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Vol. XXXIX No. 9

Cover: ‘Those Liberty Blues’

Articles Inside: Our Naval Views and Comments

Those Liberty Blues – The Bluejacket of Tomorrow Deserves a Good Looking Dress Uniform By Richard Franks

The Purple Parrot – Further Adventures of Ambrose J. Swiggenhock With a Dash of Pink Lady. By Burt Ferris and Illustrations by George Shanks

Post War Mustangs – An Enlisted Man Highlights A Plan for Future Officer Procurement. By Doug Wilson

I Am the Watcher – Someone Must Handle This Thankless Regrettable Duty By Earl S. Dowell and Illustrated by Norman W. Gardner

In Cadence By Emmet Maum

Salty Rhymes

The Return To Guam ( Photo Report )

That Mythical Mail Buoy – You Just Can’t Convince a V-6er When He Can See. By Malcom Davis

What’s in a Name? – 48. The USS Boggs 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

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 July 15 to July 31, 1944

Books in Review

The Bug and the Duck – An OS2U and a PT Made History

Lucky Skipper ( Capt. C. E. Reordan of the USS Tennessee )

Invasion Notes

D-Day for the Satterlee – The “Tin Cans” Kayoed Nazi Shore Batteries By John B. Penfold

Your Beauty Parade

Notes of Interest

LST Shoots Down Seven Jap Planes

Sparks from the Sport Wheel By Harry Dwyer

Lay Aft on the Fantail

Traditions of the Navy

The Skipper and the Boot By Jack Watson