Roosevelt Campobello International Park

FDR's Island Home

By Paul Stillwell
October 2009
When driving onto Campobello Island, one passes through Lubec, Maine-the easternmost town in the United States-and across the Franklin D. Roosevelt International Bridge. Reaching the island pushes the clock an ...
Naval History & Heritage Command

On Our Scope

Richard G. Latture, Editor-in-Chief
October 2009
Often, history's greatest battles are the hardest to understand. That's certainly true for Leyte Gulf, which took place 65 years ago. The confusing battle seemingly had it all: a pitched ...
THE USS WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION

In Contact

October 2009
'Action This Day of Days' (See C. D. Yung, pp. 20-25, June 2009 Naval History) Michael Whitby, Senior Naval Historian, Canadian Department of National Defence It was a pleasure ...
NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION

Naval History News

October 2009
American Added to Atomic Bomb Victim List The Japanese recently added the name of a U.S. Navy pilot to the roll of atomic bomb victims at their state-run memorial hall ...
National Archives And Records Administration

Triage at Sea

By Robert J. Cressman
October 2009
The smallest things are often the most easily overlooked. That also applies to some of the most diminutive surface ships, PCE(R)s-patrol craft, escort rescue. Only 13 of the vessels were ...
U.S. NAVY

Historic Aircraft: The New Flying Boats

By Norman Polmar
October 2009
The "New" Flying Boats During World War I-with the support of a fledgling aircraft industry-the U.S. Navy developed some excellent patrol flying boats. These included the only American-designed aircraft to ...
Painting of the USS Princeton (CVL-23) in flames by R. G. Smith

'Hell Broke Loose' at Leyte Gulf

By Marc D. Bernstein
October 2009
When an explosion rained debris on the USS Birmingham, the cruiser’s duties shifted from saving a nearby warship to saving her own Sailors’ lives.
Shell splashes surround the USS Johnston in Jack Fellows' painting "Into Harms Way"

A Warrior's Destiny

By James D. Hornfischer
October 2009
After barely surviving the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, Robert Hagen endured an even worse ordeal: the USS Johnston’s death ride off Samar.
Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport, England

Light on the Horizon

By Rear Admiral Sir David Scott, Royal Navy (Retired), with Julia S. Pullicino
October 2009
The simple act of lighting a cigarette saved the lives of 65 submariners on a dark night in the Mediterranean during World War II.
photos: Boeing

An Aviation Giant's Days at the Academy

By Donald Wills Douglas Jr. and Captain William O. Harrison, U.S. Navy (Retired)
October 2009
He didnt graduate, but Donald Douglas learned valuable lessons at the Naval Academy that helped him become one of historys greatest aircraft designers.
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Book Reviews

October 2009
He didnt graduate, but Donald Douglas learned valuable lessons at the Naval Academy that helped him become one of historys greatest aircraft designers.
FRED BROWN

Museum Report

By Fred Brown
October 2009
Ghost of Pearl Harbor Housed in a most unusual museum in one of East Tennessee's historic mountain towns is a significant record and collection of memorabilia from the USS Tennessee ...