"Shipboard Jam Session" might serve as the title for this month's cover photo, taken aboad HMCS Ontario while the cruiser was on passage from Pearl harbor to Pago Pago. the band, under teh direction of CPO E. Tudor Jones, plays on deck for the ship's company during the noon hour. The Ontario has entered the tropics, shorts are the working dress of the day and some of the braver (or luckier) souls have shed their shirts in search of tans.