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Vol. 2 No. 12 ……. Cover: By McClelland Barclay, U.S.N.R. ……. Articles Inside: … Out of the Mail Buoy ….. A Tribute to the Navy League ….. News from the Seven Seas ….. Don’t Scratch the Flat-Tops – Vulnerable? Yes! But the carrier has made a brilliant record in this war, has proved itself an indispensable weapon for victory. By Hanson W. Baldwin ….. The End of the Beginning By Sheldon Clark ….. Navy Day 1942 By Oscar Hammerstein II ….. Tankermen are Tough – The story of the daily life of the men who sail the vessels that carry the lifeblood of the mechanized war – by one of them. By Peter Dixon ….. Sea Dogs on Sentry Duty ….. Meet the Red Fleet – The Red Army amazed the world. Equally suprising is the Soviet Navy fighting on three of the world’s seas, ready on a fourth. By Roy L. Pepperburg ….. Sea Power’s Scoreboard of Naval Losses ….. It’s All Done with Models – Machine gunners shoot at a movie, bombers practice with a “camel” and a “bug” in this ingenious synthetic training course. By Fletcher Pratt ….. From the Serapis to the Solomons – The U.S. Marine Corps celebrated its 167th birthday by fighting the Nation’s foe on far-flung battlefronts ….. How Big Is a Ship? ….. Officers and Directors of the Navy League ….. Biography of a Great Lady ( The U.S.S. Lexington ) By Stanley Johnson ….. New Guide to Japan By Herbert C. Lee ….. Japanese Plane Flies Over U.S. ….. Thanks From the Army to the Navy ….. The Navy League in Action