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Naval History Magazine

Current Issue: October 2008 Volume 22, Number 5
Contents Online Discussion Previous Issues

Cover Story: An officer of the deck in the USS Nehenta Bay (CVE-74) recounts riding out “Halsey’s Typhoon” in Battling the Pacific’s Most Deadly Force By Thompson Webb Jr.

On the 25th years anniversary of the Beirut Marine barracks bombing a veteran recollects the horrific blast in Courage in the Face of Terror By Major Robert T. Jordan, USMC (Ret.)


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Looking Back (Members Only)
By Paul Stillwell
On Our Scope
In Contact (Members Only)
Naval History News (Members Only)
Historic Fleets (Members Only)
By Robert J. Cressman
Historic Aircraft (Members Only)
By Norman Polmar
Battling the Pacific's Most Deadly Force
By Thompson Webb Jr.
A Naval Reserve lieutenant recalls a harrowing 18 December 1944 stormwhat later became known as Halseys Typhoonon board the baby flattop USS Nehenta Bay (CVE-74).
'Wallowin' in a Typhoon Before Morning
By Patrick McSherry
The political intrigue in store for the big ships of the Great White Fleet a century ago was nothing compared to the mighty storm they weathered between the Philippines and Japan.
Bouncy But Dry Ride to Safety (Members Only)
By Captain Robert F. Bennett, U.S. Coast Guard (Retired)

Volunteer crews deployed an odd-looking life-car off the New Jersey shore in what would be the first shipwreck rescue to originate from a U.S. government lifesaving station.
Courage in the Face of Terror
By Major Robert T. Jordan, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired)
The sights and sounds of the terrorist attack on the Marine battalion landing team barracks at Beirut International Airport in October 1983 are still palpable to those who survived the blast.
Those Stout Manitowoc Boats (Members Only)
By Don Walsh
The submarine USS Rasher (SS-269) was at test depth in the Bering Sea, but her crew noticed something was terribly wrong. Thank Heaven she had been built in Wisconsin.
'I was a Navy Misfit' (Members Only)
By Al Corona
Calling his skipper by a nickname no one ever used to his face was only his first mistake. More miscues left this Sailor alone on a fueling barge, armed only with a rifle and a flare gun.
The Cruise Missile Comes of Age (Members Only)
By Andrew Hind
When Egyptian patrol boats fired Soviet-manufactured Egyptian Styx cruise missiles and sank the Israeli destroyer Eilat in 1967, naval warfare changed forever.
The Ship that Couldn't be Built (Members Only)
By Stephen C. Small
Under construction for seven years before the Civil War, the Stevens Battery, arguably the most technologically advanced warship of the mid-19th century, never came to fruition.
How Civil War Sailors Lived (Members Only)
By Elizabeth Hoxie Joyner
When the Union ironclad gunboat Cairo went to the muddy bottom of the Yazoo River in 1862, she carried items made by companies most of us would recognize today.
Book Reviews (Members Only)
Museum Report (Members Only)
By Kevin M. Hymel








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