Naval mines

Source books:

Cowie, J.S. Mines, Minelayers and Minelaying. New York: Oxford University Press, 1949.

Duncan, R.C. America’s Use of Sea Mines. Silver Spring, MD: US Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, 1962.

Katalog otechestvennogo i inostrannogo minnogo oruzhiyi a. Leningrad: Sentral, 1983. (This Russian book has several photos of mines.)

Ledebur, Gerhard Frhr von. Die Seemine. Munich: J.F. Lehmann’s Verlag, 1977. (This book is written in German, but has some photos and many drawings of mines.)

Low, A.M. Mine and Countermine. New York: Sheridan House, 1940.

submarine battle flags

Information about these flags is available on our website.
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq62-1.htm

Other website:
http://donmac.org/Flags.htm


As well as contact information for the library at the US Navy Submarine Force Museum in Groton, CT.

International signal flags

Contact the North American Vexillological Association, www.nava.org,
Maybe the Association can recommend a flag historian with expertise in signal flags.

Vietnam War : combat action

Vietnam War incidences:
If detailed reports of these combat actions exist, they are presumably located in the records of US Navy Task Force 116 (Operation Market Time, River Patrol) held by the Operational Archives Branch at the Naval Historical Center.

These records are organized by Navy unit.
To assist the Operational Archives small staff to locate the appropriate records within their large collection you should first try to identify which Navy units were involved.

To do this you should probably review the appropriate Commander Naval Forces Vietnam Monthly Summaries posted on the Operational Archives web pages http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org10-8.htm
to see if you can identify the units involved.

You will then need to contact the Operational Archives directly for further assistance with this request.