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This Is It: The Story of Bombing Squadron One (cover).
J. W. Runyan. N.p., [1946?]. 33 pp., approximately 26.5 x 20.5
cm. PNAM (photocopy).
Bombing Fighting Squadron One, December 15, 1944 to November
1, 1945. Cover: VBF 1. Anon. N.p., [1945?]. 63 leaves, blue
hardcover with gold printing and wings and a head-on view of a
Corsair, approximately 26.5 x 20 cm, photos, ports., roster. Private
collection.
Fighting Squadron One: October 1944 October 1945, Hi Hatters.
Cover: Fighting Squadron One: Hi Hatters. Lt. Comdr. Ralph G.
Kelly, USNR. N.p., [1945?]. 72 leaves, white hardcover with black
printing and high hat, 28.8 x 22.4 cm, photos, ports., map, roster.
PNAM.
Introducing Fleet Air Photographic Squadron One (VD 1).
Private collection list. No known copy location.
Ta Feng: A Story From Metron 1. Anon. N.p., [1948?].
13.5 x 21 cm. Dornbusch 1951 supp.: 1498. NDL.
Torpedo Squadron One, 1 October 1944-25 October 1945.
Anon. N.p., [1945?]. 16 leaves, blue-green softcover with silver
printing, 28 x 22.2 cm, photos, ports., map, roster. Dornbusch
1950: 1047. NDL.
The Martian Air Transport Squadron Two, Naval Air Station,
Alameda, California, 1949. Cover: The Martian VR 2. Anon.
[Alameda, Calif.: Alameda Times Star Printing Co.], 1949. 28 leaves,
blue hardcover with gold printing and decoration, 27.5 x 20.4
cm, photos, ports., map. NYPL, PNAM, TIL. This book covers the
history of VR 2 through 1948.
Odyssey of Fighting Two. Lt. Thomas L. Morrissey, USNR.
Philadelphia: Lyon & Armor, 1945. 207 pp., embossed blue hardcover
with gold shield, 27.5 x 20.3 cm, photos, ports., map. Dornbusch
1950: 1048. Private collection.
Interpron Two: The Record of Our Squadron: How We Worked,
Lived and Played While on Guam. Cover: Interpron 2. Lt. William
Corlett, ed. Lt. Richard B. Reinecker, publisher. Guam: August
1945. 141 pp., blue and buff paper cover with a tropical building
and the number 2 printed in red, 28.3 x 22.5 cm, photos, ports.,
map. Dornbusch 1950: 1049. NDL.
Scraps of Torpedo Two. Lt. (jg) K. A. Nelson. N.p.,
[1945?]. 65 leaves, blue hardcover with gold printing and Avenger
plane, spiral binding, 36.2 x 29.6 cm, photos, ports., map, roster.
PNAM.
Check Point 1944. Cover: Check Point 1944: Annual Log
Book of Air Transport Squadron Three. Lt. Bernard C. Capehart,
Lt. Gerald W. Wickland, and Lt. John L. Springer, eds. N.p., 1944.
88 pp., blue hardcover with gold printing and decoration, 28.9
x 22.8 cm, photos, ports., map, roster. NDL, PNAM.
The Deacon's Deamons--Composite Squadron 4, 2 September
1943 to 9 November 1944, U.S.S. Saginaw Bay CVE-82. Private
collection list. No known copy location.
Fighting Squadron Four: The Red Rippers, April 1944 to April
1945. Cover: The Red Rippers (VF 4). Anon. N.p., [1945?].
Textured, tan hardcover with red and black printing and logo,
28.9 x 22.5 cm, photos, ports., roster. PNAM.
History of Fighting Squadron Five, February 1943 to May
1944. (cover and top of page 1). Capt. Robert W. Duncan, USN
(Ret.). N.p., n.d. 24 pp., white paper cover with black printing
and logo, 28 x 21.5 cm. PNAM. This is not a true cruise book,
but a historical account of the unit's operations written many
years later, perhaps in the 1970s.
Meet VD 5. Paul Orentlich, ed. J. Richmond Ritenour
and Richard Reinecker, publishers. N.p.: VD5 Litho, May 20, 1945.
149 pp., tan and black paper cover with view of B-24 flying over
island, 28 x 22.2 cm, photos, ports. Dornbusch 1950: 1050. NDL,
PNAM.
VC-6 War Time (cover). Anon. N.p., [1946?]. 74 leaves,
printed on one side only, flexible brown plastic cover with gold
printing and logo, spiral binding, 22.3 x 27.5 cm, photos, ports.,
partial roster. PNAM.
[UTRON 7 Pacific Log--Photo Log of VJ 7, July 1944-November
1945. No known copy location. Private collection list.]
History of Torpedo Squadron Nine, April 1944-June 1945.
Anon. N.p., [1945?]. 147 pp. Controvich 1992. No known copy location.
This citation was taken from NDL card file although copy could
not be located in NDL.
Black Cat Command (cover). Andy Hewitt, ed. N.p., [1947?].
11 leaves, black paper cover with orange printing and black cat
logo, 32.3 x 23.5 cm, photos, ports., roster, diary of unit. NDL.
Utility Squadron 13: Odyssey, 1944-1945 (cover). Anon.
San Diego: Frye & Smith, 1945. 48 leaves, blue hardcover with
gold printing, 28.5 x 22.2 cm, photos, ports., map, roster. Dornbusch
1950: 1052. NDL.
The Kneepad of BombFightron-14 (cover). Lt. William
B. Wilson, USNR. N.p., [1946?]. 64 pp., cream and black hardcover
with cream printing and photo and logo, 27.3 x 20.3 cm, photos,
ports., roster. PNAM.
Overseas Mediterranean Operations, 1944, Blimpron 14.
Listed in holdings of library of the National Naval Aviation Museum,
Pensacola, Florida, but author was unable to locate.
The Hellcat Squadrons of VF 17 VBF. Anon. N.p., [1945?].
20 pp., Controvich 1992. No known copy location.
Torpedo Squadron Seventeen. Anon. San Francisco: James
H. Barry Co., [1945?]. 67 pp., 30 cm, photos, ports. Dornbusch
1951 supp.: 1502. No known copy location.
Fighting Squadron 18 (VF 18). This citation was taken
from NDL card file, although copy could not be located in NDL.
No other reference known.
Loose Ends. John B. Patton, ed. N.p., [1945?]. 40 leaves,
blue hardcover with gold printing, 28.8 x 22.2 cm, photos, ports.,
map, roster. PNAM.
Saints: This Is the Story of VC-27 Composite Squadron, U.S.N.,
After Months of Operating as a Group in the Combat Zone of the
Southwest Pacific. Anon. N.p., [1946?]. 60 pp., 28 cm, photos,
ports. Dornbusch 1950: 1054. No known copy location.
Fighting Squadron: A Veteran Squadron Leader's Firsthand
Account of Carrier Combat With Task Force 58. Robert A. Winston.
New York: Holiday House, 1946. 182 pp. Controvich 1992. Private
collection.
History of Fighting Squadron Forty-six: A Log in Narrative
Form of Its Participation in World War II. Hibben Ziesing.
New York: Plantin Press, 1946. 43 pp., 26 cm, photos, maps. Dornbusch
1950: 1056. No known copy location.
There I Was: This Book Tells the Story of the Fighting Cocks
of Fighting Forty-seven and the Liquidators of Torpedo Bombing
Forty-seven. Anon. Chicago: Smith, [1945?]. 40 leaves, photos.
[March 1992?]: Dabney Catalogue 384. No known copy location.
Composite Squadron Sixty-three, August 1944-October 1945.
[Ens. Norman J. Anderson, ed.]. Baton Rouge: Army & Navy Pictorial
Publishers, 1946. 47 leaves, 31 cm, photos, ports. Dornbusch 1950:
1059. No known copy location.
2nd Anniversary Along the Way. Anon. N.p., [1945?].
76 pp., blue softcover with black printing and gold logo, 30.5
x 22.8 cm, photos, ports., roster, awards roster. Dornbusch 1950:
1058. NDL.
Fighting 66. Anon. N.p., [1946?]. 22 leaves, blue and
white softcover with red printing and photo of banking Corsair,
27.8 x 21.2 cm, photos, ports., roster. PNAM.
Travels of Composite Squadron Seventy. Anon. Stevens
Point: 1945. 103 pp. Dabney Catalogue 372, March 1991. No known
copy location.
Fighting Squadron 77 (VF 77), 1945. This citation was
taken from the NDL card file although copy could not be located
in NDL. No other known reference.
South Pacific, 1943-44, "Eighty-one" U.S.S. Patrol
Squadron. Cover: VP-81 Album. Anon. N.p., [1945?]. 102 pp.,
22 x 29 cm, photos, ports. Dornbusch 1950: 1060. No known copy
location. Dabney Catalogue, August 1991: 376 lists a book with
the title Patrol Squadron 81: "Black Cats," Nov.
25, 1943-July 15, 1944, 1944 Album. This may be the same book
or another book on VP 81.
Bombing Squadron 82. Anon. N.p., [1946?]. 32 leaves,
blue and white hardcover with clouds as background and white printing,
23.3 x 28.1 cm, photos, ports., map. PNAM.
Fighting Squadron Eighty-Two, 1945. Lt. Armand Gordon
Manson, ed. N.p., 1945. 34 leaves, brown hardcover with multicolor
logo, 30.4 x 23.4 cm, photos, ports., roster. PNAM.
Bombing Fighting Eighty-three (cover). A. C. Lefevre.
N.p., [1946?]. 17 leaves, cover has the silhouette of a diving
Corsair, 27 x 21 cm. PNAM (photocopy).
Fighting Squadron Eighty-Three (cover). Anon. N.p.,
[1945?]. 53 pp., 26.6 x 20.7 cm, roster. PNAM (photocopy).
The Chronicle of V.C. 84, 1944-1945. N.p., [1945?].
91 pp., photos, ports., map. Dabney Catalogue: August 1991 376.
No known copy location.
Fighting Squadron Eighty-five, May 15, 1944-September 25,
1945 (cover). Anon. N.p., [1946?]. 43 pp., green softcover
with black printing and photo of carrier group at sea in background,
35.9 x 27 cm, photos, ports., roster, chronology of events. NDL.
"Another Light Please": History of Bombing-Fighting
Squadron 87. Private collection list. No known copy location.
Martha's Vineyard to Tokyo: A Historical Record of VT 88.
Cover: Martha's Vineyard to Tokyo, VT 88. Edwin J. Benson, ed.
New York: New Era Lithography Co., [1946?] 63 pp., blue, gray,
and black softcover with white printing and Avenger flying over
ships, spiral binding, 28 x 21.5 cm, photos, ports., map, roster.
Private collection.
Pied Pipers: Scrapbook of Fighting Squadron Eighty-nine.
Anon. N.p., [1946?]. 40 leaves, photos. Dabney Catalogue, December
1991: 380. No known copy location.
The Seven-League Boots of VC-99. Cover: Composite Squadron
Ninety-nine. Anon. Portland, Oreg.: N.p., 1946. 54 leaves, blue
hardcover with gold printing and logo, 28 x 21.7 cm, photos, ports.,
map. Private collection.
Buccaneers of Bombing Squadron 104: The Story of Its First
Tour, 10 April 1943-15 April 1944. Anon. Wichita: McCormick-Armstrong
Co., 1944. 38 leaves, 28 cm, photos, ports. Dornbusch 1950: 1061.
No known copy location.
The Second Tour of Patrol Bombing Squadron 104, 1 June 1944-1
June 1945 (cover). Anon. N.p., [1945?]. 26 leaves, cover shows
a four-engine plane flying over a map of the Pacific Ocean with
title in black, 26.5 x 19.5 cm, photos, ports., roster. Dornbusch
1950: 1062. PNAM (photocopy).
Short History of Patrol Bombing Squadron 104 on Its Third Tour,
June 1945-October 1945. Anon. Baltimore: Schneidereith, [1945?].
24 leaves. Controvich 1992. No known copy location.
Navy Bombing Squadron One Hundred Six VB-106, 1 June 1943-1
June 1944 (cover). Emanuele J. Pasanisi, ed. N.p., [1985?].
36 leaves, blue hardcover with gold title and wings, 29 x 22.3
cm, photos, ports., map, roster. NDL, PNAM. This is not a true
cruise book although it is done in the format of one. It was produced
more than forty years after the events.
Privateer in the Coconut Navy. Cover: Patrol Bombing
Squadron One Hundred Six. Robert Pusey Hastings. N.p., 1946. 105
pp., 28.6 x 22.2 cm, photos, ports., map, roster. Dornbusch 1951
supp.: 1503. PNAM.
A Pictorial Record of the Combat Duty of Bombing Squadron
One Hundred Nine in the Central Pacific, 28 December 1943-14 August
1944, Dedicated to the Officers and Men of the Squadron. Theodore
M. Steele. N.p., [1944?]. 23 x 31 cm, photos, ports. Dornbusch
1950: 1063. No known copy location.
A Pictorial Record of the Combat Duty of Patrol Bombing
Squadron One Hundred Nine in the Western Pacific, 20 April 1945-
15 August 1945, Dedicated to the Officers and Men Who Gave Their
Lives That We May Live in Peace. Cover: Patrol Bombing Squadron
109. Lt. Theodore M. Steele, USNR. New York: General Offset Co.,
1946. 32 leaves, flexible blue cover with gold and silver printing,
23 x 30.4 cm, photos, ports., map, roster. Dornbusch 1950: 1064.
PNAM.
The United States Navy Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-116:
The Blue Raiders. Clayton J. Whisman. N.p., 1979. 226 pp.,
loose-leaf binder, 28 x 21.6 cm, photos, accounts of operations.
PNAM. This is not a true cruise book, but an account of squadron
operations written many years after the events.
The Blue Raiders VPB 117, 1944-1945, United States Navy
(cover). Graham B. Squires, ed. N.p., [1985?]. 330 leaves, blue
paper cover with black printing and a PB4Y 1, spiral binding,
28 x 21.6 cm, photos, ports., map, roster. PNAM. This is not a
true cruise book, but an account written many years after the
events.
Patrol Bombing Squadron One Hundred Nineteen, 1944-1945.
N.p., [1945?]. 32 leaves, photos, ports. Dabney Catalogue 376,
August 1991. No known copy location.
Battle Diary of Patrol Bombing Squadron One Hundred Twenty-one,
5 September 1944 to 5 September 1945. [O. M. Corwin, ed.]
San Diego: Frye & Smith, [1945?]. 55 leaves, 29 cm, photos, ports.
Dornbusch 1950: 1064A. No known copy location.
Patrol Bombing Squadron One Twenty-four. N.p., [1945?].
115 pp., photos, ports., map, roster. Dabney Catalogue, August
1991: 376. No known copy location.
Bombing Squadron 148: Photo Album, August 1943-November
1944. Private collection list. No known copy location.
Controvich 1992. No known copy location.
The Second Tour of Bombing Squadron 184, 1 June 1944-1 June
1945. Private collection list. No known copy location.
Patrol Bombing Squadron 210. This citation was taken from NDL card file although copy could not be located at NDL. No other known reference.