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Ship Model
Booklet. Ron Stahl, $15, #3333. Full-color photographs
of 27 finely crafted ship models
displayed aboard
the S.S. Lane Victory with a brief description and
background narrative
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The Lane Victory. New edition by Capt. Walter Jaffee, $30,
#3130. An update of the 1997 publication
of
the history of the last active Victory ship, from construction
in 1944 to the present-day living memorial
to
merchant seamen. Includes information about the Lane’s use as a
movie set as seen in many films
and
TV shows.
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Action in the North Atlantic. Guy Gilpatric, $30, #3324.
This book was the inspiration for the Humphrey
Bogart/Raymond Massey movie honoring the contributions of the
Merchant Marine in WWII.
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A Medal for Marigold. Michael Skalley, $8, #3322. From the
journal of Captain Robert Skalley. The
story of the hospital ship Marigold began in Seattle when the
Army converted the liner President Fillmore
into a 765 bed sea-going hospital. During WWII she traveled
78,000 miles in the Atlantic and the Pacific.
Though classed as a safe conduct ship with Red Cross markings,
she experienced enemy shells, bombs
and
mines.
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Patriots and Heroes,
vol. 2. Gerald Reminick, $22, #3325. True
stories of the U.S. Merchant Marine in WWII
and
the men who sailed into the battle zones from Guadalcanal to
Normandy, Murmansk to Okinawa.
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Merchant Ships of WWII. Victory Young, $30, #3101. Pictorial
documentary of ships built during WWII.
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Merchant Marine Days – My Life in World War II. David LaMont
Lee, $21, #3142. Humorous and
exciting recollection of WWII merchant mariners with details as
if they happened yesterday.
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Odyssey of a Merchant Mariner. Capt. Peter Chelemedor, $23,
#3139. The story outlines Capt.
Chelemedor’s adventures that led him to sea, his experiences
during WWII and his attempts to find
a
place to settle down when ready to come ashore.
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The U.S. Merchant Marine at War, 1775-1945. Bruce Felknor,
$36, #3321. Little known facts with
anecdotes, chronicles and histories create a smooth-flowing
account of our oldest, almost forgotten
ocean service: USMM and Naval Armed Guard.
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The Ordeal of Convoy NY 119. Charles Dana Gibson, $25,
#3118. This book tells the story of a U.S.
Army convoy of seagoing tugs, harbor tugs, yard tankers and
barges on a 31-day passage to an
English port in 1944. Cited by the U.S. Naval Institute in 1973
as one of the year’s significant books
on
naval history.
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The Homeward Bounder. Floyd Beaver, $16, #3105. A collection
of exciting sea stories that are
squarely in the tradition of Conrad.
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Convoy Merchant Sailors at War, 1935-1945. Philip Kaplan and
Jack Currie, $35, #3143. A beautiful
pictorial with accompanying text describing merchant marine
action. Includes rare photographs,
paintings and memorabilia.
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Ships of the U.S. Merchant Fleet. Capt. John A. Culver, $17,
#3113. Facts and pictures of American
flagships with historical events, names of ship builders and
owners, 1939 to 1968 (revised edition).
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The Last Liberty. Capt. Walter Jaffee, $30, #3108. Capt.
Jaffee brings us through both lives of the
Jeremiah O’Brien, from her exciting days in WWII to becoming a
living memorial.
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Appointment in Normandy. Capt. Walter Jaffee, $30, #3102.
The story of the Liberty ship Jeremiah
O’Brien’s historic voyage back to the beaches of Normandy.
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Burning of the General Slocum. Claude Rust, $11, #3125. The
story of one of the most appalling
disasters in maritime history, researched by the author whose
grandmother was one of the victims.
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Hog Islanders. Mark H. Goldberg, $20, #3134. The story of an
almost forgotten type of merchant
ship, the passenger-cargo liner, built at the Hog Island
shipyards of Pennsylvania.
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Sailing West. Carl Marcoux, $16.50, #3340. A must read based
on what every maritime service
school seaman will associate with his own war time experiences,
from hiring hall loud mouths (being
sent to the hall in his "sailor suit") to learning what it’s
like to be the low man on the totem pole aboard
ship. There is the excitement of war at Okinawa with Kamikazes
and the mother of all typhoons. As
his
ship, the Cape Blair, a C-1, circumnavigates the globe with
several stops in India and the Middle
East, the reader will learn why Great Britain lost control in
the area. Many of the incidents are from
Carl’s own exploits, from the boredom at Ulithi to liberty
ashore in Manila as he gives his impressions
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