ON THE COVER:
Crewmen scramble from the Grumman Avenger that has gone over the side of the USS Bataan during March 1944. (National Archives)

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DESTROYER ESCORT DUTY
They were small, but they played a vital war during WWII and in the
post-war Navy / by F.A. Freeman

AIR-SEA RESCUE
During WWII in the Pacific, both the USA and the Japanese tried to
rescue their downed airmen but there was a profound difference in
mentalities / by G. Judson Smith, Jr.

FOUR-PIPER AT WAR
Quickly obsolete after the Great War, the flush-deck four-stack destroyers would have an important role to play in the next war / by R.K. Schrader

END OF THE ROMANCE?
Already in poor condition, the homeless would set fire to this California stern-wheeler / by Roger Cain

THEIR GUNS WERE ALWAYS READY
Continuing the photographic history of the Iowa- class battleships /
by James Thompson

MUSEUM NEWS
A museum attempts to conserve artifacts from Australia’s oldest European shipwreck

INTEL FILE
A dedicated group of volunteers finds the wrecks of two Great War destroyers off the Orkney Islands

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

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

CAPTAIN’S LOCKER
Latest in nautical literature