ON THE COVER:
A group of US Navy WAVES making some sailors happy aboard the USS Missouri in this 1945 Kodachrome photograph. (USN)

FEATURES:

THE WARRIOR FROM PEARL HARBOR
Part One in the detailed history of the heroic light cruiser USS Phoenix / by Mark L. Evans

VANDERBILT AND THE LEXINGTON DISASTER
How Cornelius Vanderbilt created his fleet of steamships with the focus on the loss of the Lexington / by Colin Ridley

MEMORIES OF A DEPLOYMENT
The 1988 cruise of the USS Forrestal / by Charles H. Bogart

DEVASTATOR VERSUS KATE
Examination of two WWII torpedo bombers / by Joe May and others

THEIR GUNS WERE ALWAYS READY
The third installment in the photographic history of the USS New Jersey / by James Thompson

DEPARTMENTS:

MUSEUM NEWS
Recalling the horror of the Halifax Explosion

INTEL FILE
Lake Huron reveals the wreck of the Ironton

LOST AT SEA
Ships that fell victim to fire at sea / by Susan Duprey

YOUR NAVY
More top images from the Navy’s best photojournalists / by Howard Carter