Sea Power and the Atomic Bomb

By John Philips Cranwell
October 1946
Prior to the tests of the atomic bomb on naval and merchant shipping at Bikini Atoll, there was widespread speculation on the ability of vessels to withstand the cataclysmic explosion ...
Makin Island Marine raiders returning to their submarine in a rubber boat

The Makin Island Raid

By Captain Walter Karig, U. S. Naval Reserve, and Commander Eric Purdon, U. S. Naval Reserve
October 1946
It was D-Day plus One in the Solomons. Three thousand miles away two submarines passed Hospital Point, Pearl Harbor, and headed out to sea. Submarines often had silently left Hawaii ...

Project Pinwheel

By Captain E. O. Wagner, U. S. Navy
October 1946
The Japs had some tugs at Yokosuka. When new they developed 300 horsepower. When we were there, they were manned by Jap crews and skippered by U. S. Navy seamen ...

Toward Total Security

By Captain Marcy M. Dupre, Jr., U. S. Navy
October 1946
I As a result of World War II our country has had grave international responsibilities thrust upon it. Whether it is to our liking or not we are now in ...

Naval Administration in the United States

By Lieutenant Commander Elting E. Morison, U. S. Naval Reserve
October 1946
The establishment of coherent relationships between certain ends and means that in themselves have no natural, inevitable consonance is the keystone in the structure of successful naval administration. At one ...

Prize Money

By Captain Frederick L. Oliver, U. S. Navy (Retired)
October 1946
The inherent traditions of the British Navy received a bad jolt in December, 1945, when the Admiralty made the announcement that the payment of prize money in World War II ...

"Prinz Eugene,” Little Brother of the Bismarck"

By Lieutenant Commander Wayne E. Spangler, U. S. Naval Reserve
October 1946
In recent weeks newspapers have been carrying stories about the former German cruiser Prinz Eugen, allotted to the United States by a commission of the Three Big Powers and ...

The Naval War College, 1946

By Captain Thomas M. Shock, U. S. Navy
October 1946
Much has been written in the columns of the Naval Institute Proceedings about the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island: how it was started on Coaster’s Harbor Island in ...

Night Vision

By Captain J. H. Korb (M.C.), U. S. Navy
October 1946
For an individual to be able to see under conditions of dim illumination, the retina in his eye must be sufficiently sensitive to respond to" the' light stimulus and transmit ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

October 1946
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Book Reviews

October 1946
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Notes on International Affairs

October 1946
AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS Showdown with Yugoslavia.—Serious difficulties between the United States and Marshal Tito’s government in Yugoslavia resulted from repeated air attacks on U. S. unarmed transports on the ...

Professional Notes

October 1946
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