The late E.B. Potter, a longtime history professor at the U.S. Naval Academy and former naval officer who served in the Pacific during World War II, is the author of several books, including Nimitz, Admiral Arleigh Burke, and Sea Power: A Naval History, which he wrote with Admiral Nimitz.

Articles by E. Potter

Chester William Nimitz, 1885-1966

by E. B. Potter
July 1966
Christmas morning, 1941. A steady rain pelted down from clouds hanging low over Pearl Harbor. To the northeast, a four-engine flying boat appeared bringing the newly appointed Commander-in- Chief of ...

The James Forrestal Fellowships in the Naval History

By Commander E. B. Potter, U. S. Naval Reserve (Inactive)
January 1950
The United States Naval Academy, in establishing the James Forrestal Fellowships in Naval History, has passed another milestone in its progress as an educational institution. Now, in addition to its ...

The Japanese Navy Tells Its Story

By Associate Professor E. B. Potter, U. S. Naval Academy
February 1947
Occasional newspaper and magazine articles have revealed that the Japanese are talking, and that the United States Army and Navy by painstaking questioning of former enemy officials are clearing up ...

Books by E. Potter