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"The Messman Chronicles: Aftican-Americans in the U.S. Navy, 1932-1943"
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Richard Miller |
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The Messman Chronicles: African-Americans in the U.S. Navy, 1932-1943 -
For this first major study of the subject, Richard E. Miller draws on a wealth of previously untapped primary documents and more than forty oral history interviews that he conducted. The men he interviewed served at the Naval Academy and aboard ships of all types prior to their wartime service. Miller focuses on the period from late 1932, when the Navy reopened its doors to black men, to 1943, when the ranks of the re-named “steward’s branch” had grown and become transformed by the influx of wartime inductees. Collectively, the interviews cover nearly every naval campaign in the first two years of war. This unexplored perspective of the U.S. Navy puts a face on the “greatest generation’s” last overlooked heroes while making a significant contribution to the operational, social, and cultural history of the U.S. Navy.
Price: $32.95 + $3.00 s/h (MD residents, please add 5% sales tax)
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