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April 1, 1944     Vol. 4 No. 7

Cover: Flusser and Reid Fedfighters With the Fleet.

Inside Articles:

Fedvet, Flusser (DD-368) Reports on Arawe Attack
First Kearny-Built Destroyer Led Assault on New Britain. By William F. Boni

We Build Flagships for Destroyer Fleets

That’s the Stuff

Don’t Forget – 
(Irene Holte, Joe Polashock)

How the Maddox was Lost
Last Hour of Famous Kearny Ship (DD-622) Off Sicily

These Also Served
(Sal Sanandres, James McGowan, James Kilpatrick, Anthony Federico, William Gerace, Paul Guttman, Charles McGovern, Charles Sweeney, James Somlack, Edwin Marsh, William Mulholland, John Cuscela and Frank Trainor)

Power Controller
(Isaiah R. Farley)

Sparks Control Now —
(John Morrison, Reginald Hamel, George Busolt, Milton Ely and Alfred Hoepfner)

Ex-G.I. Johns
(John Briody and John McKenzie)

Landing Craft No. 1 Priority

The Kidd (DD-661) Reports

Greenhorn Gains

From the Lardner—

Hey, Tojo, Your Shipping’s Slipping

Bonuses Boost Idea Box Awards
(Louis Weilbacker, William Daly, Theodore Roosevelt Hanby, James F. Quigley, Harry Fisher, Alfred Farina, Ivan C. Van Buskirk, H. McDonnell, J. M. Pont, Benjamin Weiss, Sidney Cloke, George Bamert, Alfred Hughes and Robert Stewart, Thomas Walsh, Leo Baldwin, William Flosback, John Cook, Theodore Hanby, Zotlucha, J. Brumback, J. Bauer, Jr., M. Matko, H. Beitz, J. Greenwood, D. Stewart, J. Ricci and F. Warner, Walfrid R. Moisio, Alexander Nemeth, Joseph Dobrenski and Charles Van Dorn, Ray Lilly, P. Grocnveld, John H. Sperry, Peter Cangiano and Pincus Tropiansky, Saviri Obojski, Louis Brofsky, Thomas Stevenson, E. V. Panicis, Paul Davis, J. Welby, H. Chapman, M. Nasbaum, Anthony Mackiewicz, Niclolas Osenenko, and Marion Wisniewski)

How “Secret Weapon” Gives Warships More Punch
Why they are faster, sail farther and fight longer

Champions, Build Ships, Too
Hurdler: Mrs. Hazel Kirk Kees and Diver: Mrs. Charlotte Peclers

Destroyer, First Yank Ship to Anchor in a Jap Harbor (USS Phelps DD-360)
Fightin’est Warships Led Vast Armada Invading the Marshall Islands

Navy Family
(Ensign Eloise W. English, Admiral Robert Henry English)

And You, Too?
(Adam Zmijewski)