Thirteen Women In A Submarine

By Captain T. C. Parker, U. S. Navy (Retired)
July 1950
It is a rare and exceptional circumstance when women go to sea in fighting ships of the Navy, especially submarines—but it did happen. This was a most unusual situation. The ...

Uniform Code of Military Justice

By Commander H. J. Webb, U. S. Coast Guard
July 1950
The normal reaction to the functioning of military justice which has occurred following every war in which our country has engaged and which apparently will follow any war of the ...

German Naval Aviation

By Edward L. Barker
July 1950
The Air Clauses of the Treaty of Versailles, Article 198, signed in June, 1919, prohibited Germany from maintaining naval or military air forces. Nevertheless, the treaty did not prevent the ...

Military Applications of Atomic Energy

By Lieutenant Commander Richard B. L. Creecy, U. S. Navy
July 1950
The pendulum of opinion on a military weapon swings forever back and forth. The period of a complete cycle may vary from a few months to a hundred years or ...

The Four Stackers

By Commander Donald L. Thomas, U. S. Navy
July 1950
Little noticed in the news in June 1949 was the return to Great Britain by the Russian Navy of two former U. S. Navy four-stack destroyers, HMS Chelsea (ex U.S.S. ...

Should We Train Ships or Men?

By Captain Walter W. Strohbehn, U. S. Navy
July 1950
Walk into the Wardroom of a small ship or one of the offices of a big ship just before it gets underway, or sometimes after it is already underway, and ...

Keep Out of Government Quarters

By Captain J. W. Stryker, U. S. Navy
July 1950
One provision of the promotion bill now effective in the Navy has had a profound effect on all commissioned personnel and should be considered carefully by all younger officers early ...

This Insurance Question

By Lieutenant Colonel Harry N. Lyon, U. S. Marine Corps Reserve (Inactive)
July 1950
A recent published article on investments and savings for Naval Officers touched on life insurance as a part of the program.* It contained so many statements open to question that ...

A "Spy" Lands at Babylon

By Carlos C. Hanks
July 1950
The incidents of spy hunting and spy catching on the Atlantic coast during World War II are but history of conflict repeating itself, for every time the United States has ...

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