Our Navy Magazine - October 1972 - Seagoing Pussy Cat

On The Cover

The USS New Jersey (BB-62) cruises serenely through Gaillard Cut during her transit through the Panama Canal and was the first battleship in American history called on to serve in three wars. Photograph by JOC Case.

OUR NAVY
The Navy Man's Magazine Founded 1897
Vol. 67, No. 10, October 1972

Stanford F. Brent, Editor
Photographic Editor Jack Todd
Washington Correspondent Harold Helfer

News Department

• Pentagon Report
• Atlantic Report
• Pacific Report
• Yard Report

October Features

• The Panama Canal and the U.S. Navy
  BY RAY YOUNG
• The CSS Stonewall
  BY GERALD E. ROBERTSON
• Your Seagoing Vocabulary
• There's Viroidone: the Aquarium
  BY EDWIN R. VARLEY
• What a Break!
  BY HARVEY C. SHAW
• Stamps Ahoy!
  BY JOSEPH C. SALAK
• Seagoing Pussy Cat
  By O. AFTON LINGER

Regular Features

• Liberty Port — Copenhagen
• Your Science IQ—____ ... Plus
  By L. Mack Menser
• Our Navy's Ship of The Month USS Roark (De-1053)
• Covers & Cancels
  By Desmond D. Jagyi
• Exclusive Interview—Leon Morris
  By Harold Helfer
• Pass the Word
• Laff Lines
• Book Report
• Editorial

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