title: Admiral Dan Gallery: The Life and Wit of a Navy Original
author:  C. Herbert Gilliland 
description: Almost as entertaining as its subject, this is the story of a true twentieth-century navy original, Rear Admiral Daniel V. Gallery. Mixing conventional biographical narrative with excerpts from Gallery's abundant writings, fictional and nonfictional, the book makes it abundantly clear that, although capturing the German U-505 in 1944 and lobbying to have it preserved in Chicago in 1954 were the admiral's finest achievements, they weren't the only ones. Gallery was an Olympic wrestler; an early naval aviator; a charismatic and effective commander of units of many sizes, including a carrier task group; a gifted writer, especially of humor; and a stormy petrel on behalf of his beloved navy and, particularly, its carriers--and the foreword by novelist Herman Wouk, Gallery's friend, cites a few additional dimensions. A welcome portrait of a man who added much to the effectiveness of the U.S. Navy and to the amount of fun in the cosmos. <i>Roland Green</i>
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  YANKEE ADMIRAL
  
  A biography of David Dixon Porter, the Civil War hero who was the father of
  the modern Navy
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Noel B. Gerson
  
  
  
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  For
  
  Louis P. Saxe
  
  
  
  
  Table of Contents
  
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  My honor , my country , my family — and , always , the Navy . They are my life
  , one and inseparable .
  
  David Dixon Porter, Admiral, United States Navy
  
  
  
  
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  COMMODORE DAVID PORTER took it for granted that his sons would follow him into
  the United States Navy, and whatever the gifted, hot-tempered, co