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Vol. XXXIX No. 5

Cover: ‘The Rough Riders’

Articles Inside: Our Naval Views and Comments

The Rough Riders – The Bucking Little DEs ( Destroyer Escorts ) Drove the U-Boat from the Convoy Routes. By Stephen G. Thompson

My Heart Tells Me – He Was in Love With a Girl Who Had More Lovers Than Stars in the Sky. By Jay W. Hedden

Interlude at Tufula Cove By Hugh G. Oliver

Task Force 58 – The Most Powerful Naval Unit in the History of the Sea Rules the Pacific. By Robert C. Fay

Salty Rhymes

Letter for a Pal By Ervin L. Steely

Yankee Doodle Drummer Boy – George Washington’s Drum Goes Back to War With a 1944 Bluejacket. By Edward Pinkowski

Weather In Invasions – There is No Guesswork by the Weatherman Today

In the Wake of Invasion

Last of the Seabees – A CB Misses too Many Transports, Result, a Fantasy By George Monroe Myers

Tough Little Tug Boat – The USS Choctaw Proves that War Is Not Always Fought With Bombs and Guns. By John B. Penfold ….. Foreign Naval News By Walton L. Robinson

What’s in a Name? – 44. The USS Nevada By Richard Shafter

Round Up of the War By Fletcher Platt

Naval Cancels and Cachets By Marshall R. Hall

Salt Shakers By Walt Munson

Bulletin Board of Naval Interest

Awards, Commendations and Promotions

Personnel Information – Official Casualty List May 1 to May 31, 1944

Books in Review

20 Months at Hard Labor – The 120th Seabees Return to the States

Calling All Solomon Islands Chess Players By Emmet Maum

The Last of LST 348

Your Beauty Parade

Notes of Interest

Sparks from the Sports Wheel By Harry Dwyer

Lay Aft on the Fantail

Traditions of the Navy

The Skipper and the Boot By Jack Watson