Articles by Franklin G. Percival

Elements Contributing To Aërial Superiority

By Lieutenant Franklin G. Percival, U. S. Navy (Retired)
April 1931
Prize Essay, 1931 He (the seaman) will observe also that changes of tactics have not only taken place after changes in weapons, which necessarily is the case, but that the ...

The Cruiser Problem

By Lieutenant Franklin G. Percival, U.S. Navy (Retired)
May 1930
In the designing of a cruiser as of any class of warship, the first step before which none should be taken, is to decide the primary object to be realized—what ...