On Board the U. S. S. Mason: The World War II Diary of James A. Dunn

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James 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. Dunn kept a day-to-day diary during...
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James 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. Dunn 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. Equally 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. Supplemented 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.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780814206980
  • Publisher: Ohio State University Press
  • Publication date: 4/1/1996
  • Pages: 130
  • Product dimensions: 5.73 (w) x 8.87 (h) x 0.78 (d)

Table of Contents

Historical Introduction
Preface
Introduction
1 The First Crossing of the Atlantic: June 14-July 25, 1944 5
2 Hunter-Killer: July 26-September 1, 1944 26
3 The Raging Sea: Convoy N.Y. 119: September 19-November 5, 1944 32
4 Returning to America: November 6-November 22, 1944 57
5 To Oran, Africa, and Back: December 18, 1944-February 11, 1945 65
6 To Oran Again: February 12-March 7, 1945 76
7 Returning to New York City: March 8-March 26, 1945 90
8 A Final Trip to Oran: April 3-May 7, 1945 100
9 Coming Home at Last: May 8-May 23, 1945 118
Afterword: On Land 127
Bibliographic Note 129
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