{"title":"Author: Commander David D. Bruhn, U.S. Navy (retired)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCommander David D. Bruhn, U.S. Navy (Retired) served twenty-two years on active duty and two in the Naval Reserve, as both an enlisted man and as an officer, between 1977 and 2001.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing completion of basic training, he served as a sonar technician aboard USS \u003cem\u003eMiller\u003c\/em\u003e (FF 1091) and USS \u003cem\u003eLeftwich\u003c\/em\u003e (DD 984). He was commissioned in 1983 following graduation from California State University at Chico. His initial assignment was to USS \u003cem\u003eExcel\u003c\/em\u003e (MSO 439), serving as Supply Officer, Damage Control Assistant, and Chief Engineer. He then served in USS \u003cem\u003eThach\u003c\/em\u003e (FFG 43) as Chief Engineer and Destroyer Squadron 13 as Material Officer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter graduation from the Naval Postgraduate School, Cdr. Bruhn was assigned to Secretary of the Navy and CNO staffs as a budget analyst and (Future Years Defense Plan) resources planner before attending the Naval War College in 1996, following which he commanded the mine countermeasures ships USS \u003cem\u003eGladiator\u003c\/em\u003e (MCM 11) and USS \u003cem\u003eDextrous\u003c\/em\u003e (MCM 13) in the Persian Gulf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommander Bruhn’s final assignment was Executive Assistant to a senior (SES-4) government service executive at the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization in Washington, D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince retiring, he has been a high school science teacher and track coach, and is currently the senior naval science instructor for a high school Navy Junior ROTC program. He lives in northern California with his wife Nancy and sons David and Michael. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDavid's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbruhn.com\/\"\u003eWebsite\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"101-b5345","title":"Wooden Ships and Iron Men: The U.S. Navy's Coastal and Inshore Minesweepers, and the Minecraft that Served in Vietnam, 1953-1976","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom 1953 to 1976, twenty-four U.S. Navy coastal minesweepers (MSCs) swept mines, searched the seafloor for downed aircraft, sunken ships and lost munitions, \"showed the flag\" in the Caribbean and throughout the Far East, and played a key role in the Vietnam War. Atlantic Fleet coastal minesweepers searched for a nuclear bomb buried in the sea bed off Savannah, Georgia, as a result of a midair collision between two U.S. Air Force aircraft and provided support for the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba. MSCs based at Sasebo, Japan, conducted patrols off Vietnam to interdict smuggling of supplies by sea to the Viet Cong in the South. One, \u003cem\u003eUSS Vireo\u003c\/em\u003e, participated in the destruction of an enemy gun runner. Much smaller minesweeping boats (MSBs) kept the Long Tau River, which passed through the dangerous \"Forest of Assassins\" and connected the South China Sea to Saigon, open to merchant vessels delivering military cargos to allied forces. Facing daily the possibility of death by Viet Cong mine or riverbank ambush, the thirteen boats of Mine Squadron Eleven Detachment Alfa comprised the first Navy unit to be awarded a Presidential Unit Citation for heroism by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Possessing too few minecraft to support its riverine combat operations, the U.S. Navy also pressed existing landing craft and newly built assault support patrol boats and minesweeping drones into these duties. The unheralded MSBs and steel-hulled minecraft collectively garnered four Presidential Unit Citations, three Meritorious Unit Commendations, and three Navy Unit Commendations. Significant numbers of the small enlisted crews that took the craft in harm's way received the Navy Cross, Silver Star and Bronze Star Medals for acts of heroism performed under fire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhotographs, maps, diagrams and tables, appendices and an index to full-names, places and subjects add to the value of this work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCdr. David D. 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These vessels included schooners, ancient ferry boats, luggers, fishing trawlers, tuna boats, tugs, launches, lighters, surf boats, ketches, yachts, and yawls. The services took whatever craft they could get—some barely seaworthy—as the urgency of need did not permit discrimination in what was purchased or chartered. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, needing his own Navy to support leapfrog operations up the New Guinea coast, found his vessels in Australia and New Zealand, and the Navy its small ships and craft in America. These \"Pacific island hoppers\" were later supplemented with other small vessels newly constructed in American boat and shipyards. Among them were sixty Navy wooden-hulled 103-foot small coastal transports, hundreds of Army freight-supply ships and large tugs, and lesser numbers of coastal tankers and harbor tugs. The Army ships—most of steel construction, a few of wood—were manned by Coast Guard, Merchant Marine, or Army crews.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe islands hoppers worked mostly with amphibious forces, but also supported PT boat squadrons, and as \"maids of all duties\" engaged in a variety of operations. Periodic combat with Japanese planes off the New Guinea coast and in the Solomon Islands transitioned to frequent battles with conventional and kamikaze aircraft and suicide Q-boats during the Philippine Islands Campaign. Significant numbers of the island hoppers earned battle stars, and crewmen awards for valor including the Navy Cross, the Silver Star and the Bronze Star medals. Following the war, the Navy acquired some of the Army ships; many served in the Korean War and a few in Vietnam. Three of the former freight-supply ships were employed for intelligence gathering; the most famous, USS \u003cem\u003ePueblo\u003c\/em\u003e, was captured by North Korea. Others led interesting careers under civilian ownership; one was run aground while engaged in drug smuggling in the Caribbean, and another served as a \"radio pirate\" off England, broadcasting BBC-banned rock and roll music over the airwaves in 1966. Numerous photographs, maps, data-rich appendices, and an index to full-names, places and subjects add to the value of this work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCdr. David D. 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San Diego tuna fishermen—including those that would be aboard their boats at the Battle of Midway and at Guadalcanal supporting the 1st Marines—donned Navy uniforms without the benefit of \"boot camp\" training and went off to war. They were joined by fishermen and yachtsmen from ports and harbors all across America, as well as men straight from cities and rural towns.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOfficers and crewmen who took vessels into harm's way received the Navy Cross, and other awards for valor for acts of heroism performed under fire. Officers aboard the yachts \u003cem\u003eFisheries II\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMaryanne\u003c\/em\u003e were awarded Navy Crosses for their actions during the defense of the Philippines—three posthumously, as they died while prisoners of war. Three men aboard the \u003cem\u003eYP-346\u003c\/em\u003e—sunk by the Japanese light cruiser \u003cem\u003eSendai\u003c\/em\u003e—also earned Navy Crosses, and the \u003cem\u003eYP-346\u003c\/em\u003e and two other former tuna boats at Guadalcanal received the Presidential Unit Citation for heroism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYPs and PYs at Saipan, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Leyte, and Balikpapan earned battle stars for combat; the ex-halibut boat \u003cem\u003eYP-251\u003c\/em\u003e was credited with sinking a Japanese submarine in Alaskan waters, and the patrol yacht \u003cem\u003eSiren\u003c\/em\u003e earned a battle star during one of the most successful series of attacks on a convoy by a single German submarine. Others did not fare so well; the \u003cem\u003eYP-389\u003c\/em\u003e and patrol yacht \u003cem\u003eCythera\u003c\/em\u003e were lost to German U-boats in infamous \"Torpedo Junction\" off North Carolina. All of the unheralded vessels served when called, and like militiamen of old, they were mustered out when no longer needed. \u003cem\u003eBattle Stars for the \"Cactus Navy\"\u003c\/em\u003e is a companion book of \u003ca href=\"\/products\/101-b5541\" title=\"MacArthur and Halsey's\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMacArthur and Halsey's \"Pacific Island Hoppers\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCdr. David D. 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Seventeen officers and men from the salvage ship \u003cem\u003eBrant\u003c\/em\u003e and the fleet tug \u003cem\u003eCherokee\u003c\/em\u003e received Navy Cross Medals for their heroic actions during a special operation in French Morocco. \u003cem\u003eCherokee\u003c\/em\u003e was the first Atlantic Fleet tug to earn a battle star overseas. Tugs and salvage ships were with the Fleet at Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, Normandy, and during the invasion of southern France. Tugs saved many ships damaged by combat action, and the lives of sailors and soldiers aboard aflame or sinking ships, or in the sea. These workhorses also pulled scores of landing craft off hostile beaches. Thirty-six tugs and six salvage ships collectively garnered sixty-six battle stars. The fleet tugs \u003cem\u003eArikara\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePinto\u003c\/em\u003e, and rescue tug \u003cem\u003eATR-2\u003c\/em\u003e, received the Navy Unit Commendation for their work off Omaha beach at Normandy. Officers and crewmen who took vessels into harm's way received awards for valor for acts of heroism performed under fire. Following the capture of enemy ports, tugs and salvage ships and their salvage personnel worked with minesweepers and mine clearance divers to open harbors critical to sea-supplied support of Allied troops ashore.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCdr. David D. 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As Halsey's South Pacific, MacArthur's Southwest Pacific, and Spruance's Central Pacific forces advanced toward Japan, these ships served as afloat-bases for patrol planes referred to as the \"eyes of the fleet.\" The large fabric-clad PBY \"Catalinas\" and later PBM \"Mariners\" combed the seaways for Japanese forces and carried out bombing, depth charge, and torpedo attacks on enemy ships and submarines. Nighttime anti-shipping operations—\"Black Cat\" or \"Nightmare\" missions—were dangerous and daytime combat operations even more so, when encounters with more maneuverable and heavily-armed fighters necessitated hiding in clouds to survive. The Japanese were keen to destroy the scouts and their floating bases, and seaplane tenders often lived a furtive existence, particularly early in the war. Pilots, plane crews and shipboard personnel received scores of awards for valor, including the Medal of Honor, Navy Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross, and Silver and Bronze Star Medals.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCdr. David D. 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One of them, \u003cem\u003eCondor\u003c\/em\u003e (AMc-14), first sighted the Japanese Type-A midget submarine that destroyer \u003cem\u003eWard\u003c\/em\u003e (DD-139) sank on December 7, 1941 with the first shots fired by American forces during World War II. She would be one of six coastal minesweepers to receive a battle star.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom boat and shipyards across America came the largest production run of any World War II warship, 561 scrappy little 136-foot wooden hulled vessels characterized by Arnold Lott in \u003cem\u003eMost Dangerous Sea\u003c\/em\u003e as \"belligerent looking yachts wearing grey paint.\" Although their designers envisioned that they would operate primarily in the vicinity of yards or bases, the YMSs (too numerous to be given names) would see action in every theater of war, earning almost 700 battle stars, twenty-one Presidential Unit Citations, and fifteen Navy Unit Commendations. YMSs were present in the North African campaign, in Sicily, at Anzio, Salerno, and elsewhere in Italy, and swept ahead of invasion forces at Normandy and in Southern France. In the Pacific, they operated in the Marshall Islands, New Guinea, Solomons, Treasury Island, Gilbert Islands, New Britain, Admiralty Islands, Guam, Palau, Leyte, Luzon, Manila Bay, Iwo Jima, Southern Philippines, Okinawa, and Borneo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing the war, they cleared mines from the East China Sea, Yangtze River approaches, and throughout Japanese waters, and their activities gave rise to the proud slogan of the mine force: \"Where the Fleet Goes, We've Been.\" During the Korean War, a mere sixteen auxiliary motor minesweepers (former YMSs) performed the bulk of mine clearance, often while inside the range of enemy coastal artillery, necessary for larger naval vessels to close the coast to support operations ashore. Garnering collectively 124 battle stars, seven Presidential Unit Citations, and seven Navy Unit Commendations, the men aboard these ships were then, and remain to date, the most highly decorated crews of minesweepers in the history of the U.S. Navy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCdr. David D. 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Some participated in the 1962 nuclear test program in the Pacific and in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs. Others, as part of a U.S. armada of military and civilian research ships at Palomares, located a nuclear bomb lost on the seafloor off Spain as a result of a midair collision between two U.S. Air Force aircraft.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIron men in wooden ships were with the Fleet in hotspots around the world, including Lebanon and the Quemoy-Matsu Islands of Taiwan in 1958; the Dominican Republic in 1961 and 1965; and the Cuban Missile Crisis and Haiti in 1962. During the Vietnam War, minesweepers participated in Operation Market Time, to prevent the infiltration of North Vietnamese soldiers and munitions into South Vietnam. \u003cem\u003eLeader\u003c\/em\u003e received the Presidential Unit Citation for extraordinary heroism in Operation Sea Lords; \u003cem\u003eEndurance\u003c\/em\u003e engaged in close gun action with and helped destroy an enemy armed coastal freighter in a sea battle; and MSOs cleared mines in Haiphong Harbor, which aided in the negotiations in progress for the return of U.S. prisoners of war. During the twilight of their service in the late 1980s and early 1990s, aging sweeps cleared Iranian - and Iraqi - laid mines in the Persian Gulf.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCdr. David D. 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Admiral Ingram was the commander of a small seagoing force that grew into a fleet, charged at first with reconnaissance, later with the protection of shipping, and finally with the waging of relentless warfare against the enemy. The accomplishment of this required great teamwork; between the U.S. and Royal navies, various branches of the American military services, and Americans and Brazilians. Overshadowed by many larger actions and amphibious landings in the European and Pacific theaters, and therefore little known to the public, the South Atlantic campaign helped win the war. Companion book to \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/101-b5707\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Eyes of the Fleet: The U.S. Navy's Seaplane Tenders and Patrol Aircraft in World War II\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eEyes of the Fleet: The U.S. Navy's Seaplane Tenders and Patrol Aircraft in World War II\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCdr. David D. 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Hundreds of fishing vessels from every port and harbour in Britain were pressed into minesweeping duties, sowing minefields to restrict and destroy German vessels. Their efforts allowed the powerful Royal Navy to hold the German Navy in port — except for occasional skirmishes, including the Battle of Jutland. American destroyers hunted U-boats in British waters, while minelayers created a barrier between the Orkney Islands and Norway, to deny the enemy entry into the Atlantic. Desperate, Germany mounted a U-boat offensive off North America in the summer 1918, to induce the United States to bring her destroyers home. Although nearly one hundred vessels are sunk, this action failed. Germany surrendered in late autumn 1918 and allied vessels were left with the deadly task of removing thousands of mines laid in the war. 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So unique were their looks, that it was not uncommon when an LSM entered port, for someone to yell out, “What type of ship is that?” Despite their large numbers, the ships were relatively unknown to the public. Perhaps because they entered service late in the war—after the Navy decided it required a vessel larger than a tank landing craft, but smaller than a tank landing ship—or because they first saw combat at Leyte in autumn 1944. During the launch of the Philippine Islands Campaign, much attention was focused on the Allied invasion of Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNicknamed “Sandscrapers,” the shallow-draft, small LSMs were able to land on beach areas denied LSTs, and did so at Leyte, Ormoc Bay, Mindoro, Lingayen, Zambales, and other island assaults in the Philippines. LSMs were also at Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and supported Australian troop landings on Borneo. Of the dozen LSMs reconfigured as rocket ships, LSM(R)s, for use in naval bombardment, one-quarter were lost to kamikaze attacks at Okinawa while employed with destroyers on isolated radar picket stations. With their decks bristling with explosive rockets, LSM(R)s were particularly vulnerable targets. One hundred seventy-seven photographs, maps, and diagrams; appendices; and an index to full names, places, and subjects add value to this work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCdr. David D. 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Temperate weather combined with outstanding coaches produced many star athletes. Students seeking other types of excitement, could cruise the Esplanade (a stately tree-lined boulevard) in their cars; neck with their dates at the Starlite drive-in theater; or simply enjoy the beauty of Bidwell Park, which stretched miles and miles from downtown to the upper reaches of Big Chico Creek Canyon. Chico State College offered students an inviting environment in which to enjoy social life on and off campus while pursuing their studies. Long known as a party school, Playboy magazine ranked it number one in the nation from 1987 through 2002. The city and its college were, however, not completely insulated from the times. In the early ‘60s, the Air Force built a Titan 1 ballistic missile complex in Chico, believing its site in a rural area would avoid undue attention from the Soviet Union. In the late ‘60s, an anti-war rally and other unrest occurred on the Chico State campus. Thereafter, for the first time, San Francisco-based bands (reflecting a mixture of Bay Area psychedelics, rock ‘n’ roll and rebellion) began performing at the school. At decade’s end, far from Chico, the famed three-day Woodstock music festival was held on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in Bethel, New York, attended by more than 460,000 young people. Seventy-two photographs and maps add value to this work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael R. 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