Aerial view of the Japanese Fleet under attack at the Battle of Leyte Gulf

The Battle for Leyte Gulf

By Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., U.S. Navy (Retired)
May 1952
Fleet Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey describes the October 1944 battle as he saw it develop aboard the U.S.S. New Jersey (BB-62).

The Versatile Sixth Fleet

By William H. Hessler
May 1952
“Gray diplomats”, a Greek political leader has called the ships of the Sixth Fleet. To see what he meant, one has only to watch a Midway class carrier, a division ...

Russia And The Turkish Straits

By M. H. Williams
May 1952
Many factors influence the global strategy of a nation, not the least important of which are certain narrow water passages throughout the world. While the United Kingdom strategy is linked ...

Substitute For Zimmy

By Captain Glenn Howell, U. S. Navy (Retired)
May 1952
On June 23, 1907, I celebrated my first Sunday in the Navy. It was a blistering hot day in Annapolis, and those members of our class who had during that ...

Oil Is Everybody's Problem

By Rear Admiral Burton B. Biggs, U. S. Navy
May 1952
It is practically impossible, at the present time, to glance through the daily newspapers without seeing headlines concerning oil. Oil in this case usually refers to crude petroleum and its ...

GCA: Sight Without Eyes

By Commander Carl H. Amme, Jr., U.S. Navy
May 1952
Even in clear weather, GCA is better than human eyes! That’s a bald statement which is hard to believe. But there are facts to back it up. Stripped of all ...

Twice Across The Rainbow

By Technical Sergeant Charles L. Harrison, U. S. Marine Corps
May 1952
As the song of the rails clicked along and the beautiful sunset colors in the desert heavens faded into night, I sat alone in one end of the luxurious East- ...

Sea Power In The Next War

By A. E. Sokol
May 1952
Many people, among them even some of our leading thinkers, take almost as an article of faith the assertion that the day of sea power is over and that sea ...

The Navy's Super Antennae

By Staff, P.I.O., Department of Defense
May 1952
Next time you feel put out because you have to reach out the window to clean a connection on your radio antenna lead in, give a thought to the problems ...

The Lend-Lease Fleet

By Lieutenant Commander Bernard M. Kassell, U. S. Navy
May 1952
“ … for as there is no man so self-sufficient as not to need the continual help of another, so neither is there any country which does not at some ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

May 1952
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Book Reviews

May 1952
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Professional Notes

May 1952
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