This Blast from the Past article was initially published in the first issue of Army Logistician (the former title of Army ...

First to sport the new five-star insigne, on the flag of his flagship* last fortnight, was Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. It consisted of a cluster of five stars set so as to form a pentagon ...

Craig L. Symonds is the Ernest J. King Distinguished Professor of Maritime History at the US Naval War College and Professor Emeritus of History at the US Naval Academy. Professor Symonds received ...