Our Navy Magazine 15 September 1959 The Attack Carrier
The Voice of all Navymen
15 September 1959
Vol. 54 No. 8
OUR COVER: North America's shiny new A3J Vigilante streaks through the California skies. She is expected to replace the A3D Skywarrior as our biggest carrier-based warplane. Photo courtesy North American Aviation.
NEWS SECTION
- Washington Bulletin
by Harold Helfer 3
Latest from the Pentagon and Capitol Hill. - Bulletin Board of Naval Interest
by Our Navy Reporters 10
With bluejackets ashore and afloat. - Navy Sports Through the Long Glass
by Fred Thornberry 30
Who won what, when, where.
ARTICLES
- The Panama Canal
by Capt. R. S. Fahle 23
An appeal to improve our vital link. - The Attack Carrier
by Charles Kapitzky, J01 24
In fiction we won the trial; in truth we lost it. - French Frigate Fun
by Steve Libby 26
Keeping amused on a desert island.
FICTION
- Make A Swap, Take A Drink
by Lcdr. George D. Cooke 29
And a drink, and a drink, and .. .
DEPARTMENTS
- Speaking of Cars 31
- Swaps and Tacts 44
- Our Reel Navy 32
- Notes of Interest 45
- Editorial 48
ALL Photographs are official Department of Defense or Our Navy photos unless otherwise credited. All opinions expressed are those of the editors or contributors, and are not necessarily the official views of the Navy Department or the U. S. Government.
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Entire contents copyrighted, 1959, by OUR NAVY, Inc.