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...this the closest Comdr. Morison came to peril. He was on the U.S.S. Honolulu when she sustained two torpodo hits in an engagement with a Japanese task force. "One 'fish' knocked the Honolulu's bow off, and the other hit her square on the fantail, where it hung for about ten minutes, though it fortunately failed to explode." Comdr. Morison ventured to call the engagement "quite a hot fight...
Until next fall, when he expects to resume teaching in the University, Comdr. Morison, with his staff, will be occupied writing the history of the various naval operations. This work is expected to run to 12 or 14 volumes. Although he has been piecing it together intermittently since he joined the Navy in 1942, finding time to write "during the intervals between sea duty," Comdr. Morison was not able to devote full time to the writing the history until last June...
...Comdr. Morison's adventures was unique in that it didn't quite happen. On the staff of Rear Admiral Walden D. Ainsworth aboard the U.S.S. Honolulu, he was on hand for the initial bombardment of Guam. "By that period of the war our fire support ships steamed so close to the coast that a native of Guam on the Honolulu could see his house, and proposed that he and I go ashore in a rubber boat as a two-man task force to give his friends the good word. Fortunately this plan did not appeal to Admiral Ainsworth...
...Comdr. Morison is well equipped to observe and write about naval matters. He has written a "Maritime History of Massachusetts," and sailed on four special trips while gathering material for his "Admiral of Ocean Sea," a biography of Columbus which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1942. Aside from his own double-volume history of the United States, he has written one with Henry S. Commager. During the years 1930-1936 he wrote the "Tercentennial History of Harvard University," a massive five-volume work...
None of Comdr. Morison's courses are being given in his absence. He taught History 60 and 61, both concerning early American history. The first covers the thirteen colonies through the Revolution, while the second deals with the discovery of America...