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Gerald E. Wheeler
Professor Gerald E. Wheeler served as a Naval Aviator (Airship), an Air Navigator, and an Assistant Navigator on the aircraft carrier Bunker Hill (CV-17) during World War II.
Afte...lihat lebih banyakProfessor Gerald E. Wheeler served as a Naval Aviator (Airship), an Air Navigator, and an Assistant Navigator on the aircraft carrier Bunker Hill (CV-17) during World War II.
After the war, he taught at the Naval Academy as Assistant Professor in the Department of English, History and Government. Having moved to California, he received his doctorate in history from the University of California in 1957 and subsequently served as an Aviation Technical Training Officer in reserve squadron VP-871 at Oakland Naval Air Station with the rank of lieutenant commander in the Naval Air Reserve. He joined the faculty of San Jose State University, where for 25 years (1957-1983) he served as a professor and eventually Chair of the History Department, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, and Dean of the College of Social Sciences.
He wrote numerous articles on naval topics and served on the various editorial boards, including several years as editor of the American Aviation Historical Society Journal.
He was the author of Prelude to Pearl Harbor (1963), Admiral William Veazie Pratt, U.S. Navy: A Sailor’s Life (1974) and Kinkaid of the Seventh Fleet: A Biography of Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, U. S. Navy (1995).lihat lebih sedikit
Buku oleh Gerald E. Wheeler
Prelude to Pearl Harbor: The United States Navy and the Far East, 1921-1931