[ARC5] The Green Books

[gordon white]

    While not on electronics, Samuel Eliot Morrison's 16 volumes on the 
Navy in WW II are a bit more readable and to my way of thinking, more 
authoritive since Morrison was a serious Harvard historian who had 
written extensively on Christopher Columbus and the early explorers and 
was actually on the scene of many of the battles and had associates at 
others. The Army historians were chiefly desk-bound people reading 
after-action reports. Back in the 1960s and 1970s I personally went 
through the Navy, Air Corps and Signal Corps archives - original 
documents - and spoke to all the individuals who were involved and were 
still living. (Capt. Van Valkenburg, the Inspector of Naval Material who 
handled some of the early Command Equipment out of the Brooklyn Navy 
Yard, was not available. His following assignment in 1941 was command of 
the USS Arizona.)


  - Gordon Eliot White

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