The Reminiscences of Adm. Robert Lee Dennison, USN (Ret.) : 1901-1980
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
168269092X
ISBN-13
9781682690925
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Imprint
Naval Institute Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 28th, 2013
Print length
520 Pages
Weight
1,482 grams
Product Classification:
Biography: historical, political & militaryTrue war & combat stories
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Based on 11 interviews conducted by John T. Mason, Jr., from November 1972 through July 1973. The volume contains 481 pages of interview transcript plus an index. The transcript is copyright 1975 by the U.S. Naval Institute; the restrictions originally placed on the transcript by the interviewee have since been removed.
Admiral Dennison''s memoir is an especially valuable one, because of his close contacts with prominent individuals, notably service from 1948 through 1953 as naval aide to President Harry Truman. Early in his career, Dennison was a submarine officer and acquired postgraduate education, including a doctorate in engineering. He had contact with General MacArthur while on the staff of Admiral Thomas Hart at the outbreak of World War II in the Far East, later served in the Aleutians campaign and with JCS in Washington. Postwar he commanded the battleship Missouri (BB-63). In the 1950s, Dennison was in OpNav and various fleet commands; capped career with 1960-1963 tour as CinCLantFlt/CinCLant/SACLant during Bay of Pigs invasion and Cuban Missile Crisis.
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