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The Port Chicago Mutiny by Robert L. Allen-
A very well-written and documented book about the "mutiny" of mostly black sailors following the Port Chicago blast in 1944. Lots of pictures and personal memories by some of the men involved. Highly Recommended !
Bluejacket Odyssey by William McGee. WW2 from the viewpoint of the Naval Armed Guard
Descent into Darkness- Pearl Harbor, 1941- A Navy Diver's Memoir",by Edward C. Raymer.
The Pacific War: As Seen By Navy Photographers During World War Two by L. Sowinski
Vietnam- The Naval Story by F. Uhlig
Battle Station Sick Bay- Naval Medicine in World War Two by Jan K. Herman
Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War by Edwin Moise
From the Rivers to the Sea- The US Navy in Vietnam by CDR Richard Schreadley
All Battle Stations Manned by J. Poling -The US Navy in WW2
My Fifty Years in the Navy by Charles Edgar Clark (1843 - 1933) The Reminiscences of an Admiral
All the Drowned Sailors by Raymond Lech
The Long Way Home- A WW II Pacific Odyssey by James Schultz. The evolution of a college boy into a Naval Officer in WW 2
To Foreign Shores- Naval Amphibious Operations in WW 2 by John A. Lorelli.
DD 522: Diary of a Destroyer From the Phillippines to her Sinking at Okinawa by Ron Surels
Eagle Against The Sun by Ronald Spector. A condensed view of the Pacific Theatre in WW 2.
The Lane Victory, The Last Liberty Ship by CAPT Walter Jaffee
Pacific War Remembered, An Oral History by John Mason, Jr.
Blue Jacket: In Harm's Way by John Hutchinson
The Sea War in Korea by M. Cagle
Brown Water and Black Berets by LCDR Thomas Cutler, USN. The story of the Riverine Forces in Vietnam
Victory Ships and Tankers by L. Sawyer
US Naval Abbreviations What does "ComNavCruDesLant" mean, anyhow ?
The "Good War": An Oral History of World War Two, by Studs Terkel... Remembering the crusade against fascism- the war that everyone supported. (This book contains an interview with a survivor of the Port Chicago Explosion.)
Korea Remembered, The USS Ozbourn's First Korean Tour by Charles Cole
Rendezvous With Destiny: A Sailor's War by T. Mason
Inchon to Wonson: From the Deck of a Destroyer in the Korean War by J. Alexander
On Yankee Station: The Naval Air War Over Vietnam by J. Nichols
The Coast Guard at War- 1965 to 1975 The Story of Coast Guard Operations in Vietnam by Brent Scowcroft
Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club: Carrier Operations off Vietnam by R. Francillon
