ON THE COVER:
This moody painting depicts USS New Mexico (BB-40) while also highlighting this month’s section on US Navy art from the Great War. Completed at the New York Naval Shipyard at the end of WWI, New Mexico escorted President Woodrow Wilson in the USS George Washington to France to sign the Treaty of Versailles. New Mexico was the first US Navy ship with turboelectric transmission, an innovation that increased engine performance while reducing overall size requirements and weight. It proved so successful that the Navy immediately decide that all future ships would use this type of engine. This oil on canvas painting was done by Walter Greene and is courtesy Naval History and Heritage Command

FEATURES:

LINER OF LOST SOULS
Even though rescue was just a few hundred feet away, the majority of passengers aboard the SS Valencia would die a horrible death on the storm-tossed rocks of Vancouver Island / by Adam Stanton

“FIRE ON THE HANGAR DECK!”
It was a close thing, but heroic action by the crew of USS Boxer saved the vitally-needed carrier during the Korean War / by J.B. Rivard

THE LAST HERO
Edouard Victor Michel Izac was the last living holder from the Great War of the Medal of Honor. He let himself be captured by the crew of U-90 so that he could learn the secrets of German submarine operations / by Leland Hegge

ARTISTS AT WAR
Our continuing feature on the US Navy’s combat artists. This month, we examine art work from the Great War / by Rod Elmsdorf

DEPARTMENTS

MUSEUM NEWS
The new project to recover a US Navy Douglas TBD-1 Devastator torpedo-bomber

INTEL FILE
Can today’s Royal Navy be an effective fighting partner for the US Navy? / by Randall Brink

LOST AT SEA
More ships whose sailing days are over / by Susan Duprey

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