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| 3682 | IVEY, W. P. (Bill). 'Er to 'Err: 'Ere bloometh the Rose. [33, 3, 191–226, 1–781, 9p.], illus., index. Birmingham, Ala: author, 1982.
A meandering autobiographical tribute to the US Merchant Marine in which he served. Includes the 1950 index to US Merchant Marine casualties. The incomprehensible title reflects a badly typed, cyclostyled, and confused memoir. Starting as a deckhand in the thirties, he rose to become an officer and sailed from Murmansk convoys to the Pacific. |
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| 3683 | JAFFEE, Walter W. The Last Liberty: The Biography of the s.s. Jeremiah O'Brien.[x], v, 490p., bibliog., illus., index. Palo Alto, Calif.: Glencannon, 1993. ISBN: 0963758608.
Built between May and June 1943 in Portland, she carried her first Atlantic cargo in July. Almost 12 months of Atlantic convoys was followed by D-Day. In October she returned to New York and began carrying cargo into the Pacific and Indian Oceans. She was laid up in the Reserve Fleet in 1946 and rescued later for preservation. |
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| 3684 | JOHNSON, Arthur Charles. With Pen and Powder in the Pleiades. 258p., frontis. Columbus: F. J. Heer Printing Co., 1945.
The letters home from a US Naval Reserve Officer who served in the Armed Guard branch of the Navy as Captain of the gun crew on a Liberty ship. He served mainly in the Mediterranean in 1943–44, until killed by a gunshot wound in the middle of 1944. |
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| 3685 | LIEBERMAN, Gerald F. The Sea Lepers. 349p. Garden City: Doubleday, 1971.
Wartime experiences of trooping, by a Merchant Officer. |
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| 3686 | McCORMICK, Harold J. Two Years behind the Mast: An American Landlubber at Sea in World War II. xii, 147p., bibliog., illus., index. Kansas: Sunflower UP, 1991. ISBN: 0897451384.
A Midwesterner who joined the Armed Guard and spent two years as gunnery officer on three merchantmen in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. |
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| 3687 | McCOY, Samuel Duff. Nor Death Dismay: A Record of Merchant Ships and Merchant Mariners in Time of War. ix, 248p. New York: Macmillan, 1948.
The US Merchant Marine at war, as seen through the exploits of the American Export Line ships. |
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| 3688 | MACKENZIE, Colin. Sailors of Fortune. 190p., illus. New York: Dutton, 1944.
An atmospheric popular account of life in the American Merchant Marine, with torpedoings in the Caribbean, South Atlantic convoys, and the Salerno landings. |
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| 3689 | MANOLIS, Nicholas. We at Sea: The Epic of the American Mariner. 188p. New York: Anatolia, 1949.
A personal but propaganda memoir of a dangerous trade. |
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| 3690 | MINARIK, William H. Sailors, Subs and Senoritas. 349p. Boston: Branden, 1968.
Based on the author's wartime diary. An earthy view of an American deckhand's life. |
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| 3691 | MOFFAT, Alexander W. A Navy Maverick Comes of Age, 1939–1945. 152p., illus., index. Middletown: Wesleyan UP, 1977. ISBN: 0819550159. The engaging anecdotal memoirs of a reserve officer who returned to the colours and served afloat and ashore in the Boston area in an active war which culminated in taking the surrender of four U-boats. An earlier version (assumed as no copy seen) was published in 1976 by the same publisher, entitled Maverick Navy (ISBN: 0819550000). |
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| 3692 | MOORE, A. R. A Careless Word - A Needless Sinking: A History of the Staggering Losses Suffered by the US Merchant Marine, Both in Ships and Personnel during World War II. xii, 552p., bibliog., illus. New York: American Merchant Marine Museum, 1983. ISBN: 9997778464.
A dictionary catalogue of ships and how they were lost, with some survivors' tales and casualty lists. Encyclopaedic. |
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| 3693 | O' FLAHERTY, "Ferocious." Abandoned Convoy: US Merchant Marine in WWII. 87p. New York: Exposition, 1970. ISBN: 0682470856.
An account of the PQ17 convoy is used to launch a brief attack on the management of the Merchant Marine. |
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| 3694 | PALMER, M. B. We Fight with Merchant Ships. 307p., illus. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943.
A description of the US Merchant Marine at war and a plea for more shipbuilding. |
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| 3695 | POPPLE, Charles Sterling. Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) in World War II. xxviii, 340p., illus., index. New York: Standard Oil Company, 1952.
More concerned with refining than maritime operations, which occupy some 40 pages. |
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| 3696 | REMINICK, Gerald. Patriots and Heroes. 2 vols. Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon, 2000-2003. ISBN: 1889901148 (Vol. 1); ISBN: 1889901318 (Vol. 2) Using personal accounts, the author provides an overview of the experiences of U.S. Merchant Mariners in World War II, from enlistment and training, to participation in theaters of war around the globe. A separate chapter addresses D-Day operations. |
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| 3697 | RIESENBERG, Felix. Sea War: The Story of the US Merchant Marine in World War II. 320p., illus., index. New York: Rinehart, 1956.
Based on eyewitness accounts of events and presented as a human interest story. |
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| 3698 | SCHOFIELD, William G. Eastward the Convoys. 240p., index. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1965.
The war memoirs of an Armed Guard Commander serving on a US Atlantic merchantman, the Gulfwing, from 1941 to 1944. They are bitter-sweet in their tone. |
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| 3699 | SKATTEBOL, Lars. The Last Voyage of the Quien Sabe. ix, 255p., illus. New York: Harper, 1944.
A tale of six months on a US registered merchantman with a crew of mixed nationalities, and with her name changed to preserve security. She was torpedoed on 14 November 1942 while alone in the South Atlantic and it was 17 days before her survivors were picked up. |
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| 3700 | STANDARD OIL COMPANY (New Jersey). Ships of the Esso Fleet in World War II. 536p., illus. New Jersey: Standard Oil Company, 1946.
Records the fates of the 135 Standard Oil and Panama Transport Company tankers. Each ship is listed and examined alphabetically. |
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| 3701 | TILLMAN, C. Engine Room Sea Stories. Oakland Calif.: [author], 1986.
A tough laconic unionised engineer recalls his life in the 'thirties and 'forties. He had an active war mainly in the Atlantic and South Pacific. |
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