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ARTICLES
El
Poder Naval contra el Talebán y Al Queda Afganistán
– 2001
(Naval
Supremacy against the Taleban and al Queda, Afghanistan
– 2001)
by
Rear Admiral Carlos E. Cal (Ret.) and
Captain
Juan A. Imperiale (Ret.)
Navy
of Argentina
“A
portentous spectacle”:
The
Monitor U.S.S. Miantonomoh Visits England
by
Howard J. Fuller
University
of Wolverhampton, UK.
BOOK
REVIEWS
Walter
J. Boyne. Today’s Best Military Writing: The Finest
Articles on the Past, Present, and Future of the U.S. Military.
New York, New York: Forge, 2004. Notes. Notes on Contributors.
Index. Pp. 397.
Reviewed
by John Darrell Sherwood,
U.S.
Naval Historical Center, USA
Martin
Clemens. Alone on Guadalcanal: A Coastwatcher’s
Story. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press,
1998. 36 photos. 6 maps. Notes. Glossary. Index. xviii + 343
pages.
Reviewed
by Charles D. Melson
U.S.
Marine Corps History Division
Marine
Corps University, USA.
Robert
J. Cressman, USS Ranger; The Navy’s First Flattop from
Keel to Mast, 1934-46 Washington D.C.:
Brassey’s, 2003, 451 pp, notes, bibliography and index.
Reviewed
by John C. Reilly Jr.
Naval
Historical Foundation
USA
William
Thomas Generous, Sweet Pea at War: A History of USS Portland
(CA-33) University Press of Kentucky, 2003. 290 pp. index.
Reviewed
by Leo
J. Daugherty III
Command
Historian
U.S.
Army Accessions Command
Fort
Monroe, USA
Richard
Knott. Fire from the Sky: Seawolf Gunships in the Mekong
Delta. Annapolis, MD: The Naval Institute Press, 2005.
Photos. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xiii + 260 pages.
Reviewed
by John Darrell Sherwood
U.S.
Naval Historical Center, USA
Lex
McAulay, MacArthur’s Eagles: The U.S. Air War Over New
Guinea, 1943-1944. Annapolis MD: Naval Institute
Press, 2005. 408 pp., photographs, maps, appendices, works
consulted, bibliography, index.
Reviewed
by Bryan Hockensmith
LGB
& Associates, Inc.
U.S.
Army Center of Military History
Edgar
F. Puryear, Jr. American Admiralship: The Moral Imperatives
of Naval Command. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2005.
Pp. 672. Notes. Index
Bruce
M. Petty. Voices from the Pacific War: Bluejackets Remember.
Annapolis: Naval
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BOOK
REVIEWS (continued)
Otto
J. Lehrack America’s Battalion: Marines in the First Gulf
War. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2005,
236 pages.
Reviewed
By Leo
J. Daugherty III
Command
Historian
A
British Eyewitness at the Battle of New Orleans: The Memoir of
Royal Navy Admiral Robert Aitchison, 1808-1827.
Edited by Gene A. Smith. New Orleans: The Historical New Orleans
Collection, 2004. Pp. ix; 150.
Reviewed
by Charles R. Smith,
Marine
Corps University, USA.
Peter
Whitfield, Sir Francis Drake. New York: New
York University Press, 2004. 160 pages, illustrations, chronology,
index.
Reviewed
by Edward M. Furgol
U.S.
Naval Historical Center, USA
William
C Whittle Jr. The Voyage of the CSS Shenandoah.
Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press, 2005. 312 pp. Index.
Reviewed
by Roderick
Gainer
LGB
& Associates, Inc.
Department
of the Treasury
USA
Derrick
Wright, To The Far Side of Hell: The Battle for Peleliu,
1944, Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press,
2005. Bibliography, illustrations, maps, appendices, index. 176
pages.
LGB
& Associates, Inc.
Center
for Military History
USA
DECEMBER
NAVAL HISTORY PHOTOGRAPH
The
First "Computer Bug"
This moth was found trapped between points at Relay # 70, Panel F,
of the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator while it was being tested at
Harvard University, 9 September 1945. The operators affixed the
moth to the computer log, with the entry: "First actual case
of bug being found". They put out the word that they had
"debugged" the machine, thus introducing the term
"debugging a computer program".
In 1988, the log, with the moth still taped by the entry, was in
the Naval Surface Warfare Center Computer Museum at Dahlgren,
Virginia.
Courtesy of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA., 1988.
(Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the
U.S. National Archives.)
COMMUNITY
NEWS
Symposia
and Recent Awards
One-Day
Symposium: Captain George Vancouver
John
Lyman Book Awards
The
Margaret Rossiter Prize for the History of Women in Science
From
the Naval Historical Center
Annual
Awards and
the Naval History Seminar Program for
2005-2006
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