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PT 109--Prelude to Fame
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Sources

BOOKS

Bulkley, Capt. Robert J., Jr. USNR (Ret.), At Close Quarters, Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1962
Cave, Hugh B., Long Were the Nights, Dodd, Mead, & Co., New York, 1943. New edition, Zenger Press, Washington DC, 1980
Donovan, Robert J., PT 109, McGraw-Hill, 1961
Frank, Richard B., Guadalcanal, Penguin Books, New York, 1990
Johnson, Frank, PT Boats of World War II, Blandford Press, Dorset, 1980
Keresey, Dick, PT 105, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1995
Morison, Rear Adm. Samuel Eliot USNR (Ret.), History Of United States Naval Operations In World War II, Vol. V, The Struggle For Guadalcanal, Atlantic Little, Brown, Boston, 1962
Searles, Cdr. John M. USNR (Ret.), Tales of Tulagi, Vantage Press, 1992.
Smith, S.E. (ed.), The United States Navy in World War II, William Morrow and Company, New York, 1966

ARTICLES

Hove, Duane, PT 109--The Early Days, PT Boaters/All Hands newsletter, PT Boats Inc., Memphis, Tennessee, November 2002

UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS, INTERVIEWS, AND LETTERS

Bates, Commodore Richard W. USN, Commander Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons, Pacific Fleet--Administrative History, Rear Adm. R.W. Bates collection, Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island.
Farrar, Charles, telephone interview, transcript courtesy of Mr. Dave Shorey, July 2002.
Guenther, Ed, personal letters to the author, March and August, 2003.
Larson, Bryant L., personal memoir courtesy of Aaron E. White and PT Boats Inc., Memphis, Tennessee.
National Archives, Washington DC. Deck logs of PT’s 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 59, 60, 61, 109, 110, 115, and 124.
Robinson, Captain Hugh M., USN (Ret.) personal letter to the author, August 2003.
Searles, Cdr. John M. USNR (Ret.), Log of PT's at Guadalcanal, courtesy of PT Boats Inc., Memphis, Tennessee
Tatroe, Bill Ray, CRM, USN (Ret.) personal e-mail courtesy of Randy Finfrock, May 2003.
Wells, Alexander W., personal letter to Mr. James Ballance, 1977, courtesy of PT Boats, Inc, Memphis, Tennessee
White, Aaron E., personal letter to the author, April 2004

ONLINE SOURCES

Nevitt, Allyn D., Long Lancers, www.combinedfleet.com, Imperial Japanese Navy website



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