Books & Related Artifacts & Collectibles

ARTIFACT: This is a scarce hardcover copy of the United States Navy book entitled: "The 7th Log: A Battalion Picture Biography". The book is a World War II account of the activities of the 7th Naval...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1945 published history of the USS Sangamon CVE-26, originally an Esso (Standard Oil Company) tanker. Launched November 4, 1939 as Esso Trenton, the oiler was converted into an...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1945 first edition hardcover copy of "Silversides", the story of the USS Silversides (SS-236). Launched August 26, 1941, Silversides went on fourteen Pacific World War II patrols,...

ARTIFACT: This is a scarce United States Navy book entitled "The Log: 33rd Special Naval Construction Battalion" which was commissioned July 10, 194The 33rd served on the island of Samar, in the...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1944 copy of the United States Navy manual "Survival on Land and Sea" NAVAER 13-1-50It was prepared by the Ethnographic Board and the Staff of the Smithsonian Institution, and has...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1944 copy of NAVAER OO 80V-29 United States Navy "So You Are Going to the South Pacific?". This booklet was compiled for naval aviator being transferred to advanced South Pacific...

ARTIFACT: This is a hardcover copy of the "The USS Bunker Hill November 1943 November 1944: The Record of a Carrier's Combat Action Against the Axis Nations in the Pacific". Launched on December 7,...

ARTIFACT: This is a copy of "The Overseas History of the 16th U.S.N. Construction Battalion" by Edgar B. Hickey, Capt. CEC, USNR, Retired. The 16th worked on infrastructure both at Pearl Harbor and...

ARTIFACT: 1944 Wartime United States Navy Chaplain story God on a Battlewagon by Captain James V. Claypool Chaplain Corps, USNR. The front page of the hardcover book is inscribed by the author to a...

ARTIFACT: This is a great first edition of the World War II United States Navy VF-10 unit history entitled "The Grim Reapers". The squadron served aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6), flying the F4F...

ARTIFACT: Rare 1954 United States Navy VF-54 Far East Cruise Book with section on the Hainan Incident, aka The Hainan Turkey Shoot. The cover shows a propeller with blades that read: "FIFTY FOUR...

ARTIFACT: Great WWII, 1943 Edition of The Story of the Airship (Non - Rigid): A Study of One of America's Lesser Known Defense Weapons inscribed by author, Hugh Allen, to US Navy Lieutenant in the...