Today in U.S. Naval History - March 12 1917 - All American merchant ships to be armed in war zones 1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt designates Admiral Ernest J. King to serve as the Chief of ...

The time was a stark one for the U.S.−mid-December 1941, just after Pearl Harbor. Frosty-eyed Admiral Ernest Joseph King had been called back to Washington to run the U.S. fleet, was soon to be ...

FLEET ADMIRAL KING (674 pp.)—Ernesf J. King and Walter M. Whitehill—Norton ($6.75). As the dust was settling over the ruin at Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt decided that the U.S. Fleet needed a new ...

Part II of the annual report, 1944/45, of the secretary of the Navy. U.S. Navy Dept. cf. of U.S. Navy Dept. Annual report, 1944/45, letter of transmittal. Each report issued also separately. siris_sil ...