USS Augusta (SSN-710) - currently on active duty is this namesake submarine which we invite all to visit

General:

• American War Library - Boat/Ship list

• Hyper War - excellent resource for US WWII warships

• U.S. Naval Academy

• U.S. Naval Institute

• U.S Navy Cruiser Sailors Association

• U.S. Navy - official homepage

• U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation

• WWII Cruiser Operations

China Patrol

• Chronology of the US Navy in Chinese waters prior to WWII see the Yangtze Patrol & South China Patrol website

• The Augusta was often in support of the US Marines in China during the '30s. For an overview of life ashore for the Fourth Marines during this period of time click here

Esoterica

• Anchors Aweigh - the song

• Location of individual US Naval warships on 7 December 1941 - pretty interesting piece of research

• Naval jargon

World War II

• World War II on the web - contains many cross-links

Operation Overlord - Normandy Invasion

Operation Torch - North African Invasion

• U.S.S. Savannah (CL-42) -The Streetwalker of the Atlantic...

• Desperate venture : the story of Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of NorthAfrica / Norman Gelb. Edition 1st ed. Imprint New York : W. Morrow, 1992 (NY Public Library citation)

• Joining The War At Sea (see Chapter Five - Coming To Africa) by Franklyn E. Dailey Jr., Capt., USN retired (1997) - this is a very interesting work in progress published on the web of the author' s account of his ship USS Edison, which was involved  together with the Augusta in combat during the North African Invasiont
  

Personalities

• Marine! The life of Lt. Gen. Lewis B. (Chesty) Puller, USMA (ret.) Edition [1st ed.] Imprint.Boston, Little, Brown [1962] (NY Library citation), Author Davis, Burke

• Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library

• Winston Churchill

Ships - that steamed along with the Augusta

• USS 439 Edison (DD-439)

• USS Mayo (DD-422)

Veterans Organizations

• American Legion

• Department of Veterans Affairs

• Navy

• VFW Homepage

• Veterans Services Organizations

• WWII US Veterans Website

Bibliography:

• Augusta cruises from Orient to Oceania : being the 1934 cruise of the U.S.S. Augusta from China to Guam, Australia, Dutch East Indies and Philippine Islands / Bart D. Stephens, editor.
  

• History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vols. I, II, and XI (Little, Brown & Co.; Boston, 1975) by Samuel Eliot Morison
  

• Meeting at Potsdam (M.Evans & Company; NYC, 1975) by Charles L. Mee, Jr. (NY Public Library citation)
  

• Nothing Less Than Victory, the oral history of D-Day (William Morrow & Co.; NYC, 1993) by Russell Miller (NY Public Library citation)
  

• United States Army in World War II: The European Theater of Operations, Cross Channel Attack (Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C., 1951) by Gordon A. Harrison (NY Public Library citation)
  

• U.S.S. Augusta crossing the equator during the cruise to the Dutch East Indies 23 November, 1936. Publisher: Manila : Sugar News Press, Inc. [1936?]
  

• U.S.S. Augusta under fire : Sino-Japanese incident, 1937-1938, Shanghai, China. Editors: Clad Elmer Polley and Myron Oman Hill. Publisher: [Shanghai : North China Daily News, 1938]
  

• Viking of assault : Admiral John Lesslie Hall, Jr., and amphibious warfare ( Washington, D.C. : University Press of America, c1982) by Susan H. Godson.( New York Public Library citation)