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by Richard Snow


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  Index

  Abbazia, Patrick, 138

  Abercrombie, 233, 295

  Adamovich, John, 241

  Adams, Trenouth, 241

  Admiralty, British, 35, 86, 131

  Aeronautics, Bureau of, 289

  African Americans, 234

  A. H. Bull Steamship Company, 176

  aircraft carriers, 25, 26, 35, 102

  air gap, 259

  Alfred Holt Shipping Company, 153

  All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque), 81

  Alva, 206

  Alvarez, Luis, 263

  Amazone, 158

  American Shipper, 71

  American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 195

  American South African Steamship Line, Inc., 199–200

  Anderson, Maxwell, 80–81

  Andrews, Adolphus “Dolly,” 167–68, 174, 212, 213, 215

  Andrews, Lewis M., Jr., 286

  Anglo-German Naval Treaty, 24

  Anti-Submarine School, 33

  Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Research, 292

  appeasement, Munich agreement and, 86

  Applied Arts Building, 9

  Archangel, Soviet Union, 202, 203

  architects, 8–9

  Argentia, 126, 302, 312

  Arizona, 147, 245

  Arkansas, 11, 123

  Army, U.S., airplanes of, 213–14

  Army Air Force, 214, 263

  Arnold, Henry H. “Hap,” 263, 264

  asdic, see sonar

  Asterion, 175–78, 184

  Athenia, 50–57, 61, 63, 69

  casualties on, 70–71

  German reaction to sinking of, 71–72

  passengers on, 51

  torpedoing of, 52, 70–71, 86, 273

  Atik, 175–78, 182, 301

  Atlantic, Battle of:

  Bismarck vs. Prince of Wales in, 124

  casualties of, 5, 70–71, 124, 138, 139, 141–42, 155–56, 178, 191, 216–17, 286, 299–300, 311

  diffusion of, 3

  as forgotten, 3

  Greer attacked in, 136–37

  Kearny attacked in, 138–39

  Kriegsmarine offensive against U.S. coast in, 149, 150–57, 160–61, 162, 298–313

  Liberty ships in, 194–204

  as longest battle in history, 3

  Medals of Honor given in, 295

  Project LQ in, 174–78

  Reuben James attacked in, 11, 139, 140, 141–42, 143

  Roper in, 216–17

  Stark’s planning for, 111

  start of, 50

  U-505 sunk in, 293–95

  see also Athenia

  Atlantic, security zone in, 83, 117

  Atlantic Charter, 126–27

  Atlantic Fleet Confidential Memorandum, 164–66

  Atlantic Squadron, 82, 95, 164

  Atlas, 208–9

  Auchincloss, Louis, 3, 285

  Augusta, 123–24, 126

  autobahn system, 103

  B-18s, 264

  baby flattops, see escort carriers

  Bailey, Barbara, 54, 55, 56, 57

  Bainbridge, 227

  Baldt Patent anchor, 223

  Baldwin, Hanson W., 100

  Barker, Moses, 188–89, 190

  Barnard College library, 325

  battleships, 10, 25

  vulverability of, 226–27

  Bay City, Mich., 231

  Beasley, Harold Hammer, 141

  Beatty, David, 24

  Belfast, 51

  Belgium, 85

  Benét, Stephen Vincent, 81

  Benson, Jim Franklin, 141

  Bermuda, 275, 276–77, 282

  Bernardelli, Richard, 315

  Bethel Shoal buoy, 158

  Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyard, 196

  Bethlehem Steel, 232

  Beyer, Kenneth M., 174–75, 177

  Bibb, 67, 68, 79

  Big Horn, 178

  Biscay, Bay of, 102–4, 152, 182, 259, 287

  Biscay Cross, 265

  Bishop, Nancy, 53

  Bismarck, 124

  Blair, Clay, 293

  Blairlogie, 71

  Bletchely Park, 272, 275

  Bloch, Claude C., 146, 147

  Blue Funnel line, 153

  Bluejackets’ Manual, The, 16–17, 19

  Bogue, 2, 301, 302, 303, 307, 308

  bombes, 272, 275

  boot camp, 15�
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  Bora-Bora, 185

  Bordeaux, 103

  Boulder Dam, 197

  Boulogne, 90

  Boyd, Thomas, 81

  Braun, Eva, 314

  Brazil, 191–92

  Breck, Wallace, 190

  Bremen, 55–56

  Brennan, 225

  Breslau, 26

  Brest, 103

  Bright, 323

  Britain, Battle of, 260, 261

  British Expeditionary Force (BEF), 90

  British Prestige, 157

  British Purchasing Committee, 116–17

  British Shipbuilding Mission, 194

  Britten, Beverley, 181

  Brown Brothers, 240

  Bruce, Nigel, 236

  Buck, Alfred, 142–43

  Buck, Paul, 185, 186, 189, 191

  bucket brigades, 212

  Buderi, Robert, 262

  Buell, Thomas, 162–63

  Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation, 200

  Bureau of Ships, 228–29

  Burgess, Mr., 277

  Burnham, 99–100

  Bush, Vannevar, 262, 264–65, 267, 268, 292

  “buzz saw,” 277

  Cadmus, Paul, 13

  Caine Mutiny, The (Wouk), 317–18

  Cairo, 203

  Cairo, 182

  Caldwell, William, 298

  California, 146, 184

  Calloway, Kay, 63, 66

  Calvert, George, 138, 139

  Cameron, 99

  Camp, 323

  Campbell, 67, 68, 79

  Campbeltown, 99

  Campobello Island, 109

  Canada, 5, 51, 91

  Canal Zone, 200

  Canaris, William, 31, 33

  Cape Cod, 154

  Cape Hatteras, 151, 153

  Cape of Good Hope, 186

  Cape Town, 186, 189

  Carnegie Institution, 262

  Carolyn, 175–78

  Carpentier, Georges, 64n

  Carter, W. J., 175

  Casco Bay, Maine, 133

  Castro, Fidel, 195

  Chamberlain, Arthur, 186, 190

  Chamberlain, Neville, 86, 87, 319–20

  Chamber of Commerce, 218, 320

  Chappell, Oscar, 156

  Chatelain, 279, 293–94, 302, 303, 308, 316

  Chesterfield, 98–99

  Chew, 245

  Chicago, University of, 218

  Child, George, 64, 66

  China, 319

  Christina Knudson, 215

  Christmas, descriptions of, 296–97

  Churchill, 98–99

  Churchill, Winston:

  FDR’s correspondence with, 85, 86–88, 89–90, 91–92, 113–14, 146, 160–61, 227

 

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