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| 3642 | O'HARA, Vincent P. The US Navy Against the Axis: Surface Combat 1941-1945. xvi, 364p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis: NIP, 2007. ISBN: 159114650X.
Suggests that the fleet's role in America's ultimate victory was far more crucial than commonly credited. The only single volume to treat every surface naval action involving major American warships, both famous and obscure. It places each action in its larger context and refutes the widely held notion that the attack on Pearl Harbor rendered surface warfare obsolete. |
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| 3643 | OSTROM, Thomas. The United States Coast Guard in World War II: a history of domestic and overseas actions. xi, 248 p., illus. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2009. ISBN: 0786442565.
A good modern account of their busy war. |
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| 3644 | PARKIN, Robert Sinclair. Blood on the Sea: American Destroyers Lost in World War II. 375p., bibliog., illus., index. New York: Sarpedon, 1996. ISBN: 1885119178.
Some 71 US destroyers were sunk in World War II. The circumstances of each loss are described and a small history of each ship given. Global in scope but detailed in coverage, the book is full of excitement and pathos. |
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| 3645 | RATHBONE, A. D. He's in the Sub-Busters Now. 224p., illus. New York: McBride, 1943.
The war of the lads who hunt down and destroy the "rattlesnakes of the sea" in PT boats and destroyer escorts. |
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| 3646 | RIGDON, William M. White House Sailor. [7], 298p., illus. New York: Doubleday, 1962. ISBN: 1299120466.
The Assistant Naval Aide to the President was on the fringes of all the great historic meetings and incidents of the war. |
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| 3647 | ROBERTS, Douglas L. Rustbucket 7: Chronicle of the USS PC 617 During the Great War, 1942-1946. xi, 159p., illus. Savannah, Ga.: Mill Pond, 1995. ISBN: 0964876906.
Called up in 1942 he joined PC 617 as an ensign. She did patrols and convoy work on the East Coast of the US and Caribbean, as well as working with the Q-ship Big Horn. In 1944 she took part in the D-Day landings and stayed in European waters until after VE-Day. |
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| 3648 | ROSCOE, Theodore. United States Destroyer Operations in World War II. xviii, 581p., illus. Annapolis: USNIP, 1953.
An excellent semi-official history. Reprinted in paperback in 1957 as Tin Cans. |
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| 3649 | ROSCOE, Theodore. United States Submarine Operations in World War II. xx, 577p., illus. Annapolis: USNIP, 1949.
A full detailed account which is inevitably almost exclusively concerned with the Pacific. |
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| 3650 | SCHEINA, Robert L. US Coast Guard Cutters and Craft of World War II. 384p., illus. Annapolis: NIP, 1983. ISBN: 0870217178.
A comprehensive guide with operational summaries of every class which served in the war and full technical descriptions. |
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| 3651 | SCHOENFELD, Max. Stalking the U-Boat: USAAF Offensive Antisubmarine Operations in World War II. xii, 231p., bibliog., illus., index. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1995. ISBN: 1560984031.
An operational history of the deployment of the 479th and 480th USAAF Antisubmarine Groups to England and North Africa in late 1942 and 1943. Also explores the use of radar. |
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| 3652 | SEELEY, Lewis E., & BUELL, Lorraine Seeley. Shipmates: A Personal Journal Aboard a World War II Destroyer.260p. New York: Magicimage Filmbooks, 2000. ISBN: 1581128568.
Seeley served and was sunk on USS Rowan. She served in the Atlantic and at Torch and Husky before sinking with heavy loss of life in September 1943 to the torpedo of a German E-boat. Numerous factual errors, but has an air of gritty realism. |
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| 3653 | SILVERSTONE, Paul H. US Warships of World War II. 304p., illus., index. London: Ian Allan, 1965; Garden City: Doubleday, 1970. ISBN: 071100157X
One of the technical pocketbooks in the series. |
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| 3654 | SMITH, Stan. The Destroyermen. 156p. New York: Belmont, 1966.
Bloodcurdling stories reprinted from magazines. The tales cover the Battle of the Java Sea, convoy ON166, and the sinking of U 66. |
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| 3655 | STAFFORD, Edward P. Subchaser. 251p., illus. Annapolis: USNIP, 1988. ISBN: 0870216929.
Enjoyable memoirs of an American's war in the Caribbean and Mediterranean in small patrol boats. |
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| 3656 | STEIN, Harold. American Civil-Military Decisions: A Book of Case Studies. [viii], 705p., bibliog. Birmingham: University of Alabama Press, 1963.
Articles examining civil-military relations on such topics as aid to Russia, US fleet deployment in 1940–41, and the Italian armistice. |
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| 3657 | STERN, Robert C. The US Navy and the War in Europe. 306p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth, 2012. ISBN: 9781848320826.
Aims to reach a more rounded view of the US contribution. |
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| 3658 | STERN, Robert C. The US Navy in World War Two, 1941–1942 (Warships Illustrated no., 10). 68p., illus. London: Arms & Armour, 1987. ISBN: 0853687595.
The usual illustrated format of the series, with good coverage of the Atlantic forces. |
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| 3659 | TOLLEY, Kemp. Caviar and Commissars: The Experiences of a US Naval Officer in Stalin's Russia. xvii, 289p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis: NIP, 1983. ISBN: 1557504075. The travelogue-type memoirs of an Assistant Naval Attaché, with some marginal comment on the Arctic convoys. He was a freelance intelligence officer in China, the Baltic states and eastern Europe from 1935 to 1937, and Assistant Naval Attache in Moscow from 1942 to 1944. Full of entertaining anecdote and numerous period photographs.
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| 3660 | UNITED STATES. Navy Department. Building the Navy's Bases in World War II: History of the Bureau of Yards and Docks and the Civil Engineer Corps, 1940–1946. 2 vols., illus., index. Washington: USGPO, 1947.
A significant account of this substantial undertaking, with a wealth of information on the bases as well as the management process. |
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| 3661 | UNITED STATES. Navy Department. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. 8 vols., bibliog., illus. Washington: USGPO, 1959–81.
A catalogue of all American ships since the revolution, including those passed to Britain under Lease-Lend and vice-versa with leading details and a brief biography of each. |
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