FROM THE U.S. NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
The Director of Naval History has selected Commander James C. Rentfrow, USN, to
receive the $5,000 Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison Naval History Scholarship,
which is open to serving officers of the Navy and Marine Corps who are pursuing
graduate degrees in history or related fields.
The Government Printing Office recently published Pentagon 9/11, by Alfred
Goldberg, Sarandis Papadopoulos (a professional staff member of the Naval Historical
Center), Diane Putney, Nancy Berlage, and Rebecca Welch. The comprehensive history
documents the damage inflicted on the Pentagon building, the pain and suffering
of its occupants, and the epic struggle of medical, fire, police, and other emergency
personnel. Additionally, the U.S. Naval Institute has published The U.S. Navy in
the Korean War, edited by Edward J. Marolda, senior historian of the Naval
Historical Center. The Naval Historical Center is developing a twenty-thousand-square-foot
exhibition highlighting the Navy’s contribution during the Cold War. See
www.navyhistory.org/coldwar.
Finally, the remaining event in the Naval History Seminar Program for 2007 is "Counterinsurgency
in the Vietnam War" by Dr. Mark Moyar, Kim T. Adamson Chair of Insurgency and Terrorism
at the U.S. Marine Corps University and author of Triumph Forsaken and Phoenix and
the Birds of Prey, Tuesday, 18 December. The seminars are held in National
Museum of the United States Navy, Building 76, Washington Navy Yard, Washington,
D.C., noon to 1:00. For more information contact Dr. Edward J. Marolda at (202)
433-3940 or edward.marolda@navy.mil.
CALL FOR INFORMATION
The Australian Defence Attaché Manila, Republic of the Philippines, requests information
regarding the burial place of Rear Admiral John Dumaresq, RN/RAN, a veteran of the
battles of Jutland and Heligoland Bight and the first native-born Australian officer
to head the Royal Australian Navy. The admiral was en route to Britain in 1922 when
fell ill of pneumonia aboard ship. He was hospitalized at an American military hospital
in Manila and died there. He was buried in Manila, but exactly where remains unknown.
Information or assistance regarding the grave site would be highly appreciated and
can be forwarded to Lieutenant Commander Mark R Condeno, Philippine Coast Guard
Auxiliary, at Coast_Guard78@yahoo.com.ph, or to Major Paul Anthony Rosenzweig, Australian
Army, at paul.rosenzweig@dfat.gov.au.
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