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February 2012 I Volume 26 I Number 1

U.S. Naval Institute I www.usni.org

Our 25th Year!

16 SEALs: 50 Years & Counting

By Dick Couch

Heirs to the underwater demolition team legacy,

forged in the fires of Vietnam, the sea-air-land men

became one of the world’s most elite forces.

24 At War with the Army

By Alan Rems

Sometimes you have to remind yourself who the

enemy is—witness the often intense interservice

frictions of the Pacific war.

32 Rescue on Guam Patrol

By Lieutenant Commander Robert Bernier,

U.S. Naval Reserve (Retired)

It was a vast ocean and a daunting search, but these

Cold War reservists knew that the lives of downed-

plane survivors hung in the balance.

DEPARTMENTS

4 On Our Scope

6 Looking Back

In Contact

10 Naval History News

36 Into Battle on Board the Invincible

By Giles Healy

An impulsive auction purchase yielded a surprise

gem: the first draft of history, courtesy of a British

officer at the 1914 Battle of the Falklands.

Historic Aircraft

Historic Fleets

Book Reviews

Museum Report

44 The Invincible ’s Explosive Photo

By Peter A. Marshall

Could an oft-published Jutland image be the

debunked Loch Ness Monster photo of World War I

naval history?

46 A Museum Reborn

By William S. Dudley

The Naval Academy Museum’s renovation was well

worth the time and expense; now more than ever, it’s

a naval-history lover’s target destination.

COVER: A Navy SEAL with an M-63 A1

Stoner light machine gun exercises caution

along the thickly wooded bank of a Vietnam

stream in 1968. See “SEALs: 50 Years and

Counting,” p. 16. (National Archives)

52 The Resurrection of John Paul Jones

By Captain Patrick Grant, U.S. Navy (Retired)

America’s first naval hero deserved a less

ignominious fate, and a dedicated few restored him

to a place of honor.

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58 The Ugliest Bandage on Iwo Jima

By Colonel Charles A. Jones,

U.S. Marine Corps Reserve (Retired)

When a World War II Marine and corpsman

reconnected years later, a decades-old oversight was

corrected and a Purple Heart awarded at last.

NAVAL HISTORY r FEBRUARY 2012

Contributors

Lieutenant Commander Robert

Bernier, USNR (Ret.) , served as a

pilot and patrol-plane commander

with VP-65 from 1979 to 1991. He

finished his 35-year flying career as

an international airline captain and

is currently helping restore a Marine

AU-1 Corsair at the San Diego Air

& Space Museum. His magazine

articles have appeared in Aviation

History and Smithsonian’s Air &

Space .

Dick Couch was a surface-warfare

officer and SEAL platoon commander

in Vietnam. He has written 14 books,

including The Sheriff of Ramadi (Naval

Institute Press, 2008), and coauthored

the novelization of the SEAL movie

Act of Valor . Most recently he was

embedded with the 75th Ranger

Regiment for his forthcoming work

Sua Sponte: The Forging of a Modern

American Ranger.

Dr. William S. Dudley is the former

director of both the Naval Historical

Center and Naval History for the

chief of Naval Operations. He is the

author of Maritime Maryland: A

History (Johns Hopkins University

Press, 2010).

Captain Patrick Grant retired in

1995 after 30 years of Navy service,

including active-duty tours in the USS

Oriskany (CVA-34) and on the staff

of commander, Cruiser Destroyer

Force Pacific, during the Vietnam

War. In civilian life he was a senior

vice president of marketing for an

insurance company and is currently a

columnist for the Los Angeles Times –

affiliated Glendale News-Press .

Giles Healy is a film producer,

writer, and travel photographer. He

studied history at Leeds University

in the 1980s and has maintained a

passionate interest in his subject

ever since. He lives with his wife

and two children in the heart of the

English countryside.

Colonel Charles A. Jones, USMCR

(Ret.) , has three historical interests:

Iwo Jima, 7 December 1941, and

B-29s. He has researched and written

extensively about Iwo Jima and

wrote a guidebook for Oahu, Hawaii’s

World War II Military Sites (Mutual

Publishing, 2002). His article about

his father’s B-29 crew was published

in the April 2010 issue of Air Force

Magazine .

Peter A. Marshall , a resident of

Port Chester, New York, has an

avid interest in naval and aviation

history, scale modeling, and

book collecting. “The Invincible ’s

Explosive Photo” is his second

published article; his first, “History

of the U.S. Navy 7”/45 Gun,” was

published in Warship International

in 2010.

Alan Rems , a retired certified public

accountant, has been a regular

contributor to Naval History since

his article titled “Halsey Knows the

Straight Story” appeared in the August

2008 issue and earned him selection

as the magazine’s Author of the Year.

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