US Naval Training Center - Compass Yearbook (Bainbridge, MD)

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imammcm HE PROBLEM of controlling the seasI in tomorrow's world is'a greater challenge to man than ever'before. As a consequence,7 our preparations to Ineet that challenge must he stepped up to eVenlhighe.r Ievels. OIIr Navy must be capable at'ai'm'oment'sf notice of defeating any threat to our sea . supremacy and our national safety no mat- 'ter from where that threat comes. . , Our future men- -'of-War face eVer Increasa. ing responsibilities. Things Will continue to ,gmoye 'sWiItly around this steadIIy shrInkIng-- ', globe now that We have rnoVed- into qn age , , of iet and atomic propulsmn. Guided mis-T: ilsiles, rockets,,and mines: have become I: creasingly coI'nplex instruments that mount these miraculous armaments. Ships have changed greatly throughout the generations that our Navy has guarded United States interests on the world' s oceans, and their qualitative superiority will always remain a prime requisite to maritime su- premacy But, it is the spirit and the skill of the seagoing Inen themseIVes which 'will re- main the key to success in battle. . 7 Techmcal advances and the possibilifies ggI-V' the nuclear age notWIthstandIng, men WiII eternally remain as the one essential In- ,9 edIent; to successful marItIme operatlons.'

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USS BARB IN PACIFIC ACTION WREDERICK J. HOERTZL THE PERFORMANCE OF BAKER DAY AT BIKINI ATOLL-1'HE FIRST OF A LONG SERIES OF ATOMIC TESTS OUR SILENT SERVICE WAS NOT FULLY APPRECIATED UNTIL AFTER THE PACIFIC BY WHICH DEFENSIVE AS WELL AS OFFENSIVE NAVY TACTICS, WEAPONS AND SYSTEMS FOR THE ATOMIC AGE WERE DEVELOPED. FIRST MARINE DIVISION IN ACTION, KOREA, 8 JUNE 1953. MARINES STORMING FORT CH'OJJIN KOREA, 1371 UOHN CLYMERL ACTION lEADING TO THE FIRST TREATY BETWEEN KOREA AND THE UNITED STATES, SIGNED IN 1882, ESTABLISHING COMMERCIAL RELATIONS AND THE PROTEC- TION OF SHIPWRECKED SEAMEN. , v A .7 - m w .. ' USS MISSOURI BOMBARDING WONSON, KOREA-UNITED NATIONS ACTION, MURDO SOUND ANTARCTICA-USS GLACIER CONTINUES THE NAVY'S WORLD 1950-1953. WIDE INTEREST IN SCIENTIFIC AND GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION. MT. EREBUS, ONLY ACTIVE VOLCANO AT ANTARCTICA ON THE RIGHT.

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THE WORlDlS SECOND lARGEST FLEET Communist Obiectives in Their Plan For World Conquest IEWING EUROPE from Moscow, we see a vast peninsula surrounded on three sides by water. This view is similar to one looking from the Manchurian border down that bitter test- ing ground, the Korean Peninsula. In the event of war, it is highly probable that the Soviet would make every attempt to overrun the European Continent. In the Allied effort to thwart this move, U. S. Naval Power will play a decisive role. A major function of the United States Navy will be the projection of the military might of this nation from the Menu MOSCOW seas against the flanks of forward movement of Russian armies. Todayls Soviet war machine comprises in land power 2,500,000 troops, with an additional 1,100,000 in the satellite countries. This does not include the massive armies of RedVChina. Soviet Naval power includes 1,650 ships plus 1,100 miscellaneous craft, and 100 more from the satellite countries. Soviet Air power in- cludes 20,000 aircraft plus 4,000 more from the satellite countries. With such military power as this, Soviet strategic objectives are now apparent. ATLANTIC OCEAN EUROPEAN PENINSULA AS SEEN FROM MOSCOW ATLANTIC THRUST Soviet objectives would be two fold. First, they would try to keep our naval forces at such distances from the shores of Europe as to render them ineffectual. Secondly, they would try to prevent the arrival in the European ports of those merchant ships loaded with logistic support so vital to the defense of the European Peninsula. In its broadest aspects, there can be no question that a major objective, political and military, of any prospective enemy will be to isolate the United States from its friends and Allies and weaken our capability to bring our strength to bear in united effort. For centuries Russia has sought to acquire ports which have access to navigable oceans the year round. Today the Soviet Union is on a llpolitical-economic offensive, If the Soviet Union should go to war, this offensive would accelerate. For example, as she moves down the European Peninsula she will find a need for merchant ships as we need them now. In anticipation of this, the Soviet Union owns a merchant fleet of some 700 ships. The satellite countries have 100, and communist China has 110. The estimated annual increase of this fleet is 60 ships. Here are some interesting sidelights to the foregoing facts: Very few of these ships are being constructed inside of Soviet Russia. Most of the major shipbuilding facilities inside the Soviet Union are engaged in warship construction. 01 those merchantmen being built out- side of the Soviet periphery, the majority are being built in the shipyards of the free nations of the world.