ON THE COVER:
With the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the women of America responded magnificently by taking over defense jobs as the men signed up for military duty. This classic photograph is of Florence “Woo Woo” DiTullio, a welder working on a battleship. She was an 18-year-old who was employed as the first female shipbuilder at Fore River Shipyard. The “Woo Woo” nickname came from all the catcalls she received from
male welders but she was in the forefront of the 16,000,000 women that would be employed in defense by 1943. After a full life, Florence passed away at age 93 during September 2014. (National Archives)

OTHER FEATURES:

DEVIL BOATS VS. THE TOKYO EXPRESS
How an heroic group of PT-Boat crews stopped the Japanese from
supplying their troops on Guadalcanal / by Keith Warren Lloyd

PHANTOM OF THE FANTOME
Once the world’s most luxurious yacht and owned by the 2nd Duke of Westminster, this vessel would meet a mysterious and tragic end while being operated by Windjammer Cruises / by R.W. Ward

GLORY DAYS
A pictorial salute to America’s last great ocean liner — SS United
States / by Edward Brandt

WAR PATROLS OF THE USS BARB
What happened to the crew of the sailing catamaran Kaz II? / by Thomas Fitzgerald

MUSEUM NEWS
Discovery of an unusual fossil

INTEL FILE
Latest in maritime happenings

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

CAPTAIN’S LOCKER
Recent books on maritime history