Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...persuaded a military emblem manu facturer to make a minimum order for a reasonable figure and now is being besieged by Naval personnel and others to have more made of this insignia, so appropriate for the many desk-bound fighters of this...
...Prepares Naval History...
...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...
Until next fall, when he expects to resume teaching in the University, Comdr. Morison, with his staff, will be occupied writing the history of the various naval operations. This work is expected to run to 12 or 14 volumes. Although he has been piecing it together intermittently since he joined the Navy in 1942, finding time to write "during the intervals between sea duty," Comdr. Morison was not able to devote full time to the writing the history until last June...
Comdr. Morison is well equipped to observe and write about naval matters. He has written a "Maritime History of Massachusetts," and sailed on four special trips while gathering material for his "Admiral of Ocean Sea," a biography of Columbus which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1942. Aside from his own double-volume history of the United States, he has written one with Henry S. Commager. During the years 1930-1936 he wrote the "Tercentennial History of Harvard University," a massive five-volume work...