Front matter

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From painting in Navy Department by R. S. Meryman

OUR NAVY AT WAR

BY JOSEPHUS DANIELS SECRETARY OF THE NAVY 1913 to 1921

Illustrated with Reproductions of Original and Official Photographs

Pictorial Bureau Washington, D. C. 1922

COPYRIGHT BY Pictorial Bureau 1922

To the Six Hundred Thousand Men

Who Served in the United States Navy and Marine Corps in the World War

Manning more than two thousand vessels—

Operating with Allied Navies from the Arctic to the Adriatic—

Transporting troops and supplies across the Atlantic—

Protecting ships from attack and destruction—

Driving off and defeating the murderous submarines, You made safe the seas, and Kept open the Road to France, so that, Of all the vast Army sent overseas, Not one soldier on an American troop-ship Lost his life on the way to France.

Fighting with the Army, your comrades, The Soldiers of the Sea, won fame in Hard-fought battles that saved Paris, Drove back the German hordes, and Won for Humanity Complete and Glorious Victory.

In recognition of your splendid service, your dauntless deeds, this work is dedicated by one who was sometime your commander and always your shipmate.