Dr. Regan served as a communications technician in the Navy from 1969 to 1973. He is the author of In Bitter Tempest: The Biography of Frank Jack Fletcher (Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1994).

Articles by Stephen D. Regan

Naval History & Heritage Command

When Frank Jack Met Maggie

By Stephen D. Regan
January 2011
Fame and glory lay ahead for him, but first, a young officer named Frank Jack Fletcher had to command a wheezing gut-bucket in World War I.