Staging Is No Holiday Frolic

By Lieutenant Commander Joseph L. Howard (SC), U. S. Navy
April 1949
Have you ever experienced the frustrating moment, while traveling toward a vacation paradise, of suddenly realizing that you have forgotten something? Perhaps you forgot to bring a hunting knife, flashlight ...

Reflections of a Navy Recruiter

By Chief Boatswain's Mate Raymond F. Marshall, U. S. Navy
April 1949
Although 100 per cent of the enlisted men of the Navy as well as a large number of the commissioned personnel pass through Navy Recruiting Stations at one time or ...

Diplomatic Prelude to Pearl Harbor

By Lieutenant Bertram Vogel, U. S. Naval Reserve
April 1949
Although much has been written in publications of every sort concerning Japan’s treachery at Pearl Harbor in 1941, there are few events in American history which provide more fascinating reading ...

The Dorchester Regiment

By Commander Edward S. Carmick, U. S. Navy
April 1949
Those of us who recall enough of our history to remember the name of Major John Andre probably know of him only as a British spy whose hanging during the ...

Air Force Navigation, 1948

By Captain P. V. H. Weems, U. S. Navy (Retired)*
April 1949
Through the courtesy of the Alaskan Air Force Commander the writer flew as an observer from Fairbanks to the North Pole and return (Ptarmigan Flight of July 21, 1948), and ...

There May Be Other Guams

By Assistant Professor Robert M. Langdon, U. S. Naval Academy
April 1949
Even the frequent sub-zero readings of today’s “cold war” fail to equal one particularly cold threat cast against the United States ten years ago; for, in January, 1939, almost three ...

Virtue Rewarded

By Vice Admiral Carleton H. Wright, U. S. Navy (Retired)
April 1949
Only a midshipman can know how everlasting the grind at the Academy can seem by the time spring comes, or the ineffable lassitude that spring air brings. Yet of all ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

April 1949
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Book Reviews

April 1949
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Professional Notes

April 1949
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