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While containing much information that users may find useful and interesting, this website is not and cannot be comprehensive with respect to either the U.S. Navy Armed Guard or the U.S. merchant marine. There are many other resources available for anyone wishing to pursue additional information. Follow the links below to find some of the more prominent resources. Internet searches and public and university libraries will produce still more sources of information. Please contact the webmaster if you know of additional resources that could be listed here.

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• Specific to the Armed Guard:
• United States Navy Armed Guard
• Naval Armed Guard Service in World War II
• Naval Armed Guard Service: Convoys to Northern Russia - an Overview and Bibliography
• Naval Armed Guard Service: Engagements with German Surface Raiders
• Naval Armed Guard Service: Tragedy at Bari, Italy on 2 December 1943
• Naval Armed Guard Service: Japanese Atrocities Against
• Naval Armed Guard Service: Merchant Ships at Normandy during the D-Day Invasion (Operation Neptune), June - July 1944
• Naval Armed Guard: Research about the Naval Armed Guard and Archival Sources
• Action at Okinawa
• The Battle of the Phillipines
• Oral History: Battle of the Atlantic, 1941-1945 - Recollections of Seaman Second Class Basil D. Izzi
• Antisubmarine Warfare: Notes for the Use of the Naval Armed Guard
• Administrative History: Arming of Merchant Ships and Naval Armed Guard Service in World War II
• History of the Naval Armed Guard Afloat
• History of Convoy and Routing
• Anti-Submarine and Escort of Convoy Instructions
• General Instructions for Commanding Officers of Naval Armed Guards on Merchant Ships
• Naval Armed Guard Reports
• Historical Narrative of the US Naval Armed Guard Center, Third Naval District (Brooklyn, New York)
• Navy and Marine Corps Awards Manual, 1953 edition
• U.S. Merchant Marine "Civilian" Warships of World War II and their Armament
• U.S. Naval Armed Guard Casualties during World War II
• 5-inch/38 caliber gun
• 3-inch/50 caliber gun
• 20mm antiaircraft gun


• Specific to the merchant marine:
• American Merchant Marine at War
• American Merchant Marine Memorial, Camden, New Jersey
• American Merchant Marine Veterans
• American Merchant Marine Veterans, Dennis A. Roland Chapter
• American Merchant Marine Veterans, Edwin J. O'Hara Chapter
• American Merchant Marine Veterans, Gulfstream Chapter
• American Merchant Marine Veterans, Missouri Valley Mariners Chapter
• American Merchant Marine Veterans, Sacramento Valley Chapter
• American Merchant Marine Veterans, Sarasota-Manatee Chapter
• Answering the Call, part of the permanent maritime exhibition "On the Water: Stories from Maritime America," at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
• Hoffman Island Radio Association
• Merchant Marine Shipmate Search
• United States Maritime Service Training Manual, Preliminary Training
• United States Maritime Service Training Manual, Deck Branch Training
• United States Maritime Service Training Manual, Engineering Branch Training
• U.S. Merchant Marine Casualties during World War II
• U.S. Merchant Marine Veterans blog
• Merchant marine merchandise


• Other links of interest:
• Project Liberty Ship
• SS JEREMIAH O'BRIEN
• SS AMERICAN VICTORY
• SS LANE VICTORY
• SS RED OAK VICTORY
• Convoy Web
• Ships in Atlantic Convoys
• Allied Convoys in the North Atlantic 1939-1945; includes links to convoys by year, convoy number, dates of departure and arrival, origin, destination; in German; translate at translate.google.com/#de|en|
• World War II Troopships
• The T2 Tanker Page
• A Tribute to the Famous T - Tankers
• WW2 Cruisers
• War at Sea, 1939-1945, Volume Two, The Period of Balance; United Kingdom Military Series
• Anti Submarine Warfare in World War II
• U-Boat War in the Caribbean - Opportunities Lost
• History of the Eastern Sea Frontier
• Amphibious Operations, Invasion of Northern France, Western Task Force, June 1944
• Administrative History of The U.S Atlantic Fleet in World War II, Volume II, Commander, Task Force 24, Operations in Newfoundland, Greenland and Iceland
• Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (DEMS), the British equivalent of the U.S. Navy Armed Guard
• U-Boat Net
• Veteran Wireless Operators Association
• World War II Families for the Return of the Missing
• Honor Flight Network, flying veterans free of charge to Washington, D.C. to visit the World War II Memorial
• Kitchen Table Gang, veterans helping veterans and troops overseas
• The Allied Merchant Navy of World War II
• Wartime British Merchant Navy
• Australian Merchant Navy
• Canada's Naval Memorial - H.M.C.S. SACKVILLE
• Canada in World War II
• Canadian Warships
• Norwegian Merchant Fleet 1939-1945
• Maritime, merchant marine, Armed Guard and US Navy links, a gazillion links
• Ahoy - Mac's Web Log, dedicated to all "who went down to the sea in ships" in World War II
• Bud's "Navy Fighting Ship History" Web Site
• USS GEORGE E. DAVIS, DE-357, World War II Destroyer Escort
• Lloyd's Register of Ships, 1930 to 1945
• Miramar Ship Index
• Sources for ship photographs
• Sources for ship photographs
• Sources for ship photographs
• Sources for ship photographs
• How to research the history of a World War II-era ship
• Disposal records of reserve fleet ships
• View U.S. coastal and Great Lakes charts
• Calculate distances by latitude and longitude
• New York Ships to Foreign Ports 1939 to 1945; departures of ships from New York on foreign voyages, by name of ship and date of departure
• Shipbuilding Contracts of the U. S. Maritime Commission, 1937-1945