Map Galvin (2 results)

Condition: fine in fine dust jacket. photo's & map (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. [1st ed. 1st printing] ; xiv, 273 p. ; 24 cm. OCLC 1160392785 ; LCCN 41008629 LC UA845 .P8 ; blue cloth with pictorial paper labels on spine and cover ; no dustjacket ; a dig on edge of front cover ; Map on lining papers ; "Published on the foundation established in memory of Oliver Baty Cunningham of the class of 1917. Yale College." ; William Dilworth Puleston (September 1, 1881 - September 30, 1968) was an American naval officer and author. He was Director of Naval Intelligence from 1934 to 1937. He was considered "a popular, articulate and aggressive officer" and "an ideal planner, a student of world history and foreign affairs". Puleston entered the U.S. Naval Academy in 1898 and graduated in 1902. Promoted to ensign in 1904, he was promoted through the ranks to captain in 1926. He served in various ships until 1912, when he took command of the destroyer USS Drayton (DD-23). At the beginning of World War I, he was serving on the staff of the Commander in Chief of the Asiatic Fleet and was then transferred to duty as executive officer of USS Brooklyn (CA-3). In January 1918, he was ordered to Queenstown, Ireland for duty with U.S. Naval Forces in Europe. For this service in World War I, he received the Navy Cross for heroism in convoy duty. On 4 June 1934, Puleston took up the post of Director of Naval Intelligence. Among the most prominent cases he dealt with were the cases of the spies Harry Thompson, the former U.S. Navy sailor who spied for Japan in 1934-35, and John Semer Farnsworth. In Puleston's final "ONI Estimate of the Situation for 1939," issued just before his retirement in April 1937, he called for more counter-intelligence to deal with the rapidly changing world political and military situation. --Wikipedia ; G. Book.