(Editorial foreword: The Navy’s accomplishments in initiating and administering civil government in the former Japanese Mandate are to be critically examined by a Joint Committee of Congress which will inspect ...

The United States Navy is about to see the last of its reciprocating engine fighters. When the Grumman F8F “Bearcat” and the F4U “Corsair” pass out of service, propeller driven ...

When the envoys of Emperor Hirohito with reluctant steps clambered up the gangway of the battleship Missouri, flying the flag of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz in Tokyo Bay, to ...

What have you been doing lately? Have you been going about your regular business, or have you been taking up something new? Whatever it has been that you have been ...

When I heard that your five destroyers were plunging into an attack against the Japanese heavy striking force, I felt like a young princess sitting alone in a castle while ...

The first edition of Jane’s All the World’s Fighting Ships was published in England by the firm of Sampson, Low, Marston & Company in November, 1897. And every year from ...

There’s something in the wind in Africa. The Dark Continent, for years the hunting ground of tribesmen, scientists, and millionaires out of Ernest Hemingway, has turned the tables on history ...

They are “little ships that are visible reminders today of a great debt we owe our forbears—the seamen who sailed the large ships.”That is the most appropriate description one can ...

This is an account of the wartime activities of a group of Japan’s battleships— the Kongo class. To a lesser extent it is the story of all Japan’s battlewagons in ...

What is leadership? For the fighting man this question has the same perennial fascination as Pilate’s famous inquiry, “What is truth?”We experience a special sort of thrill whenever we hear ...

DISCUSSIONS, COMMENTS, NOTESHomer Clark Poundstone and the All-Big-Gun Ship(See page 707, June 1948 Proceedings)Captain Frederick L. Oliver, United States Navy, Retired.—There are certain inaccuracies in the article “Homer Clark Poundstone ...

Book ReviewsMembers of the Institute, both regular and associate, may save money by ordering books through its Book Department, which will supply any obtainable book. A discount of 10 per ...

Professional NotesThrough September 23, 1948United States………1438BB Cut to Increase A.S. Ships—Mediterranean Fleet—Pacific War Memorial—CV Operations Televised—Cramp Yard May Open—Scrap Old Coast Defenses—Summary of Military GovernmentGreat Britain………1446Sea-Air Exercises—Reserve Fleet Ready—Refit 100 ...