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Gift Books The Pen and the Sword The Kissing Sailor Cats in the Navy Dogs in the Navy U.S. Submarines Since 1945 U.S. Aircraft Carriers, Revised Edition U.S. Battleship U.S. Cruisers U.S. Destroyers, Revised Edition U.S. Submarines Through 1945

Image from Cats in the Navy: Sheet music for the piano solo “The Ship’s Cat” by Elinor Colby, published in 1953.

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On July 29, 1938, Institute secretary-treasurer Capt. G. V. Stewart sent a $50,000 check to the superintendent of the Naval Academy for construction of the Preble Hall Museum Building. Congress stated in law that the Institute would have its offices on the Academy Yard. On July 29, 1938, Institute secretary-treasurer Capt. G. V. Stewart sent a $50,000 check to the On July 29, 1938, Institute secretary-treasurer Capt. G. V. Stewart sent a $50,000 superintendent of the Naval Academy for construction of the Preble Hall Museum Building. check to the superintendent the Naval Academy forces construction of the Congress stated in law that theofInstitute would have its offi on the Academy Yard.Preble Hall

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The first Naval Institute Press fiction arrived with a bang in 1984 when the staff worked with unknown would-be novelist Tom Clancy, rejected elsewhere, and published The Hunt for Red October, which would become a bestselling novel and film and launch Clancy on his meganovelist career.

From 1939 to 1999, the Institute’s offices were in the Academy museum building, Preble Hall. From 1939 to 1999, the Institute’s offices were in the Academy museum building, Preble Hall.

From 1939 to 1999, the Institute’s offices were in the Academy museum building, Preble Hall.

The first Naval Institute Press fiction title arrived with a bang in 1984 when the staff worked with unknown would-be novelist Tom Clancy, rejected elsewhere, and published The Hunt for Red October, which would become a bestselling novel and film and launch Clancy on his mega-novelist career.

THE PEN AND THE SWORD

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The U.S. Naval Institute: 1873-2023

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“A well-researched and very readable book about an iconic subject. It is worth a read.” —Starshell “The authors have made an engaging and convincing argument, providing a wealth of information without lagging in pace as they unravel this intriguing true-life mystery. Their book will appeal to armchair historians, armchair detectives, and anyone who would like to know the story behind one of the most beloved photographs in American history.” —Library Journal “What a wonderful detective story about a kissing sailor and a beautiful nurse—the most famous couple celebrating the end of WWII. Famous but anonymous—until now. I loved it.” —Tom Brokaw, author of The Time of Our Lives: A Conversation About America and The Greatest Generation

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U.S. Navy aviators play with the ship’s cat while awaiting instruction in the briefing room of a carrier in the Atlantic. As with many photos released during World War II, the name of the ship was not disclosed, but it was probably the USS Ranger (CV 4), 1944. (U.S. Naval Institute photo archive)

The sender of this postcard hoped that the black cat on the gun would bring the recipient good luck during World War I. (Author’s collection)

CATS IN THE NAVY Marine corporal Edward Burkhardt with Suribachi Sue, 1945. Joe Rosenthal took a different photo of Burckhardt with Sue that appeared in newspapers throughout the United States. Rosenthal’s photo of the flag-raising on Mount Suribachi would become one of the most iconic images of the war. (NARA)

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A Marine keeps a puppy warm in the hood of his jacket during the Korean War. (Naval History and Heritage Command)

A sailor carries one of the 250 pets allowed to board USS Abraham Lincoln when the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo threatened U.S. bases in the Philippines. (U.S. Naval Institute photo archive)

DOGS IN THE NAVY By Scot Christenson Tex of submarine rescue ship USS Florikan sprawls in his own hammock, which helped prevent seasickness. (U.S. Naval Institute photo archive)

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“U.S. Submarines since 1945, Revised Edition by Norman Friedman is a must read for all professionals, designers and scholars of modern submarines.” —The Australian Naval Institute “Considered to be one of the most comprehensive books on the subject of American submarines, this book is a standard for both novices and experts in the field.” —Marine Insight “Profusely illustrated throughout, U.S. Submarines Since 1945: An Illustrated Design History is a definitive study that is impressively well written, organized and presented, making it an ideal, essential, and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, college, and university library American Naval History collections and supplemental studies reading lists.” —The Midwest Book Review

U.S. SUBMARINES SINCE 1945, REVISED EDITION

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Special Editions Battleship Massachusetts Aircraft Carrier Intrepid Battle of Guadalcanal Battle of Tarawa Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen Battleship Tirpitz Battleship Alabama Battleship Texas Battleship Iowa

Aerial view of ships formation during battle operation of Tarawa. Landing craft, looking like waterbugs, make for the beach. (U.S. Naval Institute photo archive)

BATTLESHIP MASSACHUSETTS

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U.S. NAVY ATTACK AIRCRAFT, 1920–2020 By Norman Friedman

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A New Kind of Attack Bomber

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A standard two-seat DT, with the pilot’s seat moved forward and a gunner’s position added. This one was built under license by Lowe, Willard, & Fowler (LWF). When not on wheels, the DT-2 had twin floats. NHHC

The first DT-1 was also a single-seater, with the pilot abaft the wing. The second and third prototypes were modified as DT-2s: the pilot was moved forward to a position under the leading edge of the wing, and a gunner’s cockpit (with one 0.30-calibre machine gun) placed abaft the wing. To offset the additional weight, the standard 400-hp Liberty engine was replaced by a higher-compression version developing 450 hp. The DT-1 and the first DT-2 had their radiators on the sides of the fuselage. The third aircraft was

rearranged, the radiator moving to the conventional position in the nose. To solve oil cooling problems, an external oil cooler was installed on the left-hand walkway. This version was ordered into production, which was considerable by contemporary standards: thirty-eight DT-2s from Douglas Santa Monica, eleven from Dayton-Wright, twenty by Lowe, Willard, & Fowler (LWF, in New York City), and six by the Naval Aircraft Factory. The DT-2s were delivered in 1922–24. Production aircraft had modified vertical tails with “balanced” rudders (the axis not The unfortunate Skyshark. U.S. NAVAL INSTITUTE PHOTO ARCHIVE

The DT became BuAer’s engine test bed. The DT-4 (BuAer A-6423) was powered by a 650-hp Wright T-2 engine. Note the radiator alongside the pilot’s cockpit. The engine was light enough to be substituted for the original Liberty without structural change, adding 250 hp. Two DT-4s were later given geared T-2Bs as DT-5s. NHHC

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only for ground running; flight engines were not delivered until March 1950. The first flight was promising, but the XT40 encountered continuing issues, to the point that in October 1950 serious consideration was given to installing a Pratt & Whitney T34 instead—but the T34 had no contraprop. An engine problem caused the 19 December 1950 crash of the first prototype.34 The second airplane was almost complete when the first crashed. A series of engine failures postponed its first full flight. There were “liftoffs” in June 1951 and January 1952, but the first full flight was made only on 4 April 1952. A production T40-A-6 replaced the prototype engine, and the first servicetest airplane flew on 10 June 1953. A near-crash in

October revealed that stresses on the propeller and gearbox exceeded those allowed for: the airplane was not rigid enough between engine and gearbox. The fuselage was stiffened, but by that time production aircraft had been canceled.35 The project had one important by-product. Heinemann realized that his airplane would be faster than the terminal velocity of the existing twothousand-pound bomb. He therefore developed a new streamlined bomb shape, which would not contribute undue drag on the aircraft. He claimed that an A2D with the three new type bombs would be 50 mph faster than one carrying three of the old type. The new shape was adopted for the Mk 80 series bombs that U.S. aircraft still carry.36

This considerably refined sketch design (Model 593-7) was submitted on 25 March 1949, just before cancellation of the supercarrier. The only obvious difference from the A3D as built was the rooster tail. At this stage the payload was 6,000 pounds of bombs. Takeoff weight had been reduced to 72,500 pounds. On that basis the airplane could take off from a Midway-class carrier using a catapult plus JATO in a twenty-five-knot wind; without JATO but with the catapult it could take off in a 43.9-knot wind. Maximum sea-level speed was 563 knots (Mach 0.852); combat radius was 1,700 nautical miles at Mach 0.832. Model 593-8 (13 May 1949) was substantially the A3D as built but still with J40s. Heinemann managed to cut takeoff weight to 68,000 pounds. Combat radius was 1,500 nautical miles at Mach 0.85; maximum speed at sea level was 568 knots (Mach 0.860). At 40,000 feet that fell to 511 knots (Mach 0.889). AUTHOR’S COLLECTION

Curtiss was runner-up to Douglas with this shoulder-wing bomber, its engines in its wing roots. Span was eighty-one feet, length eight-three feet one inch and height twenty-three feet five inches. Normal gross weight was 87,000 pounds. North American submitted a somewhat similar design. NHHC

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ussian and Soviet Battleships is the definitive English language overview of Russian and Soviet battleships, from the ironclad Petr Velikii of 1869 to Stalin’s final projects. Meticulously researched, this work describes and illustrates the design histories, technical details, characteristics, and service histories of the forty seagoing battleships that served in the Russian and Soviet Navies. This is the first book about Russian battleships to draw from Russian language materials, including books and articles published since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Some one hundred drawings of ships and design studies, many specially commissioned for this book, are showcased, as well as one hundred photographs, many of them never published in the west.

RUSSIAN AND SOVIET BATTLESHIPS By Stephen McLaughlin

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“This is a magnificent production. The technical and operational level of detail will delight the most demanding rivet-counter, but the nine hundred high quality illustrations—3D renderings, color and B&W photos, and line drawing—elevate Battleships of the Iowa Class into a class of its own. The translation from the French original is excellent. Highly recommended.” —Vincent P. O’Hara, author of U.S. Navy against the Axis, Struggle for the Middle Sea, and Torch “. . . .The most spectacular and comprehensive account of . . . legendary battleships ever produced. It contains a staggering number of photographs, laying out the battleships’ story right up until the present day as preserved/ museum ships.” —Warships: International Fleet Review

THE BATTLESHIPS OF THE IOWA CLASS

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A Design and Operational History

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By Philippe Caresse; Translated by Bruce Taylor

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The Career of the Battleship USS New Jersey (BB 62) • 327 CHARACTERISTICS AND PROTECTION OF THE MAIN ARMAMENT (16-INCH)

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Caliber Elevation Muzzle velocity (AP) Theoretical rate of fire Barrel life with full charge

Training speed Elevation speed Recoil Range by elevation

Protection Face Side Roof Rear Barbette

50 +45° to –5° 2,425 ft/sec 2 shells/min 290–350 firings, increased to 1,500 with the addition of a wear-reduction jacket placed round each powder bag in the 1980s 4°/sec 12°/sec 47 in 17,750 yds at 10° 23,900 yds at 15° 29,000 yds at 20° 33,300 yds at 25° 36,700 yds at 30° 39,500 yds at 35° 41,430 yds at 40° 42,345 yds at 45°

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26 in at 10,000 yds 20 in at 20,000 yds 15 in at 30,000 yds 11 in at 40,000 yds

Despite the gravity of these events, morale remained good in New Jersey. Admiral Halsey often visited the men at their quarters, would not hesitate to join the crew of a turret for a cup of coffee, and shared Thanksgiving dinner with the men on November 23, 1944. He disembarked on January 27, 1945, to be replaced two days later by Rear Adm. Oscar C. Badger. Meanwhile, New Jersey’s sister Wisconsin had reached Ulithi on December 9 to reinforce the Third Fleet. On the 11th, Task Group 38.2 sailed for Luzon but a week later were assailed by Typhoon Cobra (known as “Halsey’s Typhoon”) while still three hundred miles short of its destination. The destroyers Hull (DD 350), Monaghan (DD 354), and Spence (DD 512) foundered with heavy loss of life in a sixty-five-foot swell and winds in excess

of 100 knots, which eventually claimed 790 lives. New Jersey, rolling through 20 to 25 degrees, had one of her Kingfishers washed away. Once calm had been restored, TG 38.2 refueled 250 miles east of the Philippines before returning to Ulithi on the 24th. The holiday season was spent at anchor, and on January 26, 1945, Capt. Edmund Wooldridge took command of New Jersey, with the following days being spent in antiaircraft exercises.

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Admiral Halsey joins his sailors for a meal in New Jersey. USN

View of the after superstructure of Iowa in 1944.

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“Her admirers will be grateful to Commander Stafford for preserving so much of her so well.”—New York Times “The unbelievable career of the bravest and most effective warship America ever built, excitingly recorded.” —Life “An action-packed drama of living men in a ship with a soul.”—San Francisco Examiner “After reading Commander Stafford’s lovingly detailed saga, you may well wonder: Why didn’t they preserve the Big E for posterity, just as they did Old Ironsides.”—Arizona Republic

THE BIG E

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The Story of the USS Enterprise, Illustrated Edition

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desperately trying to repair the bomb damage of Santa Cruz. Yamamoto was in better shape. At his command were two light carriers, five battleships, and ten cruisers with their supporting destroyers. Submarines from both sides prowled along the approach and retirement courses of their enemies and land-based aircraft from Espiritu overlapped others from Rabaul. Henderson Field itself, the objective, buzzed with Army, Navy, and Marine Corps planes and was, in effect, a fixed but unsinkable carrier. After Santa Cruz the Big E returned to her anchorage in the harbor of Noumea. The soft wind blew down from the double row of mountains protecting the bay, and the town at its head dozed in the tropic sun as though there had never been a war. But aboard the carrier lights burned all night and there was no respite from the chatter of pneumatic hammers and the spark and sputter of the welders’ arcs. Some sixty officers and men from the repair ship Vestal and a battalion of Sea Bees labored with Herschel Smith’s Construction and Repair Department around the clock.

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The air group lived ashore at the grass field of Tontouta. The men bathed in a river a mile down a dirt road and if a truck or a jeep went by as they were returning, they arrived at the field as dirty as when they left. During the day the Dauntlesses bounced over the uneven grass strip and into the air, checking out the pilots of a Marine bombing squadron en route to Guadalcanal. In the evenings the men of the air group hiked, hitched, and jeeped into Noumea. Some of them made friends among the French and there were evenings in their pleasant homes, with music and conversation and tasty French food and wine, which left the American airmen sad and uneasy for the years wasted in war. They tried to look ahead but could see no end. It had been nearly a year since Pearl Harbor and despite his losses the enemy seemed as strong as ever. On the blacked-out road to the airfield after an evening with the happy family of another man, the war in the Solomons became the ugly mess it really was and the feeling of loss was heavy.

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Five SBDs from Bombing Ten in formation, March 1944. BARR COLLECTION

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An OS2U Kingfisher on loan to the Enterprise for use during a tenuous respite at Majuro Harbor, Marshall Islands, in late February 1944. Typically launched by catapult from battleships and cruisers, here plane handlers use a crane to lower the floatplane from the flight deck into the water, February 27, 1944. NARA

“This book is a fascinating history of how new technologies have been made to work in sea warfare. It has as much relevance for contemporary navies as naval historians. Successful innovation as Innovating Victory, depends not just on technical expertise, but imagination, perseverance and a constant focus on the true strategic and operational goals to be achieved.” —Rear Adm. James Goldrick, RAN (Ret.), author of Before Jutland and After Jutland “Vincent O'Hara and Leonard Heinz approach an important current problem in a valuable an innovative way: They look at key technological advances and ask how and why the different major navies did or did not benefit. In an age of technological innovation, it is too easy to avoid going beyond the sizzle to ask what should or should not be adopted, and how. The authors' comparative approach is both unusual and extremely valuable.” —Norman Friedman, author of U.S. Submarines Through 1945: An Illustrated Design History

INNOVATING VICTORY

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Naval Technology in Three Wars

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Figure 2.3. Mining in the Heligoland Bight. This shows all fields laid during the course of the war. Mining in the bight intensified throughout World War I, from simple defensive barrages in front of harbor mouths and occasional offensive fields to the point that the bight was clotted with mines.

Contact mines collected at Santiago, Cuba, 1898. Mines had no successes in the Spanish-American War, although the sinking of USS Maine in Havana harbor, allegedly by a Spanish mine, pushed the United States toward war. (Library of Congress, 4a15165a, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016804855/)

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a flintlock trigger mechanism. The problem was delivery; Bushnell tried floating the barrel downstream, hoping it would bump against an anchored ship. He also constructed a one-man, pedal-driven submersible he called Turtle. Its mission was to fasten a mine to a ship’s bottom. In several forays, Turtle was able to maneuver to a target but not to attach her weapon. Bushnell recognized that his delivery systems were inefficient, but the practice of floating mines on the current persisted for another ninety years—an eternity in the history of technology. Mine warfare’s first major innovation was to address the delivery problem by targeting moving ships with stationary mines. An early instance of this technology (as well as one of the first uses of electromagnetic technology in Western war—see chapters three and four) was an electrically-fired battery of bottom mines that defended Kiel harbor in the First Schleswig War (1848–51). The Russians were also early adopters, using moored, chemically fuzed contact mines to defend Kronstadt in the 1854 Crimean War. However, these systems were never tested in action, and the delivery question remained open.

transformation was the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight in which a British raid on German minesweepers operating 120 miles from the Elbe led to a running battle through mine-constrained waters, with capital ships on both sides engaged. By the end of the war, battleships were supporting minesweepers rather than the reverse.35 In the Baltic, the Germans managed to sweep the Gulf of Riga defenses once and for all and capture the

Torpedo room in USS Oregon (BB 3), above water and unarmored. Navies continued to equip their battleships with torpedoes through World War I, although battleships had almost no success in using them. Later battleship designs placed the torpedo rooms under armor and below the water line, which reduced the danger of shell hits detonating torpedo warheads but created large spaces that proved dangerous to a ship’s stability when flooded. (Library of Congress, 4a1461a, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016808090/)

The years before the Russo-Japanese War also saw important developments in torpedo technology. These are summarized in table 3.2. The last of these developments was the most significant. While Whitehead had invented a practical way to keep a torpedo at a set depth, maintaining a stable course remained problematic. Even in the best of circumstances, each torpedo had unique directional tendencies. This issue was compounded as launching speeds increased and torpedoes were deployed from amidships rather than from bow tubes, as the motion imparted by the ship made torpedo courses even more erratic. In 1895 an Austrian inventor, Ludwig Obry, came up with a solution: an internal gyroscope. This device sensed the torpedo’s horizontal wanderings and corrected them through steerable vanes. Whitehead quickly adopted it, and enthusiasts heralded this device as greatly magnifying the torpedo’s

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Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels (center) congratulates Lieutenant Commander Lee and Commander Carl Osburn for their shooting at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium. Lee’s eight medals sit in front of him. NARA 19-N-3525

This page from the 1908 Lucky Bag, the Naval Academy yearbook, shows Lee’s signatures in English and Chinese. Courtesy Mrs. Thomas Kinkaid

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The four-stack destroyer William B. Preston looks a bit bedraggled during her tour with the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in the mid-1920s. Courtesy Donald Siders

A 1937 issue of Our Navy magazine contained a photo feature on the Concord. Included in the issue was this picture of Captain Lee and his executive officer, Commander Eugene T. Oates, posing front and center. Arrayed beside them in the first row are the ship’s department heads. The enlisted crew crowds the superstructure. Courtesy Captain Fitzhugh L. Palmer

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Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning leading a naval parade in the South China Sea on April 12, 2018 (PLAN photo)

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ne of the great joys of this holiday season is the arrival in the coming new year of the U.S. Naval Institute’s 150th anniversary—the Sesquicentennial. In 1873, 15 Navy and Marine Corps officers met in the Naval Academy’s old physics building to discuss matters of

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Commodore Foxhall Parker is credited with organizing the Institute’s first meeting on 9 October 1873, with 15 original members in attendance.

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Captain Edward L. “Ned” Beach, Jr., was a member of the Institute’s Board in the 1960s. A highly decorated World War II submariner, he served as President Eisenhower’s Naval Aide, authored the best-selling novel Run Silent, Run Deep, and took the nuclear submarine Triton, seen here, around the world submerged.

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