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Vol. XXXIX No. 8

Cover: ‘Salvage Diver’

Articles Inside: Our Naval Views and Comments

Salvage Diver – It’s the Men Who Wear the Iron Hat Who Lighten Our Ship Losses. By Robert C. Fay

Winnie from Waikiki – Three Sheep in Wolves Clothing Learned About Women from Charming but Family Loving Winnie. By W. T. Bowcott and Illustrated by Norman W. Gardner

Mail, Ho! – First Comes Food, Then Mail in the Hearts of the Men Overseas By Emmet Maum

This Is the Navy – A Navyman Who Has Evaded the Rubber Hammer Test, Diagnoses His Shipmates By Andrew J. Hogan

No Longer “Expendables” – Bulkeley’s PT’s Are Now Harrassing the Nazi Navy

Salty Rhymes

Dungaree Dandies By Edward Pinkowski

What’s in a Name? – 47. The USS Meredith 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 of Naval Interest

Awards, Commendations and Promotions

Personnel Information – Official Casualty List July 1st to 15th, 1944

As the Navy Sees the War – Secretary Forrestal Reviews 1944

PT’s In Battle of Italy – The Dragons Roar in the Mediterranean

Your Beauty Parade

Notes of Interest

Lay Aft on the Fantail

Traditions of the Navy

The Skipper and the Boot By Jack Watson

USS Natchez – Inside Third Cover