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1943, Click Magazine, Submarines

Our Worst Enemy: The U-Boat
(Click Magazine, 1943)

By editor / February 28, 2022

Attached herein are a few authentic sketches [that] show the nerve center of a captured Nazi sub. accompanied by a few informative paragraphs about the beast:

Every inch of a U-boats space, every one of its 45 men, is utilized to the maximum. Each serves the sub’s principal weapon, the torpedoes which speed toward an objective at 45 knots. New models have one or two guns of 3.5-inch caliber or more which are effective against unarmored ships at ranges up to five miles.

1943, Click Magazine, Submarines

Life on a U.S. Navy Sub
(Click Magazine, 1943)

By editor / February 28, 2022

Illustrated with seven color pictures, this wartime magazine article served to give the folks back home a sense of what an U.S. Navy sub is capable of doing:

With a crew of 44 men, an American submarine in Pacific waters may reasonably hope to sink twenty or more enemy ships before the end of this war… By its very limitations, the submarine offers its crew opportunities to do damage to the enemy which are not given to sailors on other types of vessels. Ninety percent of the time during the war our pig boats (ie. submarines) are looking for the enemy. Cruisers and destroyers, on the other hand must often pass up the privilege of fighting in order to carry out some broad strategy objective; thus convoying, reconnaissance and scouting are a kind of boresome duty the submariner seldom knows.

They are a proud lot, our submarine men, but not boastful. They talk less of their exploits than the public likes. The brass hats apparently have decided to keep it that way.

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1942, Newsweek, Submarines

U-507 In The Gulf of Mexico
(Newsweek Magazine, 1942)

By editor / February 28, 2022

For the first time, U-boats became active in the Gulf, evidently under command of men familiar with its shallow waters. Two freighters, one American and one Honduran, were sunk.

USN Submarines Off the Coast of Japan 1943 |WW2 USN Submarine Memoir |WW2 Story The American Magazine March 1943

1943, Submarines, The American Magazine

‘We Raid The Coast of Japan”
(American Magazine, 1943)

By editor / February 28, 2022

Proceed at once to the coast of Japan

Sometimes it is difficult to repress an impulse to whoop with delight, and this was one of them. This was the moment we had lived for, the moment every submariner dreams about… We were ready. War was our trade… Now we were playing for keeps. We were eager to get at it.

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1947, The U.S. Department of the Navy, War at Sea

The U.S. Navy’s War: Tarawa to Tokyo
(Dept. of the Navy, 1947)

By editor / February 28, 2022

Attached is a 1947 report by the U.S. Navy summing up the remarkable roll that naval aviation played during the last half of the war with Imperial Japan:

In the advance across the Central Pacific the carrier task force with it’s extreme flexibility and mobility had been the dominant factor. It established the conditions under which long-range amphibious advances were possible. It never failed to gain command of the air at the required time and place, successively overwhelming the air garrisons not only of the Japanese perimeter but of the major fortresses of Formosa and the Philippines, and maintained command of the air until shore-based air forces could be established.

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1947, The U.S. Department of the Navy, War at Sea

What the Navy Learned During the Pacific War
(Dept. of the Navy, 1947)

By editor / February 28, 2022

The following is an essay from the office of the Chief of Naval Operations concerning what the U.S. Navy learned about carrier warfare during the four year war against Japan.

1947, The U.S. Department of the Navy, War at Sea

Japanese Naval Losses Measured in Tons
(Dept. of the Navy, 1947)

By editor / February 28, 2022

Four graphs from a 1947 Naval study illustrate the amount of Japanese aircraft and assorted sea faring vessels that were destroyed during the course of World War Two.

1944, War at Sea, Yank Magazine

The Sinking of the Liscome Bay
(Yank Magazine, 1944)

By editor / February 28, 2022

A World War Two article from YANK MAGAZINE recalling the sinking of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier off the coast of the Gilbert Islands –

1947, The U.S. Department of the Navy, War at Sea

The U.S. Navy’s War: Pearl Harbor to Midway
(Dept. of the Navy, 1947)

By editor / February 28, 2022

An essay on the U.S. Navy’s progress during the first six months of World War Two.

Japan’s decision to launch a war was based on the assumption that the conflict in Europe would render Russia and Great Britain negligible factors in the Far East. It was based on the further assumption that the United States, already committed to near belligerency in the Atlantic could not, even if finally successful in that theater, mount an offensive in the Pacific in less than 18 months to two years and would not in any case be willing to pay the price of total victory in the Pacific.

Misleading Article about the Battle of the Coral Sea 1943 | Battle of the Coral Sea Propaganda

1942, Newsweek, War at Sea

The Battle of the Coral Sea
(Newsweek & Yank Magazines, 1942 – 3)

By editor / February 28, 2022

From the 4th through the 8th of May, 1942, the Japanese and American fleets exchanged blows in their first major engagement. The Americans won, but not by much; the most important battle would take place four weeks later at Midway. But the Yanks were happy with the way it turned out nonetheless:

It was a victory all right – but it was not as decisive as it sounded, to a jubilant America. For in the north in the mandated islands the main Japanese Fleet still stood ready for action at any moment – a fleet as yet largely unscathed, a fleet that has always come back for more, a fleet that does not like the taste of defeat.

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1943, War at Sea, Yank Magazine

The Battle of Midway
(Yank Magazine, 1943)

By editor / February 28, 2022

Written months after the battle, this is the Yank report on the naval engagement that was the turning point in the war:

The Jap had failed to get a foothold on Australia. Strategists reasoned that he would now strike east, at an outpost of the North American continent. Alaska became the No. 1 alert; bombers were flown to Midway; carriers came north and Admiral Nimitz pushed patrols far out toward the Bonins and Wake islands… A navy patrol found the enemy first, in the early hours of June 3 [1942]… Reconnaissance showed a Jap force of about 80 ships approaching Midway.

– the contest that followed proved to be the first truly decisive battle in the Pacific war.

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1944, War at Sea, Yank Magazine

An Interview with U.S. Admiral Chester Nimitz
(Yank Magazine, 1944)

By editor / February 28, 2022

Yank correspondent H.N. Oliphant interviewed Admiral Chester William Nimitz (1885 – 1966) for the August 4, 1944 issue regarding the progress in the Pacific Theater of Operations. At that time, the battle of the Marianas was being waged and it was a subject of much concern as to it’s significance.

In the Central Pacific, we have in three swift leaps advanced our sea power thousands of miles to the west of Pearl Harbor. Now our western-most bastions face the Philippines and undoubtedly worry the man on the street in Tokyo concerning the immediate safety of his own skin.

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Pageant Magazine, War at Sea

Halsey at Leyte Gulf
(Pageant Magazine, 1960)

By editor / February 28, 2022

The Battle of Leyte Gulf (October 23 – 26, 1944) was the largest naval battle in World War II – as well as the most decisive. Given the naval weaponry that exists in the digital age, it is highly unlikely that opposing navies will ever again have need to come within visible range of one another again. This article tells the history of that battle, shedding light on a few of the important naval campaigns that came before. Written sixteen years after the events by a knowledgeable author, you will gain an understanding of the thoughts that were going through Admiral Halsey’s cranium when he commanded the largest battle fleet ever assembled.

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Second Battle of the Philippines October 1944 | Admirals at Leyte Gulf 1944

1945, Collier's Magazine, War at Sea

The Greatest Sea Battle
(Collier’s Magazine, 1945)

By editor / February 28, 2022

Patching together the reports of four different war correspondents, the editors at Collier’s were able to create a genuine page-turner narrating the American naval victory that took place off the coast of the Philippines during the Fall of 1944.

Secretary of the Navy Forrestal summed up the results as ‘One of the great naval victories of the war that will go down, along with Midway and Guadalcanal sea battles as one of the great, shattering blows struck against Japanese sea power. The Japanese fleet was indeed beaten, routed and broken.’

Navy Secretary Frank Knox on the Two-Ocean Navy 1942 | WW2 Navy Secretary frank Knox Article

1942, The American Magazine, War at Sea

‘We Can Win On Both Oceans”
(The American Magazine, 1942)

By editor / February 28, 2022

Frank Knox was FDR’s Secretary of the Navy between 1940 through 1944. Arm and arm with his lieutenant, Under Secretary James Forrestal, the two men made good on the Two-Ocean Navy Bill passed by Congress during the summer of 1940:

I am proud of this Navy of ours. Every American has a right to be proud of it, to know that it is, up to now, the greatest navy in history. But we cannot afford to be complacent about it. It is still not the navy that our country needs and that our fighting men in the ships deserve.

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1950, Pathfinder Magazine, Recent Articles, The Cold War

The Necessity of Overthrowing Russia
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1950)

By editor / February 27, 2022

This is a profile of the American Cold Warrior James Burnham (1905 – 1987), who is remembered as being one of the co-founders of the conservative monthly, National Review. What is little known about Burnham is the fact that he was a communist in his early twenties and a steady correspondent with Trotsky. It didn’t take long before he recognized the inherit tyranny that is the very nature of communism – and from that moment on he devoted much of his life to revealing to the world the dangers of that tyranny.

Official US Navy Report on Pearl Harbor Losses

1940, Pearl Harbor, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles

The Navy Tells It
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

By editor / February 27, 2022

One year after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the Navy released its report to the press with updates on all the various repairs that were put into effect.

1942 FBI catches Axis Spies | FBI Activity During 1942 | FBI Counter Espionage Efforts 1942

1942, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles, Spying

A Busy Year for the FBI
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

By editor / February 26, 2022

The FBI had been tangling Axis spies throughout the mid-to-late Thirties, but with the December 8, 1941, declaration of war the FBI was emboldened with far greater powers. This explains why Director Hoover exclaimed that his agency had just completed the busiest year in its history.

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