Samuel Loring Morison

Red Mutiny: Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin Neal Bascomb. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. 384 pp. Illus. Notes. Bib. Index. $26. Reviewed by Rear Admiral Thomas F. Marfiak ...

The Battle for Leyte, 1944: Allied and Japanese Plans, Preparations, and Execution Milan Vego. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2006. 479 pp. Maps. Appen. $55. Reviewed by Trent Hone So ...

Utah Beach: The Amphibious Landing and Airborne Operations On D-Day, June 6, 1944 Joseph Balkoski. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2005 . 400 pp. Photos. Appen. Notes. Bib. Index. $26.95. Reviewed ...

The second of this five-part series sorts out battleship and cruiser classes and designations.

The third of this five-part series looks at the fits and starts of destroyer classes and designations.

The fourth in this five part series covers the oft-neglected destroyer escorts and guided-missile frigates.

The last in a five-part series attempting to explain the sometimes inexplicable classification and designation “system” of the U.S. Navy tackles submarines.

In this first of a five-part series, a veteran naval historian and writer sorts out the evolution of U.S. Navy ship classifications and designations.