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...here's old Professor Morison. We must be going to have a battle." This is the way Commander Samuel Eliot Morison '08, USNR, was greeted once as he boarded a Navy cruiser. In his position as historian of naval operations of the second world war, Comdr. Morison has seen the dangerous center of nearly every major sea battle, from Casablanca to the Gilbert Islands, from Tarawa to Okinawa...
...letter to the SERVICE NEWS, Comdr. Morison, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, revealed that he saw the landing on Okinawa from the highest point of the U.S.S. Tennessee: he described the action as a "superb naval spectacle full of movement, life and color." The Kamikaze boys "seemed to have a special spite" against the Tennossee, and "one got through, missed me on the bridge by a few feet and crashed amidships, killing and wounding a number of fine young...
...this the closest Comdr. Morison came to peril. He was on the U.S.S. Honolulu when she sustained two torpodo hits in an engagement with a Japanese task force. "One 'fish' knocked the Honolulu's bow off, and the other hit her square on the fantail, where it hung for about ten minutes, though it fortunately failed to explode." Comdr. Morison ventured to call the engagement "quite a hot fight...
...native of Quincy, Massachusetts, Lt. Comdr. Abele entered the Naval Academy in 1922, graduating in 1926 with the rank of ensign. After serving for 13 years in various Navy capacities, he was assigned to Harvard in 1939 to serve as assistant professor of Naval Science and Tactics, a post which he held through September...
After leaving Cambridge, Lt. Comdr. Abele took his place in the Submarine Service as skipper of the USS Grunion. in September, 1942, the ship was reported missing in action. A year later, with no word to the contrary received, he was "presumed lost in action." For his outstanding bravery in action, he received, posthumously, the Navy Cross and the Purple Heart Medal. He was also entitled to the American Defense Service Medal, the Fleet Clasp, and the Asiatic-Pacific Area Campaign Ribbon. In his honor, the government launched the destroyer USS Mannert L. Abele on April...