Naval History

Volume 9 Number 1 February 1995

Cover: Flag Raising On Mount Suribachi Sculptor - Marine Corps Memorial near Arlington, Virginia

Contents:

• 'It Only Took A Second'
• Joe Rosenthal took the prize winning picture, but he readily points out that he missed the first flag raising on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi..
• 'The Americans Will Surely Come'
• U.S. military planners grossly underestimated the complex defences Japanese General Kuribayashi established on Iwo..
• To Love a Lost Hero
• The fiance of a former football star - whose heroics at Iwo earned him a Medal of Honor - pays a special tribute to her lost love..
• Marines To Harpers Ferry!
• Marines come under the command of Army Colonel Robert E. Lee to take on John Brown in western Virginia..
• Taking A-Bombs To Sea
• When the Air Force seized upon the Atomic-Bomb mission in the 1950s, some naval officers used the same weapons to save the carriers..
• A Matter Of Class: Part II
• Ever wonder how a ship gets to be classified a battleship or a cruiser?
• Faces Of War
• In World War II, a future commercial artist captured naval combat scenes..
• I Escaped From The Bismark
• A crew member in the German battleship retraces the route he took before he abandoned ship into the heavy Atlantic seas..
• Designing The Bent-Wing Bird
• A Chance Vought designer pays respects to the venerable F4U Corsair, workhorse of World War II naval aviation..

Departments:

• Looking Back - On Our Scope - In Contact - Naval History News - Historic Fleets - Historic Aircraft - The Sail Locker - Book Reviews - Museum Report

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