Naval History

Volume 5 Number 1 Spring 1991

Cover: The Cruiser USS Olympia Moored in Hong Kong 1898

Contents:

• The Cuban Missle Crisis Quarantine
• Facts do not support the proposed theories of two analysts who have criticized the Navy Department as either disobedient or too independent in its actions of October 1962....
• The Ewa Marines
• Tropical undergrowth and lava rock did not deter Marine Air Group 21 from completing an airbase on Oahu just prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor....
• Vagabond Able
• Broadcasting Voice Of America messagesin the 1960s off Rhodes, Greece, was the smallest concern that befell the Coast Guard Cutter Courier's personnel....
• The Runaway And The Wale
• You'll be perched aloft in the crew's nest of a New Bedford whaling ship through the engaging prose of one who dared pursue such leviathans in the 1910s....
• Escape From Siberia
• Even though he flew for the enemy Germans in World War I, readers will find themselves rooting for Erich Killinger in his around-the-world odyssey...
• The 14-inch Naval Railway Batteries
• Ingenuity prevailed in manufacture and deployment in France of America's answer to Germany's "Big Berthas" in World War I....
• George R. Lawrence & His Aerial Photos
• " The Hitherto Impossible in Photography " was decidedly Lawrence's specialty, for few others could set kites and cameras soaring thousands of feet above ground to produce a snapshot....
• Weather Satellite Photos And The Vietnam War
• Meteorological satellite photographs provided invaluable targeting and refueling information during the war...

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