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Air Spy: The Story of Photo Intelligence in World War II
By Constance Babington-Smith. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957. 256 pages with index and 53 illustrations. $4.00.
Reviewed by
Colonel Earl W. Thomson, GSC, USAR (Ret.)
{.Cel. Thomson was Chief of Flak Intelligence for the VIII Bomber Command in England in 1943, and from September, 1943, to March, 1944, was Chief Intelligence Officer at Headquarters of the VIII Bomber Command and then the 8th Air Force. Since 1942 he has been Senior Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Naval Academy.)
This is the account of British photo reconnaissance and photo interpretation, from the nnorthodox beginnings in 1939 to the full Judged accomplishment of 1944 and 1945. ^ne headaches, frustrations, victories, and achievements of P.R. and P.I. are recounted ’n a facile, conversational style by Flight Officer Constance Babington-Smith, W.A.A.F., "'ho was chief of the enemy aircraft section of |fie Central Interpretation Unit at Medmen- ami on the Thames, just over the hills from th Air Force Headquarters at High Wycombe in Bucks.
By the time the 8th Air Force entered the bombing picture in 1942, a pattern and program had been evolved in photo intelligence s° that we took good cover and accurate interpretation for granted and could depend uPon excellent enemy aircraft and anti-airCraft intelligence. Our whole system of flak fnalysis, which gave the best routes of travel lnto and away from a target area, presupposed accurate intelligence and was based 95% upon British photo intelligence, largely from Medmenham. This program, Miss Babington-Smith relates, grew from the early unauthorized flights of a few enthusiastic, and quite individualistic, civilians and R.A.F. officers, who through persistence and brilliance sold the idea to the Navy and the Army, and finally to the old man himself—Churchill.
From a Navy viewpoint there are many memories in the book, viewed through the stereoscope rather than the telescope,—the build up of Hitler’s Operation Sea Lion until there were counted 1,721 barges on the Channel coast from Calais to Antwerp,—the “escape” of the Bismarck, of the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, the intelligence of the harbors of North Africa and of the beaches of Normandy. One story of American P.R. and P.I. tells of an ensign finding on a photo that the 15" guns of the Jean Bart in the harbor of Casablanca had not been damaged by the dive bombers of the Ranger, just as said guns opened fire on the Augusta, which hastily retreated. The author continues: “From then on Admiral Hewitt always set great store by photographic intelligence.”
The honesty and accuracy of photo intelligence changed air tactics, cut down the claims of overzealous bomber crews, and proved the need of better methods of navigation and bombing techniques. Nighttime bombing by the R.A.F. photographically was proved so inaccurate in early operations that Vice-Marshal Harris, the fiery C.O. of British Bomber Command, never quite forgave Medmenham. Damage assessment photos often proved that the claims of the 8th Air Force bombing and the actualities were far
apart. The destruction of the Focke-Wulf factories at Marienburg in October, 1943, however proved that daytime bombing could be accurate.
Of particular importance historically is the part played by the Central Intelligence Unit and the author in following the program of the V-l and the V-2 bombs from their development at Peenemunde to the firing from the sites in the Pas de Calais.
The present volume is not a textbook relating the methods and techniques of photo interpretation. It is rather an extremely interesting narrative of the personalities, occurrences, and triumphs of an intelligent division of British technical intelligence.
The Rebel Shore: The Story of Union Sea Power in the Civil War
By James M. Merrill. Boston: Little Brown
& Co., 1957. 246 pages. $4.75.
REVIEWED BY
George Fielding Eliot
(Major Eliot is internationally known as a writer and
lecturer on naval and military affairs. His articles and
comments frequently appear in the Proceedings.)
This book makes an interesting and very readable contribution to a field of Civil War history which has been too long neglected— the blockade of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the Confederacy, and the amphibious operations which were connected with it. The author shows clearly the relation between the blockade and the various joint operations which deprived the South of one seaport after another, and his battle scenes are painted with vigorous strokes. The disruptive effect of the coastal attacks on the relations between Southern governors and the central government at Richmond, and the bolstering of Northern morale by naval successes at periods when the prospects of the Union Army were gloomy are points which Mr. Merrill makes very effectively.
Unhappily, the tone of the book is marred by the author’s persistent belittling of almost every leading personality of the Navy—his emphasis on error rather than on accomplishment, his insistence on offering critiques setting forth his opinions as to how much more could have been accomplished had greater
energy and vision been displayed, discounting virtually every success except Farragut’s victories at New Orleans and Mobile. Thus after Hatteras, Stringham should have seized “North Carolina’s defenseless towns,” but “refused to gamble his glory;” after Port Royal, Du Pont should have proceeded forthwith to capture Charleston and Savannah; after Roanoke Island, “Goldsborough and his gunboats, unaided by the military, should have steamed up the Cape Fear River and levelled hapless Wilmington.”
Mr. Merrill’s portraits of naval personalities tend to be mere caricatures. Thus we are told that when the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron was being assembled at New York, “it took time for Du Pont, accustomed to the niceties of the wardroom, to side-step messy gear in the shipyards and supervise the workers”—Mr. Merrill being apparently unaware that Du Pont had just left the Philadelphia Navy Yard, where he had been Commandant for two years. Dahlgren, the author chides, “sat out the war at the Naval Ordnance Bureau” until sent to relieve Du Pont off Charleston—though Dahlgren’s applications for sea duty had in fact become so violent as to verge on insubordination and his continued presence at the BuOrd was due to President Lincoln and Secretary Welles considering him indispensable in that billet. The monitor captains off Charleston were “inhibited by fear” and Du Pont was “timid.” We see John Rodgers in Wassaw Sound emerging “grudgingly” from his cabin when told the ram Atlanta had been sighted. Porter—for whom the author has more kind words than usual—was nevertheless sadly 10 error when, after being deserted by Ben Butler’s troops in the first attack on Fort Fisher, he did not run past the forts and take Wilmington anyway.
Mr. Merrill’s summation presents a curious contradiction. He states, correctly, “The Navy Department and the forces afloat, despite the lack of men, ships, precedent and a sympathetic public, set a course which eventually led to final victory at sea.” Yet he immediately goes on to say that the major °Per” ations were conducted “in haphazard an<J oftentimes hesitant fashion. . . . There 'vaS no over-all plan ... no strategy to coordinaR the squadrons’ efforts.” While Mr. Merri
does seem to have heard of the board convened by Secretary Welles at the outset of the War for the specific purpose of devising such an over-all plan and coordinating strategy, he states that it was headed by Alexander D. Bache, the Director of the Coast Survey; actually, though Bache was a member of the board, the strategical insight came from Du Pont (the chairman) and Commander Charles H. Davis, whose name nowhere appears in Mr. Merrill’s book.
This reviewer also finds great difficulty in reconciling the inherent contradiction between one of the closing paragraphs of the book and a paragraph found in the author’s Preface. Mr. Merrill leaves the reader with this thought:
“Most commanders lacked vigor and failed to pursue tactical advantages. Jealously guarding their reputations, ignorant of the might they wielded, fearful of defeat, the commanders hesitated, alibied and argued instead of attacking the enemy while he was still off balance.”
Yet by the time he came to write his preface, Mr. Merrill had apparently changed this unfavorable view. “Union amphibious attacks,” he says, “spearheaded the offensive. They were, perhaps, more significant than the blockade itself. Old Abe’s Armada carded the flag first into the South, secured needed bases for the blockading squadrons, wiped out Confederate coastal commerce, scotched privateering activities, precipitated the ruckus between the secessionist states and the Confederate government, and . . .buoyed up a sagging Northern spirit and strengthened
the belief that the Union could crush the rebellion.”
Who did all this? Commanders lacking in vigor who failed to pursue advantages and were “fearful of defeat”? It doesn’t add up.
Lieutenant in Algeria
By Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. 231 pages. $3.50.
REVIEWED BY
Alvin J. Cottrell
(Mr. Cottrell is a research fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute and an instructor of Political Science, also assistant to the chairman, International Relations Group Committee, University of Pennsylvania.)
The Algerian rebellion which began on November 1, 1954, with a series of terrorist raids is in its fourth year with little immediate prospect of settlement. Much has been written about the political aspects of the conflict, but much less about the actual fighting: Lieutenant in Algeria will help to fill this gap. The author served as a reserve lieutenant with the French forces engaged in suppressing the rebellion. The book is based on a series of articles written for L Express, a pro-Mendes-France, i.e., anti-war Paris weekly of which Servan- Schreiber is editor. It supports the Mendesist view that the war is widening the breach between France and the Moslem community of Algeria. The reader should bear in mind that the author was opposed to the Algerian war even before he was called back to active duty. Its burden is that what started as a terrorist campaign by several hundred Moslem fanatics has been converted, by the overzealous tactics of the French Army, into a self-generating revolutionary war. In the words of one of the book’s principal characters, Major Marcus, the army “could have been an instrument of reconciliation with the ordinary people here. What the Arabs really hated was the colonial set-up; they didn’t really hate France. The army could have been independent of the colonial set-up, it should have remained separate from the rottenness of the administration . . . from everything the colonial attitude represented. . . . The army could have done it: if it had acted as a referee . . . it did the very opposite. Everything’s going
on now as if this huge army [over 500,000] were simply here to protect the privileges of a handful of our fellow Frenchmen.”
Servan-Schreiber argues that all Moslems are being lumped together into one camp and treated as suspect, and that the French Army is losing contact with the Arab masses. Some French Army officers, such as Major Marcus, understood this and tried to do something about it. They favored a policy of weaning the Moslem masses away from the nationalists by experiments such as the “Nomad Commandos,” which represented an attempt to reestablish contact with the Moslem community through small bands of French soldiers who migrated to the Arab villages and lived among the people in order to regain their confidence and trust. It is not clear to this reviewer, however, exactly how such a policy will supply a satisfactory answer to the problem of defeating a guerrilla army which is now estimated to number between 20,000 and 60,000 men. From the outset the rebels have terrorized the Moslem community into supporting the independence movement. The author himself points out that where the “Nomad Commando” experiments showed signs of success the rebels saw their cause threatened and stepped up the terrorist campaigns. Few will forget the terrible massacre of Melouza where the National Liberation Front (FLN) murdered the entire male population of the village because it first supported the more moderate Algerian National Movement (MNA) and secondly called for French protection. The massacre undoubtedly was intended to warn the other Moslem villages against cooperation with rival rebel movements or the French. In other words, while the objectives of the “Nomad Commando” experiments may have been sound, it is nevertheless true that those tactics served in some cases to provoke even more severe terrorism.
This controversial book is permeated with too much soul-searching and moralizing. This reviewer cannot escape the suspicion that, despite the author’s billing as a soldier in de Gaulle’s Free French Forces in Africa during World War II, he saw little actual combat. The examples cited of French excesses in Algeria, when compared with those of the rebels, appear relatively moderate. Two quotations will illustrate the point: (1) “A . . . uni-
formed fellagha [rebel] dashed down the slope on to the road and stripped them [the dead and wounded French troops] of their arms and their clothes, cut out their eyes and everything else on their bodies that could be mutilated . . . ; and (2) A [French soldier] “whose friend had just been killed, had vented his misery and anger on the still breathing body of a fellagha on the verge of death; he had torn the two little red woolen rank-badges off the rebel’s uniform, . . . and spat in his face.” Few civilized human beings will fail to be shocked by the beastly doings described in the former quotation, whereas the latter records an incident which will hardly startle seasoned combat soldiers to the same degree as it apparently did the author.
Unfortunately, the publication of this book cannot but aid the terrorist cause. Certainly movement which equates its ends (independence) and means (terrorism) to the same degree as the National Liberation Front offers little hope that either the Algerian people or the international community would benefit from a change in sovereignty over Algeria. The overriding issue of the Algerian conflict is whether a precedent will be established which makes independence so exalted a goal as to legitimize the use of any means, no matter how barbaric, to attain it. Now that Lieutenant in Algeria has been published, however, it should be read by students of politico- military affairs. In an age when discussions of world strategy and tactics deal almost exclusively with such questions as limited or total nuclear war and when the intercontinental ballistic missile seems about to replace the bomber, it is rather sobering to be reminded of the shadowy struggle in Algeria where the capture of two light machine guns by the guerrilla forces is deemed a “catastrophe.”
WORTH NOTING Rescue Tug
By Ewart Brookes. New York: E. P. Dutton
& Co., Inc., 1957. 192 pages, 13 illustrations. $3.50.
A dramatic narrative, with some evaluation, of modern deep-sea towage and salvage, focussed upon the gallant but unsuccessful attempt of the English tug Turmoil to save the storm-damaged American freighter Flying Enterprise, victim of sustained North Atlantic gales in the winter of 1951-52. Captain Parker almost succeeded, towing the freighter 245 miles, only to have her succumb to a final gale when only 43 miles from Falmouth. The several photographs help emphasize the inevitable consequences which follow in the wake of loss of adequate buoyancy and stability.
Admiral Paris Souvenirs de Marine
Burg, Germany: Robert Loef, 1956. American and Canadian agent: Karl F. Wede, Box 195-R, R.F.D. #3, Saugerties, New York. $5.00.
A beautiful selection of 26 ship plates and plans of merchant and naval ships reproduced from the celebrated six-volume collection of Admiral Paris, first compiled and produced lri 1882. These detailed and complete draw- Wgs of European ships, ranging in period from the seventeenth century to late nineteenth, should be stimulating to many model builders. Although the descriptions are in French, the more important technical terms have been translated into both English and German.
Slack Triumvirate
By Charles Moran. New York: Exposition Press, 1957. 160 pages. $3.00.
A stimulating study of the great Negro colossi, Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Gessalines, and Henry Christophe, the three outstanding leaders in Haitian history. Lou- Verture is depicted as the one for whom foreigners had the most respect, although he 'vas not held in highest honor by his countrymen because “he failed to hitch his wagon to the star of independence.” In contrast, Destines is the acknowledged national hero because he liberated his nation. Christophe, the continuing giant figure of Haitian folk- *°re, completes the triumvirate as an outstanding contributor to the island’s economic and educational progress.
Hehind The Bamboo Curtain
By Fred P. Skomra. New York: Greenwich Book Publishers, 1957. 129 pages. $2.75.
An engrossing novel of the Korean air and Sea war, told from the viewpoint of a naval reservist pilot, revealing the author’s basic theme of the human horror and tragedy of war. It is a very candid and intimate account of life afloat and ashore, relieved by some hilarious interludes, with many of the incidents based on events either experienced by or related to Mr. Skomra, who served in the Essex.
A Picture History of Ships
By C. Hamilton Ellis. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957. 406 illustrations. $5.95.
Sixteen pages of text introduce the chronological photographic sections which range from a motion picture reproduction of Noah’s Ark to the Nautilus. British merchant and naval ship and vessels predominate, since the collection is based principally on photographs from the Hulton Pictorial Library, the National Maritime Museum, and the author’s own files. Mr. Ellis emphasizes such subjects as ship design and construction, technological progress, nautical life afloat and ashore, leaders and battles, and sea disasters. The captions are accurate and frequently humorous.
Fabulous Admirals
By Commander Geoffrey L. Lowis, R.N. (Ret’d). London: Putnam & Company Limited, 1957. 292 pages and 8 illustrations. 21 shillings.
A delightful collection of Royal Navy anecdotes both general and specifically related to ten senior officers of vintage generations now once or twice removed. Commander Lowis has gathered a vast wealth of humor to illustrate the eccentricities of a vanished “breed of men whose efficiency we may well question—they faced no competition— but whose characters were the joy of onlookers, and sometimes even of their shipmates.” Sketched caricatures and photographs enhance the reader’s enjoyment of this amusing book.
A United Nations Peace Force
By William R. Frye. New York: Oceana Publications, Inc., 1957. 227 pages. Cloth- bound, $3.75, paper, $1.00.
A penetrating study of the value and prospects of organizing a permanent United Na-
tions peace force. After examining the history, limitations, and potentialities of various kinds of international forces, the author concludes that the first step on the long road toward international order and stability could be and should be the establishment of a small, permanent peace force or at least the machinery for one. Mr. Frye further recommends the exclusion of the Big Five nations from any initial permanent peace force.
Combat Beneath the Sea
By Major Willy-Charles Brou. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1957. 240 pages, 14 illustrations. $3.95.
An engaging account of successful underwater warfare in World War II as conducted by frogmen, human torpedoes, and midget submarines. These warriors and their weapons destroyed or damaged nearly a half million tons of merchant and naval shipping. As is to be expected, there are many narratives of daring exploits of Italian, British, American, German, and Japanese personnel, together with considerable pertinent technological and tactical information.
Into the Silk
By Ian Mackersey. NewYork: W. W. Norton & Company, 1958. 251 pages, 34 illustrations. $3.95.
A thrilling series of narratives expressed in sixteen chapters describing outstanding parachute descents from aircraft since 1922. The author’s most amazing tale is of the combat survival of Flight Sergeant Alkemade after falling 18,000 feet without benefit of a chute. Mr. Mackersey winnowed thousands of reports from caterpillars (those whose lives have been saved by parachute) in order to include the best selected stories in this worthwhile volume.
As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me
By Josef M. Bauer. Translated by Lawrence P. R. Wilson. New York: Random House, 1957. 347 pages. $4.50.
Another story of the amazing determination and fortitude of man in seeking freedom, in this case the escape of a German prisoner from Siberia and his three-year flight to ulti-
mate safety. The epic of this man, whose anonymity has been preserved, led Mr. Bauer, after a series of interviews, to call it “so nightmarish, the incidents and situations he claimed to be true so incredible, that I kept on raising doubts .... Time and again, when I did turn elsewhere for corroboration, his story was confirmed.”
Instrument Flying
6th revised edition. By P. V. H. Weems and C. A. Zweng. Annapolis, Weems System of Navigation, and North Hollywood, Pan American Navigation Service, Inc., 1957. 298 pages. Diagrams and photographs. $6.00. 1
This book is designed for both the instructor and student as well as for the active navigator. It is written for the private and commercial pilot and navigator rather than for military personnel. Content closely follows CAA required training and the text contains many questions and answers on civil air regulation and navigation, including radio and meteorology. A comprehensive supplement on the new government examinations is included with every volume. In the opinion of the authors, Instrument Flying should provide adequate means for student preparation for governmental examinations and licenses.
Trafalgar
By Rene Maine. Translated from the French by Rita Eldon and B. W. Robinson. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1957. 261 pages. 7 charts. $4.50.
A modern French analysis, tending to confirm the earlier conclusions of British and other historians, of the significance of the historic campaign culminating in the naval battle of October 21, 1805. “There was certainly Austerlitz, but then there was also Trafalgar, and Trafalgar was the prelude to Waterloo.” Author Maine discusses and cites three reasons why Napoleon was unable to invade Britain. These were: lack of a fleet sufficiently powerful to control the vital North Sea area; the French leader’s mistake of appointing Villeneuve squadron commander, whereas Missiessy or Ganteaume would have been better selections; and his ability to transform naval leaders into ineffective robots.
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By the Department of Marine Engineering. 1952. 286 pages. Illustrated.
Naval Boilers $5.50 ($4.40)
By Professor Robert F. Latham, U. S. Naval Academy. 1956. 180 pages. 167 figures.
Naval Turbines $4.00 ($3.20)
By the Department of Marine Engineering. 1952. 148 pages. Illustrated.
Refresher course in Fundamental Mathematics for Basic Technical
Training Paper cover $ .30
Prepared by Training Division, Bureau of Naval Personnel. 1942. 176 pages.
Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables $1.65 ($1.32)
By the Department of Mathematics. 1945. 93 pages.
Miscellaneous
Sailing and Small Craft Down the Ages $6.50 ($3.90)
By E. L. Bloomster. 1940. 290 pages. 425 silhouette drawings. Trade edition.
(Deluxe autographed edition) $12J0 ($10.00)
Welcome Aboard $3.50 ($2.10)
By Florence Ridgely Johnson. A guide for the naval officer’s bride. 1956. 269 pages.
The Henry Huddleston Rogers Collection of Ship Models $2.00 ($1.20)
U. S. Naval Academy Museum. 1954. 117 pages. Illustrated.
Your Naval Academy $1.00 ($ .60)
By Midshipmen Burton and Hart. A handsome 48-page pictorial presentation of a Mid
shipman’s life at the Naval Academy. Brief descriptive captions.
The Book of Navy Songs $2.00
Compiled by the Trident Society of the Naval Academy. Over 90 old and new songs. 160 pages. Illustrated. Sold only to Midshipmen and Naval Institute members.
Proceedings Cover Pictures $2.50 ($1.50)
Sets of all 12 cover pictures appearing on the Proceedings in each year of 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956. Mounted on 13 X 13 mat. Complete set of 12 for any year.
Naval Customs, Traditions, and Usage $2.00 ($1.20)
By Lieutenant Commander Leland P. Lovette, USN. 1939. 424 pages. Illustrated.
PHYSICAL TRAINING
Modern Fencing $3.00 ($1.80)
By Clovis Deladrier, U. S. Naval Academy. 1948. 312 pages. Illustrated.
Naval Aviation Physical Training Manuals—Revised editions, 1950. Illustrated.
Basketball 259 pages. | $4.00 | ($2.40) | How to Survive on Land and Sea $4.00 ($2.40) 2nd revised edition, 1956. 362 pages. | ||
Boxing 288 pages. | $4.00 | ($2.40) | Intramural Programs 249 pages. | $4.00 | ($2.40) |
Conditioning Exercises 235 pages. | $4.00 | ($2.40) | Soccer 192 pages. | $4.00 | ($2.40) |
Football 246 pages. | $4.00 | ($2.40) | Swimming and Diving 423 pages. | $4.50 | ($2.70) |
Gymnastics and Tumbling 474 pages. | $4.50 | ($2.70) | Track and Field 217 pages. | $4.00 | ($2.40) |
Hand to Hand Combat (1943). 228 pages. | $4.00 | ($2.40) | Wrestling 182 pages. | $4.00 | ($2.40) |
REFERENCE WORKS
(These books are either no longer current or are in very short supply.)
A Brief History of Courts-Martial Paper cover $ .50 ($ .40)
By Brigadier General James Snedeker, USMC (Ret.). 1954. 72 pages.
Naval Essays of Service Interest Paper cover $1.25
Collection of 35 selected Proceedings articles for over 26-year period. 1942.
International Law for Naval Officers $2.00 ($1.60)
By Comdr. C. C. Soule, USN, and Lieut. Comdr. C. McCauley, USN. 245 pages. Revised
1928 by Lieut. Comdr. C. J. Bright, USN.
Matthew Fontaine Maury $3.00 ($1.80)
By Professor Charles L. Lewis, U. S. Naval Academy. 1927. 264 pages. Illustrated.
The Dardanelles Expedition $3.00 ($2.40)
By Captain W. D. Puleston, USN. 1927. 172 pages. Illustrated.
We Build A Navy $2.75 ($1.65)
By Lieutenant Commander H. H. Frost, USN. A vivid and dramatic narrative of our early Navy. 1929. 517 pages. Illustrated.
Yankee Mining Squadron $1.50 ($1.20)
By Captain R. R. Belknap, USN. 1920. 110 pages. Illustrated.