The phrase “man-o’-war” — the old sailor’s term for a warship — lends its title to this four-page feature from the October 1942 issue of the Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin. Published during the height of the Guadalcanal campaign, when American battleships and cruisers were trading blows with the Imperial Japanese Navy in the waters of the Solomons, the article profiles what its editors judged to be the greatest fighting ship of the war. The pages are non-sequential, appearing in the issue across two separate sections: the opening page followed by the continued article on pages 11 through 13.
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