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The Hunters and the Hunted
By Rear Admiral Aldo Cocchia, Italian Navy (Reserve). Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute, 1958. 184 pages. Photographs and diagrams. S3.50 (S2.63).
REVIEWED BY
Captain Eugene B. Fluckey, USN
(Captain Fluckey commanded the USS Barb during World War 11 and sank nearly 700,000 tons of Japanese shipping.)
This is another book in the U. S. Naval Institute’s program for publishing firsthand accounts from the enemy side in World War II.
Properly subtitled “Adventures of Italian Naval Forces,” Admiral Cocchia attempts to vindicate the actions of the Italian Navy during World War II by dramatic episodes of heroism and by challenging the operational planning, concepts, and control in the face of material and support inadequacies.
Though Admiral Cocchia continually flashes back throughout his narrative to prewar planning and thinking, he commences the story with Italian submarine difficulties in transiting the Straits of Gibraltar for commerce raiding in the Atlantic. This brought about the establishment of the Italian submarine base at Bordeaux where he was Chief of Staff. Almost immediately the Germans took over operational control of the submarines while administration and discipline was the responsibility of the Italian Submarine High Command in Rome. With the deteriorating situation of the Italian boats at the end of 1942, he describes their transformation into unarmed cargo boats to take supplies to Japan. After that Italian crews took over new German submarines.
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From submarine warfare he shifts to his Part in the phenomenal shoestring invasion °f Crete, the defense of Tobruk, and various lncidents of the sinkings of British cruisers and destroyers.
^ His vivid and pitiful Battle of the African Convoys shuttling from Italy is spiced with the courage of individuals in a hopeless effort. The S1 tuation following the armistice is ably Portrayed, for he gives the thoughts and orders of the High Command, the repercus- S10ns in the individual, and the subsequent battles with the Germans, which culminated ln the loss of the battleship Roma.
Some of the most interesting parts of his narrative concern setting up the secret Italian frogman and human torpedo base at Algebras, one-half mile from the shipping at Cibraltar. His coverage of human torpedoes and explosive motorboats is excellent. The accounts of the attacks on Gibraltar and ^falta are complete and dramatic. The attack °n Alexandria is partially described, then lost in the shuffle.
Admiral Cocchia’s principal difficulties in Vvriting are his too frequent shifts of time and locale, and his lack of cohesion between personages and their ships. However, though Rightly on the difficult side to follow, the book ls 'veil worth reading to view from the other side of the fence the inevitable catastrophic effect of the lack of comprehension of sea power by the government.
Bhe Fate of the “Maine”
By John Edward Weems. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1958. 207 pages. Illustrated. $3.95.
Reviewed by
Rear Admiral Reginald R. Belknap, VSN {Ret.)
(Admiral Belknap served in four wars and campaigns and in World War I he commanded the V. S. Mine Squadron. As a naval cadet, he was in Secretary Tracy's barty at the Maine’s launching, November 18, 1890).
This story of the Navy’s first heavily armed and armored “fighting” ship is complete, even to the list of officers and men, their fate, and the remarks of some of them. The scene at the commissioning shows the general public interest to witness this important event in the Navy’s restoration. New lighter types of men- of-war had been shown to the western world by the cruise of the White Squadron of Evolution in 1889-1891, and it was high time for the arrival of the “fighters.”
After Mr. Weems’s comprehensive research, one hesitates to question any statement; yet, on a visit announced as a friendly gesture, for the ship’s company to be at battle stations while entering Havana harbor and have quarter watches and other unusual precautions set after anchoring, as stated by sailor Ham, were hardly consistent with American confidence in no foul play. Also, the delicacy of such a visit at that time and the common assumption that the Spanish authorities would take every precaution caused widespread belief that the explosion was in the Maine herself. Even Captain Chadwick, a member of the Court of Inquiry, thought so, although he was very familiar with our Navy’s never slighted inspection of ships’ magazines twice daily. Despite evidence by divers and the salvaging, some authorities still hold to that belief.
Salvaging the wreck and its committal to
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CAPTAIN SIGSBE^S REPORT TO SECNAV the deep make an appropriate closing note. The Ensign, of the largest size, worked loose, came to the surface, was recovered, and now rests with other relics in Arlington. Truly, the author is to be congratulated on this authentic and deservedly popular account of a worldwide momentous event.
Ordeal by Water
By Peter Keeble. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1958. 216 pages. Illustrated. $4.00.
REVIEWED BY
Rear Admiral Edward Ellsberg, USJsR {Ret).
{In World War II Admiral Ellsberg was Salvage Officer, Red Sea operations; Officer in Charge, U. S. Naval Repair Base, Massawa, Eritrea; and principal Salvage Officer, Allied Expeditionary Force, Western Mediterranean.)
Ordeal by Water is British, but since its author, Commander Peter Keeble, RNR, of South Africa, says it is: “Dedicated to those members of the United States Navy who inspired me and assisted me,” it should have a special interest to the men in our Navy, even aside from those few Americans generously stated to have been its inspiration.
Ordeal by Water is worth reading by all American naval officers. For those seeking only relaxation in off watch intervals or in those longer periods of boredom on the DEW line or off some far shore keeping the cold war cold, here is an intriguing adventure story. Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe
might well have collaborated on this tale, starting in a weird episode beneath the sea in an Egyptian harbor and ending in a cloak and dagger finale inside a monstrous oven in Athens.
On the more serious side, Ordeal by Water is a story of salvage in wartime that should be read by all naval officers, young and old. The older ones, those likely to have a top command in a hot war, should read it to make sure they are no parties to being found in the same salvage situation as were their predecessors in late 1941. And the younger ones should read it to get an inkling of how best they can rectify the situation should their elders repeat the old blunder; that salvage is an unimportant thing you can handle by training the men and providing the equipment after the need for it develops.
The then Lieutenant Keeble (how reminiscent is his story of that of officers in our Navy similarly placed!) became a salvage officer more by accident than by design. He had had no training for salvage, nor any assignment to it. But there was salvage urgently requiring to be done, no one around trained or qualified to do it, so Keeble like a good officer stuck out his neck and volunteered to have a go at it.
Keeble had in his makeup the two major ingredients necessary for a good salvage officer—a vivid imagination and a willingness to “make do” for the task of the moment with what happened to be lying around handy. An example? He ripped up the sewer system of Benghazi to provide part of an unbelievable lash-up needed to salvage a French destroyer! What happens to a salvage officer in wartime (in this case, in the eastern Mediterranean, mainly) gets vivid illumination in this authentic story. A variety of wartime salvage incidents are discussed, involving sunken U- boats, stranded ships, and sabotaged harbors blocked with submerged hulks, together with the problems of keeping afloat torpedoed or mined ships. How Keeble made out with his problems provides an excellent manual for every naval officer, whether he be potentially the future salvage man, or just some seagoing skipper whose hard luck it is to have the enemy tag his ship as a prime candidate for a permanent berth on the ocean floor.
There are a few errors in reporting, mainly
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ln the section where early in the war in Massawa his path crossed that of the Americans. There (while only a spectator to American efforts) his memory rolls what happened °n three different drydocks into one drydock episode in his account, but this matter is not important to his main story. When thereafter Keeble gets going on what happened to him as a salvage man, he writes as if it were all burned into his heart—as most likely, it all Was.
The Strength to Move a Mountain
By W. Storrs Lee. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1958. 318 pages. $5.00.
Reviewed by
Captain Miles P. DuVal, USN (Ret.)
(Captain DuVal is author of two important volumes on the Panama Canal Cadiz to Cathay and And the Mountains Will Move; a former captain of the Port, Balboa, C. Z-> 1941—44, in charge of marine operations of the Pacific sector of the Canal; and later, head of the Panama Canal Liaison Organization and Isthmian Canal Studies of the Navy Department under the Chief of Naval Operations, 1946-49, by order of the Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal. Attention is invited to his article, “Isthmian Canal Policy—An Evaluation,” in the Si arch, 1955 issue of the U. S. Naval Institute Proceedings.)
A most timely and instructive contribution that tells the dramatic story of building the Panama Canal, now verging toward another crucial period with respect to the type of its modernization. Consideration of this major dement of our national policy, which will eventually involve the expenditure of vast sums, has been immeasurably complicated by Widespread agitations for wrenching canal ownership and control from the United States.
Dean Lee, recognizing the necessity for an “informed public interest” in interoceanic canal problems and an “informed reaction,” Undertakes to re-examine our stake in the canal enterprise and to reassess the significance of its construction half a century ago.
Drawing upon many sources, “independent” as well as “official,” he has thus been able to capture the spirit of the times covered and to present his narrative with a refreshing degree of candor and objectivity. Listed in his references, these sources will be invaluable for those who may wish to delve more deeply
into the complicated canal question.
Unfortunately, the book is not supplied with maps and schematic diagrams essential for those not intimately familiar with the subject to follow with proper understanding. For a work of its appeal, however, it is remarkably free of errors in terminology.
In a clarifying foreword, the author recognizes the advantageous geographical location of the Panama Canal, describes the impact of the Suez Canal seizure by Egypt in 1956 on the Panama Canal with resulting demands for relinquishment or reduction of United States jurisdiction, mentions the ill- fated 1939 Third Locks Project that was suspended in 1942 after the expenditure of some $75,000,000, and stresses the two principal plans for major increase of canal capacity.
The first proposal described is the 1943 Terminal Lake-Third Locks Plan for the economic increase of capacity and improvement of operating conditions. This solution was developed within the Panama Canal organization as the result of experience in World War II, approved in principle by the Governor of the Canal Zone, and supported by the Secretary of the Navy in a report to the President. The author obviously sensed its historical significance, for he states that it was the “kick-off for a new ‘battle of the levels’ almost as bitter as the controvesy of 1906.”
The other is the 1947 “Sea-Level” Plan, recommended by the Governor of the Canal Zone primarily to make the waterway “less destructible under atomic attack.” Though mentioning the report of which this recommendation was based as “one of the most meticulous engineering reports ever written,” Dean Lee balances the description by leveling charges from eminent, independent canal, naval, and nuclear warfare experts, as summarized by George M. Wells and Representative Willis W. Bradley, which challenge the primary assumptions on which the “sea-level” justification was attempted. Evidently through inadvertence, he did not state the facts that the “sea-level” report failed to receive Presidential approval, and was transmitted by the President to the Congress on December 1, 1947, quite significantly without comment, or recommendation; and that the Congress took no action thereon.
As to demands and proposals for giving up United States jurisdiction over the Canal Zone and Panama Canal, the author emphasizes the views of the Hon. Maurice H. Thatcher, sole surviving member of the Isthmian Canal Commission and former Civil Governor of the Canal Zone, also a distinguished former member of Congress, as strongly opposing any surrender of our rights and authority over the canal enterprise, either by internationalization or otherwise.
Most of Dean Lee’s book concerns matters of great human interest and is fascinating reading. Yet woven through its fabric are points of fundamental character, which include explorations into the background of Culebra Cut, Gatun Dam, and some important facts about the long obscured history of the presently separated Pacific Locks.
The author describes the location of these locks as the “major weakness of the whole Canal plan, a very expensive one.” This error in design, which was inherited from the French, was first recognized by Chief Engineer John F. Stevens, who, early in 1906 recommended the combination of all Pacific locks in one structure as a desirable change in the adopted canal plan. On August 3 of that year, he approved an arrangement that placed these locks in 3-lifts south of Miraflores with the main terminal dam between two hills, Cerro Aguadulce on the west side of the present sea-level channel and Cerro de Puente on the east. This plan, afterward studied in more detail and unavailingly recommended by Colonel William L. Sibert, a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission, would have enabled summit-lake navigation from the Atlantic Locks to the Pacific with a summit-level anchorage at the Pacific end of the canal to match that of the Atlantic end.
Unfortunately, an obvious lack of appreciation on the part of canal planners of marine needs and failure to seek the views of adequately experienced navigators on questions of fundamental planning continued, generally speaking, through many years. This policy was well illustrated in the design of the 1939 Third Locks Project, authorized primarily as a “defense” measure to accommodate larger naval vessels. Its complicated layout in the Pacific sector of the canal, tortuous channels, failure to remove the dangerous bottleneck at Pedro Miguel, and to provide other correlated operational improvements, are the bases for opposition by'important navigation interests to the completion of that project as originally planned.
Though treated at some length by Dean Lee, the Pacific Lock question has far-reaching angles that are not covered by him. Moreover, as was clearly foreseen by Stevens, it still remains a key problem of vital import to the future, and thus merits far greater attention.
In extending credit, the author is quite generous and just, with the result that the key figures in Panama Canal history are placed in much better perspective. Although Goethals and his associates, civilian as well as military, who took over the task of construction from Stevens, attained great fame as canal builders, Dean Lee rightly describes John F. Stevens as the basic architect of the Panama Canal.
Thus, it is most fitting that, in his conclusion, Dean Lee should revive the 1928 plan of Governor Thatcher for adequate memorial- ization of all who in significant ways contributed to the sucess of the great enterprise, for there is glory and honor enough for all.
Though not expressing his own preference as to future plans. The author ends his volume with a stirring appeal: “The United States rallied to a noble challenge in 1904. The country has another challenge now: the old canal is gradually becoming inadequate, and if the present rate of increase in shipping through the Cut continues, the waterway will be obsolescent in less than two decades. That leaves all too short a time to remodel the master work.”
Ees Flottes de Combat 1958
By Henri and Jerome Le Masson. Paris:
Editions Maritimes et Coloniales, 1958.
342 pages. Photographs, sketches, diagrams.
4,000 francs.
Reviewed by
Captain A. C. J. Sabalot, USN {Ret).
{Captain Sabalot was U. S. Naval Attache at Vichy,
France,prom August, 1941, to November, 1942.)
I.es Flottes de Combat is one of the very few Ruthoritative publications on warships. A study of the information it contains; detailed characteristics of ships and planes, building Programs, and well over one thousand photographs and sketches, enables the reader not only to evaluate the naval power of each country but also to discern the trend each navy is taking. For the first time there is included in this edition a short section on the guided missiles, in service and in the develop- rnent stage, of Great Britain, France, and the United States.
The section on the Soviet Navy has been completely revised. As is common knowledge, since the war the Soviets have concentrated on building submarines, cruisers, destroyers, and escort vessels. The surface craft are of the immediate postwar conventional design, armed with guns but the cruisers and destroyers are equipped to lay mines. It is not unlikely that in the future these types will be armed with guided missiles. The Soviet Navy is particuarly strong in submarines and possesses over ten times the number Germany had at the beginning of the last war and considerably more than the maximum number she had in operation at peak strength. A nuclear- powered ice breaker has been completed and it is possible that atomic-powered submarines are now being constructed.
In view of the strong Soviet capabilities to wage submarine and mine warfare, the navies of the NATO and SEATO powers have built and are continuing to build many light craft to counter these threats. At the same time the three major NATO navies have been strengthening their air power for offensive as well as for defensive purposes.
The French Navy has under construction two 22,000-ton aircraft carriers, one helicopter-carrying cruiser, and some twenty escort ships and submarines. This year they plan to begin the construction of a 30,000- ton aircraft carrier, a guided missile light cruiser, and a nuclear-powered submarine. In the near future, modern shipboard planes of French design are scheduled to replace those of foreign origin.
The German and Japanese Navies have undertaken the construction of fast escort ships, minesweepers, minelayers, and submarines. Both are in the process of forming a naval air arm with U. S. or British planes.
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REFUELING PROBLEMS
Contributed by Lieutenant F. A. Jones, RCN
A Canadian frigate was making an approach on a U. S. Navy oiler. Her Captain had recently taken over command and as this was his first fueling at sea operation, he was careful to lay his ship well off the oiler. As the hands prepared to pass the transfer gear, the silence was broken by the voice of the oiler’s CO as he boomed over the loudspeaker, “Bring her in off the horizon, Skipper.”
Sometime later during the exercises the frigate was required to replenish again from the oiler. Determined to make his second attempt more successful than the first, the skipper brought his ship very close to the oiler and was quietly congratulating himself when the voice of oiler’s CO once again blared over the loudspeaker, “For the love of Mike, Skipper, we use hoses, not buckets.”
(The Naval Institute will pay $5.00for each anecdote acceptedfor publication in the Proceedings.)
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$3.00 ($2.25)
Your Naval Academy...................................................................... • •
By Midshipmen Burton and Hart. A handsome 48-page pictorial shipman’s life at the Naval Academy. Brief descriptive captions.
. . . $1.00 ($ .75)
presentation of a Mid-
The Book of Navy Songs.............................................. • •••••■ ^‘VX
Compiled by the Tridint Society of the Naval Academy. Over 90 old and new songs. 160 pages. Illustrated. Sold only to Midshipmen and Naval Institute members.
Proceedings Cover Pictures.................................................................. ’ ’ ’ ' , ',qe9 iqm
Sets of all 12 cover pictures appearing on the Proceedings in each year of 1952, 1953, 1954 1955, 1956, 1957. Mounted on 13 x 13 mat- Complete set of 12 for any year.
Naval Customs, Traditions, and Usage . . .
By Lieutenant Commander Leland P. Lovette,
. . . . Out of stock pending revision.
USN. 1939. 424 pages. Illustrated.
PHYSICAL TRAINING
($2.25)
Modern Fencing............................................................................
By Clovis Deladrier, U. S. Naval Academy. 1948. 312 pages. Illustrated.
Naval Aviation Physical Training Manuals—Revised editions, 1950. Illustrated.
Basketball................................ 259 pages. | $4.00 | ($3.00) | How to Survive on Land and Sea $4.00 ($3.00) 2nd revised edition, 1956. 362 pages. | ||
Boxing..................................... 288 pages. | $4.00 | ($3.00) | Intramural Programs . . 249 pages. | . $4.00 | ($3.00) |
Conditioning Exercises . . 235 pages. | $4.00 | ($3.00) | Soccer ............................... 192 pages. | . $4.00 | ($3.00) |
Football................................... 246 pages. | $4.00 | ($3.00) | Swimming and Diving . . 423 pages. | . $4.50 | ($3.38) |
Gymnastics and Tumbling Out of stock temporarily. |
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| Track and Field . . . 217 pages. | . $4.00 | ($3.00) |
Hand to Hand Combat . . 228 pages. | $4.00 | ($3.00) | Championship Wrestling . . $4.50 2nd revised edition 1958. 218 pages. | ($3.38) |
REFERENCE WORKS (These books are either no longer current or are in very short supply.)
A Brief History of Courts-Martial.................................................... Paper cover $ .50 ($ .40)
By Brigadier General James Snedeker, USMC (Ret.). 1954. 72 pages.
Naval Essays of Service Interest...................................................... Paper cover $1.25 ($ .94)
Collection of 35 selected Proceedings articles for over 26-year period. 1942.
International Law for Naval Officers.......................................................................... $2.00.. ($1.60)
Bv Comdr. C. C. Soule, USN, and Lieut. Comdr. C. McCauley, USN. 245 pages. Revised
1928 by Lieut. Comdr. C. J. Bright, USN.
Matthew Fontaine Maury........................................................................................... $3.00.. ($2.25)
By Professor Charles L. Lewis, U. S. Naval Academy. 1927. 264 pages. Illustrated.
The Dardanelles Expedition....................................................................................... $3.00.. ($2.40)
By Captain W. D. Puleston, USN. 1927. 172 pages. Illustrated.
We Build A Navy......................................................................................................... $2-75.. ($2.07)
By Lieutenant Commander H. H. Frost, USN. A vivid and dramatic narrative of our early Navy. 1929. 517 pages. Illustrated.
Yankee Mining Squadron........................................................................................... $1.50.. ($1.20)
By Captain R. R. Belknap, USN. 1920. 110 pages. Illustrated.