The End Of “Yamato”

By Mitsuru Yoshida Translated by Masaru Chikuami and edited by Roger Pineau
February 1952
On April 1, 1945, we were moored to | No. 26 buoy floating in the outermost bolder of Kure Naval Port, awaiting our turn to enter dock for quick repairs ...

Excerpts From A Test Pilot’s Diary

By Lieutenant Charles B. Smith, U. S. Navy
February 1952
When I was a pilot and maintenance officer in a carrier fighter squadron, I used to wonder how our airplanes became a part of the U. S. Fleet. Some types ...

How Much Oil?

By Lieutenant (j.g.) E. J. McNulty, U. S. Naval Reserve*
February 1952
“We have already found well over half the crude oil we can expect ultimately to find in the United States. Only about a twelve year supply of oil remains.” (Report ...

From Dover Straits To Corregidor Deep

By Lieutenant Commander E. George Pollak, U. S. Navy
February 1952
On the seventeenth of December, 1941, a naval patrol vessel took the S.S. Corregidor through the minefield closing the entrance to Manila Bay. The channel through the field was a ...

Marines Afloat: Asset or Anachronism?

By Lieutenant Colonel Henry H. Reichner, Jr., U. S. Marine Corps
February 1952
“Advantage is taken of this opportunity to state that the Department, after maturely considering the subject, and particularly in view of the honorable record made by the United States Marine ...

Commanding a Mothballer

By Commander James C. Shaw, U. S. Navy
February 1952
The officer approached me waving a dispatch and shaking his head. “I offer you my prayers,” he said. “You’re ordered to a ‘mothballer.’ Here it is —go on down to ...

The Naval Academy Gets A Planetarium

By Lieutenant W. B. Hayler, U. S. Navy
February 1952
Academy graduates returning to Annapolis after a prolonged absence will have ample opportunity to awaken their suspicions that the old school has really changed, and that the present-day midshipmen are ...

Ship Technology And The Defeat Of The Armada

By Chief Boatswain C. M. Robinett, U. S. Navy (Retired)
February 1952
The story of the defeat of the Spanish Armada is a familiar one. It was marked by a revolution in tactics and gunnery, a revolution which burst about the ears ...

Fate?

By Lieutenant Commander I. C. Kidd, Jr., U. S. Navy
February 1952
The North Atlantic had that familiar grey hue as the sun set on a winter afternoon of 1944. One of our large troop convoys plodded ponderously through those rolling seas ...

A Mechanical Great Circle Course Computer

By Ensign Willard C. Macfarland, U. S. Navy, and Ensign James W. Kinnear, III, U. S. Navy
February 1952
As long as it has been known that the shortest distance between two points on the earth’s surface is not a straight line but an arc of a great circle ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

February 1952
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Book Reviews

February 1952
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Professional Notes

February 1952
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