Japanese records confirmed Navy Captain Edwin T. Layton’s suspicions: Japan had tried a second strike on Pearl Harbor using two Kawanishi H8K “Emily” flying boats.

Second Attack on Pearl

Navy Captain Edwin T. Layton shared the details of a second, failed Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

A. Denis Clift
December 2024
The author with his father in February 1956.

Two Destroyers for Postwar Japan

After World War II, the United States decided to transfer two U.S. destroyers to Japan. They would be building blocks for a reconstituted Japanese Navy.

Lieutenant Commander Warren B. Galkin, U.S. Naval Reserve (Retired)
November 2024
The USS John D. Ford (DD-228). Writing about the 1942 battle in the Makassar Strait, then-Lieutenant William Mack wrote of the men and four ships of Destroyer Division 59: “We weren’t much, but we were full of fight.’”

Four-Stackers at Java

Future Vice Admiral William P. Mack recalls the action from on board the John D. Ford in excerpts from his Naval Institute oral history.

A. Denis Clift
August 2024
The MV-22 provides a critical capability, but it faces challenges that echo those of the Harrier. If the current review looks at and builds on the aircraft’s previous readiness review, its insights will help keep the MV-22 ready and reliable for the remaining decades of its service life.

Lessons from the Harrier

If the Harrier's history is a guide, reviews of the Osprey will help keep it a reliable and capable aircraft for the remaining decades of its service life.

Lieutenant General Jon M. Davis, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired)
July 2024
The USS King (DLG-10) tied up in San Diego between the Coontz (DLG-9) and Mahan (DLG-11) with Terrier missiles on their launching racks.

A Very Ominous Thing

Navy Vice Admiral William L. Read recalls a mine strike that effected a mission kill against the King (DLG-10) in the Tonkin Gulf.

A. Denis Clift
June 2024
President Franklin D. Roosevelt at lunch with his son Elliott Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., and George Durno during the 1943 Casablanca Conference.

Casablanca with the FDRs

Future Navy Rear Admiral Edward K. Walker's gunnery officer on board the Mayrant in 1942 was Lieutenant Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.

A. Denis Clift
May 2024
Serving on the flag staff ashore in Manila when the Japanese attacked then-Yeoman Cecil King made his way to Corregidor, and in late December boarded the four-stack destroyer USS Peary (DD-226) for a hair-raising escape to Port Darwin.

Yeoman Through the Ranks

An excerpt from the Naval Intitute oral history of Future Chief Warrant Officer Cecil S. King Jr.

A. Denis Clift
April 2024
Though his winning Prize Essay never made it to the pages of Proceedings, Professor Philip Alger believed in the power of the open forum. As Lieutenant Commander Roy Smith wrote in Proceedings in October 1923, “Professor Alger’s advice to [Naval Academy] graduates was always to take up a specialty; and he advised them further that in no other way could they keep in touch with their profession save by careful study of the progress marked out in the Proceedings.”

‘To Speak His Thoughts’

Though his winning Prize Essay never made it to the pages of Proceedings, Professor Philip Alger believed in the power of the open forum.

A. Denis Clift
March 2024