Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph

Fleet Marine Force Korea, Part II

By Lynn Montross
September 1953
It is not often that a landing force is called upon for a new amphibious operation before finishing the old one. But this was the experience of the 1st Marine ...

The Kamikaze Attack Corps

By Captain Rikihei Inoguchi and Commander Tadashi Nakajima, former Imperial Japanese Navy Translated and Condensed by Commander Masataka Chihaya, former Imperial Japanese Navy, and Roger Pineau
September 1953
The setting sun cast lengthening shadows on a scene of wild disorder at Mabalacat Field. The two airstrips at this base had been raided by enemy planes in the morning ...

The Dilemma of Georgi Maximilianovich Malenkov

By Admiral William H. Standley, U. S. Navy (Retired) with Rear Admiral Arthur A. Ageton, U. S. Navy (Retired
September 1953
Some years ago, Paul Winterton, onetime Moscow correspondent for the London News Chronicle , wrote, “There are no experts on the Soviet Union; there are only varying degrees of ignorance.” ...

The Junior Officer in Mine Warfare

By Lieutenant P. W. Rairden, Jr. U.S. Navy
September 1953
About two years ago an ensign out of the Class of 1950 came aboard an AM in the Atlantic. He’d done a year in the Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) where ...
Korean War armistice

The Korean Truce Talks: First Phase

By Colonel J. C. Murray, U. S. Marine Corps
September 1953
The Communist forces in Korea were hard pressed when their envoys came to the conference table at Kaesong in July, 1951. Through entering into armistice talks they secured a measure ...

Industrial Security: A Challenge

By Lieutenant Commander Edward U. O'Donnell, U. S. Naval Reserve
September 1953
Throughout the history of our great country and most particularly in times of peril, government and private industry have joined forces successfully in unified prosecution of the goals and ideals ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

September 1953
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Book Reviews

September 1953
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Professional Notes

September 1953
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