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Discussion--This Business of Naming Ships

By Commander Alexander C. Brown, U. S. Naval Reserve (Inactive)
May 1951
In connection with Commander G. F. MacMullen's entertaining article on " This Business of Naming Ships ," I recently ran across the following article, now almost a hundred years old ...

The Strategic Importance of Military Air Transport

By Commander Carl H. Amme, Jr., U. S. Navy
May 1951
I Military air transport is periodically under attack in newspaper articles, congressional hearings, and even among military circles. These attacks are usually based on the grounds of economy or on ...

Amphibious Warfare—Two Concepts

By Colonel Robert Hugh Williams, U. S. Marine Corps
May 1951
In world war ii the amphibious attack was uniformly successful. If we make exceptions of Dieppe, which was a raid, and the Jap failure at Milne Bay, a small operation ...

Command - The Ultimate Specialty

By Lieutenant (J.G.) P. W. Rairden, Jr., U. S. Navy
May 1951
By the very nature of war, command is the ultimate specialty. Only through the proper and skillful exercise of command can any military instrument be made to perform with maximum ...

The Cruise Of "Schiff 45"

By Anthony E. Sokol
May 1951
Among the benefits derived by Nazi Germany from her pact with Soviet Russia in August, 1939, which had a direct effect on naval warfare were the use of Murmansk and ...

Communism And The Naval Officer

By Lieutenant Commander Bernard M. Kassell, U.S. Navy
May 1951
Each day, as the naval officer reads the daily press, or listens to the radio, he is confronted by a torrent of propaganda emanating from the mouths of representatives of ...

An Extraordinary Roll

By Commander M. M. Sarmento Rodrigues, Portuguese Navy
May 1951
On the afternoon of January 30, 1943, the 1,600 ton Portuguese destroyer Lima under stress of bad weather made the extraordinary list of 67 degrees. The author of this report ...

Sovereignty Is No Giveaway Gimmick!

By Rear Admiral Harley Cope, U.S. Navy (Retired)
May 1951
Twenty-two States passed resolutions or memorials endorsing world government in some form during the three years following World War II. Only ten more were needed to make a convention to ...

Acey-Deucy, A Navy Game

By Lieutenant Commander M. W. Cagle, U.S. Navy
May 1951
What afternoon tea is to the British, what hotdogs are to baseball, the game of Acey-Deucy is to the United States Navy. Wherever naval men assemble, you are sure to ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

May 1951
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Book Reviews

May 1951
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Professional Notes

May 1951
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