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Vol. XXXIX No. 2

Cover: ‘Dawn Attack’

Articles Inside: Dawn Attack – The Greatest Fleet in History Swings into All-Out Offensive ( On Truk ) By Robert C. Fay as narrated by Frederick S. Shaffer

Jungle Captive – Some Flyers Are More Effective on the Ground. ( Navy Fiction ) By Matthew Christopher and Illustrated by Norman W. Gardner

So You Want to Be a Radioman? – You Don’t Have to Be Crazy to Be a Radioman, But It Helps. By John Louis Allen

Salty Rhymes

Buoys and Gulls ( Cartoon ) By Manning Hall

A Ship Is Named – Navy Families Have Left Their Names for Our Ships. By John B. Penfold

The New Pay Plan – No Longer Will You Have to Wait for Even a Day to Draw Your Money. By Lewis S. Larkin

What’s in a Name? – 41. The USS O’Bannon By Richard Shafter 

Foreign Naval News – Reports on Allied and Axis Navies. By Walton L. Robinson

Flight Deck – Aviation News and Views. By Ernest G. Vetter

Round-Up of the War – Military and Naval Aspects of World War II. By Fletcher Platt

Flash By Lillian Thomas

Salt Shakers By Walt Munson

Bulletin Board

Awards, Commendations and Promotions

Personnel Information – Official Casualty List March 16th thru March 31st, 1944

Seabee Painter ( Frank Nagy CM1c ) By Emmet Baum

Crossword Puzzle

Books in Review

Change of Plans By S. L. Smith

Not Expendable – PT Crews Stopped the Tokyo Express

Your Beauty Parade

Notes of Interest

Sparks from the Sport’s Wheel By Harry Dwyer

Lay Aft on the Fantail

Traditions of the Navy

The Skipper and the Boot By Jack Watson