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10 September 2024
Welcome back to our National Maritime Historical Society members and friends who share a love for naval history!
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Today marks the 211th anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie. A huzzah to Oliver Hazard Perry! The Battle of Lake Erie will be touched on tomorrow evening during a Naval War of 1812 brief being presented by Richard Sperry in advance of the Naval Order of the US congress being held in early October in Buffalo.
Tomorrow also features another historic naval battle presentation as the US Naval Institute has assembled an all-star team to discuss the Battle of Leyte Gulf. You can still sign up to watch online!
Of course tomorrow also marks the 23th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that claimed American lives in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. A Naval History and Heritage Command recap of the subsequent reaction is featured below.
For this week’s Naval History Book Review we thank Captain Richard Dick for his review of Reaping the Whirlwind; The U-Boat War Off North America during WWI.
Tuesday Tidings is compiled by Dr. David F. Winkler and Jessie Henderson as a benefit for members of the National Maritime Historical Society and friends of naval history.
As always, comments and naval history news items are welcome at nmhs@seahistory.org.
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ITEMS OF IMMEDIATE INTEREST | |
11 September 2024 - Leyte Gulf at 80 (Streaming/in person registration deadline 29 August) With Tom Cutler, Trent Hone, Paul Stillwell; hosted by Alex Pocklington of YouTube channel Drachinifel fame.
11 AM ET
Jack C. Taylor Center, USNI Annapolis, MD
11 September 2024 - The Naval War of 1812 at Sea and in Western States
History Happenings - Upcoming and On-going Events — Naval Order
With Richard Sperry
8:00 PM ET (Virtual)
16–19 September 2024 - Historic Naval Ship Association (HNSA) Symposium USS Midway, San Diego
17 September 2024 - James C. Bradford Memorial
John Paul Jones Crypt at USNA
With Dr. Craig Symonds
3:30 PM (ET) (In person)
17 September 2024 - World War II Discussion Forum: Admiral Hyman Rickover: Engineer of Power
With Mark Wortman
8–9 PM (ET) (Zoom)
19 September 2024 - Navy Memorial Lone Sailor Dinner, Washington, DC
20 September - Master of Amphibious Operations, George B. McClellan
USS Monitor Legacy Program Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, VA
With John Quarstein
Noon–1 PM (ET) (in person/virtual)
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9/11 Terrorist Attacks re-posted from the Naval History and Heritage Command’s “Navy History Matters” webpage compile by Brent A. Hunt
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, 19 terrorists from the extremist Islamist group al Qaeda hijacked four commercial aircraft and crashed two of them (American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175) into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. A third plane (American Airlines Flight 77) crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. After learning about the other attacks, passengers on the fourth hijacked plane (United Airlines Flight 93) fought back against the hijackers and the plane was ultimately crashed into an empty field in western Pennsylvania about 20 minutes by air from Washington, DC. The bravery and sacrifice of the 40 passengers and the crew of Flight 93 thwarted an additional devastating attack, saving countless innocent lives. In the aftermath, the Twin Towers collapsed due to the damage from the impacts and ensuing fires. Nearly 3,000 people from 93 different countries lost their lives in the attacks, with most of the fatalities from the World Trade Center. The Pentagon lost 184 civilians and service members. It was the worst attack on American soil since the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 Dec. 1941.
Rescue operations began almost immediately. More than 400 police officers and firefighters lost their lives on that fateful day as they rushed into the Twin Towers in an attempt to rescue people trapped inside. On that morning, President George W. Bush was visiting a second grade class in Sarasota, Florida, when his chief of staff, Andrew Card, whispered in his right ear, “A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack.” To keep the president safe, he was hopscotched across the country on Air Force One, landing in Washington, DC, that evening. At 8:30 PM, he addressed the nation: “We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.” Read more here.
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NAVAL HISTORY BOOK REVIEWS | |
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Reaping the Whirlwind; The U-Boat War Off North America during WWI
By Dominic Etzold, Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing (2023).
Reviewed by Capt. Richard Dick, USN (Ret.)
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Most students of the naval history of the 20th century are probably familiar with at least one of the myriad books on the U-boat campaign Germany waged against the US and Canadian East Coasts in the Second World War. Photographs of burning oil tankers, [true] tales of coastal resorts unwilling to black out their lights, and stories of oil-soaked bodies washing ashore appear in books like U-Boats Off-shore, The Atlantic Turkey Shoot, Operation Drumbeat, and the U-Boat War. Fewer readers are probably familiar with Imperial Germany’s submarine assault on North America in 1917-1918. Author Dominic Etzold does an excellent job in shrinking that knowledge gap.
Reaping the Whirlwind opens by documenting the development and service of Unterseeboot Deutschland, an unarmed commercial submarine built in 1915–1916 as the first of a class of eight boats designed to slip past the Allied blockade to carry critical commercial cargoes to and from the neutral United States. Deutschland completed its first voyage, to Baltimore, and another (less successful) trip to New London, CT, in 1916, demonstrating that a submarine of that size (2,300 tons submerged) could reach the US and return. In October of that same year, U-53 (a U-51- class submarine, modified to carry extra fuel, water, and stores) visited Newport, RI, demonstrating that a standard armed boat could be modified to cross the Atlantic, conduct a combatant patrol outside US waters, and return. The US declaration of war on Imperial Germany in April 1917 ensured that the next U-boat visit to America would not be commercial in nature.
Read full review>>
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NAVAL HISTORY BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW | |
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USNI Proceedings Podcast: EP. 408: The Evacuation of Sicily in WWII
22 August 2024
Host Eric Mills and Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Brian Kerg discuss Operation Lehrgang: the Axis evacuation of German and Italian forces from Sicily in August 1943, following the Allied invasion known as Operation Husky.
Listen here>>
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The Society for Military History
Distinguished Book Awards for 2025
Background: The Society for Military History is soliciting nominations for its annual Distinguished Book Awards for 2025. Established in 1933, the Society is devoted to stimulating and advancing the study of military history. Its membership (today more than 2,600) includes many of the most prominent scholars, soldiers, and citizens interested in military history. The Society encourages research and publication across the whole range of military history (ancient, medieval, and modern, including related popular studies). The Society publishes The Journal of Military History, the leading international scholarly journal of military history.
The Distinguished Book Awards: For the 2025 awards, books published (copyright date) in 2023 and 2024 are eligible. Works previously nominated for the Society’s book awards may be resubmitted provided they were published in 2023. Nominated books should be assigned to one of the following prize categories:
Distinguished Book (two awards)
- Edited and reference works contain collections of information, such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, handbooks, and diagnostic manuals.
- Biography and memoirs—works that examine the life of a single individual or the lives of multiple individuals, or first-person accounts of lived experiences, in the context of war and/or the military
- First book—works that represent a single author’s first monograph)
The committee will make its selections for awards by January 30, 2025. The Society will give the awards at its annual meeting in Mobile, Alabama on 27–30 March 2025. The author of each prize-winning book will receive recognition at the Society’s annual awards presentation, an award plaque, and a $1,000 prize.
The committee must receive books for consideration for the 2025 awards by 7 October 2024.
Publishers must follow this process for each volume they intend to submit:
Please send a copy of each book for consideration with a letter specifying consideration for the SMH Book Awards to each committee member at the addresses listed below. Books must be submitted in physical copy, and electronic versions will not be considered. The committee recognizes the expense to authors and publishers associated with submitting five copies of each nominated book and therefore encourages serious submissions only. Please note that books will not be returned and that only award winners will be notified of selection.
At the discretion of the committee, submissions which are received after 7 October 2024 may be deferred for consideration in the 2026 awards.
Sincerely,
Debra J. Sheffer, PhD
Chair SMH Book Awards Committee
Email: debra.sheffer@park.edu
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SMH 2025 Book Awards
Committee Member Addresses
Marion Dorsey, PhD
Department of History
University of New Hampshire
14 Fogg Drive
Durham, NH 03824
Ian Beckett, PhD
School of History
University of Kent, Canterbury
Tides, Trewelloe Road, Praa Sands, Penzance
Cornwall, TR20 9SU, UK
Tarak Barkawi, PhD
Department of Political Science
Johns Hopkins University
1102 Bryn Mawr Road
Baltimore, MD 21210
Matthew Neufeld, PhD
Department of History
University of Saskatchewan
Room 619, Arts Tower
9 Campus Drive
Saskatoon SK S7N 5A5
Canada
Debra Sheffer, PhD
Park University
9002 N. Camden Ave.
Kansas City, MO 64154
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The Society for Military History announces a call for papers for its 90th Annual Meeting in Mobile, Alabama, 27–30 March 2025, at the Battle House Renaissance Mobile Hotel and the
Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel.
The Program Committee’s objective is to create a slate of panels that represent the breadth of expertise and interests as well as the overall diversity of the Society’s wide-ranging membership. Individual paper and panel proposals on all facets of military history broadly defined will be considered for inclusion. Members in the academic community, the armed forces and governmental agencies, museums and archives, and independent scholars, as well as international members, are encouraged to participate.
Priority will be given to individual paper and panel submissions that highlight the presentation of original research, new interpretations, topics of immediate interest to our membership, and cutting-edge trends and subject matter. Submission of roundtables is encouraged, but preference will be given to panels that present new, original research.
All submissions will be judged on their merit using the above criteria.
Submission Instructions:
Individual paper proposals must include a 250-word abstract of the paper, and a one-page vita with contact information and email address. If selected, individual papers will be assigned by the program committee to an appropriate panel with a chair/commentator.
Panel proposals must include a panel title and 250-word abstract summarizing the theme of the panel; paper titles and a 250-word abstract for each paper proposed; and a one-page curriculum vitae for each panelist (including the chair and commentator) that includes institutional affiliation, email address, and other contact information.
Roundtable proposals must include a roundtable title, the full name and institutional affiliation of each participant, a 250-word abstract summarizing the roundtable’s themes and significance, and a one-page curriculum vitae for each participant.
Members who wish to volunteer to serve as chairs and commentators should send a one-page curriculum vitae.
Send all materials to the Program Committee Chair before 18 October 2024 at smhconferences@gmail.com.
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UPCOMING NAVAL & MARITIME HISTORY GATHERINGS | |
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16–19 September 2024: Historic Naval Ship Association (HNSA) Symposium, USS Midway, San Diego
19 September 2024: Navy Memorial Lone Sailor Dinner, Washington, DC
28 September 2024: Coast Guard Ball, National Harbor, MD
16 October 2024: USS Constitution Museum Salute to Service Gala, Boston, MA
19 October 2024: US Navy Birthday Ball, Arlington. VA
24 October 2024: National Maritime Historical Society Annual Awards Dinner, New York, NY
1 November 2024: Marine Birthday Ball, Albany, GA
2 November 2024: Marine Birthday Ball; Orlando, Fl.
2 November 2024: Marine Birthday Ball, San Francisco, CA
9 November 2024: Steamship Historical Society of America Annual Meeting, Queen Mary, Long Beach, CA
31 January–2 February 2025: Western Naval History Association Symposium (WNHA), San Diego. CA
27–30 March 2025: Society for Military History (SMH) Annual Meeting, Mobile, AL
9–11 April 2025: Council of American Maritime Museums Annual Meeting, Pensacola, FL
24–25 May 2025: Canadian Nautical Research Society Annual Conference Port Hope,
Ontario
18–19 September 2025: McMullen Naval History Symposium US Naval Academy
24–28 September 2025: Historic Naval Ship Association (HNSA) Symposium/12th Maritime Heritage Conference, Buffalo, NY
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