Authors: Ed Offley
Polmar, Norman, and Thomas B. Allen.
World War II: America at War
. New York: Random House, 1991.
Prang, Gordon, with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon.
Miracle at Midway
. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1982.
Roskill, Stephen W., Capt. RN (Ret.).
The War at Sea
. Vols. 1–3. East Uckfield, Sussex, UK: Naval and Military Press Ltd., 1956–1960.
Showell, Jak Mallmann.
Companion to the German Navy, 1939–1945
. Port Stroud, UK: History Press, 1999.
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German Naval Codebreakers
. Surrey, UK: Ian Allan Publishing Ltd., 2003.
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Hitler’s Navy: A Reference Guide to the Kriegsmarine, 1935–1945
. London: Seaworth Publishing, 2009.
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Hitler’s U-boat Bunkers
. Port Stroud, UK: History Press, 2002.
Spector, Ronald H.
Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan
. New York: Vintage Books, 1985.
Stewart, Richard W., ed. “World War II: The Defensive Phase.” In
American Military History
. Vol. 2:
The United States Army in a Global Era, 1917–2003
, gen. ed. Maurice Matloff, 77–100. Washington, DC: Center for Military History, 2005.
Sweeney, Michael S.
Secrets of Victory: The Office of Censorship and the American Press in World War II
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Tarrant, V. E.
The U-boat Offensive: 1914–1945
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1989.
Topp, Erich, and Eric Rust.
The Odyssey of a U-boat Commander: Recollections of Erich Topp
. English ed. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1992.
Warnock, A. Timothy.
The Battle Against the U-boat in the American Theater
. Montgomery, AL: Center for Air Force History, Maxwell Air Force Base, 1991.
Winkler, Heinrich, with Alexander Sager.
Germany: The Long Road West: 1933–1990
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Worth, Richard.
Fleets of World War II
. New York: Da Capo Press, 2001.
Wynn, Kenneth.
U-boat Operations of the Second World War
. Vol. 1:
Career Histories, U-1–U-510
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997.
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U-boat Operations of the Second World War
. Vol. 2:
Career Histories, U-511–UIT-25
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998.
U-BOAT WAR DIARIES
Kriegstagebücher
(KTB): Daily war patrol diaries for selected U-boats, translated by U-boat Archive (
www.uboatarchive.net
) from the originals in storage at the German Bundesarchiv, Freiberg, Germany:
• U-123: KTB for Seventh War Patrol, December 23, 1941–February 9, 1942
• U-552: KTB for Second War Patrol, April 7–May 6, 1941
• U-701: KTB for First War Patrol, December 27, 1941–February 9, 1942
• U-701: KTB for Second War Patrol, February 26–April 1, 1942
• U-701: KTB for Third War Patrol, April 1–July 7, 1942 (reconstructed at BdU Headquarters from BdU KTB and message traffic from U-701)
MANUALS FOR THE LOCKHEED A-29 HUDSON
“Contractor’s Handbook of Service Instructions for the Model A-29 Airplane,” US Army Air Corps Air Service Command, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, January 30, 1942.
“Pilot’s Handbook of Flight Operating Instructions—A-29 and A-29A Airplanes,” Headquarters USAAF Air Service Command, Patterson Field, Ohio, December 20, 1942.
“Preliminary Handbook of Operation and Flight Instructions for the Models A-28 and A-29 Attack Airplanes,” US Army Air Corps Air Service Command, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, January 30, 1942.
GOVERNMENT, MILITARY, AND INTELLIGENCE DOCUMENTS AND REPORTS
Administrative History of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet in World War II
. Norfolk, VA: Commander-in-Chief, US Atlantic Fleet, 1946.
“Affidavit of William R. Stewart, Master
SS William Rockefeller
, Torpedoed and Sunk, June 28, 1942,” National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland, Records Group 38, 10th Fleet.
“Army Air Forces Statistical Digest (World War II),” US Air Force, June 1947.
“B-Dienst” (radio intelligence), Spot Item Report, OP-20-G (Office of Naval Intelligence), November 12, 1943, declassified from Secret.
“Battle of the Atlantic—Allied Communications Intelligence, December 1942–May 1945,” SRH-009, National Security Agency, transcribed for online posting at the HyperWar Foundation,
www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/ETO/Ultra/SRH-009/index.html
.
“Battle of the Atlantic—U-boat Operations, December 1942–May 1945,” SRH-008, National Security Agency, transcribed for online posting at the HyperWar Foundation,
www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/ETO/Ultra/SRH-009/index.html
.
“The Conference at Washington, 1941–42 [Arcadia Conference],” in US State Department,
Foreign Relations of the United States
, posted at the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, at
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?id=FRUS.FRUS194143
.
“Deck Logs,”
USS Emmons
(DD-457), National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland, Records Group 24, Box 3111, 1942.
“Deck Logs,”
USS Hambleton
(DD-455), National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland, Records Group 24, Box 4082, 1942.
“Deck Logs,
USS Trippe
(DD-403), National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland, Records Group 24, Box 9159, 1942.
“Esso Augusta—Damaged as a Result of War Perils,” June 16, 1942, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland, Records Group 38, 10th Fleet files.
“Former German Submarine Type IXC: Torpedo Handling, Loading and Storage,” Report 2G-9C, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, February 1946, declassified from Confidential.
“Functions of the ‘Secret Room’ (F-211) of COMINCH Combat Intelligence,” Atlantic Section, Anti-Submarine Warfare, WWII, SRMN-038, undated.
“German Radio Intercepts and Cryptanalysts,” Commander, Naval Forces Germany, September 18, 1950, declassified from Top Secret.
“German U-boat Casualties in World War II,” in
United States Submarine Losses in World War II
. Washington, DC: Naval History Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 1963.
“Germany Mines: A History,” updated January 2012, NavWeaps,
www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WAMGER_Mines.htm
.
“History of the 396th Bombardment Squadron (M), Headquarters, 41st Bombardment Group (M),” Hammer Field, Fresno, California, 1942.
“History of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina—1941–1945,” compiled by Florence K. Jacobs, 1st Lt. USMCWR, Air Station Historical Officer, undated.
“Monthly Anti-Submarine Warfare Reports,” Vol. 6 (1945), British Admiralty, ADM 199/2062.
“Operational Intelligence Centre Special Intelligence Summary,” January 12, 1942, PRO ADM 223/15, declassified from Most Secret, Public Records Office, Kew, United Kingdom.
“Record of Proceedings of a Court of Inquiry to Inquire into Circumstances Attending the Attack on
YP-389
, June 19, 1942,” National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland, Records Group 125/P2.
“Report of Interrogation of Survivors of U-701 Sunk by U.S. Army Attack Bomber No. 9-29-322, Unit 396 B.S. [Bombardment Squadron] on July 7, 1942,” published in “Post-mortems on Enemy Submarines,” Office of Naval Intelligence, ONI 250-G, 1942, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland, Records Group 38.
“Report on U-boat Attack to I Bomber Command,” July 7, 1942, courtesy of
UboatArchive.net
.
“Statistical Review: World War II,” Army Services Forces, published by the US War Department, Washington, DC, undated, posted at
HyperWar.com
,
www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/StatReview-ASF.pdf
.
“Summary of Statements by Survivors of
MV British Freedom
,” OP-16-B-5, July 10, 1942, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland, Records Group 38.
“Summary of Statements by Survivors of
SS William Rockefeller
, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, Enemy Attack on Merchant Ships,” Office of Naval Intelligence, OP-16-B-5, July 10, 1942, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland, Records Group 38.
“Transcripts of Recorded Conversations Between German Prisoners,” Office of Naval Intelligence, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland, Records Group 38, Entry UD, various dates.
“U-boat Situation,” Special Reports on German Navy and U-boat Force, Operational Intelligence Centre, British Admiralty, PRO ADM 223/16, London, United Kingdom.
“U-boat Situation Reports,” December 15, 1941–July 27, 1942, Operational Intelligence Centre, British Admiralty, PRO ADM 223/15, London, United Kingdom.
“Unit Historical Data Sheet, 396th Bombardment Squadron (M) of 41st Bombardment Group,” 1943, courtesy of the US Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.
US Coast Guard, “WWII Reports Concerning Merchant Vessels Sinking, 1938–2002,” National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland, Records Group 26, Box 22.
“War Diaries,” Commander, Eastern Sea Frontier, December 1941–June 1942, declassified from Secret, posted online at U-boat Archive,
http://www.uboatarchive.net/ESF.htm
.
“War Record of the Fifth Naval District,” 1942, Fifth Naval District, Norfolk, Virginia, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland, Records Group 181.
ARTICLES AND MANUSCRIPTS
“180 Germans to Sail on Portuguese Liner,”
New York Times
, June 13, 1942.
“10,000-Ton Ship Sunk by U-boat off Canada.”
New York Times
, January 14, 1942.
Andrews, Lewis M., Jr., Lt. (USN). “Wild, Cold Ruthless—That’s the Atlantic.”
New York Times
, March 7, 1943.
Associated Press. “Knox Assails Acts That Pass ‘Piracy,’”
New York Times
, November 2, 1941.
———. “Navy in Grim Hunt: The Malay, Crippled by Shells, Makes Port.”
New York Times
, January 20, 1942.
———. “Sinkings Indicated: ‘Some Recent Visitors Will Never Enjoy Return Trip,’ Says Spokesman.”
New York Times
, January 24, 1942.
Barlow, Jeffrey G. “The Navy’s Atlantic War Learning Curve.”
Naval History
(Annapolis, Maryland), June 2008.
“Battle of Atlantic Pushes Virginia’s Shores—Two U.S. Merchant Ships Torpedoed Before Eyes of Thousands Who Line Resort to See Grim War Drama.”
Virginian-Pilot
, June 17, 1942.