A CODE FOR TOMORROW

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USS Tingey (DD 539), a typical Fletcher class destroyer, re-fuels at Midway Island in 1962. USS Watts (DD 567) is inboard. (Photo by John Samuelson)

Near the top of Divisidero Street in San Francisco, this building was the Soviet Consulate in World War II. After the war, the Soviets were evicted because they would not allow a U.S. consulate in Vladivostok. 
(Photo by Richard Heilman) 

This was the Soviet's view San Francisco Bay when they stood in front of their consulate near the top of Divisidero Street.  
(Photo by Richard Heilman) 

Lavrenti Beria, in a latter 1930s photos as he vacationed with Josef Stalin on the Black Sea. Beria was one of the most dangerous people in the world. Stalin had just promoted him to Commissar of State Security, NKVD Narodnyi Kommissariat Vnutrennikh Del (which later became the KGB). Notice Beria's boss in the background. Stalin's daughter, Svetlana, sits in Beria's lap. 

Raymond A. Spruance, Rear Admiral (later Admiral), USN 

William F. Halsey, Vice Admiral, (later Fleet Admiral) USN 

 Japanese Type 93 torpedo of World War II. Compare its size to the lamppost. 

 USS Hornet (CV 8) under attack at the Battle of the St. Cruz Islands. 

 Japanese Naval aircraft preparing to take off at the Battle of the St. Cruz Islands.. 

Destroyer USS Smith (DD 378) after the Battle of the St. Cruz Islands. Note damage after Japanese divebomber crashed on foredeck.

Another view of the carrier Hornet, now mortally wounded, lying dead in the water. The Destroyer USS Russell (DD 414) lays under her starboard bow taking off her pilots and crew.

The US Navy sustained enormous losses, including the sinking of the fleet carriers Wasp and Hornet, to ensure Marines like these, could take Guadalcanal.

An early photo of the drawing room of the Pope Suite in the Saint Francis Hotel (Courtesy St. Francis Hotel)

Soviet prison ship DZHURMA, which means "shining path," in the language of the Evenki people who populate the Kolyma region of Siberia: 6,908 tons.
(Courtesy of Marty Bollinger, author, STALIN'S SLAVE SHIPS.)

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