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Proudly We Served
The Men of the USS Mason
By Mary Pat Kelly
Few Americans know the history-changing story of the men of the USS Mason, the only African-American sailors to take a World War II warship into combat. At a time when most blacks in the Navy were relegated to stewards or laborers, the crew of the USS Mason escorted six convoys across the perilous North Atlantic, helped to win the ...
Available Formats: Softcover

Pete Ellis
An Amphibious Warfare Prophet, 1880-1923
By Dirk Anthony Ballendorf and Merrill L. Bartlett

Few Marines have had more impact on the Corps's history than Pete Ellis, and none have been more controversial. This biography of the brilliant yet troubled Marine disputes many long-accepted but unsubstantiated accounts of his life and death. Ellis’s legacy as the father of amphibious warfare is fully examined by the authors, who searched through family papers, fitness reports, Japanese ...

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