All Hands Magazine - First Line - July 1947

THE BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL INFORMATION BULLETIN

JULY 1947 NAVPERS-O NUMBER 365

REAR ADMIRAL THOMAS L. SPRAGUE, USN
The Chief of Naval Personnel

REAR ADMIRAL JOHN W. ROPER, USN
The Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• All Eyes on Sports 2
• All-Navy Sports Summary 7
• The Word 8
• Legislative Roundup 9
• The Navy Looks Ahead 10
• Scope Schools 13
• Sub Savvy 14
• Salute to Progress 15
• Books: Sports and Adventure 18
• High Speed Lifesaving 19
• Speedy, Scrappy Tin Cans 23
• Special Section:
  • Decorations Regulations 27
  • Wearing of Decorations 34
  • Table of Decorations 37
• Letters to the Editor 38
• Canned Planes 41
• Bulletin Board:
  • GI Benefits for Regulars 42
  • NSLI Policies Discussed 44
  • Defense, Victory Medals Issued 48
  • Survey of All Hands Readers 49
  • Naval Justice Legislation 50
  • New Discharge Certificates 52
  • Seabee Projects Listed 55
• Alnavs, NavActs in Brief 57
• Decorations and Citations 58
• Fantail Forum 64

FRONT COVER: Symbolic of today's Navy—first line of defense—is Frank Pederson, of Bound Brook, N. J. Photo taken for ALL HANDS by Walter G. Seewald.

INSIDE FRONT COVER : A U. S. destroyer noses under a heavy sea during some rough weather in the unpacific Pacific.

CREDITS: All photographs published in ALL HANDS are official U. S. Navy photographs unless otherwise designated. P. 3, lower, by Edmund P. Doles, SPX3JO. P.11, upper right, and inside back cover, Press Association.