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Live Men Do Tell Tales

By Assistant Professor Robert M. Langdon, U. S. Naval Academy
January 1952
In mid-January 1944 Kapitanleutnant Heinz Eck left Kiel with the U-852 bound for the Indian Ocean. The passage from the Fatherland through the North and Middle Atlantic was uneventful, although ...

An Analysis Of The Strategic Areas In Asia

By Robert Strausz-Hupé
January 1952
South Asia, at this particular juncture of history, is strategically important to the United States and its Allies not so much because military control of the area would increase the ...

Medical Service In Amphibious Operations

By Captain John W. Jamison, U.S. Navy
January 1952
Once again the Navy finds itself planning and executing amphibious operations. Some, such as Inchon, are against opposition. Others, such as Wonsan, are merely landings across a beach which is ...

Sinews Of War

By Major Reginald Hargreaves, M.G.
January 1952
The champions of democracy are quite clear and confident about the system’s many virtues and advantages. They are inclined, however, to be somewhat hazy, not to say willfully astigmatic, about ...

Landing On The Polar Icecap

By Lieutenant (J.G.) David L. Moorhead, U. S. Navy
January 1952
In the springtime at Point Barrow, Alaska, days are long and at least one group of individuals were thankful for long periods of daylight; for this group—Project Ski jump by ...

General Eisenhower's Elephants

By Commander C. S. Arthur, U. S. Navy
January 1952
In 1946, a prominent political writer debunked the possibility of war between Russia and the United States, pointing out among other things, the lack of a suitable battleground on which ...

Japanese Destroyers In World War II

By Warren S. Howard
January 1952
Speeding like phantoms over the glassy waters of Savo Sound came eight two- slacked destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s DesRon 2 this night of November 30,1942, their decks crammed ...

To Increase Our Combat Effectiveness

By Lieutenant J. C. Busby (SC), U. S. Navy
January 1952
Is it fantastic to assume that enough food could be loaded in a present day fleet submarine for a three-month cruise without using any extra storage space? Or that the ...

An Unexplained Phenomenon Of The Sea

By Commander J. R. Bodler, U. S. Naval Reserve (Inactive)
January 1952
My vessel had passed through the Strait of Hormuz, bound for India. Little Quoin Is. Light was still in sight on the starboard quarter, bearing 305° T, distance 20 miles ...

Evolution Of Great Powers

By Captain H. R. Stevens, U.S. Navy
January 1952
During the early years of this century it was generally accepted that the political organization of the world consisted of eight Great Powers and numerous small, or minor countries. The ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

January 1952
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Book Reviews

January 1952
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Professional Notes

January 1952
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