On Our Scope

By Fred L. Schultz, Editor-in-Chief
December 2004
If this issue has a theme, it is combat photography. We begin with an article about one of the most-analyzed photographs of World War II, an aerial shot captured from ...
U.S. NAVY

Pearl Harbor: A Midget Sub in the Picture?

By Captain Andrew Biache Jr., U.S. Naval Reserve (Retired), Peter Hsu, Carroll Lucas, and Captain John Rodgaard, U.S. Navy
December 2004
Experts update their analysis of a captured Japanese photo they say shows a midget submarine attacking Battleship Row on 7 December 1941.

Up Front with the Troops

By Lieutenant Colonel Brendan Greeley, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired)
December 2004
Naval History builds an in-depth profile of acclaimed combat photographer David Douglas Duncan around many of his greatest war images.

‘Let Every Man Do His Duty'

By Zenji Abe, as told to Robert E. van Patten
December 2004
On the morning of 7 December 1941, Val dive-bombers were the first Japanese aircraft to attack the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor. A pilot who led a group of the ...

America’s First Frogman at Saipan

By Elizabeth Kauffman Bush
December 2004
The story of Draper Kauffman—father of World War II's underwater demolition teams, the predecessors of the U.S. Navy SEALs—is detailed in a new Naval Institute Press hook, America’s First Frogman ...

Trapped in a Typhoon

By Commander Erwin S. Jackson, U.S. Navy
December 2004
The Aylwin was among the ships of Admiral “Bull” Halsey’s Third Fleet that were caught in one of the worst typhoons in naval history. Its crew—heroes all—grappled for hours with ...

City with a Navy Past

By Paul Stillwell
December 2004
Vibrant, alluring San Francisco probably would not qualify as a ghost town in the minds of most, but for those with Navy memories, the city offers little except ghosts and ...

In Contact

December 2004
“To Tell Great Stories” (See F. Schultz, pp. 32-35, June 2004; I. de Chellis, P. Feinberg, p. 6, August 2004; A. Ames, H. Caldwell, R. Dunn, p. 7, October ...

Historic Fleets

By A. D. Baker III
December 2004
U.S. Navy experiments with active measures to reduce the effects of rolling on warships dates to 1911, when trials with a gyroscopic stabilization system were conducted on the destroyer Worden ...

The Nocturnal Professionals

By Norman Polmar, Author, Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet
December 2004
The world’s first jet-propelled night fighter built specifically for that purpose was the U.S. Navy’s Douglas F3D Skyknight. As early as 1945, the German Me 262 twin-turbojet aircraft was employed ...

Naval History News

December 2004
Civil War Battle Commemorated in Normandy The summer of 1944 was not the first time American blood was shed off the coast of Normandy during the month of June. But ...

Book Reviews

Reviewed by Frederick C. Leiner & W. Andrew Terrill
December 2004
Uncle Sam in Barbary: A Diplomatic History Richard B. Parker. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2004. 285 pp. Illus. Appens. Notes. Bib. Index. $59.95. Reviewed by Frederick C. Leiner ...