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Village in Vietnam
By Gerald Cannon Hickey. New Haven,
Conn.: Yale University Press, 1964. 325
pages. Illustrated. $10.00.
REVIEWED BY
Colonel Edwin Black, Infantry,
U. S. Army
(Colonel Black served with the OSS during World War
II. He is currently on his second tour of duty with the U. S.
Military Assistance Command in South Vietnam.)
When Dr. Hickey began his anthropological survey of the little village of Khanh Hau in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam in 1958, he did so as a scientist. Little did he realize that this research project, sponsored by the Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group, would eventually so embroil him in that little country’s gallant struggle for freedom that six years later he would find himself caught up in its tumultuous history as an combatant.
On 6 July 1964, while gathering data on the montagnard tribesmen of the High Plateau as a member of a RAND Corporation survey team, he became, in the words of an official report, “an inadvertent participant in repelling the attack by the Viet Cong against Nam Dong,” an isolated outpost on the Laos border. Manned only by a small U. S. Special Forces detachment and a Civilian Irregular Defense Group composed of volunteers from the mountain tribes, the fortified camp was overrun by a sudden and violent Communist assault. Dr. Hickey found himself crouched behind an earthen bunker desperately firing a carbine at the screaming foe. The defenders, fighting under Captain Roger Donlon, U. S. Army, the commander of the Special Forces detachment, were eventually able to repel the
Present-day village life in South Vietnam.
attack. Captain Donlon, whose cool, heroic leadership saved the day, was subsequently awarded the Medal of Honor for his conduct of the defense. Unfortunately, according to the official report, “during the course of that bloody battle, many of Dr. Hickey’s field notes were destroyed.”
This regrettable loss of Dr. Hickey’s raw ethnological data in 1964—for which he was at least partially compensated by being made an honorary member of the Special Forces— does not detract in any way from his excellent study Village in Vietnam. Describing, as it does in considerable detail, and with most commendable accuracy, the administrative, legal, and socio-economic structure at the “rice roots” level of Vietnamese society, this book has already become a standard reference within the U. S. official community in Saigon. Plans are underway to publish it in a low- cost, paperback edition, so as to encourage its widest possible distribution, not only in schools and colleges throughout the United States, but also in the armed forces and the various civilian agencies that are sending personnel to Vietnam.
It is interesting to note the extremely valuable contribution which Dr. Hickey’s book makes to the bibliography of the Mekong Delta by summarizing some of his observations as they pertain to the current efforts of the Republic of Vietnam to “pacify” the rural areas of the country, thereby bringing them under the administrative control of the government and denying the areas to the Viet Cong.
Establishing meaningful communication with the rural population in South Vietnam is central to the entire pacification program in Vietnam today and is also the true key to any scientific evaluation of Dr. Hickey’s research.
During the period between March 1958 and December 1959, when the on-the-ground fieldwork was being conducted, his three-man Michigan State team, each assisted by an able Vietnamese, lived with, observed, and questioned the people of Khanh Hau.
Asking questions of Vietnamese is an extremely subtle process. In his brilliant foreword to the book, the well-known French educator Paul Mus underlines the difficulties encountered when seeking the full truth in Asia through any question-and-answer technique. The thing we must never forget, he points out, is that “the question conditions the answer.” Recalling the days when the French were in charge in Indochina, he reminds the American reader that only too often the information the French gathered, and on which they based their political, economic, and military calculations, was in actuality only a mirror image of their own preoccupations and prejudices, reflected back to them by the observant Vietnamese who, judging from the way the question was phrased, sought to provide the answer the interrogator was seeking.
The subject of organizing the rural population to defend their homes against the Viet Cong just does not seem to have stimulated Dr. Hickey’s intellectual curiosity. Perhaps his vivid experience in 1964 will change the emphasis of his studies in future works, but in this book he gives only the most cursory treatment to the organization for local defense at the village and hamlet level. He notes that since 1955 the responsibility for maintaining security has devolved upon the village council. At that time the village elders were supported by a motley crew of some 15 self-defense guards under the direction of the local police agent. With the increase in Viet Cong activity after 1960, the Diem regime organized the Dan Ve, or the Self-Defense Corps. Young men from “all ranges of village society” were eligible for service, and the numbers of organized village defenders grew from 15 to about 100. These Vietnamese equivalents of the New England “Minutemen” of the Revolutionary War were given black uniforms and paid a monthly salary of 900 piasters. When on duty they carried ancient, castoff, bolt-action, French rifles. They ate and slept in a stockade much as regular soldiers.
But they were expected only to defend their own hamlet or village against marauding nocturnal bands of Viet Cong, and were not subject to being shifted elsewhere within the district or province to counter larger-scale Viet Cong incursions. Described briefly is the Hamlet Guard, or Combat Youth, an innovation conceived by Mr. Ngo Dinh Nhu, President Diem’s late brother. Generally unarmed, this “volunteer” organization is drawn from all village “youths” between the ages of 18 and 45. This group’s primary duty is to assist the Dan Ve (now called Popular Forces) by manning night outposts at various points within the village and by giving alarm when Viet Cong patrols enter the area.
The important, though frustrating, subject of the Viet Cong underground apparatus within the village also seems to have eluded Dr. Hickey. This statement may be unfair because it is entirely possible that information on this subject obtained in Khanh Hau was considered “sensitive,” as it might have subjected individual villagers to vicious reprisals. Therefore, rather than publish it, he may have turned such information in directly to the Vietnamese intelligence service.
In Chapter One, which deals with the “History of the Village,” the steadily deteriorating security situation in Khanh Hau is summarized. Beginning with the organization of a Viet Minh cadre in the village during the Japanese occupation of Indochina, it describes how after the departure of the Japanese, in August 1945, the Communists set up their own administration within each village, replacing the traditional Village Council by their own administrative committee. In Khanh Hau it consisted of six members, two of whom came from relatively well-to-do families, and four being tenant farmers. After the Geneva Conference of 1954, the Viet
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Minh (now known as Viet Cong) claimed to be an indigenous resistance movement under the leadership of their own “National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam.” Intensifying their activities to the level of an all-out armed struggle in 1960, they boasted that they were fighting a “just war of national liberation” that one day would set the pattern for defeating “imperialist” regimes elsewhere in the world, particularly in Africa and Latin America. Using terror, propaganda, and military force, they have been able to maintain their clandestine structure intact despite all the government’s efforts to uncover and destroy it. A typical example of the kind of problem the Vietnamese authorities face is described in this first chapter. Late in February 1962, the Dan Ve guards captured several Viet Cong cadre, one of whom had on his person a membership list of the Viet Cong administrative committee in the village. The chairman of the committee turned out to be none other than the chief of the subordinate hamlet of Ap Cau, a relatively prosperous farmer. All the members of the Viet Cong underground were arrested, but by April they were able to convince the local authorities they had been forced to co-operate with the Communists and most of those implicated, including the hamlet chief, were released.
Population and resources control is hardly touched upon in the book. Again, Dr. Hickey’s interests center more on the scholarly analysis of socio-economic differentiation, socio-economic profiles, and social mobility than on the mundane aspects of police controls, check points on roads and inland waterways, accurate census, individual identification cards, and the like. In his discussion of the physiographic setting and settlement pattern, however, he does describe the strategic hamlet program. Instituted by President Diem after he had studied the results of the successful counter-insurgency campaign in Malaya, it was outrageously administered by Mr. Nhu. It was implemented as a nationwide, crash program during 1962 and 1963 and was designed to separate the “people” from the Viet Cong so that the latter would be deprived systematically of access to the hamlets and villages, whence came their source of manpower for their guerrilla units, their intelligence as to the dispositions and movements of the Vietnamese armed forces, and their supplies of food, medicine, and money. Dr. Hickey describes the fortification of Khanh Hau under this program as being a massive and fruitless effort using corvee labor to build a moat, earthworks, watchtowers, and barbed wire entanglements around the 4,500-yard perimeter of the village. He concludes that the strategic hamlet program was a failure, summing it up in the words of one elderly villager who said, “It was a waste of Vietnamese labor and American money.” All in all, Village in Vietnam is the only available up-to-date study in English of rural life in the Mekong delta. Similar research is needed to describe with equal thoroughness the rural society of Vietnam as it exists in the two other principal geographic areas of the country, the high plateau and the coastal communities from Phan Thiet north to the Demilitarized Zone on the 17th parallel. Meanwhile, the newcomer to Vietnam, be he civilian or military, would be well advised to read Dr. Hickey’s book before he begins his service in that beautiful, diverse, fascinating, war-torn country.
Heavy Weather Guide
By Captain Edwin T. Harding, U. S. Navy, and Captain William J. Kotsch, U. S. Navy. Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute, 1965. 209 pages. Illustrated. $6.00. Member’s price $4.80.
REVIEWED BY
Captain John P. Fleet, U. S. Navy
(iCaptain Fleet is the Staff Meteorologist, Commander- in-Chiefi, Pacific.) Previously he was Officer-in-Charge, Fleet Weather Facility, Yokosuka.
For a meteorologist to review the work of other meteorologists is to throw a potential spark into a gas-filled chamber. Meteorologists have strong convictions on the subject of tropical cyclones. I am no exception.
Heavy Weather Guide is much more than a collection of rules to be followed in heavy weather. It is easy reading, and the reader will be reluctant to put down the publication from the moment he begins either of its sections. The publication is in two parts, and the styles of writing are completely different, both enjoyable and informative.
OCEAN SCIENCES
Edited by
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Selected by Library Journal as one of the 100 best technical books of 1964. Written by 18 eminent men in selected fields of oceanography, it fills the gap between popular literature and technical writing. An understandable, authoritative book on oceanography. Price $10.00 ($8.00 to Members)
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You may be somewhat surprised to learn from Captain Harding that as late as 1943 a Navy captain could be unaware of the calm eye of a tropical cyclone, or of the fact that a hurricane may steam up to a shore line and stop, back up, or make loops, leaving incoherent meteorologists in its wake. This part of the book has a deep vein of humor that I believe will bring many a chuckle. It contains useful guidance for the mariner, the coastal dweller, and even the meteorologist.
Captain Kotsch’s presentation of typhoons is superbly written. I am sure that the reader will sense that he is reading an authoritative document, and he is. The reputation that the author enjoys is of an international nature. Captain Kotsch is one of the most highly qualified typhoon forecasters in the meteorological field. I strongly recommend the most careful reading of this treatise on typhoons. You will not find a better account. The author chose exceptionally fine illustrations and references to bring out his points. I was delighted to see that he incorporated a formula designed by Dr. Robert D. Fletcher,
Director, Scientific Services, Air Weather Service, for calculating the maximum sustained winds in a typhoon. Dr. Fletcher’s formula works. The author’s reference to the work of Dr. H. Ito of Japan on the statistical pressure aspects of tropical storms and their development was another excellent choice.
Captain Kotsch’s treatment of “Forces of Destruction” of the typhoon is brief and crisply stated. It is worthy of mention, however, that the typhoons generally referred to in the text are what might be considered the average Pacific typhoon, with winds of 50 knots or more extending outward some 50 miles from the center. Little mention is made of miniature typhoons, because they are rarely found in the Western Pacific. This type of tropical cyclone has been occurring in increasing numbers in the Western Pacific during recent years. The latest were Babe and Carla, which formed in the South China Sea in late May 1965, on the Intertropical Convergence Zone. Babe was a full typhoon with a reported 65 to 80 knots of wind near the center, and yet there were no swells above nine feet reported by ships within 100 miles of the eye. This was a case where the length of time that the wind acted on an individual wave train was so brief that the waves did not have time to become mountainous before they left the generating area. This example points out the necessity of evaluating the destructive waves of a typhoon by not only the strength of the winds, but also by the radius of destructive winds and the forward velocity of the typhoon itself.
Possibly the most significant section in the Heavy Weather Guide is “The Typhoon-Warning System—westpac’s ‘Guardian Angel.’ ” It is this service provided by the Fleet Weather Central/Joint Typhoon Warning Center, Guam, that is the veritable beacon in the darkness during the threat of heavy weather. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. The exceptionally fine service by that organization has provided the early warning that ships of the U. S. Navy in the Western Pacific have used to advantage. They comply with the directive of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz to “take all measures for a ship’s safety while it is still possible to do so.”
A most thought provoking statement by Captain Kotsch is in the closing paragraph of his treatise on typhoons: “If typhoon control proved eminently successful . . . would not nature find some other method of maintaining the earth’s heat balance?” The awesome amount of heat energy released in the condensation of the heavy and extensive rains of the tropical cyclone is some measure of the tremendous kinetic energy of its wind system as it moves through the tropics and middle latitudes. It is nature’s means of discharging the potential energy stored in the lower atmosphere by the action of the sun and evaporation. At what point and in what form the discharge would manifest itself, if typhoons were restrained by artificial means, is a matter for serious consideration.
History Under the Sea
By Mendel Peterson. Washington, D. C.:
Smithsonian Institution, 1965. 221 pages.
Illustrated. $3.00.
REVIEWED BY
Captain P. V. H. Weems,
U. S. Navy (Retired)
(Captain Weems has participated in underwater research projects with the author of this volume.)
This is a most timely book on the development and results of underwater exploration for ship hulks and other historic material. Until the invention of the Cousteau demand valve for underwater breathing, there was only very limited underwater exploration and archeological recovery work. Since the advent of the Cousteau valve and similar inventions, many of which had their beginnings in World War II, large numbers of scuba divers have enjoyed the thrill of remaining underwater for long periods of time without danger.
An especially interesting facet of the book is the section entitled “Surveying Underwater Sites.” Mr. Peterson’s description gives a clear picture of the very crude methods of navigation that limit underwater archeology today.
Another of the subjects discussed by the writer with special authority is the “Preservation of Materials Recovered from Water.” This is an almost unbelievably intricate process and, as is pointed out, a great deal still needs to be learned on the subject.
As chairman of the Smithsonian Institution’s Department of Armed Forces Museum of History and Technology, Mr. Peterson was in an excellent position to assemble material for this volume and, in summary, the book is authoritative, timely, and most highly recommended.
Battle Damage to Surface Ships During World War II
By I. M. Korotkin. Leningrad: Sudprom- giz, 1960. 464 pages. Illustrated.*
REVIEWED BY
Ronald W. Wood
(Mr. Wood is an ordnance specialist with the Military
Division of Zenith Radio Corporation.)
This translation is a key contribution to the study of ship survivability in wartime. It will be of keen interest to designers of naval weapons sytems and will also be studied by naval architects, anyone concerned with damage control and assessment, and serious students of naval history.
The author’s method is to systematize and generalize on the wartime losses of 102 Allied and Axis surface ships (33 United States, 17 British, 21 German, 27 Japanese, three Italian, and one Dutch). Significantly, the author does not analyze Soviet war losses, nor does he discuss Soviet trends in ship design. The analysis of loss and damage covers the spectrum of displacement from 1,000 to 70,000 tons, and includes all the prominent types of surface ships of World War II.
The main chapters describe damage to and loss of aircraft carriers, battleships, heavy and light cruisers, and destroyers. Within each of these main categories, battle situations involving damage from single and combined weapons are taken up. The conclusions of these chapters summarize the number of hits required to knock a ship out of action, discuss the effects of battle damage on ship survivability and fighting ability, and note the effect of damage on personnel and equipment.
In all, 31 ships-of-the-line were lost during World War II. Most battleships sunk were lost from torpedo hits or combined torpedo
* Translated from the Russian by the U. S. Joint Publications Research Service for the David Taylor Model Basin, Washington, D. C., 1964. Edited by Dr. W. J. Sette and Mrs. Anastasia Cook; available from the Defense Documentation Center.
and aerial bomb attacks. In almost three- fourths of the battleship losses, the crippling damage was directly related to underwater explosions. However, not a single battleship was sunk by either bombs or mines alone. Thus, torpedoes alone and torpedoes combined with other weapons were the two most effective means of destroying the World War II battleship. The method of torpedoing a battleship on one side only was used many times during the war. This tactic caused severe lists and temporary loss of reserve buoyancy. Hampered in this way, the battleship lost much of its vaunted fighting capacity.
The most germane examples of combined torpedo and bomb attacks on battleships were found at Pearl Harbor. The author has carefully summarized the damage inflicted there, and concludes, “The event at Pearl Harbor served as a stimulus to review opinions on the survivability of ships as a whole and, in particular, on their underwater protection. This was reflected in future ship construction in the United States.”
The situations that led to the destruction of the German battleship Tirpitz in two steps during 1943 and 1944 are given in interesting detail. Similarly, the engagements between British warships and the German Scharnhorst are described. The German pocket batdeship was heavily damaged by a great number of 8-inch and 14-inch shells, but was finally put out of action by torpedoes launched from cruisers and destroyers.
Almost all the World War II battleships sank by capsizing before their reserve buoyancy was entirely depleted. This fact indicates either shortcomings in transverse stability or the lack of fast-acting and reliable anti-list systems. Many improvements came before the war’s end. On the whole, firefighting and measures taken against explosions in battleships during the war were good.
The conclusions about the survivability of battleships apply, with modifications, to other classes of heavy ships, especially carriers.
By the author’s tabulation, 124 cruisers were lost during the war. His tables reveal that many more cruisers sank from underwater explosions than survived them. This fact points up the great vulnerability of the underwater hulls of cruisers. Bombs and shells, on the other hand, more often caused only damage or loss of way to cruisers rather than complete loss. Losses of cruisers to a single torpedo hit were rare. Cruiser losses increased to 25 per cent when two torpedo hits were made; three or more torpedo hits always led to loss or elimination from action.
Direct hits of high explosive bombs usually
Royal Navy
destroyed or damaged the upper hull of cruisers, or opened one or more decks, and often destroyed superstructures and caused damage to armament and equipment on the open deck. The most vital parts of cruisers were seldom damaged by bombs. Near-miss explosions of bombs often caused more serious damage than direct hits. Non-contact explosions characteristically caused leaks, and the flooding of main compartments, shock vibrations that put vital machinery and weapons out of commission, and did heavy damage to the non-armored parts of the ship. Splinter damage from near-miss bombs was great.
Cruiser losses resulted mainly from the sudden loss of watertight integrity. Loss of way by cruisers resulted also from loss of watertightness. In some cases, cruisers lost way because of fires and explosions.
In the author’s judgment, some of the deficiencies in World War II cruiser protection were: lack of armor for open crew stations, weak structural protection below the water line, inadequate pumping systems, and deficient tightness of hatches and bulkheads. British cruisers, he notes, were especially weak in their protection against explosion and fire.
About a third of the destroyer losses during World War II resulted from underwater explosions, either of torpedoes or mines. About the same fraction of losses was inflicted by bombs, but in many cases the serious damage had already been done by underwater explosions. Torpedoes were more likely to cause loss of a destroyer than partial damage. Torpedo hits in the midsection of a destroyer usually led to its breaking up and loss. Exploding mines, on the other hand, often caused damage to destroyers, but relatively few sinkings.
During the course of World War II, 42 aircraft carriers were lost, most of them under battle conditions. The majority of carrier losses resulted from torpedoes or the combined action of torpedoes and bombs. Bombs and kamikaze aircraft most often damaged carriers and put them out of action, but only seldom caused their total loss.
Wartime experience, says the author, shows that the relative thinness of flight decks led to substantial damage to these decks, and to the hangar decks as well. The Japanese therefore decided to cover the entire flight deck and ventilators with armor. British carriers also increased their flight deck armor.
As a result of poor watertightness, fleet carriers such as the British Ark Royal were lost after being hit by only one torpedo. The losses of the U. S. carrier Lexington (CV-2) and three of the largest Japanese carriers were directly related to fires and internal explosions. In the closing phases of the war, strong measures were taken to limit and quickly extinguish fires on board carriers.
The author summarizes the effects of different types of weapons on ships, gives some conclusions on attempts to save heavily damaged ships, and describes the problems of ship repair in wartime.
The chapter entitled “Damage to Ships by Atomic Explosions” is based on the aerial and underwater explosions that took place at Bikini in 1946.
Mr. Korotkin’s study represents careful analytical work of real value, though a few of his conclusions will raise eyebrows. The battle accounts are a trifle uneven. The actions involving American and Japanese ships are first-rate, but the description of other actions seem to have come from secondary sources. The ship photographs are helpful, and the diagrams showing the placement of hits and thicknesses of armor are excellent.
Professional Reading
By Robert M. Langdon
• Seventy years ago a bulky volume entitled American Steam Vessels was published containing almost 500 pen-and-ink drawings of American steamships and steamboats by Samuel Ward Stanton. Long out of print, that volume is again available in the form of a ten-part booklet series bearing the same title as the original and distributed by H. K. Whiting, 63 Beverly Road, Upper Montclair, New Jersey ($2.00 to $2.25 each). Each booklet consists of some 40 black-and-white drawings accompanied by basic statistics and brief historical data. The booklets are each devoted to a specific water area or theme, such as the Great Lakes, Long Island Sound, the Ocean, the Hudson River, and the U. S. Navy—19th century.
• The literature of British naval history is markedly richer because of two recent books, the more important of which is The Age of Drake (World, $2.25 paper), by James A. Williamson, Britain’s leading authority on Tudor sea history. This account is a major contribution to the understanding of maritime England in the 16th century with the heroic naval figures of Hawkins, Oxenham, Raleigh, Frobisher, and Drake. Williamson, whose previous writings have included a full biography of the English Channel, achieves in this volume a vast coverage in a most pleasing and authoritative fashion. Ruddock F. Mackay’s Admiral Hawke (Oxford, $7.00) is a complete and refreshing biography of one of the giants of British sea power. Admiral Edward Hawke’s astounding victory at Quiberon Bay in November 1759, was a vital factor in Britain’s triumph in the Seven Years’ War. This scholarly volume helps the reader to understand the tactics, strategy, and administration of 18th century naval affairs.
• Two Brookings Institution volumes deal authoritatively with the role of international police forces: Ruth B. Russell’s United Nations Experience with Military Force: Political and Legal Aspects ($1.00, paper) is a 174-page historical survey of what must be regarded as a most revolutionary development in the current field of international organization. Miss Russell deals adroitly with the use of mixed contingents of national forces and the machinery involved, as well as the political and legal problems that have arisen. Ernest W. Lefever’s Crisis in the Congo ($3.50; $1.95 paper) is a thorough examination of the political, military, legal, and financial aspects of America’s 19601964 Congo peacekeeping effort. These Brookings studies are excellent companions for International Military Forces (1964) edited by Lincoln P. Bloomfield.
• The New Bedford, Massachusetts, Free Public Library has made significant contributions to whaling literature by publishing two volumes. The Birth of a Whale- ship ($10.00) by Reginald B. Hegarty, is a unique coverage of the step-by-step plans, complete with drawings (even of the sails), for the construction of a whaler. The other book is Addendum to “Starbuck” and Whaling Masters ($10.00), also by Hegarty. The latter adds appreciably to the usefulness of two leading works on American whaling, Alexander Starbuck’s History of the American Whale Fishery (1876) and Whaling Masters (1938). In his new volume, Hegarty has added a number of voyages, dates, and names that the other books failed to include and a most appreciated alphabetical index to whaling voyages referred to in “Starbuck.”
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By Taylor Peck. A history of the Washington Navy Yard and U. S. Naval Gun Factory. 1949. 267 pages. Illustrated.
Sailing and Small Craft Down the Ages........................................................................................................ $8.50 ($6.80)
By E. L. Bloomster. 1940. 280 pages. 425 silhouette drawings. Trade edition.
Sea of the Bear........................................................................................................................................................ $5.00 ($4.00)
By Lt. Cdr. M. A. Ransom, USCG (Ret.), with Eloise Engle. 1964, 119 pages.
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Shipping in the Port of Annapolis 1748-1775 ............................................................ $6.50 ($6.50)
By V. W. Brown. 1965. 72 pages. Illustrated. Paperbound.
Ships of the United States Navy and Their Sponsors
Vol. IV—1950-1958 .................................................................................................................. .................... $10.00 ($8.00)
Compiled by Keith Frazier Somerville and Harriotte W. B. Smith. 1959. 291 pages. Illustrated.
Soldiers of the Sea.................................................................................................................................................... $14.00 ($11.20)
By Col. R. D. Hcinl, Jr., USMC. A definitive history of the U. S. Marine Corps, 1775-1962. 695 pages. Illustrated.
Thence Round Cape Horn...................................................................................................................... $7.50 ($6.00)
by R. E. Johnson. This is the story of the U. S. Naval Forces in the Pacific Ocean during the period 1818-1923. 276 pages. Illustrated.
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The United States Coast Guard, 1790-1915 ................................................................................... $5.00 ($4.00)
By Capt. S. H. Evans, USCG. A definitive history (With a Postscript: 19151949). 1949. 228 pages. Illustrated.
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Most Dangerous Sea................................................................. ........... ............................ $6.00 ($4.80)
By Lt. Cdr. A. S. Lott, USN. 1959. 322 pages. Illustrated.
The Sea War in Korea........................................................................................... ............................................. $6.00 ($4.80)
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Der Seekrieg, The German Navy’s Story 1939-1945 .................................................................................... $7.00 ($5.60)
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The French Navy in World War II.................................................................................................................. $6.00 ($4.80)
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Translated by Capt. A. C. J. Sabalot, USN (Ret.), 1959. 413 pages. Illustrated.
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The Italian Navy in World War II............................................................................................................. $5.75 ($4.60)
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White Ensign, The British Navy at War, 1939-1945 ................................................... $4.50 ($3.60)
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Edited by Cdr. W. C. Blattmann, USN. 1957. 185 pages. Paperbound.
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The Art of Knotting and Splicing........................................................................................................................ $5.00 $(4.00)
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210 pages. Illustrated.
Naval Shipliandling................................................................................................................................................ $7.00 ($5.60)
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Dutton’s Navigation and Piloting............................................................................................................................. $8.00 ($6.40)
Prepared by Cdr. J. C. Hill, II, USN. Et. Cdr. T. F. Utegaard, USN, and Gerard Riordan. (A completely rewritten text which supplants Navigation and Nautical Astronomy.) 1st Ed., 1958. 771 pages. Illustrated.
Practical Manual of the Compass................................................................................................... ... $3.60 ($2.88)
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17th Ed., 1964.684 pages. Illustrated.
The Coast Guardsman’s Manual.............................................................................................................................. $4.75 ($3.80)
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Division Officer’s Guide........................................................................................................................................ $3.00 ($2.40)
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The Marine Officer’s Guide.............................................................................................................................. $7.50 ($6.00)
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The Naval Officer’s Guide..................................................................................................................................... $7.75 ($6.20)
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Ships and Aircraft of the United States Fleet............................................................................................................ $3.50 ($2.80)
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Studies in Guerrilla Warfare................................................................................................................................. $2.50 ($2.00)
Studies written by experts in the field. Originally published as articles in the Proceedings. 1963. 89 pages. Illustrated. Paperbound.
Watch Officer’s Guide........................................................................................................................................... $3.00 ($2.40)
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Naval Leadership, 2nd edition............................................................................................................................ $4.50 ($3.60)
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Bruce McCandlcss, USN (Ret.), and Assoc. Prof. G. J. Mann. 1959. 301 pages.
Naval Leadership, 1st edition.............................................................................................................................. $3.00 ($2.40)
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Selected Readings in Leadership.............................................................................................................................. $2.50 ($2.00)
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Fundamentals of Construction and Stability of Naval Ships..........................................................................
Uy Prof. T. C. Gillmer, U. S. Naval Academy. 2nd Ed., 1959. 373 pages. Illustrated.
Internal Combustion Engines.....................................................................................................................
Uy Cdr. P. W. Gill, USN, Cdr. J. H. Smith, Jr., USN, and Prof. E. J. Ziurys. 4th Ed., 1959. 570 pages. Illustrated.
Introduction to Marine Engineering............................................................................................................
By Prof. R. F. Latham, U. S. Naval Academy. 1958. 208 pages. Illustrated.
SCIENCES
Elements of Applied Thermodynamics.......................................................................................................
Uy Prof. R. M. Johnston, Capt. W. A. Brockett, USN, and Prof. A. E. Bock. 3rd Ed., 1958. 490 pages. Illustrated.
Fundamentals of Sonar.............................................................................................................................
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The Human Machine, Biological Science for the Armed Services .... By Capt. C. W. Shilling, MC, USN. 292 pages. Illustrated.
Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables.......................................................................................................
By the Department of Mathematics, U. S. Naval Academy. 1945. 89 pages.
Marine Fouling and Its Prevention.............................................................................................................
Prepared for Bureau of Ships, Navy Department, by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 1952. 388 pages. Illustrated.
Ocean Sciences.......................................................................................................................................
Edited by Capt. E. J. Long, USNR (Ret.). 1964. 304 pages. Illustrated.
The Rule of Nine.....................................................................................................................................
Uy William Wallace, Jr. An easy, speedy way to check addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. 1959. 27 pages. Paperbound.
LAW
A Brief History of Courts-Martial.............................................................................................................
Uy Brig. Gen. Janies Snedcker, USMC (Ret.). 1954. 65 pages. Paperbound.
International Law for Seagoing Officers....................................................................................................
By Cdr. 11. II. Brittin, USN, and Dr. Lisclotte B. Watson. 2nd Ed., 1960. 318 pages. Illustrated.
Military Law...........................................................................................................................................
Compiled by Capt. J. K. Taussig, Jr., USN (Ret.), and Cdr. II. B. Swcitzcr, USN. Revised and edited by Cdr. M. E. Wolfe, USN, and Lt. Cdr. R. I. Gulick, USN. Revised by Lt. Cdr. J. W. Dcs Jardin, USN. 2nd Ed., 1963. 94 pages.
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Introduction to Brazilian Portuguese...................................................................................... $4.50
By Assoc. Prof. J. Riccio, U. S. Naval Academy. 1957. 299 pages. Paperbound.
Naval Phraseology................................................................................................................... $3.50
English-French-Spanish-Italian-German-Portuguese. 1953. 326 pages. Paper- bound.
Russian Conversation and Grammar, 3rd edition, 1960 By Prof. C. P. Lemieux, U. S. Naval Academy
Vol. One—109 pages. Paperbound...................................................................... $2.50
Vol. Two—121 pages. Paperbound............................................................................................. $2.50
Russian Supplement to Naval Phraseology.............................................................. $4.00
By Prof. C. P. Lemieux, U. S. Naval Academy. 2nd Ed., 1954. 140 pages.
Prayers at Sea................................................................................ $3.50
By Chaplain Joseph F. Parker, USN.
The Sailor’s Wife............................................................................ $1.50
By Lucy Wright. 19G2. 112 pages. Illustrated. Paperbound.
Service Etiquette............................................................................ $6.50
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Annapolis Today....................................................................................................................... $6.00
By Kendall Banning. Revised by A. Stuart Pitt. 1963. 329 pages. Illustrated.
The Book of Navy Songs........................................................................................................... $3.00
Compiled by the Trident Society of the Naval Academy. 160 pages. Illustrated.
Sold only to Midshipmen and Naval Institute members.
The Prayer of a Midshipman...................................................................................................... $ .25
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The Handbook of the Brigade of Midshipmen, 1964-1965 ............................................. $1.35
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Flying Cloud (April 1964) by Warren Sheppard.................................................................... $5.00
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The Best of Taste, The Finest Food of Fifteen Nations................................................................. $5.00
Edited by the SACLANT-NATO Cookbook Committee. 1957. 244 pages.
Naval Customs, Traditions, and Usage........................................................................................ $6.50
By Vice Adm. L. P. Lovctte, USN (Ret.). 4th Ed., 1959. 358 pages. Illustrated.
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