How The Panay Was Sunk

By Masatake Okumiya Assisted by Roger Pineau
June 1953
The Government of the United States and all its citizens were shocked and concerned by news of indiscriminate aerial bombing of American and other non-Chinese vessels in the Yangtze River ...

On Your Marks

By Alec Hudson
June 1953
The location of la plume de ma tante was not one of my major anxieties when I studied French conversation. The Naval Academy has a pragmatic approach to education. We ...

Mediterranean Theater: The Iron Curtain By-Pass

By Colonel George C. Reinhardt, U. S. Army, and Lieutenant Colonel William R. Kintner, U. S. Army
June 1953
The place assigned the Mediterranean area in the NATO military structure is that of a secondary theater of operation rather than a prime factor in world strategy. The North Atlantic ...

How The Navy Won Guantanamo Bay

By Lieutenant Commander Herbert P. McNeal, U. S. Naval Reserve
June 1953
The wresting of Guantanamo Bay from Spanish forces in 1898 was a brief but violent phase of the Spanish-American war. Overshadowed by the land and sea battles on a grander ...

The Choice Of A Career Within The Navy

By Commander Ralph Gerber, U. S. Navy
June 1953
This article is addressed principally to midshipmen at the Naval Academy, their colleagues in Naval R.O.T.C. units, and the younger naval officers. An effort has been made to highlight some ...

Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon

By Dorothy Mackay Quynn
June 1953
Aix is one of the small islands off the coast of France between the old port of La Rochelle and the mouth of the Charente river seventeen miles to the ...

Some Lessons Of The War In Korea

By Camille Rougeron
June 1953
The views of strategists in Washington and Moscow on Korea as a theater of operations immediately after the opening of hostilities are only too well known. The testimony before the ...

Logistics—What Is It?

By Rear Admiral Henry E. Eccles, U. S. Navy (Retired)
June 1953
Since World War II the importance of logistics has been stressed at all levels of military activity, and military writers have discussed its various aspects at length. In many ways ...

Whence Tomorrow's Aviators?

By Commander Alan D. Grinsted (MSC), U. S. Navy
June 1953
Let’s face it. Time is robbing our armed services of well-qualified and experienced combat pilots faster than they are being replaced, and the situation looks as if it will grow ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

June 1953
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Book Reviews

June 1953
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Professional Notes

Edited by Commander John V. Noel, Jr., U. S. Navy
June 1953
Through April 18, 1953UNITED STATESArmy Tests Atomic Artillery To Complete Atomic ArsenalNew York Times, March 24, 1953.—The second of this spring’s series of “diagnostic” atomic tests is scheduled to be ...

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