U.S. Navy History Research Papers (original) (raw)

Roland B. Gittelsohn, the first Navy rabbi assigned with U.S. Marines, served in the Pacific during World War II. In his wartime memoir, written in 1946 but only published in 2021, he related his odyssey from doctrinaire pacifist to "pacifist no more," his training, and his ministry to Marines and sailors on Iwo Jima. His sermon at the dedication of the 5th Marine Division cemetery riveted all Americans, even though it would only be heard by a small gathering that day. Woven though his account are reflections on morale, service, leadership, and interfaith understanding. Donald M. Bishop edited the volume, which includes a foreword by Rear Admiral Harold Robinson, Chaplain Corps, U.S. Navy (Retired) and a preface by Ronit Y. Stahl, Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. (Copies of the print book may be ordered from the Marine Corps University Press at no cost. Email mcu_press@usmcu.edu.

- by Donald M Bishop
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- Antisemitism (Prejudice), Prejudice, Civil Rights, Pacifism

Pensacola's Unique history of two towns that use to occupy NAS Pensacola, Florida

- by Ryan Obray
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- Florida history, Pensacola, Naval Air Station Pensacola, West Florida

Life of Stanley Lipski of Northampton, Massachusetts and his last moments aboard the U.S.S. Indianapolis as Gunnery Commander

Reviews "The Lionheads" by Josiah Bunting (New York: George Braziller, 1972). One of the first novels of the Vietnam war is still one of the most compelling. The author based the novel on his own experience with the Riverine Brigade of the Ninth Infantry Division. It addresses leadership, conscience, the media, professional study, organizational inertia, ego, and careerism. It is a book with strong moral content.

- by Donald M Bishop
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- Military History, Military Ethics, Vietnam War, War and Literature

U.S. Navy Ensign George Clayton Foulk (1856-1993) (USNA '76) served with the Asiatic Squadron, visited Busan in 1882, escorted the first Korean diplomatic mission to the United States when they presented credentials to President Chester Arthur in New York, accompanied the mission on its return to Korea aboard the USS Trenton, and served as Naval Attache and then Charge d'affaires ad interim at the American Legation in Seoul from 1884 to 1887. He explored Gyeonggi Province and the Han River; helped Koreans establish new businesses; demonstrated agricultural and mining techniques; befriended members of the "Progressive Party" (개화당) who attempted the ill-fated émeute of 1884; urged the Korean court to employ American advisors; assisted newly arrived American missionaries; promoted trade, investigated the 1866 loss of the vessel General Sherman; and faced the crisis over the British naval base at Gomundo (Port Hamilton). Foulk was discouraged by Washington's lack of support for Korea, even as China, Russia, and Japan contended for influence. China's representative in Seoul, Yuan Shikai, persuaded Washington to relieve Foulk in 1887. [The article was a chapter in the volume edited by Andrew C. Nahm, The United States and Korea: American-Korean Relations, 1966-1976, published in 1979.]

- by Donald M Bishop
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- History of Late Choson Korea, Li Hongzhang, Modern Korean History, Yuan Shikai

Extensive review of major U.S., Japanese, and European pre-WW 2 naval expansion programs, with emphasis on the post-1936 battleship and other major warship funding and construction programs.
Extensive chart detail all shipbuilding programs, covering mid1930s to 1945.
Two-part article.
Illustrated with B&W photos of capital ships involved in shipbuilding programs.

- by G. Keith Jacobs
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- Imperial Japanese Navy, Royal Navy, Japanese Navy, Japanese Naval History
- by Adeyinka Makinde
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- History, American History, American Studies, International Relations

Turkish Admiral Afif Büyüktuğrul sought information from the history offices of the navies of countries that were involved in the Turkish War of Independence for a 1975 magazine article. The Italian Navy responded with a detailed report and the U.S. Navy provided its own summary. Herewith, the English translation of Admiral Büyüktuğrul's article.

Contributing academic reviewer Amy Gallagher pages 27-29 Thomas Helling, Desperate Surgery in the Pacific War: Doctors and Damage Control for American Wounded, 1941-1945 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017), pp. 476, ISBN: 978-1476664217. Amy... more

Contributing academic reviewer Amy Gallagher pages 27-29
Thomas Helling, Desperate Surgery in the Pacific War: Doctors
and Damage Control for American Wounded, 1941-1945
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017), pp. 476, ISBN:
978-1476664217. Amy Gallagher (University of North Texas)

- by Amy Gallagher and +1
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- Military History, Combat Veterans, World War II, World War II Pacific Theatre

Review of the nw U.S. Navy maritime doctrine called "Forward from the Sea" and its potential impact in the Middle East region.

Review of the status of the U.S. Navy submarine service, as it moves into the decade of the Nineties, with large numbers of nuclear-powered submarines being decommissioned, as the service looks forward to the new "Virginia" class and... more

- by G. Keith Jacobs
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- Nuclear Submarines, U.s. Navy, Submarines, U.S. Navy History

Since 1940, the United States has held to the doctrine of 'sea control'; this doctrine was the basis of the United States funding of a "Two Ocean Navy" program. The decision to fund the "Two Ocean Navy" effectively endorsed the views of the American naval strategist A.T. Mahan that naval power was the key to national defense. Since 1945, U.S. naval forces have been deployed worldwide more than 250 times, as direct crisis management forces.

- by G. Keith Jacobs
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- U.s. Navy, The South China Sea dispute, U.S.-Soviet Relations, U.S. Navy History

Article reviews the status of the four remaining "Iowa" class battleships, in the wake of Operation "Desert Storms" conclusion.

U.S. seapower in the Western Pacific is based on the 7th Fleet. While the Navy will not get it's "600-ship" program, the 7th Fleet and 3rd Fleet's have greatly enhanced their war-fighting abilities in this last decade, aided by exercises as PACEEX '89", which combined three carrier (CVBG) and two battleship battle groups and one amphibious ready group (ARG) for fleet maneuvers.

- by G. Keith Jacobs
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- U.s. Navy, Submarines, Battleship, Aircraft Carrier

The closure of 91 military facilities and the relocation of 54 others came closer to being realized last March (1988) after the House Armed Services Committee voted in favor of the congressional amendment that would being the base closure and relocation (BRAC) process in 1989. Of the almost $700 million per year the recommended closing and relocations would save the US DoD budget, the largest part will come from US Air Force facilities.
[Authored by G. Jacobs under pseudonyn "Gene D. Tracy]