Peace Conference July 29.—The Council of Foreign Ministers, after much pressure from the American and British delegates, finally agreed to call a general peace conference on ...

Professional Notes

August 1946
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