The Cordiner Committee Story

By Captain D. J. Carrison, USN
January 1958
The Cordiner Committee story began in the spring of 1956 when industrialist Ralph Cordiner accepted the chairmanship of a committee to study military pay. The resulting report has given many ...

Professional Notes

January 1958
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Comment and Discussion

January 1958
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Nagasaki - Two months after the bomb

Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki

By Captain Frederick L. Ashworth, USN
January 1958
I guess there were many things I could have been worrying about on that summer afternoon in 1945. But at that particular time, the prospect of spending the night with ...

The U.S. Merchant Marine And Obsolescence

By Captain E. B. Perry, USN (Ret.)
January 1958
Is the U. S. Merchant Fleet truly and rapidly approaching obsolescence? In the few short years since our present fleet of fine dry cargo ships was delivered from the builders’ ...

Something's Doing In L.T.A.

By Commander George Cornelius, USN
January 1958
Anything that could find or sink a submarine was worth supporting in World War II. Since lighter-than-air ships could do both, the U. S. Navy put more than 170 of ...

Katusa-An Experiment in Korea

By Lieutenant Colonel Spencer P. Edwards, Jr., USA
January 1958
In August, 1950, the North Korean Army had pressed the United Nations Forces into the Pusan perimeter and the future seemed dark. Nearly all the U. S. occupation forces had ...

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