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U.S. Army-Navy Journal of Recognition: Number 5, January 1944

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U.S. Army-Navy Journal of Recognition
January 1944, Number 5

This monthly publication was a joint effort by the Navy and the Army to bring out the latest and most important recognition news.

Originally published in January 1944 by the Bureau of Aeronautics of the U.S. Navy in magazine format.

Quiz No. 1: Pacific Theater

Whose Enemy?

Rabaul Raid: Navy carrier planes catch large Jap force at bay in New Britain harbor

Japs Study U.S. Planes [lower plan view silhouettes used by Japanese on recognition training poster]

Merchant Ships: The battle of transportation rages incessantly on a world-wide front

Passenger Ships: Peacetime luxury liners, stripped for action, transport thousands of men to fighting fronts
Passenger-Cargo Ships: Cruise ships and fruit liners carry assault forces to invasion shores
Cargo Ships: Backbone of the merchant fleet
Tankers and Colliers: The fuel that keeps the United Nations fighting is carried thousands of miles

Airplane Genealogy: Development of airplane families gives valuable recognition clues

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
Martin and Consolidated: Land-based bomber and big flying boat can be traced to earlier models
Hawker, Curtiss: Typhoon, Warhawk climax two famed fighter lines

Quiz No. 2: Gunnery

The Small Stuff: They Fight a Tough, Unpublicized War

Minor U.S. Warships: Principal Combatant Types by Classes
Submarine Stalkers Clear Sea Lanes for Our Convoys
New Escorts Replace DD's: Guard Cargo Ships
Big & Little: Minor Combatant Types Run From Huge CM's to Tiny PT's
New Life for Flushdeckers
Assorted Vessels Fulfill Manifold Duties for Navy

Focke-Wulf Versus P-47: Tangling daily in Europe's skies they must be quickly told apart

American Weapons: U.S. develops fine self-propelled artillery for fast mobile warfare

Rommel Wrecker: U.S. 105-mm howitzer nullified Nazi 88-mm all-purpose gun in Tunisia
M-10 & T-70: One self-propelled gun is seasoned campaigner. The other is brand new
M-8 & M-12: New and old gun mounts complete U.S. line-up

Quiz No. 3: Spot These Warships

Recognition Training List: Armored Vehicles