Resources – Newspaper and Magazine Articles

While containing much information that users may find useful and interesting, this website is not and cannot be comprehensive with respect to either the U.S. Navy Armed Guard or the U.S. merchant marine. There are many other resources available for anyone wishing to pursue additional information. Follow the links below to find some of the more prominent resources. Internet searches and public and university libraries will produce still more sources of information. Please contact the webmaster if you know of additional resources that could be listed here.

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Newspaper and magazine articles about the Armed Guard and the merchant marine (Note: Links below will open in a new browser window)

• Torpedo Junction, the Cruelest Sea, Sea Classics Magazine, November 2008
• No Greater Sacrifice: Dorchester’s Four Chaplains, Sea Classics Magazine, October 2008
• The Race to Malta, World War II Magazine, January/February 2008
• When the Jinxed EL COSTON Sailed in Search of Luck, Sea Classics Magazine, December 2007
• Sitting Duck for a U-Boat, Sea Classics Magazine, November 2007
• When the Seas Were Awash with TNT, Sea Classics Magazine, March 2007
• Unsung Heros, New York Post, December 2, 2006
• Riding on Death! Sea Classics Magazine, December 2006
• Daring Escape of the Gold Ship MORMACSEA, Sea Classics Magazine, November 2006
• U-boats and Friendly Fire, Sea Classics Magazine, August 2006
• Lost from Convoy: the C.J. BARKDULL, Sea Classics Magazine, July 2006
• Twelve Desperate Miles: The Remarkable Voyage of SS CONTESSA, Sea Classics Magazine, July 2006
• “What’s for Chow, Cookie?”, Sea Classics Magazine, June 2006
• Twilight for War Stories – Navy Armed Guard Veterans of WWII Gather For Last Reunion, Washington Post, May 7, 2006
• Yank Sailors on Foreign Flag Ships, Sea Classics Magazine, May 2006
• “Prepare to be Torpedoed!” the Neutral Liner WASHINGTON’s Near-Tragic Encounter with a Nazi U-boat, Sea Classics Magazine, April 2006
• America’s Forgotten Warriors: the Maritime Service, Sea Classics Magazine, March 2006
• Liberty Ships: Those Fabulous Ugly Ducklings of World War II, Sea Classics Magazine, January 2006
• My War: Remembering Those Remarkable Ugly Ducklings, Sea Classics Magazine, October 2005
• My War: “I’ll Never Forget the Look in Their Eyes…”, Sea Classics Magazine, July 2005
• A Merchant Mariner’s Journal, Sea Classics Magazine, June 2005
• No Greater Sacrifice: Matson Lines’ Unsung WWII Casualties, Sea Classics Magazine, March 2005
• Passage to Murmansk, Sea Classics Magazine, February 2003
• Armed Guard’s Valiant Effort Spurred World War II Victory, Navy Times, December 9, 2002
• Armed and On Guard, Soundings newspaper, November – December 2001
• Return to Bainbridge: In Search of a Boot’s Roots, Sea Classics Magazine, June 2001
• There Shall Be No Surrender So Long as the Guns Can Be Fought, Sea Classics Magazine, 2001
• 11 Against the Sun, Sea Classics Magazine, September 2000
• The Death of a Tanker, Sea Classics Magazine, August 2000
• The Last Raider, World War II Magazine, July 1997
• Death of Convoy PQ-17, World War II Magazine, February 1997
• Don’t Give Up the Ship: The Naval Armed Guard in WWII, Battle Stations Magazine, Fall 1996
• The Other Navy, Traditions magazine, May 1995
• Remembering “The Suicide Run” to Murmansk, USN Series, Vol. 1 No. 2, 1994
• So Little Remembered, Sea Classics Magazine, December 1992
• Missing in Action in the North Atlantic, Sea Classics Magazine, November 1992
• No Survivors Found, Sea Classics Magazine, September 1991
• Eighty-Three Days And Forty-Five Years: Remembering Basil Izzi, Barre Gazette, February 11, 1988
• Duel to the Death, Sea Classics Magazine, November 1984
• The Gallantry of an “Ugly Duckling“, American Heritage Magazine, December 1969
• Beyond the Call of Duty, Sea Classics Magazine, date unknown
• German Raid on Bari, World War II Magazine, date unknown
• Last of the Gallant Liberties, Sea Classics Magazine, date unknown
• The Legend of Gallups Island, Sea Classics Magazine, date unknown
• Many a Lonely Watch, Sea Classics Magazine, date unknown