Our Navy Magazine - March 1969 -

OUR NAVY
The Navy Man's Magazine Founded 1897
Vol. 64, No. 3, March 1969

Stanford F. Brent, Editor

Washington Correspondent Harold Helfer

Photographic Editor Jack Todd

On The Cover: Signalman aboard dock landing ship USS Alamo (LSD-33) runs signal flags up hoist as ship steams in South China Sea off coast of Vietnam. Photographer W. M. Powers, PH1

Table of Contents

News Department

• Pentagon Report
• Atlantic Report
• Pacific Report
• Yard Report
• Washington Briefs
• Inland Report

Regular Features

• Liberty Port—Amsterdam
• Shipmate of The Month
• Crossword Puzzle
• Pass the Word
• Laff Lines
• Book Report
• Editorial
• Picture of The Month

March Features

• Red Menace On The High Seas
  BY R. P. KISSEL
• Brandy
  BY HOWARD C. SMILEY
• He Took To The Tuba
  BY DOROTHY TREBILCOCK
• Lost or Misplaced
  BY THEO. H. TENNANT
• Your Science IQ—The New Moon
  BY L. MACK MENSER
• Ship Of The Month USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31)
• The Lily Pond
  BY JOHN SCOTT STONE
• Covers And Cancels
  BY DESMOND D. JAGYI
• Exclusive Interview—Donald Keyhoe
  BY HAROLD HELFER
• Moffett's Disarming Trio
  BY PHIL MUMMA AND DON ISENBERG
• Little More Than Pocket Change
  BY JOSEPH C. SALAK
• "I Love You, Floyd Bennett Field"
  BY ED GALING
• The Roots Of Childhood (Poem)
  BY ALAN G. PIERCE
• John Hubbard Chafee
  BY LIONEL SALVAS
• Birth Of The Aircraft Carrier
  BY JIM FALK
• A Shipmate We Like To Remember
  BY PAUL ERIC LAYMAN
• Gobbledygook Plus!
  BY BILL CASE 62

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MARCH, 1969