Station HYPO

By Jon Guttman

After the Japanese aircraft carrier raid on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, followed by Germany’s and Italy’s declarations of war on the United States on the 11th, the three Axis navies adopted different strategies: Italy, seldom venturing out of the Mediterranean Sea, was primarily the British Royal Navy’s problem; Japan’s formidable fleet sought a buffer zone of islands and a decisive showdown with the U.S. Navy; and Germany’s Kriegsmarine was a match for neither the Royal Navy, nor the rapidly growing U.S. Navy, with the exception of its submarine service.

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CAPTAIN JOHN MARION LIETWILER
UNITED STATES NAVY
1908 – 1978

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Newly minted Navy Secretary John Phelan pledged a shakeup of the Department of the Navy with a focus on growing shipbuilding and challenging parts of the Navy’s culture that have led to delays in deliveries of new capabilities and gaps in overall readiness.

On Monday (April 7), the opening brief in Kinnucan v. NSA et al. (no. 24-7642) was filed in the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals. The appeal seeks to reverse a US District Court decision that a 58-year-old report in the possession of the National Security Agency is a Congressional record not subject to release under the Freedom of Information Act. The report was prepared by the US House Appropriations Committee (HAC Report) and pertains to the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty. You may read the appellate brief on DocumentCloud.