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Vol. XXXVI No. 8

Cover: Symbolic of the watchfulness and readiness of the United States Navy for whatever task it may be called upon to do is this photograph of W. V. McConnell, QM3c aboard the USS New Orleans. U.S. Navy Recruiting Bureau

Articles inside this issue:

Traditions of the Navy by C. W. Windas

Our Naval Views and Comments by The Editor

Destroyers in Action – The “Maid of All Work” Has Proved Herself the Best Answer to Germany’s Submarine Campaign. By Walton L. Robinson

The Dockyard Thief – When Shoplifters Became Shiplifters in the British Navy And an Admiral Boasted of Stealing a Propeller. By Max Singleton

A Blonde, a Car and No Liberty – Somebody Once Said There Is More Than One Way To Skin a Cat. By Sidney Bindler

Salty Rhymes

Scuttlebutt Scandals by Bozo

The Commodore Bagged an Army – How One Gunboat and a Naval Officer Took Several Thousand Troops. By Paul Twitchell

Checking on Chanties BY Ardith Wilna

How to Make a Liberty – All Over the United States Individuals and Organizations Are Cooperating to Help You Enjoy Yourself Ashore. By Lieut. Commdr. Charles B. Cranford

Liberty de Luxe

Sailor, Beware! by Walter Winchell

Her Nephew in the Navy by Kitty Parsons

What Well Dressed Navy of ’46 Will Wear By C. M. Litteljohn

The Saga of Submarine Sam by C. Richard Schriver

Throgmartin Beasley – High Finance in the South Seas– But the Captain Didn’t Appreciate It. By Mark Lingle

Roundup on the War – Military and Naval Aspects of the European Situation. By Fletcher Pratt

Flash by Lillian Thomas

Salt Shakers by Walt Munson

Bulletin Board of Naval Interest

Pertinent Paragraphs – Sports Notes by Pop Jones

Athletics in the Fleet by Harry Dwyer

Personnel Information

Book Reviews

Advice to the Recruit by Gordon Spain

Notes of Interest

An Open Letter to the American Public by Robert Reinhold Henry

Paradise Notes by W. H. Musick

San Diego Smoker

Lay Aft on the Fantail

The Skipper and the Boot by Jack Watson

USS Augusta on Third Cover