Found at Web site:

http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/mcpon/readgide.html

QUOTE:
The United States Navy

Naval Heritage/Core Values Reading Guide

The following books comprise the Master Chief Petty Officer of
the Navy’s Naval Heritage/Core Values
Reading Guide as prepared in March 1997. This list is updated annually
as part of the Chief Petty Officer Initiation
Season. The books are available through the Navy Exchange or the Uniform
Center toll-free ordering system.

“A” list: required reading list

The Fighting Liberty Ships — A Memoir by A. A. Hoehling
Inchon to Wonsan: From the Deck of a Destroyer in the Korean War
by James Edwin Alexander
Bluejacket: An Autobiography by Fred J. Buenzle with A. Grove Day
A Sailor’s Log: Recollections of Forty Years of Naval Life by
Rear Adm. Robert D. Evans with introduction
by Benjamin Franklin Cooling
Tin Can Sailor – Life Aboard the USS Sterett, ’39-’45 by C.
Raymond Calhoun
Battleship Sailor by Theodore C. Mason
Brave Ship, Brave Men by Arnold S. Lott
The Fleet the Gods Forgot by W. G. Winslow
The Ghost That Died at Sunda Strait by W. G. Winslow
We Will Stand By You — Serving in the Pawnee, 1942-1945 by
Theodore C. Mason
Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket’s WWII Odyssey by Alvin Kernan
Mother Was A Gunner’s Mate: WWII in the Waves by Josette Dermody
Wingo
Man-of-War Life by Charles Nordhoff
Thunder Below by Adm. Eugene B. Fluckey, USN(Ret.)
Master of Seapower: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King
by Thomas B. Buell, introduction by John
B. Lundstrom
My Fifty Years in the Navy by Adm. Charles E. Clark with
introduction by Jack Sweetman
Raiders of the Deep by Lowell Thomas, introduction by Gary E.
Weir
The Atlantic War Remembered — An Oral History Collection by John
T. Mason, Jr.
The Battle of Cape Esperance — Encounter at Guadalcanal by Capt.
Charles Cook, USN(Ret.)
The Golden Thirteen — Recollections of the First Black Naval
Officers by Paul Stillwell with Colin L. Powell
The Last Patrol by Harry Holmes
Proudly We Served — The Men of USS Mason by Mary Pat Kelly
Raiders from the Sea by John Lodwick
Ultra in the Pacific: How Breaking Japanese Codes and Ciphers
Affected Naval Operations Against Japan by
John Winton
Bull Halsey: A Biography by E. B. Potter
Submarine Diary — The Silent Stalking of Japan by Rear Adm.
Corwin Mendenhall
Devotion to Duty — A Biography of Admiral Clifton A. F. Sprague
by John F. Wukovits
Every Other Day: Letters from the Pacific by George B. Lucas
In Love and War: Revised and Updated by Jim and Sybil Stockdale
Good Night Officially by William M. McBride
Nimitz by E. B. Potter
Ship’s Doctor by Captain Terrence Riley
What a Way to Spend a War: Navy Nurse POWs in the Philippines by
Dorothy Still Danner
Fatal Voyage by Dan Kurzman
Naked Warriors by Cmdr. Frances Douglas Fane and Don Moore
Devil Boats by William Breuer
The Ship That Held the Line by Lisle A. Rose
Tin Can Man by E. J. Jernigan
Iwo by Richard Wheeler
Descent Into Darkness by Cmdr. Edward C. Raymer
Blood on the Sea by Robert Sinclair Parkin
On Watch by Adm. Elmo Zumwalt

“B” List: Reference

Against All Odds: The Battles at Sea, 1591-1949 by Alexander
McKee
American Naval History — An Illustrated Chronology of the U. S.
Navy and Marine Corps, 1775-Present by
Jack Sweetman
The Book of Navy Songs by The Trident Society
Gray Steel and Black Oil: Fast Tankers and Replenishment at Sea
in the U. S. Navy, 1912-92 by Thomas
Wildenberg
Nautilus: The Story of Man Under the Sea by Roy Davies
Sea Power: A Naval History by E. B. Potter
Sharks of Steel by Steve and Yogi Kaufman
Air Raid: Pearl Harbor! ­ Recollections of a Day of Infamy by
Paul Stillwell
Assault on Normandy — First Person Accounts from the Sea Services
by Paul Stillwell
E-Boat Alert — Defending the Normandy Invasion Fleet by James
Foster Tent
The Fast Carriers — The Forging of an Air Navy by Clark G.
Reynolds
Heroes in Dungarees — The Story of the American Merchant Marines
in WWII by John Bunker
The Little Giants — U. S. Escort Carriers Against Japan by
William T. Youngblood
Unsung Sailors — The Naval Armed Guard in WWII by Justin F.
Gleichauf
The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to
Midway by John B. Lundstrom
The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat
from August to November 1942 by
John B. Lundstrom
Admiral John H. Towers — The Struggle for Naval Air Supremacy by
William F. Trinmble
Admiral William Shepherd Benson — The First Chief of Naval
Operations by Mary Klachko and David F.
Trask
The Magnificent Mitscher by Theodore Taylor
The Rickover Effect — How One Man Made a Difference by Theodore
Rockwell, forward by Adm. James D.
Watkins
Allied Escort Carriers by Kenneth Poolman
At Dawn We Slept by Gordon W. Prange
Prisoners of the Japanese by Gavon Daws
The Two Ocean War by Samuel Eliot Morrison
The Naval Air War, 1939-1945 by Nathan Miller
Victory at Sea — World War II in the Pacific by James F. Dunnigan
and Albert A. Nofi
The Lost Ships of Guadalcanal by Robert D. Ballard
Crisis in the Pacific by Gerald Astor
History of the U. S. Navy, Vol. One, 1775-1941 by Robert W. Love,
Jr.
Clash of the Titans by Walter J. Boyne
The Battle of Leyte Gulf by Thomas J. Cutler
Okinawa — The Last Battle of World War II by Robert Lackie
Normandy by Vice Adm. William P. Mack
War at Sea by Nathan Miller
War Beneath the Sea by Peter Sudfield
The Pacific Campaign: The U. S. – Japanese Naval War, 1941-1945
by Dan van der Vat
Miracle at Midway by Gordon W. Prance
John Paul Jones — America’s Sailor by Clara Ann Simmons
Authors at Sea: Modern American Writers Remember Their Naval
Service by Robert Shenk
Rocks & Shoals: Naval Discipline in the Age of Fighting Sail by
James E. Valle
Fighter Squadron at Guadalcanal by Max Brand
The Unsinkable Fleet: The Politics of U.S. Navy Expansion in
World War II by Joel R. Davidson
Run Silent/Run Deep by Captain Edward L. Beach
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat with intro by Captain Edward
L. Beach
Decision and Dissent with Halsey at Leyte Gulf by Carl Solberg
The Pacific War Remembered — An Oral History Collection by John
T. Mason, Jr.
PT 105 by Dick Keresey
Red Scorpion — The War Patrols of the USS Rasher by Peter T.
Sasgen
Fighting Squadron — A Sequel to Dive Bomber by Robert A. Winston
The Pirate of Tobruk — A Sailor’s Life on the Seven Seas,
1916-1948 by Alfred B. Palmer with Mary E.
Curtis
Submarine Commander by Paul Schratz
We Pulled Together and Won! Personal Memories of the World War II
Era by Reminisce Books
Feet Wet by Rear Adm. Paul T. Gilchrist
War in the Boats by Captain William J. Ruhe
And I was There by Rear Adm. Edwin T. Layton
Submarine Admiral by Adm. J. J. Galntin
All at Sea by Louis R. Harlany
Slow Dance to Pearl Harbor — A Tin Can Ensign in Prewar America
by Captain William J. Ruhe
Battleships in Action, Vols I & II by H. W. Wilson
The People Navy by Kenneth J. Hagan
Longitude by Dava Sobel
U-Boat Commander by Peter Cremer
Kinkaid of the Seventh Fleet: A Biography of Admiral Thomas C.
Kinkaid, USN by Gerald E. Wheeler

“C” List: Reference

History of U. S. Naval Operations in World War II by Samuel Eliot
Morrison:
Vol. I: The Battle of the Atlantic
Vol. II: Operations in North African Waters
Vol. III: The Rising Sun in the Pacific
Vol. IV: Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions
Vol. V: The Struggle for Guadalcanal
Vol. VI: Breaching the Bismarks Barrier
Vol. VII: Aleutions, Gilberts and Marshalls
Vol. VIII: New Guinea and the Marianas
Vol. IX: Sicily — Salerno — Anzio
Vol. X: The Atlantic Battle Won
Vol. XI: The Invasion of France and Germany
Vol. XII: Leyte
Vol. XIII: The Liberation of the Philippines, Luzon,
Mindinao, the Visayas
Vol. XIV: Victory in the Pacific
Vol. XV: Supplement and General Index

END QUOTE

This is certainly an interesting list for content! I would personally
concur with most of these
books for a history education basis. As might be expected a lot of
these books are available from
Naval Institute Press, and perhaps they should consider picking up
reprint rights to some of those
that aren’t currently carried….as another aside, i see that there are
only about 12 of these that I DON’T have, which makes me feel reasonalby
good about my persoanl library! 🙂

– Brooks

Andrew Toppan found and forwarded to me an interesting web page on the
uncompleted German WWII Carrier GRAF ZEPPELIN. It is interesting in
part because of a couple of previosuly unknown pictures and comments by
Russian sources. :

http://home.inreach.com/rickylaw/zeppelin.html

Which is part of a site dealing with the WWII Kriegsmarine in general:

http://home.inreach.com/rickylaw/kriegsma.html

-Brooks
“Wars not make one great!” – Yoda, in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.

Hello everyone!

I just discovered that the Marine Nationale is online as of 27.01.98.

You can check out their site at

http://www.defense.gouv.fr/marine/index.html

and don’t worry, they’ve got both an English and a Spanish edition.

Best regards
Christian Andresen
christian.andresen@stv.uio.no
Oslo, Norway

OBIT: Willy Fiedler, V-1 engineer
Date:
Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:42:47 -0500
From:
William Carmody

Fiedler died at 89 in Los Altos Hills, California.

He was born in Freudenstadt, Germany, southwest of Stuttgart, where
he
went to study engineering and aeronautical engineering. He became a
test pilot and played a leading role in the development of the V-1.
He
spent 1942 to 1944 at Peenemunde on the Baltic Sea coast, helping
to
test the V-1 missile.

In 1948 he moved to the USA to work on missile development projects
at
the Naval Missile Test Center at Point Mugu, California. These
included work on the Navy’s Loon missile, which was to be launched
from submarines. In 1956, Lockheed hired him, and he worked on the
development of the Polaris ballistic missile. He was particularly
active in the problem of launching ballistic missiles from
submerged
submarines: how to aim them so that they would still be pointing
skyward when they reached the water’s surface.

Bill Carmody carmody@doim6.monmouth.army.mil

I heard this on the news coming home tonight:

The English Govt. is considering granting a posthumous pardon to the
last English woman arrested for practicing witchcraft. She was arrested
in early 1942. It seems that she held a seance in which she is supposed
to have contacted the spirt of a British sailor who claimed he was
killed when the British battleship _Barham_ was torpedoed and sunk in
the Med. The British war-time govt hadn’t announce the sinking yet and
the women was arrested as a security risk and jailed for 18 months!

—

Steve Alvin
Dept. of Social Sciences
Illinois Valley Community College

salvin@ocslink.com

“I have snatched my share of joys from the grudging hand of fate
as I have jogged along, but never has life held for me anything
quite so entrancing as baseball.”–Clarence Darrow

Umm … Julian,

Why computer-based historical games, but not manual games?
Manual games are no less realistic, and they are more educational,
since you can see (and critique) how they are put together and how the
historical variables are weighted and inter-related. Indeed, the
“cribbing” that goes into some computer games by the designers and
programmers often produces antihistorical results and absurdities.

I realize computers’ arcade graphics and/or number/detail crunching
have lead many people to *assume* they have “historicity,” but any
simulation’s overall realism is basically determined by its assumptions
and basic mechanics … which a manual game can equal or surpass … too.

(There are other advantages of manual games as well, of course.)

Your journal sounds fascinating. 🙂 I’ll spread the word on
some other history/multimedia lists I’m on.

Lou Coatney, mslrc@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
History-oriented webpage: http://www.WIU.edu/users/mslrc/

… featuring a free *manual* lunch-hour boardgame, “1st Alamein,”
and
cardstock model( plan)s of a U.S. Destroyer Escort, USS MONITOR,
and eventually MERRIMAC(K/CSS VIRGINIA) with simple gaming rules, so
… so that students can become familiar with the designs and history
of the “cardboard-clads” … 🙂 … and re-fight the Battle of
Hampton Roads, for themselves.

> Call for Reviewers
>
> The Journal of MultiMedia History is looking for scholars to review
> “multimedia texts,” CD-ROM software, documentary radio programs, video
> documentaries, computer-based historical games, and historical web
> sites. For the first edition of the journal, we are particularly
> interested in scholars who could review historical web sites. We are
> interested in evaluations of the presentation and academic content of
> the material (in the same way one reviews traditional printed journal
> articles other books). If you are interested in being a reviewer,
> please send your name, a short c.v., and your areas of expertise to
> Julian Zelizer at zelizer@csc.albany.edu (Subject Line: Editorial Board
> JMMH) or via snail mail to Julian Zelizer, The Journal of MultiMedia
> History, Department of History, University at Albany, Albany, NY 12222.

Did we have an Admiral by the name of Arthur Doyle (artie) ? I know about
the Author, Sir Arthur Doyle.
If so, where
could I find something on Him?

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>DOD to release 1999 budget
> The Department of Defense will release its 1999 budget
>Monday, Feb. 2. The budget will be available at 0800 EST
>electronically at www.navy.mil (under What’s New) or at
>www.dtic.mil/comptroller/99budget.
> -USN-

> Top News and Policy
>NNS0401. USS Independence, escort ships depart Japan to
>relieve USS Nimitz
>by JO3 Jason L. Moore, USS Independence Public Affairs
> YOKOSUKA, Japan (NWSA) — USS Independence (CV 62), USS
>John S. McCain (DDG 56), USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) and USS
>Charlotte (SSN 766) are enroute to the Arabian Gulf to
>relieve the USS Nimitz (CVN 68) Battle Group. Indy’s Battle
>Group is scheduled to arrive on station next week.
> Because of the recent decision to maintain two aircraft
>carriers in the Gulf for as long as needed, on Jan. 21
>Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen personally announced
>the orders to deploy to the crew: the 39-year-old aircraft
>carrier would relieve USS Nimitz (CVN 68) in the Arabian
>Gulf.
> According to LT Andy Mueck, readiness officer, 600
>pallets of material were brought aboard during three days
>spent in port. Most of the supplies are “fast moving
>consumables used by everyone on the ship,” said the
>Woodbridge, Va., native. “The remainder of the material
>loaded was high priority parts needed to support the
>airwing’s planes, ship’s systems or to replenish our on
>board stock.”
> LT Tom Dailey, ship services officer from Dracut,
>Mass., said, “to ensure sustainability without re-supply we
>load aboard 30 days of frozen food, 60 days of dry
>provisions and 14 days of fresh vegetables. [The crew]
>loaded over 125 pallets in the past three days to meet these
>endurance levels.”
> “Prior to sea trials we completed steam plant testing
>in three days instead of ten days,” said CDR Craig W.
>Little, chief engineer, from Virginia Beach, Va.
> The steam plant testing is a requirement prior to
>pulling out after a maintenance period to ensure the
>engineering plant is ready for steaming.
> -USN-

>NNS0407. This Week in Navy History: Jan. 26, 1911
> The first naval seaplane flight was launched in San
>Diego.
> -USN-

>NNS0412. Military strength figures, Nov. 30, 1997
>by DOD Public Affairs
> WASHINGTON (NWSA) — The total numerical strength
>of the Armed Forces on Nov. 30, 1997 was 1,428,110. This
>is a decrease of 3,403 from Oct. 31, 1997 and a decrease
>of 37,509 from Nov. 30, 1996.
> These figures represent full-time military
>personnel comprising both regular and reserves on active
>duty and officer candidates, including cadets and
>midshipmen at the three military academies.
> Excluded from these figures are approximately
>65,000 full-time military personnel who are paid from
>other than active duty military personnel
>appropriations. This group is funded from appropriations
>for reserve components and Corps of Engineers civil
>functions. A comparable figure for Fiscal Year 1997 was
>also 65,000 military personnel.
> November 1997 strength figures for each service
>with month-ago and year-ago figures for comparison are:
> 11/30/97 10/31/97 Change from Prev. Month
> (Actual) (Actual) Amount Percent 11/30/96
>DOD 1,428,110 1,431,513 -3,403 -0.24% 1,465,619
>Army 489,752 490,878 -1,126 -0.23% 491,242
>Navy 389,804 391,134 -1,330 -0.34% 413,869
>M/C 173,538 173,396 142 0.08% 174,806
>A/F 375,016 376,105 -1,089 -0.29% 385,702
> The active duty personnel strength data provided does
>not include Selected Reserve strength ordered to active duty
>by the President under Title 10, United States Code 12304.
> -USN-

>NNS0414. Status of the Navy: Jan. 28, 1998
>Personnel:
> 386,415 active duty
> 55,514 officer
> 326,901 enlisted
> 4,000 midshipmen
> 202,057 civilians
> 219,733 Ready Reserve Force:
> 94,202 SELRES/125,531 IRR
>Aircraft: 4,666
>Ships: 347
>Underway: 172 ships (49%)
>Deployed: 102 ships (29%)
> 50,047 personnel
>Exercises: 9
>Carriers/Airwings at Sea:
> USS Nimitz (CVW-9): SOUTHERN WATCH, Arabian Gulf
> USS George Washington (CVW-1): SOUTHERN WATCH, Arabian
>Gulf
> USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74): JTFEX 98-1, west Atlantic
> USS Independence (CVW-5) west Pacific
>LHAs/LHDs/LPHs at Sea
> USS Peleliu/13th MEU: ops, Indian Ocean
> USS Guam/24th MEU: PHIBLEX, Mediterranean
> USS Belleau Wood: ops, west Pacific
> USS Wasp: JTFEX 98-1, west Atlantic
> USS Essex: COMPTUEX 98-2, Pacific
>Ships assigned to Maritime Interception Operatons:
> USS Young, USS Ingersoll, USS Roberts
>Other Exercises/Operations:
> COUNTER DRUG OPS, east Pacific/Caribbean Sea
>Information source: OPNAV Staff
> -USN-

Think how this reads to a vet.

On Fri, 30 Jan 1998 18:34:15 -0800 (PST) Tracy Johnson
writes:

>Do you think perhaps some aging veteran on the USS Independence will
>have a
>flashback and make a bombing run at Hanoi on it’s way to the Gulf?
>
>Tracy Johnson
>Computer Associates International Inc.
>Manufacturing Knowledge (MK) Group
>- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
>Minister of Propaganda, Justin Thyme Productions
>tjohnson@adnetsol.com
>Last Two Wargames Played:
> Axis & Allies
> Gettysburg (Command #17 version)
>”Trust No One”
>”Semper Pollus”
> ADC-2239-5531
>
>
>

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Well it’s time for the Tet holiday in Vietnam again. This will have some
historical significance since it is the 30th anniversary of the 1968 Tet
Offensive.

It’s a big to do in Little Saigon in Orange County, CA. Gang members
have already been warned not to bring firearms.

Do you think perhaps some aging veteran on the USS Independence will have a
flashback and make a bombing run at Hanoi on it’s way to the Gulf?

Tracy Johnson
Computer Associates International Inc.
Manufacturing Knowledge (MK) Group
– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
Minister of Propaganda, Justin Thyme Productions
tjohnson@adnetsol.com
Last Two Wargames Played:
Axis & Allies
Gettysburg (Command #17 version)
“Trust No One”
“Semper Pollus”
ADC-2239-5531