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SS President Coolidge - References
Michael McFadyen's Scuba Diving - SS President Coolidge References
SS
President Coolidge
References:
The Good Ships of Newport News
by Alexander Crosby Brown - page 197
Newport News Shipbuilding - The First Century
Ships Built by Newport News Shipbuilding
- page 8
Histories of Newport News Ships
Always Good Ships
by William A. Fox - page 35
Newport News Shipbuilding - The First Century
- pages 132, 146, 179
Lloyds Register
various years
The New Dollar Liners
approx 1931
Last Minutes of the President Coolidge
by Frank Cameron,
MAST
magazine, May 1946, pages 18-20
Records of Proceedings, Nelson Document 72990 - Judge Advocate General, File A17-10 also Document 71972
The Lady and the President - The Life and Loss of the S.S.
President Coolidge by Peter Stone
American President Lines Web Site
Shipbuilding and Shipping Record
- August 13, 1931 - page 213
Shipbuilding and Shipping Record
- December 17, 1931 - pages 784 to 789
Shipbuilding and Shipping Record
- December 24, 1931 - pages 806 to 811
First hand account of the sinking by Richard Schneider who was on the ship when it sank.
First hand account of the sinking by Max Evans who was on the ship when it sank.
First hand account of the sinking by Joe Ignatz who was on the ship when it sank.
First hand account of the sinking by Roy H. Dobbins, Ship's Carpenter - sent to me by his daughter
Julie Dobbins
Copies of original papers from the Commission given to me by Kevin Green of
Aquamarine Diving
, Santo
Troopships of World War II
by Roland W. Charles, Wash, DC: Army Trans Assoc, 1947. p. 136.
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
Vol 2 - 1963, pages 96-97
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
Vol 6 - 1963, pages 246-248
USS
Salem
Web Site on US Fighting Ships
USS
Salem
Web Site on US Fighting Ships
Historical and Pictorial Review, 43d Infantry Division, Camp Shelby, Mississippi,
1942. Baton Rouge: Army & Navy Pub, 1941. 111 p.
Macarthur
a film by WGBH Foundation, broadcast 27 May 1999 by Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Channel 2) as part of
The Big Picture
The Struggle for Guadalcanal - Vol 5 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II.
by Samuel E. Morison, Boston: Little, Brown, 1950. pp. 181-82.
U.S. Army. 43d Inf Div. Winged Victory: The Story of the 43rd Infantry Division
Baton Rouge: Army & Navy Pub, 1946. pp. 13-14.
U.S. Navy Dept. Office of Info. Navy Department Communiques 1-300 and Pertinent Press Releases.
Wash, DC: GPO, 1943. p. 145. 2 Dec 1942 press release.
The History of the 43d Infantry Division, 1941-1945
by Joseph E. Zimmer, Baton Rouge: Army & Navy Pub, 1945. pp. 14-15.
Discussions with Allan Power, November 1991
Personal conversations with Barry May, Scuba Expo, Sydney, 1995
Web Site about Brisbane in WWII - 8th Photo Recon
US Merchant Marine Web Site
E-mails and photographs from Richard P. Toulson, Los Altos, California
E-mails from
Walter J. Wall Jr
, who was in the 103rd Field Artillery
E-mails from
Burt Jacquith, current owner of the SS
President Coolidge
wreck.
Oral History: Lt Ruth Erickson, NC, USN at
Naval Historical Center Web Site
E-mails dated 3 June 2001 from Larkin Hosmer, son of Craig Hosmer, commander of the ship's Naval gun crews
Armed Guard Unit Log Book - S.S.
President Coolidge by C. Craig Hosmer, Lt (jg), D.V(G), USNR, Commanding Officer, Armed Guard Unit
Email dated 5 February 2002 from
Robert Dodd
of Eagan, Minnesota (his father travelled on
Coolidge
in March/April 1942)
Email dated 10 February 2002 from
John Ritz
of Hopkinton, Massachusetts whose father Joseph Ritz modifed 155 mm guns in Noumea for transport on
Coolidge
Letter dated 6 April 2002 from Rosalie Smith of Cedar City, Utah, who travelled on
Coolidge
27 November to 25 December 1941
The United States Army in World War II - The War in the Pacific - Guadalcanal: The First Offensive
by John Miller, Jr, page 212
USS
St Louis
Web Site
Web Site about Brisbane in WWII - 4th Air Defence Group
Willamette University Football Team
Web Site about Frank Bergman
Web Site about Gareth Jones
Peter Dunn's Australia at War Web Site
Peter Dunn's Australia at War Web Site
To China and Back
by Bill Wilson
Letters and notes from Josephine W. and Royal H. Fisher provided by Henry D. Fisher, Willow Street, PA, USA
E-mail and personal discussions dated 2002 with
Stephen Parisi
, survivor of the sinking
E-mail from
Sue Stephenson
whose father Charles J. Stephenson was on the
Coolidge
when she sank
E-mail from
Michael A. Jones, Sr
from Hot Springs, Arkansas, dated 19 September 2002
E-mail from
Dan Scott
dated 13 February 2003
Steamboat Bill
, Issue 242, Summer 2002 - the journal of the Steamship Historical Society of America
Certificate presented to Private First Class Wilbur O. Root, 20149675, 172nd Infantry and Combat Team
E-mail from
Stanford S. Silverman
, member of 37th Infantry Division, dated 2 May 2005
E-mail from
Laura Barlow
, daughter of John Barlow, crew member (still alive March 2006 aged 84)
Web site about Richard Halliburton
Telephone conversation with Des Woodley, 10 March 2014
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