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On his Majesty's service : observations of the British home fleet from the diary, reports, and letters of Joseph H. Wellings, assistant U.S. naval attaché, London, 1940-41 / edited by John B. Hattendorf.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Wellings, Joseph H. (Joseph Harold), 1903- author.
- Series:
- U.S. Naval War College historical monograph series ; no. 5.
- Naval War College historical monograph series ; no. 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wellings, Joseph H. (Joseph Harold), 1903---Diaries.
- Wellings, Joseph H.
- Great Britain. Royal Navy--History--World War, 1939-1945.
- Great Britain.
- United States. Navy--Biography.
- United States.
- Wellings, Joseph H. (Joseph Harold), 1903-.
- Great Britain. Royal Navy.
- United States. Navy.
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, British.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- Military attachés--Great Britain--Diaries.
- Military attachés.
- Military attachés--United States--Diaries.
- Genre:
- Government publications
- Online resources.
- diaries.
- Personal narratives
- Biographies
- Diaries
- History
- Personal narratives -- American
- Diaries.
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 249 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Newport, Rhode Island : Naval War College Press, 1983.
- Summary:
- The documents in this volume have been selected from the papers of Rear Admiral Joseph H. Wellings, U.S. Navy (retired), deposited in the Naval Historical Collection at the Naval War College. They have been selected, edited, and arranged to form a coherent, firsthand account of the experiences of an assistant naval attaché and observer of the Royal Navy between September 1940 and June 1941. --from Preface (p. iii).
- Contents:
- Assignment to London: 31 July-16 September 1940
- The battle of Britain: 16 September-7 October 1940
- Destroyer duty, HMS Eskimo: 8 October-17 November 1940
- The embassy, HMS Hood and HMS Curacoa: 18 November-31 January 1941
- HMS Birmingham, Greenock to Cape Town: 31 January-21 March 1941
- HMS Birmingham, Cape Town to Scapa Flow: 22 March-23 April 1941
- London again, 24 April-20 May 1941
- Battleship Bismarck and Boston, 21 May-12 June 1941.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Internet Archive, viewed Oct. 17, 2018).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Wellings, Joseph H. (Joseph Harold), 1903- On his Majesty's service.
- OCLC:
- 624081154
- Access Restriction:
- Use copy Restrictions unspecified
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