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Dec 1, 2024 | 
usni.org | A. Denis Clift
Navy Captain Edwin T. Layton, first in his May 1953 Proceedings article, “Rendezvous in Reverse,” and then as a rear admiral in his Naval Institute oral history following his retirement, shared the details of a second, failed Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In these edited excerpts, he recalled:I came across some Japanese records immediately following the war, which confirmed something we had believed but couldn’t prove during the war.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
usni.org | A. Denis Clift
Lieutenant Commander Galkin enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1946 at the age of 17. After earning his commission in 1954, he served two years as a ship superintendent at Charleston Naval Shipyard and one year at SUPSHIP AIM Baltimore, retiring from the Naval Reserve in 1976. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Brown University and an MBA from Wharton. This is an edited excerpt from his forthcoming autobiography.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
usni.org | A. Denis Clift
Navy Captain Edward L. Beach Sr. graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1888 as a passed midshipman and received his commission in 1890. He had early sea duty on board the USS Philadelphia (C-4), New York (ACR-2), and training ship Essex before joining the protected cruiser USS Baltimore (C-3) in 1897, on which he would participate in the Battle of Manila Bay.
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May 1, 2024 | 
usni.org | A. Denis Clift
Future Navy Rear Admiral Edward K. Walker graduated from the Naval Academy in 1925 and following early tours on board battleships, spent 1927 through 1942 as a submariner. Intermixed with shore duty, he served in submarine command and on the staff of Commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
usni.org | Taira Payne |A. Denis Clift
CDR Goguen served as an enlisted Marine and as a yeoman in the Navy Reserve before she was commissioned as a naval intelligence officer in 1987. She retired in 2010 with more than 32 years of naval service. From 2002 to 2022, she was employed as a civilian historian for the Office of Naval Intelligence. She holds a PhD in military history from Temple University.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
usni.org | A. Denis Clift
Since its founding in 1873, the Naval Institute has taken its inspiration from John Adams’ “Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write,” providing an independent forum for authoritative, professional writing on the issues affecting, challenging, and advancing sea power. This has not always been an easy road—for either Proceedings or its authors. In his 1973 essay for the Naval Institute’s centennial, “The First Hundred Years Are . . .,” retired Navy Captain Roy C.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
usni.org | A. Denis Clift
In December 1942, Naval Academy graduate and future Vice Admiral J. Victor Smith reported on board the new Gleaves-class destroyer USS Shubrick (DD-639) as executive officer and was with her in convoy escorts and shore bombardments off Gela, Sicily. There, the ship took a bomb amidships and was heavily damaged, but with temporary patching, she was able to make her way back to New York for repairs. In late 1943, Lieutenant Commander Smith became the ship’s commanding officer.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
usni.org | A. Denis Clift
After a year of college, future Vice Admiral Bernard B. “Beetle” Forbes Jr. enlisted in the Navy and made his way through boot camp and the Naval Academy Preparatory School to enter the Naval Academy in 1941. He graduated with the war-accelerated Class of ’45 in June 1944. After a brief aviation indoctrination, he joined the Allen M. Sumner–class destroyer USS Barton (DD-722) and was with her in gunnery, as gunnery officer, and as executive officer, 1944–47.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
usni.org | A. Denis Clift
When Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan became the second president of the U.S. Naval War College in 1886, the college was struggling. Officers who had entered in the earliest years expressed doubts about its value. Mahan took stock of where teaching stood and firmly situated history in the center of its efforts to teach strategy. Proceedings in October 1888 published “Address of Captain A. T.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
usni.org | A. Denis Clift
On 10 November 1775, the Continental Congress authorized the raising of two battalions of Marines for the defense of the colonies, which were then preparing to protect their rights, as they saw them, against the aggressions of the mother country. Marine Corps Commandant Major General John A.
