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SEMINAR TOPIC: Battle of the Atlantic

The panel of World War II experts aboard MS Crown Monarch includes Ned Beach, Michael Gannon, and Paul Stillwell.

NED BEACH

A World War II submarine commander, Captain Beach is perhaps best known for his novel Run Silent, Run Deep. During his active duty career, he commanded the first nuclear submarine to circumnavigate the globe submerged, served as Naval Assistant to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Omar N. Bradley, and as Naval Aide to the President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower. A highly decorated naval officer, he has also written six books °f nonfiction on naval matters, including United States Navy: 200 Years, and two other novels.

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Michael Gannon’s 1991 bestselling book Operation Drumbeat so impressed Ned Beach that he persuaded Naval Institute Pro­ceedings editor that the book merited more than a short review, and a full- length April 1991 article followed. A professor of history at the University of Florida in Gainesville, he first became interested in World War II U-boat operations along the American coast while researching a book on Florida’s history. The American University graduate joined the American Field Service during World War II, wrote on military subjects from Europe in the 1950s, and served as a ^war correspondent in Vietnam in 1968.

PAUL STILLWELL

Paul Stillwell, former Editor-in­Chief of Naval History, is director of the Naval Institute’s history division. An extensively published author, he has just completed The Golden Thirteen: Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers, an oral history project Published in early 1993 by the Naval Institute Press. The author of Battleship New Jersey: An Illustrated History and editor of Air Raid Pearl Harbor, he is currently at work on a book to be published in 1995: Battleship Missouri: An Illustrated History. On active duty during the Vietnam War in the tank ianding ship Washoe County (LST-1165) and the battleship New Jersey (BB-62), he was recalled to active duty during the Iran-Iraq War to document the U.S. Navy’s role in that conflict.

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