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  • The Reminiscences of Rear Adm. Clarence E. Olsen, USN (Ret.), as They Pertain to the Yalta Conference
    John T. Mason
    Covers his service from 1942 to 1945. In 1942 served at Headquarters, Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet, Washington, D.C., where one duty was making a study of the Northern Passage from Japan, around northern Russia to Murmansk to see what prospects of developing it might be. Was then assigned as Chief of the Naval Division of the U.S. Military Mission to USSR. Handled naval activ...
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  • The Reminiscences of Rear Adm. Henry L. Miller, USN (Ret.), vol. II
    John T. Mason
    Admiral Miller was designated a naval aviator in 1938. He was assigned as flight instructor at NAS, Ellyson Field, Florida, where he trained Colonel Doolittle's "Tokyo Raiders" in carrier takeoffs and accompanied them in the USS Hornet (CV-8) in 1942. He then commanded Air Group 23 in the USS Princeton (CVL-23) and Air Group Six in the USS Hancock (CV-19). After graduation ...
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  • The Reminiscences of Capt. Roland W. Faulk, CHC, USN (Ret.)
    John T. Mason
    In a career marked by a great deal of administrative work rather than parish duty, Faulk is probably best known for his spirited--and eventually successful--campaign against compulsory church attendance in the Navy. Among his varied duties were service in the battleship Idaho (BB-42) in the late 1930s, at the Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines as World War II approached; in th...
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  • A Series of Interviews on the Subject of Polaris
    John T. Mason
    From 1956, when the U.S. Navy first awarded the development contracts, to 1960, when the first UGM-27 Polaris missile was launched from Cape Canaveral, the Navy was in the thick of a pioneering project that forever would change the way such epic undertakings were approached. The Navy’s first submarine-launched ballistic missile, the Polaris upped the Cold War ante and played a ...
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  • A Series of Interviews on the Subject of Polaris
    John T. Mason
    From 1956, when the U.S. Navy first awarded the development contracts, to 1960, when the first UGM-27 Polaris missile was launched from Cape Canaveral, the Navy was in the thick of a pioneering project that forever would change the way such epic undertakings were approached. The Navy’s first submarine-launched ballistic missile, the Polaris upped the Cold War ante and played a ...
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    110,67 €

  • The Reminiscences of the WAVES, vol. I
    John T. Mason
    The Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service-better known in history as the WAVES-were the crucial women’s Naval Reserve component of the U.S. fleet during its most epochal years-World War II. The WAVES were in many ways unprecedented, and the obstacles they faced, both minor and significant, were numerous. From 1969 to 1971, Naval Institute oral historian John T. Mason J...
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    111,14 €

  • Prisoner of War Series, vol. II
    John T. Mason
    In 1975, as the Vietnam War was coming to a close with the fall of Saigon, the Naval Institute Oral History Program undertook a project to collect the firsthand accounts of U.S. Navy personnel who had endured imprisonment at the hands of the North Vietnamese during the conflict. From 1975 to 1976, Naval Institute oral historian John T. Mason Jr. took to the field along with Ett...
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    110,58 €

  • Prisoner of War Series, vol. I
    John T. Mason
    In 1975, as the Vietnam War was coming to a close with the fall of Saigon, the Naval Institute Oral History Program undertook a project to collect the firsthand accounts of U.S. Navy personnel who had endured imprisonment at the hands of the North Vietnamese during the conflict. From 1975 to 1976, Naval Institute oral historian John T. Mason Jr. took to the field along with Et...
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    110,98 €