Tarawa

By Lieutenant General Julian C. Smith, U. S. Marine Corps (Retired)
November 1953
This was our first atoll attack and the sort of operation we have always been planning, and your success is therefore particularly gratifying." Thus, the Commandant of the Marine Corps ...

A Brighter Future for Carrier Aviation

By Commander Paul W. Gill, U. S. Navy, and Commander Richard A. Teel, U. S. Navy
November 1953
A bugle call resounds throughout the ship followed by the word being passed over the loudspeakers, “Man All Flight Quarter Stations.” There is the familiar beehive of activity throughout the ...

Servicing The Silent

By Commander Richard H. Bowers, U. S. Navy
November 1953
The prodigious feats performed by U. S. submarines have been well documented. The more modest achievements of one component of the undersea force, however, have not received widespread notice. I ...

It's Your Own Money You Are Sepnding

By Commander John Adrian Hack, U. S. Navy
November 1953
The impersonal nature of military costs plagues us in our efforts to control them. So often men have been heard to give the shoddy excuse, “If it were my own ...

Winston Churchill And The Second Front

By Admiral William H. Standley, U. S. Navy (Retired) with Rear Admiral Arthur A. Ageton, U. S. Navy (Retired)
November 1953
The invasion of the continent of Europe somewhere in Northern France, which later came to be known as establishing the Second Front, was first demanded, to my certain knowledge, as ...

Speeding The Anchoring Solution

By Lieutenant Commander Richard T. Boehm, U. S. Naval Reserve
November 1953
The time-honored inspection method of determining distance to an anchorage is fast and simple. For years, seamen have been accustomed to describe arcs on a chart around the anchorage point ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

November 1953
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Book Reviews

November 1953
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Professional Notes

November 1953
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