U.S. MARINE CORPS

Navy Guerrilla

By Roy Stratton, Commander, U. S. Navy (Retired)
July 1963
Today, Americans understand that a bamboo man-trap is every bit as lethal as a grenade. But a scant 20 years ago, a global war was in progress and unconventional warfare ...

Helicopters in Antisubmarine Warfare

By Wayne L. Jensen, Lieutenant Commander, U. S. Navy
July 1963
Everyone now accepts helicopters as an integral part of civilian and military aviation. In the past year, they accounted for nine per cent of all the flying conducted in the ...

The U. S. Oceanographic Fleet

By J. R. Morgan, Lt. Cdr., USN
July 1963
Drawing 280 feet of water in her vertical position, the research vessel FLIP (floating instrument platform) towers 75 feet above the water. The long, tube-like vessel is manned by a ...

Soviet Oceanography

By Bernard M. Kassell, Commander, U.S. Navy (Retired)
July 1963
The Soviet scientist in the field defines oceanography as “ . . . the study of problems and tasks which impinge most directly on those branches of the national economy ...

Target: Iwo

By Robert D. Heinl, Jr., Colonel, U. S. Marine Corps
July 1963
Among the lasting controversies of the Pacific War, that which surrounds the pre-D-day bombardment of Iwo Jima will be debated as long as men remember the battle.

Comment and Discussion

July 1963
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Book Reviews & Book List

July 1963
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Comments on the Bainbridge

Raymond E. Peet, Captain, U. S. Navy
July 1963
EDITOR’S NOTE:The following commentary by Captain Peet, commanding officer of the USS Bainbridge, was written in answer to the Naval Institute’s call for debate on how rapidly the ...

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