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Series Page NAVAL HISTORY BIBLIOGRAPHIES, NO. 1
SPECIAL SUBJECTS
Armament
Brewington, Marion V. "American Naval Guns, 1775-1785."
American Neptune 3 (January 1943): 11- 18, 148-158.
Canfield, Eugene B. Civil War Naval Ordnance. Washington:
GPO, 1969. 24 pp.
Chinn, George N. The Machine Gun: History, Evolution and Development
of Manual, Automatic and Airborne Repeating Weapons. Washington:
1951-55. 4 vols.
Duncan, Robert C. America's Use of Sea Mines. Silver Spring,
Md.: U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory, 1962. 173 pp.
Fisher, Charles R. "The Great Guns of the Navy, 1797-1843."
American Neptune 36 (October 1976): 276-295.
Friedman, Norman. The Naval Institute Guide to World Naval
Weapons Systems. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1989. 509
pp.
Lists and describes all the world's naval guns, missiles, torpedoes, and their targeting and guidance systems.
-----. U.S. Naval Weapons: Every Gun, Missile, Mine and
Torpedo Used by the U.S. Navy From 1883 to the Present Day.
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1982. 287 pp.
Gilkerson, William. Boarders Away, With Steel: The Edged Weapons
and Polearms of the Classical Age of Fighting Sail, 1626-1826,
Tracing Their Development in the Navies of England and Northern
Europe Through That of the United States. Lincoln, R.I.: Andrew
Mowbray, 1991. 160 pp.
Gray, Edwyn. The Devil's Device: Robert Whitehead and the History
of the Torpedo. Rev. and updated ed. Annapolis: Naval Institute
Press, 1991. 310 pp.
Green, Constance (McLaughlin), and Milton Lomask. Vanguard:
A History. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1971.
308 pp.
Hartmann, Gregory K., with Sean C. Trover. Weapons that Wait:
Mine Warfare in the U.S. Navy. Updated ed. Annapolis: Naval
Institute Press, 1991. 345 pp.
Jane's Weapon Systems. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969/70-
.
Annual publication containing technical data on the weapon systems of the world's armed service.
Johnson, Ellis A., and David A. Katcher. Mines Against Japan.
Silver Spring, Md.: Naval Ordnance Laboratory, 1973. 313 pp.
Lott, Arnold S. Most Dangerous Sea: A History of Mine Warfare
and an Account of U.S. Navy Mine Warfare Operations in World War
II and Korea. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute, 1959. 322 pp.
MacKenzie, Donald, and Graham Spinardi. "The Shaping of Nuclear
Weapon System Technology: U.S. Fleet Ballistic Missile Guidance
and Navigation." I: "From Polaris to Poseidon."
Social Studies of Science 18 (August 1988): 419-463; II:
"'Going for Broke'-The Path to Trident II." 18 (November
1988): 581- 624.
Awarded the U.S. Navy History Prize by the Naval Historical Center and the Naval Historical Foundation for the best article on the history of the United States Navy published in 1988.
Melia, Tamara M. "Damn the Torpedoes": A Short
History of U.S. Naval Mine Countermeasures, 1777- 1991. Contributions
to Naval History Series, No. 4. Washington: Naval Historical Center,
1991. 209 pp.
Peterson, Harold L. Notes on Ordnance of the American Civil
War, 1861-1865. Washington: American Ordnance Assn., 1959.
20 pp.
Polmar, Norman. Strategic Weapons: An Introduction. Rev.
ed. National Strategic Information Center. Strategy Papers, No.
38. New York: Crane, Russack, 1982. 176 pp.
Pope, Dudley. Guns: From the Invention of Gunpowder to the
20th Century. New York: Delacorte Press, 1965. 254 pp.
Rankin, Robert H. Small Arms of the Sea Services: A History
of the Firearms and Edged Weapons of the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps
and Coast Guard From the Revolution to the Present. New Milford,
Conn.: N. Flayderman, 1972. 227 pp.
Reilly, John C., Jr. The Bronze Guns of Leutze Park, Washington
Navy Yard, Washington, D.C. Washington: Naval Historical Center,
1980. 78 pp.
-----. The Iron Guns of Willard Park: Washington Navy Yard.
Washington: Naval Historical Center, 1991. 107 pp.
Robertson, Frederick L. The Evolution of Naval Armament.
London: Constable, 1921. 307 pp.
Roland, Alex. Underwater Warfare in the Age of Sail. Bloomington:
Univ. of Indiana Press, 1978. 237 pp.
Sapolsky, Harvey M. The Polaris System Development: Bureaucratic
and Programmatic Success in Government. Cambridge: Harvard
Univ. Press, 1972. 261 pp.
Tucker, Spencer. Arming the Fleet: U.S. Navy Ordnance in the
Muzzle-Loading Era. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1988.
308 pp.
Willmott, H. P. Sea Warfare: Weapons, Tactics and Strategy.
New York: Hippocrene Books, 1982. 165 pp.
Winter, Frederick R. U.S. Naval Handguns, 1808-1911. Lincoln,
R.I.: Andrew Mowbray, 1990. 127 pp.