Graduating from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1918 (Class of 1919), Captain DuVal has had extensive naval service including duty from 1941 to 1944 as Captain of the Port, Balboa, C.Z., in charge of marine operations in the Pacific Sector of the Panama Canal. From 1946 to 1949 he was Navy Department Liaison Officer and Coordinator of Isthmian Canal Studies, under the Chief of Naval Operations. He is the author of two books on the Canal, And The Mountains Will Move and Cadiz to Cathay, published by Stanford University Press, and is now completing a third volume in his trilogy.
