Norman C. Delaney, Naval History’s 2011 Author of the Year, has taught strategy and policy as an adjunct professor for the Naval War College at NAS Corpus Christi. The Department of Defense Legacy Resource Management Program had him conduct an oral history of the station to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. Dr. Delaney’s books include John McIntosh Kell of the Raider Alabama (University of Alabama Press, 2003).
James P. Delgado, director of Maritime Heritage for the National Marine Sanctuaries Program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has led or participated in shipwreck expeditions around the world. His many books include Misadventures of a Civil War Submarine: Iron, Guns, and Pearls (Texas A&M University Press, 2012) and Khubilai Kahn’s Lost Fleet: In Search of a Legendary Armada (University of California Press, 2010).
Chief Warrant Officer Joseph A. Ricci, U.S. Coast Guard (Retired), enlisted in 1980 and was trained as a radioman. While on active duty he served in California, Virginia, Louisiana, Guam, and Puerto Rico and participated in many drug-enforcement and fishery patrols in the Caribbean and North Atlantic. In 2011 he received a master’s degree in history from the University of New Orleans.
Chuck Steele is an associate professor of history at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He earned an MA in War Studies at King’s College, the University of London, and a PhD in history at West Virginia University. The former editor of Helicopter News, Dr. Steele currently is book review editor for the International Journal of Naval History. He has written for Naval History, the Journal of the Australian Naval Institute, and the UK’s Naval Review.
Ian W. Toll, a former Wall Street analyst, Federal Reserve financial analyst, and political aide and speechwriter, is the author of Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy (W. W. Norton, 2008), which won the Samuel Eliot Morison Award and William E. Colby Award. His latest book is Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 (W. W. Norton, 2012), the first in a three-volume series about the Pacific war.
Terrence J. Winschel retired from the National Park Service in 2012 after 35 years of service. From 1988 until his retirement he served as historian at Vicksburg National Military Park. His many books include Triumph & Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign (Savas Publishing, 1999); Triumph & Defeat: Volume 2 (Savas Beatie, 2006); and Vicksburg Is the Key: The Struggle for the Mississippi River (University of Nebraska Press, 2003), which he coauthored with William L. Shea.