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Naval War College Review

Volume 53, Number 3 (2000) Summer


William S. Philips hopes that this painting conveys "the beauty and exhilaration of flight." Primarily, however, he intends it to honor "a great American hero" -James B. Stockdale, U.S. Navy, who in 1964 was in command of Fighter Squadron 51, assigned to Carrier Air Wing 5 on board USS Ticonderoga (CVA 14), pictured here (the slanting structure aft of the "island" is a folding antenna mast). In August of that year Commander Stockdale (whose F-8 Crusader is in the foreground, in a two-aircraft CAP, or combat air patrol, section) led the first U.S. air strikes into North Vietnam.

The next year by then commanding the air wing of USS Oriskany (CVA 34), Commander Stockdale would be shot down; finding himself the senior naval officer held by the North Vietnamese, he would display until his release in 1973 the leadership, courage, and "conspicuous gallantry… above and beyond the call of duty" that would earn him the Medal of Honor

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The U.S. Naval War College

President's Forum

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President's Forum
Arthur K. Cebrowski

Articles

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Whom the Gods Would Destroy
Robert D. Critchlow

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Boon or Threat?
Robert R. Tomes

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America's First Limited War
Gregory E. Fehlings

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Mastering Violence
Loup Francart

Book Reviews

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Book Reviews
The U.S. Naval War College

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Billy, Navy Wife
Evelyn M. Cherpak

Additional Writings

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Review Essays
The U.S. Naval War College

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Misunderstanding Vietnam
Richard Megargee

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The Venona Progeny
Hayden B. Peake

Credit

"CAPing the Tico," by William S. Phillips, copyright 1997 by The Greenwich Workshop, Inc. Courtesy of The Greenwich Workshop, Inc., Shelton, Connecticut. For more on the painting and the painter, see page 185