Foreword / Ernest J. King -- A review of the history of the U.S. Navy / Dudley W. Knox -- The Navy trains for war / Louis L. Denfeld -- Pearl Harbor / William R. Furlong -- Battle of the Atlantic / Jonas H. Ingram -- Battle of the Coral Sea / Aubrey W. Fitch -- The battle of Midway / Frank J. Fletcher -- Women in the service : Navy nurses / Sue S. Dauser -- WAVES / Jean T. Palmer -- SPARS / Dorothy C. Stratton -- Marines / Ruth Cheney Streeter -- Victory at Guadalcanal / Alexander A. Vandergrift -- The invasion of North Africa / H.K. Hewitt -- The invasion of Sicily / Richard L. Conolly -- The battle for Tarawa / Julian C. Smith -- The capture of Kwajalein / Richmond K. Turner -- The invasion of Normandy / Alan G. Kirk -- The battle for the Marianas / Holland M. Smith -- The battle of the Philippine Sea / Raymond A. Spruance -- The invasion of Southern France / Calvin T. Durgin -- The U.S. Coast Guard in World War II / Russell R. Waesche -- The battle for Leyte Gulf / Thomas C. Kinkaid and Marc A. Mitscher -- U.S. naval group, China / Milton E. Miles -- The battle for Iwo Jima / Harry Schmidt -- The Okinawa campaign / Roy S. Geiger -- The last days of the Japanese fleet / Robert B. Carney -- Surrender of Japan / William F. Halsey, Jr. -- Naval awards of the Congressional Medal of Honor -- Statistics on American, Jap, German and Italian navies -- The post war Navy / Chester W. Nimitz -- Ships of the fleet.