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Vol. XXXIX No. 12

Cover: ‘Fleet Post Office’

Inside: Our Naval Views and Comments

Fleet Post Office – A Service by Navy Men for Navy Men’s Most Vital Need. R. G. Picinich, Jr.

The Porpoise – Never Let Mere Friendship Keep a Romance Waiting. By Sidney Fleischman and by W. Gardner

Two Weeks at the Royal – Hawaii’s Most Famous Hotel Becomes Super-Snooty–Combat Men Only By Doug Wilson

Salty Rhymes

The Matriarch – For 29 Years the USS Melville Has Been Mending Ships

Queen of the Navy – Pictorial Records of the Shakedown Cruise of the “Mightiest I” ( The USS Iowa )

Tough Old Gal – The Thirty Year Old Texas Is Still Slugging. John B. Penfold

So You Want to Be a Fireman By V. C. Barnett

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 Paul Schubert

Flash By Lillian Thomas

Salt Shakers By Walt Munson

Bulletin Board of Naval Interest

Awards, Commendations and Promotions

Personnel Information Official Casualty List September 1st thru 15th

Books in Review

Out of the Mud By Crosby Naylor

Your Beauty Parade

Notes of Interest

The Legion of Valor

Blood on the Rose By Bob Dear

Chief Petty Officer – The Salt of the Earth Was CPO Kirkpatrick. By J. Duncan Campbell

Lay Aft on the Fantail

Traditions of the Navy

The Skipper and the BootBy Jack Watson