Admiral Daniel Gallery - Author

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CapnMac82's last reply to "A Question To Anyone" reminded me I had read all of Admiral (Ret. as of the time he wrote them) Daniel Gallery's books and found them highly entertaining, and very funny.  He wrote both Fiction based on his naval experience, and Non-Fiction of his actual experience as the commander of the baby flattop that captured the U-505.  I believe he also was the first to have his pilots trained at night flying and carrier landings at night.  I think he wrote five books, long out of print.  But they may be available as used.

According to Wiki, Gallery authored 10 books.   I too read and enjoyed his books, particularly the fiction books with Fatso as the main character

Non-fiction by Rear Admiral Daniel V. Gallery

• Clear the Decks (Morrow, 1951)
• U-505 (original title: Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea) (1956)
• We Captured a U-boat (Popular Book Club, 1958)
• The Pueblo Incident (Doubleday, 1970)
• Eight Bells (original title: Eight Bells And All's Well) (Norton, 1965)

Fiction by Rear Admiral Daniel V. Gallery

• Now, Hear This! (Paperback Library, 1966)
• Stand By-y-y to Start Engines (Norton, 1966)
• Cap'n Fatso (sequel to Now, Hear This) (Norton, 1969)
• Away Boarders (sequel to Cap'n Fatso) (Norton, 1971)
• The Brink (Warner Books, 1973)

WOW, I must have been thinking of just his fiction books.  Now I'm going to have to read them all again to see which ones I missed!   Now if I can just find some used ones I can afford....  I last read these in the late 70's.  Went to re-read them in the 80's and couldn't find mine, and none of the used stores then in Tucson had any.  And forget the internet, it was just starting to get popular.  Hopefully I will have better luck these days.  Thanks for the list, and reminding me that Wiki knows everything.

I read Eight Bells when I was in high school. It was one of the influences that made me choose the Navy back in 1972.

I was just looking online at Amazon Books and apparently there are a couple of newer books out.

Playships of the World: The Naval Diaries of Admiral Dan Gallery, 1920-1924 (Studies in Maritime History) by Daniel V. Gallery (Hardcover - May 15, 2008) 

Admiral Dan Gallery: The Life and Wit of a Navy Original by C. Herbert Gilliland, Robert Shenk, and Daniel V. Gallery (Hardcover - Oct 1999)

Library doesn't have 'em. Think I'll buy Eight Bells and the life of...

Oh and hey I still haven't picked a subject for my CVE build. Maybe this'll get me off the dime!

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Library doesn't have 'em. Think I'll buy Eight Bells and the life of...

Oh and hey I still haven't picked a subject for my CVE build. Maybe this'll get me off the dime!

There you go!   Grab inspiration from anywhere you can!  It would be difficult to find a better CVE subject than the only ship that captured a U-boat, intact.  

We have a huge used bookstore here in Tucson called Bookman's.  I'm going to check there first.  They have three locations in Tucson and some more around the state.  They use old supermarkets as their locations.  They started with books but now they sell anything to do with entertainment, except the equipment to play them..  Three-quarters of each store is still books though, so I am hopeful they have some.

I love Tucson! I did a project there, out on I think Broadway, called Park Place. All the graphics and signage. I used to stay at neat hotels like a converted convent up in the hills, and a place called Inn on the Desert.

Great stuff, nice railroad town. Breakfast at the Congress.

I also was hired by the City of Tucson to rewrite the sign ordinance. I met with the City Manager who said,

"Bill, Life Magazine wrote a cover story called " The ugliest street in America', with a picture of Speedway Blvd. I want to fix that." Umm, well, I tried.

U of A is a nice school. Love Tom Tolbert and Steve Carr (Kerr).

And what's not to love abt Davis- Montham?

Actually CVE-60 was a Casablanca Class, and mine is a Bogue, so no go. But still, get the juices going, hey?

Was that Steve Kerr?  Yep, they were popular here, especially Kerr.  A lot of people hoped he would someday take over from Lute Olson, but Steve isn't into coaching.  If you like modeling planes, Davis-Monthan has one of the largest mothball fleets in the world.  And they do tours!   Plus we have the Pima Air Museum next door to D-M.  Sorry, not much to do with ships though out here in the middle of the Sonora Desert!

If you are ever in Chicago, check out the U-505 (captured by Dan Gallery's group)  in its new building added to the Institute of Science and Technology. It is definitely worth the time and money to see it.