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| 3602 | BEYER, Kenneth M. Q-Ships Versus U-Boats: America's Secret Project. xx, 239p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis: NIP, 1999. ISBN: 1557500444.
In the dark days of 1942, the USN equipped two Q-ships, the Atik and Asterion, the author being supply officer of the latter. This tale of their disastrous deployment is well-told, including a reconstruction of the sinking of Atik by U 123. |
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| 3603 | BROWN, Cassie. Standing into Danger: A Dramatic Story of Shipwreck and Rescue. xiii, 391p., illus. Garden City: Doubleday, 1979. ISBN: 0385136811.
Some 203 sailors died when the US naval ships Pollux, Truxton, and Wilkes ran aground on the rocky Newfoundland coast in 1942. |
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| 3604 | BUELL, T. B. Master of Sea Power: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. xv, 609p., bibliog., illus., index. Boston: Little Brown, 1980. ISBN: 0316114693.
"The most powerful naval officer in the history of the world" was often seen in Britain as more opponent than ally. A sympathetic study of his career and its controversies. |
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| 3605 | BUTCHER, Harry C. My Three Years with Eisenhower: The Personal Diary of Captain Harry C. Butcher, USNR, Naval Aide to General Eisenhower, 1942 to 1945. xviii, 748p., illus., index. London: Heinemann; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1946.
This extensive record is largely compiled from diary entries recorded at the time on the instructions of Eisenhower, although he did not see them. More concerned with strategy than tactics. |
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| 3606 | CALHOUN, C. Raymond. Tin Can Sailor: Life Aboard the USS Sterett 1939–1945. xv, 203p., illus. Annapolis: NIP, 1993. ISBN: 1557501084.
The memoirs of a junior officer on Sterett. She served in the Atlantic in 1941–42 and with the Home Fleet during Wasp's attachment. She then went on to have a distinguished career in the Pacific. |
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| 3607 | CANT, G. America's Navy in World War II. 279p., illus. London: Hutchinson; New York: John Day, 1943. A contemporary view of US naval operations to the end of 1942. |
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| 3608 | CAREY, Alan C. U.S. Navy PB4Y-1 (B-24) Liberator Squadrons in Great Britain during World War II. 160p., illus. West Chester, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2003. ISBN: 076431775X.
The job of U.S. Navy PB4Y-I Liberator aircrews was to keep German U-boats from successfully operating in the Bay of Biscay and the English Channel by going out day after day, often in miserable weather conditions, on unrelenting search and destroy missions. During the war, FAW-7 Liberators were responsible for the sinking of five U-boats and damaging many more. |
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| 3609 | CARLISLE, Robert L. Cats over the Atlantic: VPB–73 in World War II. 190p., illus. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Fithian, 1995. ISBN: 1564741249.
A pilot from Patrol Squadron 73 gives a complete history from formation to decommissioning, including the neutrality patrol, convoy support, U-boat sinkings, and operations based on North Africa. |
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| 3610 | CARR, Roland T. To Sea in Haste. 260p., illus. Washington: Acropolis Books, 1975. ISBN: 087491020X.
The story of the Lend-Lease corvette Haste, built for Canada but used by the US Coast Guard. The book is based heavily on the diary kept by the paymaster of the ship in 1943-44. Haste worked mainly on the New York-Caribbean convoys. |
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| 3611 | CARTER, Worrall Reed, & DUVALL, Elmer E. Ships, Salvage and Sinews of War: The Story of Fleet Logistics Afloat in Atlantic and Mediterranean Waters during World War II. xxv, 533p., illus., index. Washington: Department of the Navy, 1954.
A thorough account which makes clear the importance of the bases ashore and the fleet train afloat. |
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| 3612 | CHESTER, Alvin P. A Sailor's Odyssey: At Peace and at War 1935–1945. xiii, 289p., illus. Miami: Odysseus, 1991.
A merchant sailor who served in the USN in Subchasers in the Caribbean, DEs in the Pacific and Atlantic. Modestly interesting. |
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| 3613 | CLARK, Mark. Calculated Risk: His Personal Story of the War in North Africa and Italy. 478p., illus. New York: Harper, 1950; London: Harrap, 1951.
The American General's story includes a detailed account of his secret meetings with the French in North Africa before Torch, to which he was transported by submarine. |
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| 3614 | CONNELL, Brian. Knight Errant: A Biography of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. 288p., illus., index. London: Hodder, 1955.
A fairly bland biography with some good tales of his war experiences in action. |
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| 3615 | CRESSMAN, Robert J. The Official Chronology of the US Navy in World War II. xi, 367p., bibliog., illus. Annapolis: NIP, 2000. ISBN: 1557501491.
A good reference book covering the broad sweep as well as the minutiae, but rendered chronically unusable for many purposes by the lack of an index. |
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| 3616 | DAILEY, Franklyn E. Joining the War at Sea 1939-1945. xiii, 454p., illus. Wilbraham, MA: Dailey International, 1998. ISBN: 0966625102.
One man's story of convoys, amphibious landings at Casablanca, Sicily, Salerno, Anzio and Southern France and service in the North Atlantic. Reached a fourth edition in 2009. |
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| 3617 | DONAHUE, Joseph A. Tin Cans and Other Ships: A War Diary 1941–1945. 255p., illus. North Quincy: Christopher, 1979.
Principally the story of his service on Niblack in the Atlantic and in support of the Torch, Husky, Salerno, and Anzio landings. |
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| 3618 | EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Crusade in Europe. xiv, 582p., bibliog., illus., index. Garden City: Doubleday; London: Heinemann, 1948.
Memoirs of the Allied Supreme Commander and future President. He directed the major European campaigns from Torch to VE-Day. |
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| 3619 | EXTON, William. He's in the Destroyers Now. 224p., illus. New York: McBride, 1944.
A well-illustrated semi-official popular account of how US destroyers are armed and operated, with some minimal account of their service in all theaters. |
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| 3620 | FAIRBANKS, Douglas Jr. A Hell of a War. [ix], 278p., illus., index. London: Robson, 1995. ISBN: 0860519643.
In October 1941, well before Pearl Harbor, the movie actor chose to go to war, having been in the Naval Reserve. In his distinguished career and regularly in combat he served in the Neutrality Patrol, in PQ17 and on Wasp during her Malta Club Runs. He then joined Mountbatten's Combined Operations HQ and was soon in the Mediterranean with the American forces. He served in all the major and some minor Mediterranean landings in various forms of special or diversionary forces. He saw out the war in Washington. A light and self-deprecating account of a brave man. |
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| 3621 | FENTON, John H. The Battle of Boston Harbor: A Wartime History of Flotilla 1-412 Winthrop, Massachusetts. 55p., illus. [n.p.: author], 1946.
A memoir of a USCG Auxiliary unit which patrolled Boston Harbor. A minor but all too necessary corner of the war. |
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