books about: battlewagon

books about: battlewagon

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Battlewagon

Mountaineer Battlewagon: U.S.S. West Virginia (BB-48)

Myron J. Smith

Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1982

The WeeVee as she was
Although thin in size and short on text, the images in this book should kindle some memories of the "WeeVee", as she was affectionately known. The ship was certainly not short on heroes, Doris "Dorie" Miller and Mervyn Bennion to name two, in a time when heroes were ...

Keystone Battlewagon U.S.S. Pennsylvania (Bb-38)
Myron J. Smith

Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1983

Old Nameless - The Epic Of A U.S. Battlewagon
Sidney Shalett

Laing Press, 2007

jrtrtriHrtrtrfrfc OLD NAMELESS THE EPIC OF A U. S. BATTLEWAGON By SIDNEY SHALETT D. APPLETON-CENTURY COMPANY INCORPORATED NEW YORK 1943 LONDON nihVsin CAPTAIN THOMAS LEIGH GATCH, U. S. N. To AT-JIT-A. AND HVTICHLA F. T . AUTHORS NOTE IT IS the hope of the author that this book may serve as an humble mirror to reflect a bit of the glory that a ...

Submarine Admiral: FROM BATTLEWAGONS TO BALLISTIC MISSILES

I J. Galantin

University of Illinois Press, 1997

A wonderful book for naval historians
Admiral Galantin's book tells the story of his personal involvement in the post-war U.S. Navy in a readable and entertaining manner. His accounts of bureaucratic turf wars in the Navy were especially interesting to naval historians like myself. I thoroughly enjoyed ...

Battlewagon, of the Nine Battleships at Pearl Harbor, One Got Underway

Wallace Louis Exum

Vantage Press, 1974

Bloodless addition to a familiar genre
Published in 1974 by a journalist and world war two Navy veteran, "Battlewagon" is one of many novels that give the reader a slice of life in Hawai`i in the waning days of peace in 1941. Exum clearly knows his way around the fleet, and the central character is a ...