Dude, I grew up with a copy of that in my grandfather's kitchen. He did some time cooking aboard before going into electronics back in the fifties.
You have no idea how good some of those can be for big gatherings, and especially when done with better ingredients than you get when out to sea.
The Navy SOS (aka creamed chipped beef on toast) is bomb, but once you tweak it the way my papaw did it's amazing, it becomes this deeply flavored comfort food that you crave.