Diorama of the USS Yorktown losing speed and listing by Bel Geddes

I Sank the Yorktown at Midway

By Yahachi Tanabe, formerly Lieutenant Commander, Imperial Japanese Navy, With Joseph D. Harrington
May 1963
Commander Tanabe's torpedoing of the USS Yorktown on 6 June 1942 was small revenge for the loss of four Japanese carriers at Midway.

Rx: Quarantine

By Commander Andrew J. Valentine, U.S. Navy
May 1963
To the American public, the crisis was an imperative, albeit risky, move to forestall further clandestine Communist inroads in the Western Hemisphere.

Overhaul

By E. M. Avallone, Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Navy
May 1963
The apothegm, “Anything that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood,”

Comment and Discussion

May 1963
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Book Reviews & Book List

May 1963
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USS Hunley (AS-31)

By John Neubauer
May 1963
Early this year, a unique Navy ship left the East Coast and pushed across the Atlantic to her new home port, Holy Loch, Scotland. There, on 15 February, she relieved ...

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