Download or read book Reminiscences of Capt Robert E Dornin USN Ret written by Robert E Dornin and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this short volume, Captain Dornin, a highly successful World War II submarine skipper with nine successive war patrols, discusses his wartime service as aide to Chief of Naval Operations Ernest J. King. Among the topics he covers regarding Admiral King are a meeting with General De Gaulle, a hair-raising tour of Allied holdings in the Central Pacific before they were totally secured, and the admiral's attitude toward the use of the atomic bomb to end the war.

Download or read book Reminiscences of Captain Robert E Dornin U S Navy Retired written by Robert Edson Dornin and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Reminiscences of Rear Adm Robert W McNitt USN Ret written by Robert W McNitt and published by . This book was released on 1979-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graduated from the Naval Academy in 1938 after playing a valuable role in the establishment of the academy's ocean sailing program. Initial commissioned service was on board the heavy cruiser Chicago (CA-29) and the destroyer Rhind (DD-404), including combat duty in the Atlantic. After Submarine School, was executive officer of the submarine Barb (SS-220) under skipper Gene Fluckey. Following postgraduate work in ordnance engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, served 1947-49 in the large aircraft carrier Midway (CVB-41) and 1949-52 at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory at White Oak, Maryland. In the 1950's commanded the escort destroyer Taylor (DDE-468), served in the Bureau of Ordnance, and was a student at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Later commanded Destroyer Division 322, the Atlantic Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Tactical School, and Destroyer Squadron 25. At the Naval Academy in 1962-64 had a large role in revising the curriculum and hiring the first academic dean. Flag officer duties in the 1960's included being U.S. representative on the staff of Commander in Chief Allied Forces Mediterranean, Commander Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla Four, and superintendent of the Naval Postgraduate School. In 1971-72 McNitt served as Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Manpower and Training) and from 1972 to 1985 was the civilian dean of admissions at the Naval Academy.

Download or read book Reminiscences of Adm Robert L J Long USN Ret written by Robert L Long and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Reminiscences of Admiral Robert Lee Dennison U S Navy Retired written by Robert Lee Dennison and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reminiscences of Adm Robert Lee Dennison USN Ret written by Robert L Dennison and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Admiral Dennison's memoir is an especially valuable one, because of his close contacts with prominent individuals, notably service from 1948 through 1953 as naval aide to President Harry Truman. Early in his career, Dennison was a submarine officer and acquired postgraduate education, including a doctorate in engineering. He had contact with General MacArthur while on the staff of Admiral Thomas Hart at the outbreak of World War II in the Far East, later served in the Aleutians campaign and with JCS in Washington. Postwar he commanded the battleship Missouri (BB-63). In the 1950s, Dennison was in OpNav and various fleet commands; capped career with 1960-1963 tour as CinCLantFlt/CinCLant/SACLant during Bay of Pigs invasion and Cuban Missile Crisis.

Download or read book Reminiscences of Rear Adm Robert H Wertheim USN Ret written by Robert H Wertheim and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among early tours, Wertheim served as engineering, communications, and CIC officer in the USS Hyman (DD-732) when she was involved in American occupation forces in Japan, and in the USS Bordelon (DD-881) in operations with Task Force 77 in Far East. In 1964 he received an MS in science from MIT. He was military assistant for strategic weapons in the Department of Defense and then became Technical Director, Strategic Systems Project Office--responsible for the development of Polaris, Poseidon, and Trident missile systems. Discussions in his memoir include: work at China Lake on the Chaparral system; work with the atomic bomb assembly team; the leadership of Polaris pioneer Vice Admiral William F. Raborn Jr.; and development of the Navy's strategic weapons systems.

Download or read book Reminiscences of Rear Adm Robert B Erly USN Ret written by Robert B Erly and published by . This book was released on 2003-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir emphasizes three principal legs of the tripod that dominated much of Admiral Erly's career: destroyer operations, amphibious warfare, and relations with other nations in the Americas. Erly graduated from the Naval Academy in 1937 and spent the next year in the battleship USS New Mexico (BB-40). He served on board the destroyer USS Conyngham (DD-371) in 1938-39. He received flight training in Florida in 1940 but was advised to return to surface ships, which he did. His service on board the destroyer USS Cassin (DD-372) in 1941 came to an end when the ship was badly damaged during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Erly directed firefighting efforts against burning ships. After temporary assignments around Pearl Harbor in late 1941-early 1942, Erly was in the commissioning crew of the destroyer USS Frazier (DD-607) in 1942. Because of his Spanish language capability, he reported in 1943 to advise the Cuban Navy on behalf of Commander Gulf Sea Frontier. He was executive officer of the destroyer USS Laub (DD-613) in the Italian campaign in 1944 when she collided with the light cruiser USS Philadelphia (CL-41). His first command, in 1944-45, was the destroyer USS Phelps (DD-360). He served in the U.S. naval mission to Venezuela, 1946-48; was executive officer of the destroyer tender Yosemite (AD-19) in 1948-49, and in 1949-50 was an instructor at the General Line School, Newport, Rhode Island. Erly recommissioned the destroyer USS James C. Owens (DD-776) in 1950 and commanded her until 1952, including service in the Korean War. In 1952-53 he was a student at the Armed Forces Staff College. He served on the staff of Commander Amphibious Group Two, 1953-55; served in OpNav, 1955-58; and was the first commanding officer of the attack transport USS Paul Revere (APA-248) in 1958-59. In 1959-60 he was on the Amphibious Force Pacific Fleet staff as operations officer; commanded Amphibious Squadron Five, 1961-62, and was a student in 1962-63 at the National War College. After service in 1963-65 as chief of staff to Commander Amphibious Force Pacific Fleet, Erly was selected for flag rank, and in 1965-66 served as Commander Amphibious Group Three and Commander River/Coastal Warfare Group during the development of riverine warfare doctrine. He served 1966-68 in OP-63 as coordinator of inter-American affairs, naval missions, and MAAGs. From 1968 to 1972 he served on the Atlantic Fleet staff, first as inspector general, and later as Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Operations. His final active tour, 1972-74 was as Commander Iberian Atlantic Command and Chief of the Military Assistance Advisory Group in Portugal.

Download or read book Reminiscences of Vice Adm Robert Burns Pirie USN Ret written by Robert B Pirie and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reminiscences of Capt Herbert E Hetu USN Ret written by Herbert E Hetu and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of a World War II Naval Reserve officer, Hetu served a year in 1948-49 as an enlisted man. He went through boot camp and then served as a hospital corpsman in Philadelphia. After graduating from John Carroll University, in 1952, he was commissioned that same year through Officer Candidate School. He served 1952-54 in the heavy cruiser Salem (CA-139) as a line officer and got into the public information field while on board. He then had duty in the Navy Office of Information in Washington. In 1956 Hetu augmented to the regular Navy and converted to the public information designator. He then had two tours in Pearl Harbor, in the information offices of the Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet and later in the Service Force Pacific Fleet. While in Hawaii he worked with the producers of the Hollywood movies The Enemy Below and South Pacific. His next duty, in 1959-60 in the Navy Liaison Office in Hollywood, involved work with movies and television programs. In the early 1960s he was again in Washington, in the Navy press office of the Defense Department and as head of Chinfo's audio-visual branch. He had a liaison role with director Otto Preminger for the movie In Harm's Way. Following postgraduate study in public relations at Boston University, he served 1965-66 with the Tenth Naval District in Puerto Rico. In the ensuing years he was public affairs officer for two CNOs, Admirals David McDonald and Thomas Moorer, and CinCUSNavEur, Admiral John McCain. In 1969 served in Seventh Fleet Det Charlie in South Vietnam. He then served 1970-74 as PAO for two Secretaries of the Navy, John Chafee and John Warner. Subsequently he did public affairs work for the U.S. Bicentennial Administration and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Download or read book Reminiscences of Capt Joseph J Rochefort USN Ret written by Joseph J Rochefort and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This oral history was originally completed in 1970 and then was confiscated by the Navy the following year. It was subsequently classified secret by the National Security Agency because of its discussion of codebreaking. A sanitized version, with classified material removed, was released by NSA in late 1982 and forms the basis for this new volume, which contains probably at least 95% of the original. Captain Rochefort is best known for leading the team of codebreakers at Pearl Harbor which produced information instrumental in the U.S. victory at the Battle of Midway in June 1942. He discusses that in the context of an overall career which included a good deal of service on board ships and operational staffs, including that of Commander in Chief U.S. Fleet. He discusses the beginnings of U.S. Navy cryptanalysis and his own study of the Japanese language. During World War II, he got sidetracked from intended billets by the controversies over the Midway Battle and the attack on Pearl Harbor. At war's end, he participated in a strategic intelligence survey and was later recalled to active duty to study various battles.

Download or read book Reminiscences of Capt Frank A Manson USN Ret written by Frank A Manson and published by . This book was released on 1995-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of particular interest in this oral history was Manson's close association with a number of four-star admirals whom he discusses candidly: Louis Denfeld, Forrest P. Sherman, Robert B. Carney, Arleigh A. Burke, Harold Page Smith, Harry Don Felt, Robert L. Dennison, David L. McDonald, John S. McCain Jr., and Claude V. Ricketts. Manson was commissioned in the Naval Reserve in 1942 and went through the naval training school at Ithaca, New York. In 1943-44 he was part of the staff of the Boston Representative of Commander Destroyers Atlantic Fleet. He had combat experience in the crew of the destroyer USS Laffey (DD-724) in 1944-45. Shortly after World War II, he was selected as a public information specialist and augmented into the regular Navy. He served in the late 1940s on the Secretary of the Navy's Committee on Research on Reorganization (SCOROR) and participated in the writing of volumes of the Battle Report about the Navy's combat operations in World War II-as well as a later Battle Report volume on the Navy in the Korean War. In the late 1940s and early 1950s he served as speechwriter to CNOs Louis Denfeld and Forrest Sherman. From 1951 to 1953 he was historian at the foundation of NATO's Allied Forces Southern Europe (CinCSouth) and from 1953 to 1956 served as speechwriter for two Chiefs of Naval Operations, Robert Carney and Arleigh Burke. From 1956 to 1958 he was head of Plans and Policies Analysis, Office of Progress Analysis, in OpNav. He was coauthor, with Commander Malcolm Cagle, of the 1957 book The Sea War in Korea. As a student at the Naval War College, 1958-59, he developed a "White Fleet" concept for the humanitarian use of Navy ships. In 1959 Life magazine published a cover story on his idea. From 1959 to 1963 Manson served as public information officer for CinCNELM in London, in 1963-64 served in the Navy's Office of Information (Chinfo), followed by duty in 1964-68 as public affairs officer for NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLant). His final tour of active duty, in 1968, was as head of the book and magazine section of the office of the Deputy Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs). His post-retirement activities in the foreign relations field were on behalf of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Download or read book Oral History Typescript Reminiscences of VADM Robert Burns Pirie USN Ret written by Robert Burns Pirie and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intensive biography including early years, youth, schooling, USNA education, ship and aviation assignments, Superintendant of Training, Naval Air Station, World War II, Naval Academy, Sixth Fleet, Carrier Division Commands, and Chief of Naval Operations (Air), 1905-1962.

Download or read book Reminiscences of Vice Adm Robert Taylor Scott Keith USN Ret written by Robert T Keith and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1928 graduate of the Naval Academy, Admiral Keith spent much of his active career in battleships and destroyers such as the USS Utah (BB-31), Arizona (BB-39), Overton (DD-239), and Aylwin (DD-355). He was the commanding officer of the destroyer USS Nicholas (DD-449) during combat in the Pacific in World War II. A substantial part of the memoir recounts his command of the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) in 1954. He spent three tours on the staff of the Naval Academy, including duty as Commandant of Midshipmen in the mid-1950s. As a flag officer, he commanded the naval base at Subic Bay, the Pacific Fleet Cruiser-Destroyer Force, and the First Fleet.

Download or read book Reminiscences of Capt Slade D Cutter USN Ret Vol II written by Slade D Cutter and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutter turned down a music scholarship at an Illinois college to attend the Naval Academy, where he became an All-American football star and standout on the boxing team. Following graduation in 1935, Cutter embarked on a career heavily intertwined with sports. His first duty was as football coach for the team of the battleship USS Idaho (BB-42). After submarine school he coached football at the Naval Academy with collateral duty in the USS S-30 (SS-135). World War II found him in the crew of the USS Pompano (SS-181), where he made a name for himself as a brilliant submariner - a reputation that was further enhanced by his wartime commands of the USS Seahorse (SS-304) and the USS Requin (SS-481). Cutter provides an excellent picture of wartime sub duty: the attributes required of a good skipper and opinions of all the top names, description of the experience of undergoing a depth charge attack, the quality of food on board subs, and the craziness of submariners letting off steam between patrols. After the war, Cutter took charge of the Navy sports program, taking an armed forces team to the 1948 London Olympics, where he refereed boxing. His first volume ends with discussion of his assignment as executive officer of the tender USS Sperry (AS-12) in 1949-50. In the second volume, Cutter picks up his career with his unsatisfying service as Commander Submarine Division 32 in the early 1950s. He moved on to a more interesting assignment as director of the Special Services program, where he was concerned with officers' clubs and liquor sales. Next came a stint in the Navy Information Office in the mid-1950s, where he became embroiled with the problems of security leaks, Admiral Rickover, and the USS Nautilus (SSN-571). He commanded the command ship USS Northampton (CLC-1) when she was Second Fleet flagship. Other tours discussed include NATO duty in Naples, director of athletics at the Naval Academy in the late 1950s, and director of the Navy Museum, from which he retired in 1966. Cutter's reminiscences of his varied career are enhanced by his humility and humor, evident throughout.

Download or read book Reminiscences of Vice Adm Robert F Dunn USN Ret written by Robert F Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1978-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A native of Chicago, Dunn was captivated by aviation when he took his first airplane ride at age ten. After a year at Northwestern University in Illinois, he was appointed to the Naval Academy, from which he graduated in 1951. His initial commissioned service, which included Korean War duty, was in the escort destroyer USS Nicholas (DDE-449). That was followed by flight training, during which he earned his aviator's wings in 1953. In the ensuing years he flew the AD Skyraider in Attack Squadron 95 (VA-95), Fighter Squadron 194 (VF-194), and Attack Squadron 196. Dunn was a flight instructor at Pensacola, Florida, from 1956 to 1960, then served as flag lieutenant to the colorful Rear Admiral Joseph "Jumping Joe" Clifton. After aviation safety school at the University of Southern California, Dunn flew the A4D/A-4 Skyhawk in the RAG squadron VA-44 and in the fleet in Attack Squadron 36. Subsequent shore tours were as a student at the Naval Postgraduate School and as the Bureau of Naval Weapons resident representative at the Aerojet-General Corporation. In 1966-67, as a commander, Dunn flew the A-4 in bombing runs against North Vietnam while serving as executive officer and then commanding officer of Attack Squadron 146 (VA-146). Subsequently he was a student at the Joint Services Staff College, Latimer, England, and had shore duty in the Bureau of Naval Personnel. In 1970-71 Dunn had a short tour as Commander Carrier Air Wing Seven (CVW-7). He moved from there to the Sixth Fleet staff and served under Vice Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, Jr., and Vice Admiral Gerald E. Miller. His ship commands were the amphibious command ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC-20) and the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-60). After promotion to flag rank in the mid-1970s, Dunn was Commander Naval Safety Center, a member of the staff of Commander Naval Air Force Atlantic Fleet, Commander Carrier Group Eight, Commander Naval Military Personnel Command, and Chief of Naval Reserve. His active service concluded with two tours as a three-star admiral: 1983 to 1986 as Commander Naval Air Force Atlantic Fleet and 1987-89 as Deputy CNO (Air Warfare). In 1988-89 was honored as the Navy's "Gray Eagle," active aviator with the earliest designation. After retirement he worked for a time for the U.S. Naval Institute, which he had previously served as a board member.