An aerial right side view of four F8F-1 Bearcat fighter aircraft in formation over Corpus Christi's water front area.

The Blue Angels

By Boone T. Guyton
April 1950
About midway through the Cleveland Air Races in 1946 an event placed somewhat inconspicuously on the program was dutifully announced over the public address system. The man said that a ...

American National Strategy

By Rear Admiral Charles R. Brown, U. S. Navy
April 1950
As nearly as such things can be measured, a turning point in world affairs seems to fall not far from the turn of the half century. 1950 is not just ...

The "Ifs" of Pearl Harbor

By Rear Admiral Logan Ramsey, U. S. Navy (Retired)
April 1950
Even a superficial study of the vast verbiage dealing with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor indicates that the far greater portion of its volume is devoted to a search ...

Tripoli Graves Discovered

By Lieutenant (J.G.) Arthur P. Miller, Jr., U. S. Naval Reserve
April 1950
The bodies of five American Naval heroes of the Barbary Wars which have been lying unmarked, untouched, and unclaimed for nearly a century and a half have been discovered in ...

Naval Aspects of the St. Lawrence Seaway

By Ensign M. Berngard, U. S. Navy
April 1950
Since its initial inception in 1869, the St. Lawrence Seaway project has been a continuous controversial issue. Its purpose is of a twofold nature: first, as a deep water navigational ...

No More Courtly Challenges

By Carlos C. Hanks
April 1950
Naval warfare may have lost some spectacular drama, so dear to 17th century historians and patriots, when warship commanders quit writing courtly challenges to single ship actions, but at least ...

The Man on the Shield

By Major Reginald Hargreaves, M.C. (Retired)
April 1950
When Lord Mountbatten was appointed to the principal command in Burma there were not wanting those to greet the news with scandalised incredulity. “A sailor to direct military operations,” they ...

Dry Tortugas

By Lieutenant Commander Sheldon H. Kinney, U. S. Navy
April 1950
Sixty miles west of Key West, Florida, lie a small group of islands that have had an unusual influence on the sea power of the United States—the Dry Tortugas. Though ...

Professional Notes

April 1950
UNITED STATES Atomic Powered SubmarineNew York Times, Feb. 21.—America’s defense chiefs today were reported pushing plans for development of the world’s first atom-powered submarine—a project that might revolutionize naval warfare.Theoretically ...

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