Resources

Resources – Links Within This Website

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.

Links to historical information and publications within this website

• U.S. Naval Armed Guard Center, Brooklyn, New York
• The Naval History of Treasure Island – Chapter VI, The Armed Guard
• United States Naval Armed Guard Center Pacific, Treasure Island, San Francisco
• Plane Shooter; Armed Guard School, Shelton, Virginia
• Plane Shooter; continued
• Plane Shooter, August 5, 1944
• Christmas Day menu 1943; Armed Guard School, Shelton, Virginia
• United States Maritime Service Training Manual
• Five Inch Thirty-Eight Manual
• Axis Submarine Manual
• The Eyeshooting Pocket Book – 1943
• United States Naval Training Station, Farragut, Idaho
• United States Naval Training Station, Farragut, Idaho, second edition
• United States Naval Training Station, Sampson, New York
• Seadust (1 March 1944), Gulfport Naval Base, Gulfport, Mississippi
• The Ships We Build, Kaiser Company, Inc., Vancouver, Washington
• Portland Ships Are Good Ships
• Bosuns Whistle, April 23, 1942, Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation
• Bosuns Whistle, September 23, 1943, Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation
• Record Breakers, Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation
• US Navy Armed Guard Veterans – Volume I
• US Navy Armed Guard Veterans – Volume II
• The U.S. Navy Armed Guard – The Sailors Nobody Knew
• 83 Days: The Survival of Seaman Izzi
• Ship Is Built in Ten Days Life magazine, October 12, 1942
• Getting the Convoys Through Popular Science magazine, May 1943
• Brochure on SS ROBERT E. PEARY, Liberty ship built in four days
• Michigan Goes to War
• WAVES Newsletter, October 1944
• Rainbow gunsight