The World Around Us #10

Dates

Cover date

June 1959

On sale

April 6, 1959

Pages

84

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Stories

• The First Hero · 9 pages

  John Paul Jones rises to captain in a seafaring career, then joins the infant America navy. Through a series of brilliant single-ship actions, he becomes that service's first great hero.

• The First Fleet · 1 pages

  Congress orders the first naval vessels for the Revolutionary War, the war with the Barbary Pirates, and the War of 1812.

• They Shall Fight Today · 6 pages

  Oliver Hazard Perry fights and wins the Battle of Lake Erie, sinking or capturing the opposing British fleet.

• A Bet Is Paid · 3 pages

  Friends in peacetime, Captains Dacres ("Guerriere") and Hull ("Constitution") bet a hat as to which ship would win in a battle. When they meet in the War of 1812 Hull wins decisively, and takes his opponent's hat, rather than his sword, in surrender.

• Learning to Lead · 6 pages

  Farragut rises to high rank without an education, but succeeding generations of officers need more. Shocked by an attempted mutiny, Congress establishes the US Naval Academy.

• Fighting Words · 1 pages

  Lawrence ("Don't give up the ship") and Mason ("Sighted sub, sank same") coin phrases that live in naval tradition.

• The Navy in War: An Impossible Task · 3 pages

  Farragut fights his ships past forts and flotillas to capture New Orleans.

• The Navy in War: Battle After Breakfast · 3 pages

  Dewey decisively wins the Battle of Manila Bay against a Spanish fleet.

• The Navy in War: The Unseen Enemy · 3 pages

  The American and British navies work out weapons and tactics to defeat the German u-boat campaign in World War I.

• The Navy in War: Full Speed Ahead! · 3 pages

  The US and Japanese navies fight each other hard around Tulagi, Savo, and Guadalcanal. Admiral Dan Callaghan wins a major victory after ordering full speed toward the enemy.

• The Navy in War: The Wonderful Blunder · 2 pages

  Six destroyers expose themselves to shellfire in the narrow channel of Inchon, thereby discovering the position of North Korean batteries.

• Cheese-Box on a Barrelhead · 4 pages

  Three participants describe the battle between "Monitor" and "Merrimack" (or "Virginia")

• The Navy in Peace · 11 pages

  The navy's many peacetime functions include exploration. Wilkes, Peary, and Byrd conduct polar expeditions over a period of a hundred years.

• The Fleet Below · 12 pages

  Development of submarines from the American Revolution through the nuclear-powered "Nautilus," which made the first submerged journey through the Arctic Ocean and under the North Pole.

• The Good Old Days · 5 pages

  Humorous comparison of naval life in 1778 and 1958.

• Mission to Mindanao · 7 pages

  Bulkeley commands his PT Boat and squadron in action against the Japanese in the Philippine Islands. In 1942 he commands four boats evacuating General MacArthur.