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The first "issue" of All Hands was printed as the Bureau of Navigation News Bulletin No. 1 (dated August 30, 1922). Twenty years later, the title was changed to Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin. As America claimed "Victory in Europe" on the cover of June 1945, the magazine's new banner read, All Hands, and the name stuck. The United States Navy believes it's important to make the Navy's history, as documented in All Hands, accessible to everyone. In January 2003, they completed a project to archive every back issue; this is one of those issues.