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| 3622 | GALLERY, Daniel V. Clear the Decks! 215p., illus. New York: Morrow, 1951; London: Harrap, 1952.
An engaging memoir, mainly concerned with his time on USS Guadalcanal. |
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| 3623 | GALLERY, Daniel V. Eight Bells and Alls Well. 308p., illus., index. New York: Norton, 1965.
An autobiography. He was a maverick as well known for his courting of controversy as the capture of U 505. |
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| 3624 | GALLERY, Daniel V. We Captured a U-Boat. 268p., illus. New York: Regnery, 1956; London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1957.
Gallery led the American task force which captured U 505. The book describes the career of U 505, coupled with the evolution of the author's plan to catch such a vessel. A thoroughly chauvinistic work. US title: Twenty Million Tons under the Sea. |
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| 3625 | GILLILAND, C. Herbert, & SHENK, Robert. Admiral Dan Gallery: The Life and Wit of a Navy Original. 352p., bibliog., illus., index.Annapolis: NIP, 1999. ISBN: 1557503370.
An affectionate biography of the maverick Admiral which includes many of his own writings. |
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| 3626 | GODSON, Susan. Viking of Assault: Admiral John Leslie Hall, Jr. and Amphibious Warfare. xii, 238p., bibliog., illus., index. Washington: University Press of America, 1982. ISBN: 0819121592.
An unsung American commander who worked effectively as amphibious force commander at Torch, Husky, Salerno, D-Day, and in the Pacific. |
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| 3627 | HARLAN, Louis R. All at Sea: Coming of Age in World War II. xiii, 211p., illus. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1996. ISBN: 0252022327.
A Pulitzer prize-winning historian produces a frank and engaging personal memoir. As a new ensign in 1944 he joined an LCI which took part in landings at Omaha and Utah beaches and then in southern France before moving to the Pacific. |
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| 3628 | HIGGINS, Edward T. Webfooted Warriors: The Story of a Frogman in the Navy During World War II. 172p. New York: Exposition Press, 1955.
A history of Underwater Demolition Team 11 which, although American, assisted the Australian landings in Borneo. Their job was to clear the approaches to landing beaches, often under fire. |
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| 3629 | JOHNSON, Robert Erwin. Bering Sea Escort: Life Aboard a Coast Guard Cutter in World War II. [xii], 131p., illus., index. Annapolis: NIP, 1992. ISBN: 1557504008.
Johnson served as an enlisted man on the cutter Haida and paints an interesting and informative picture of life away from the major theaters of war. |
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| 3630 | KEATING, Bern. The Mosquito Fleet. 244p., illus. New York: Putnam, 1963.
United States PT boat operations, with reasonable coverage of their work in the Mediterranean and Channel. |
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| 3631 | KELLY, Mary Pat. Proudly We Served: The Men of the USS Mason. xiv, 198p., index. Annapolis: NIP, 1995. ISBN: 1557504539.
Mason was a destroyer escort commissioned in March 1944 with a largely African-American enlisted crew. She spent the rest of the war in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. |
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| 3632 | KING, Ernest J. US Navy at War 1941–1945. Official Reports to the Secretary of the Navy by Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, US Navy. vii, 305p., illus. Washington: US Navy Department, 1946.
These three reports cover the war service of the USN, including notes on the transfer of ships from the RN to the USN in 1942. |
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| 3633 | MAHER, Robert A., & WISE, James E. Sailors' Journey Into War. 207p., illus. Kent, Ohio: Kent State UP, 1998. ISBN: 0873385837.
The story of US destroyer Borie, from crew training beginning in November 1939 to ultimate duty in the Battle of the Atlantic, to patrols and then convoy duty, and finally "Hunter-Killer" operations. Borie's WWII action ended with a spectacular night surface battle with U 405 in which both ships were sunk. |
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| 3634 | MASON, John T. The Atlantic War Remembered: An Oral History Collection. xxiv, 485p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis: NIP, 1994. ISBN: 087021523X.
An excellent companion volume to his Pacific War Remembered, by the former Director of Oral History at the US Naval Institute, which contains 28 tales from US personnel who served in the Arctic, Atlantic, and Mediterranean. |
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| 3635 | MAURER, M. World War II Combat Squadrons of the United States Air Force: The Official Military Record of Every Active Squadron. x, 841p., illus., index. New York: Platinum Press/Smithmark, 1992. ISBN: 0831715014.
A reprint of a 1969 USAF Historical Division Publication called Combat Squadrons of the Air Force: World War II. It records lineage, assignments, weapons, bases, operations, and awards for each unit. |
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| 3636 | MAURER, M. Air Force Combat Units of World War II: History and Insignia. xi, 506p., illus., index. New York: Zenger, 1980. ISBN: 0405121946.
First published by the USAF Historical Division in 1961. Covers units at group level and above, complementing the squadron level of his other work. |
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| 3637 | MELLOR, William B. Sank Same. 287p., illus. New York: Howell Soskin, 1944.
The story of the volunteer coastal defense forces, the Civil Air Patrol and the Coast Guard Auxiliary formed to counter the U-boat attacks of 1942–43. Has some official photos of sinkings. |
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| 3638 | MERCEY, Arch A., & GROVE, Lee. Sea, Surf and Hell: The US Coast Guard in World War II. xxx, 352p., bibliog., illus., index. New York: Prentice Hall, 1945.
An anthology of individual experiences of USCG personnel in all theaters of the war. |
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| 3639 | MORISON, Samuel Eliot. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 15 vols., illus., index. Boston: Little Brown; London: OUP, 1947–62.
This is the most monumental of all the official histories and although it has its share of small flaws, it is an indispensable tool for any study of the war at sea. |
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| 3640 | MORISON, Samuel Eliot. The Two Ocean War: A Short History of the US Navy in the Second World War. xxvii, 611p., bibliog., illus., index. Boston: Little Brown, 1963.
A one-volume condensation of his monumental official history. |
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| 3641 | NOVAK, Thaddeus. Life and Death on the Greenland Patrol, 1942. xx, 205p., bibliog., illus., index. Gainesville, Fl.: University Press of Florida, 2006. ISBN: 0813029120.
Describes six months on the USCG Nanok. A rich account of daily life on a converted trawler |
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