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I have scanned a number of WWII Cruise Books and Ship's Histories in order to preserve the History of the Men who served. This started as a quest to find a copy of the USS Neshoba-APA 216's cruise book. I was able to talk a library in Maine to lend me their copy to scan. Shortly afterwards one of the men from my Dad's ship, Bill Allingham GAVE ME his copy of the book.
Since then I have been lent a number of Cruise Books and Ship's Histories by collectors, most from Rick and Charles. I only own one Cruise Book, the Neshoba. I've had a few others that I picked up relatively cheaply, scanned and then passed on to people connected to the ship-for what I paid plus postage. This is NOT a business.
After scanning the books, I photo-edit them and put them into Adobe PDF format. The files vary in size from 4 meg for the Gilmore to over 90 meg for the Napa and Lanier. They also vary in quality due to the quality of the original printing, the ability to scan the pages in tightly bound books (without breaking the bindings) and the use of off white or grey in the original books. Some are very sharp, others are relatively low quality images. Some are just Histories that were typed out by Crew or Officers and have no pictures.
I take some liberty when scanning the books, eliminating the blank pages and sometimes combining intro pages that are almost empty onto one page. Sometimes I "shift" the images around to get the most image per page, but no material is omitted. You can print from the PDF file - using a normal computer printer.
If you would like a PDF copy of any of the following files, please contact me, but please donate to USS Slater DE 766 a fine restoration of a WWII DE - located in Albany, NY
The donation link is on the bottom of the page: USS Slater DE 766
Contact me (Russ Padden) via email.
These are the books that I have scanned so far: (All of the books are from WWII Cruisebooks unless noted).
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AH 9 Bountiful AH 13 Benevolence-History AH 13 Benevolence AH 15 Consolation-History AH 17 Sanctuary-History ARH 1 Jason AG 68 Basilan AG 73 Belle Isle AGC 5 Catoctin AGC 7 McKinley
1st cruise AGC
8 Mount Olympus AGC 10 Auburn AGC 11 Eldorado AGC 13 Panamint
AGS 16 Maury - Neptunus Rex 1957 AHR01 Register - Cruise and repair log AK 110 Alkes AK 177 Zaurak-new Feb 2016 AKA
2 Procyon AKA 14 Oberon AKA 26 Corvus AKA 30 Lumen - new Dec 2015 AKA 58 Chara - WWII, Korea - Publ 1997 AKA 62 Sheliak AKA
63 Theenim AKA 74 Lenoir AKA
80 Tyrell AKA 98 Montague - 1953-54 (2nd 'Nam era) AKA 100 Oglethorpe AKA
106 Union 1948 Point Barrow (Arctic) Expedition AM 128 Velocity AM 303 Skirmish AN 52 Snowbell AO 13 Trinity AP 07 Wharton-new Feb 2016 (1974 published) AP 21 Wakefield AP 22 Mount Vernon AP 69 Elizabeth Cady Stanton AP 74 LeJeune AP 76 Anne Arundel AP 105 General George F. Elliot AP 111 General A. E. Anderson AP 112 General W. A. Mann AP 112 General W. A. Mann - Neptunus Rex 1944 AP 114 Gen Wm. Mitchell AP
117 General W. H. Gordon AP 133 GENERAL O.H. ERNST AP 134 General R. L. Howze AP 137 General S. D. Sturgis AP
139 General R. E. Callan AP 144 General Hodges AP 148 General M. L. Hersey AP 153 General R. M. Blatchford AP 154 General Leroy eltinge AP
166 Comet
APA 2 Harris APA 10 Harry Lee APA
13 Joseph T. Dickman APA 26 Samuel Chase APA
27 Clymer APA 31 Monrovia APA 35 Calloway APA 38 Chilton 1st Cruise Book APA 38 Chilton - reunion book - 1990's APA 38 Chilton - Decommissioning 1972 APA 40 Custer |
APA 48 Leon APA 49 Ormsby APA 52 Sumter APA 53 Warren APA 67 Burleson APA 76 Crenshaw APA 80 Elkhart APA 86 USS Geneva - Reunion 1998 APA 91 Adair APA 92 Alpine APA 94 Baxter APA 97 Dauphin APA 98 Dutchess APA 100
Mendocino APA 107 Goodhue APA
110 Griggs APA
126 St. Mary's (link to another site) APA 138 Braxton APA 140 Brookings APA 143 Clermont APA 155 Lycoming APA 170 Gosper APA 174 Jerauld - Commissioning Booklet APA
175 Karnes APA 188 Olmsted - Magic Carpet Pamphlet APA 189 Oxford APA 190 Pickens APA
191 Pondera APA
203 Meriwether APA 213 Mountrail APA
214 Natrona - Action Report (not cruisebook) APA 217 New Kent - cruise book - also see link below: APA 217 New Kent - personal history James L. Machen APA 218 Noble APA219
Okaloosa APA 227 Renville APA 228 Rockbridge - Operation Crossroads APA
231 St. Croix APA
233 Sevier APD 18 Kane APD 43/DE 62 George W. Ingram APD 134 Kleinsmith - Commisssioning AR 6 Ajax AR 20 Laertes ARV 5 Webster AS12 Sperry 1st Anniversary 1943 AS 26 Clytie (Neptunus Rex) AV 5 Albemarle AV 7 Currituck 1961-1962 Far East Cruise AV 10 Chandeleur AV 14 Kenneth Whiting BB
60 Alabama 1936-Neptunus Rex DDR 875 HW Tucker 1958 LCI 542 LSM
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LST 289 LST 471- LST 511 LST 588- "in WWII" and reunion book 1986 LST 946 Fort Defiance Amphibious Group 13 - 1945 |
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THIS IS NOT A MONEY-MAKING VENTURE! IT'S TIME TO REALLY SUPPORT THOSE WHO SERVE-WITH MORE THAN WORDS-AND TO HELP GET DONATIONS TO WORTHY ORGANIZATIONS. Looking for Cruise Books I haven't scanned?
APD 94 John Q. Roberts is on this site fold3.com and also available from www.greatnavalimages.com LST 530 692 and 925 are available on http://www.navycruisebooks.net/ and www.ancestry.com AP 102 LaSalle is available on www.ancestry.com - along with thousands of others.
There is a former Navy Guy who has scanned a large number of Cruise Books (I still almost exclusively scan Amphib and Transport books).
His CD prices are reasonable considering the amount of work that goes into finding, scanning, editing, formatting etc... www.greatnavalimages.com.
His CD's have background music, an index and other features that I don't include on my CD's. He uses a program which translates the images to a proprietary format - to get prints of pages, you can do print screens. For higher resolution prints you can buy prints of specific pages or prints of the whole book from him. He also sells art prints and other items of interest. |
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THESE ARE AMPHIB CRUISE BOOKS THAT EXIST, BUT I HAVE NOT SEEN TO SCAN. IF YOU HAVE ANY OF THESE AND WOULD BE WILLING TO LEND THEM TO ME TO SCAN, PLEASE CONTACT ME. I can give references from the guys who have lent me their books to scan. THANKS, RUSS PADDEN
The ones listed below are known to exist, but I have never seen them |
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APA Continued: 105 Shelby
153 Laurens AKA 32 Mellena (I have partial scans) |
APD 94 John Q. Roberts (see above) LSM 149 LSM 267 LST 352, 349, 533, 831 |
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APA 18 President Jackson post war compilation |
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