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100 1 $aDunn, James A.,$d1913-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95111728
245 10 $aOn board the USS Mason :$bthe World War II diary of James A. Dunn /$cedited by Mansel G. Blackford ; with a historical introduction by John Sibley Butler.
260 $aColumbus [Ohio] :$bOhio State University Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $axxxix, 130 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 00 $tHistorical Introduction /$rJohn Sibley Butler --$g1.$tThe First Crossing of the Atlantic: June 14-July 25, 1944 --$g2.$tHunter-Killer: July 26-September 1, 1944 --$g3.$tThe Raging Sea: Convoy N.Y. 119: September 19-November 5, 1944 --$g4.$tReturning to America: November 6-November 22, 1944 --$g5.$tTo Oran, Africa, and Back: December 18, 1944-February 11, 1945 --$g6.$tTo Oran Again: February 12-March 7, 1945 --$g7.$tReturning to New York City: March 8-March 26, 1945 --$g8.$tA Final Trip to Oran: April 3-May 7, 1945 --$g9.$tComing Home at Last: May 8-May 23, 1945 --$tAfterword: On Land.
520 $aJames A. Dunn was a signalman on the USS Mason, a destroyer escort during World War II, the only oceangoing warship in the navy to employ African Americans in positions other than cook or messmate. Manned by African American seamen (and commanded by white officers), the ship made ten crossings of the Atlantic from 1944 to 1945, escorting convoys of merchant ships to and from the United Kingdom and North Africa and operating in hunter-killer groups searching for German submarines.
520 8 $aDunn kept a day-to-day diary during his spare time on board the Mason. Such diaries are a rarity, for the navy (and other armed services) forbade the keeping of diaries, fearful lest secret information fall into enemy hands. The diary chronicles the Mason's wartime activities, from the first convoy to the final return to the United States. It captures the feeling and meaning of life on board with an immediacy not fully found in retrospective accounts.
520 8 $aEqually interesting, the diary reveals what it meant to be an African American in a white navy within a segregated American society, the shipboard tensions and the shipboard cooperation and sense of unity.
520 8 $aSupplemented by additional sources, including interviews with Dunn, this diary is a personal view into an important part of American history. Like the Tuskegee airmen, the men of the USS Mason paved the way for desegregation in America's armed forces, contributing to a civil rights movement that changed the face of the nation.
600 10 $aDunn, James A.,$d1913-$vDiaries.
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650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xNaval operations, American.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148452
650 0 $aAfrican American sailors$vDiaries.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bNavy$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140879
700 1 $aBlackford, Mansel G.,$d1944-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79068493
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