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A Rocky Mountain sailor in Teddy Roosevelt's navy : the letters of Petty Officer Charles Fowler from the Asiatic Station 1905-1910 / edited and with introductions by Rodney G. Tomlinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fowler, Charles Smith, -1943, author.
- Series:
- History and warfare
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fowler, Charles Smith, -1943--Correspondence.
- Fowler, Charles Smith.
- Grabill, Clare Fowler--Correspondence.
- Grabill, Clare Fowler.
- United States. Navy--Biography.
- United States.
- Humanities.
- Philippines--History.
- Philippines.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (444 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
- Summary:
- An avid reader of naval history since my father's service in World War II, I had been struck by the marked contrast between the touching personal depictions of WW II photo-journalism and the dearth of portrayals of sailors as persons, not just undefined elements of crews. Frederick Harrod would observe, "Enlisted personnel are the forgotten men of naval history." 1 As a youngster I witnessed the first two years of World War II by hanging around recruits at the Naval Training Station, San Diego, California. While commissioned a line officer, my father proved too old for front line duty, so he was assigned to the legal staff as station deputy Provost Marshall, a position suited to his civilian profession of lawyer and US commissioner for Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, California.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Appears the Missing Sailor: January 1906 5
- 2. The Recruit: December 1904- May 1905 17
- 3. Asiatic Squadron
- China: May 1905 -June 1906 53
- 4. The Philippines
- Cavite and Manila: May
- July 1906 105
- 5. Subic Bay
- Seaman to Petty Officer: July 1906- August 7, 1907 133
- 6. Fruits of Labors: August 7, 1907
- December 1908 251
- 7. Back to Sea
- USS Chattanooga December 1908- July 1909 345
- 8. Settling Accounts at Subic
- USS Mohican: July
- December 1909 371
- 9. Homeward Bound
- USS Denver December 1909
- April191 0 393
- 10.Epilogue May 1910- May 1943
- Bibliography
- Index
- Photographs
- See list at beginning of Index
- About the Editor.
- Notes:
- Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Taylor & Francis, viewed January 04, 2022).
- ISBN:
- 0-429-03994-8
- 0-429-72102-1
- 0-429-70101-2
- 9780429039942
- OCLC:
- 1110009463
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