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The book was reviewed several times after being published. A reviewer in the Journal of International Affairs wrote that "the book is an excellent summation" of Morison's earlier History of United States Naval Operations in World War II [3] and one published in the Pacific Historical Review praised the book as a "coherent and tight volume, swift-paced and lively".
This History of U.S. Naval Operations also played an indirect role in the history of television. One of Morison's research assistants in the project, Henry Salomon, knew NBC's Robert Sarnoff and, in 1949, first proposed an ambitious documentary TV series on U.S. Navy and Marine Corps warfare in World War II.
"Thoughts on Naval Strategy, World War II". Naval War College Review 20 (March 1968): 3–10. 1970s "John Cabot, The Mysterious Sailor Whose Voyages Laid the Basis for English Claims to North America". Smithsonian 2 (April 1971): 12–20. "Publishers World Interviews Samuel Eliot Morison". Publishers World 206 (4 November 1974): 6–7. "Abigail ...
In writing his review of Twilight of the Gods, in the New York Times, Mark Perry compares Toll's three volume narrative of the Pacific War with official 15 volume history written by Samuel Eliot Morison for the Navy; "While Morison's resulting 15-volume “History of United States Naval Operations in World War II” is celebrated as classic and definitive, it is neither.
A Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Military Book Club, the book tells the story of the remarkable two-and-a-half-hour sea battle fought on October 25, 1944, in which Rear Admiral Clifton A. F. Sprague's task unit, known as "Taffy 3" (7th Fleet's Task Unit 77.4.3), of escort carriers and their "tin can" escorts rose to the impossible challenge of beating back an overwhelming ...
Morison, Samuel Eliot (1981) [1953]. New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944–August 1944. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 8. Little Brown. ISBN 9780316583084. OCLC 10926173. Chapters XI–XVIII are focused on The Battle of the Philippine Sea and Saipan. O'Brien, Francis A. (2003). Battling for Saipan. Presidio ...
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Morison, Samuel Eliot (2001). "Nevada". History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II (series). Champaign: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07065-5. Morison, Samuel Eliot (1963). The Two-Ocean War; A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War ...