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    In the dark days of World War II, merchant mariners made heroic contributions to the eventual Allied victory and suffered tremendous casualties in so doing. Among these were the engineers who toiled deep in the bowels of the ship and suffered appalling casualties. In part, this was because enemy submarines typically targeted engine rooms to cripple the vessels, but often it was because ships engineers remained at their stations aligning fire pumps, securing the boilers, and performing the tasks that would give the ship and crew a fighting chance for survival. After the war, engineering personnel were unlikely to talk about their experiences, let alone write them down. These modest and self-effacing men were more comfortable in a world of turbines and pistons, so they seldom brought their stories forward. Liberty’s War sets out to explore the experiences of one such engineer, Herman Melton, from his time as a cadet at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy through his experiences at sea as a third assistant engineer. Melton’s story is representative of the thousands of Merchant Marine engineers who served on board Liberty ships during the war. Like many young Americans, he sought to do his part, and in 1942 he obtained an appointment to the newly created U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York. As a cadet on board the Liberty ship SS Cornelius Harnett, Melton saw action against German U-boats and bombers as part of the Murmansk Run convoys of 1943. After graduating from the academy in 1944, he shipped out to the Pacific Theatre, surviving the sinking of his Liberty ship, the SS Antoine Saugrain, and its top-secret cargo. He also helped to salvage two damaged Liberty ships before sailing in the William Sharon back to San Francisco, displaying all the resourcefulness, intelligence, and grit Americans came to expect of its merchant mariners. In a 1992 ceremony at the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C., Melton received a memorial medal from the Russian government for his service on the Murmansk Run. In the last years of his life, he sought to reconstruct and understand his wartime experiences, aided by his son Will. The result is this compelling and meticulously researched personal account of World War II as seen by a young merchant marine engineering officer. Herman Melton (1920–2013) was a World War II veteran of both the Murmansk Run and Pacific convoys. Will Melton, son of the author, retired in 2015 after forty years as a public relations officer and fund-raiser for schools, colleges, and scientific research organizations. His lifelong interest in military history was inspired by family trips as a boy to battlefields and history museums.

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    In the dark days of World War II, merchant mariners made heroic contributions to the eventual Allied victory and suffered tremendous casualties in so doing. Among these were the engineers who toiled deep in the bowels of the ship and suffered appalling casualties. In part, this was because enemy submarines typically targeted engine rooms to cripple the vessels, but often it was because ships engineers remained at their stations aligning fire pumps, securing the boilers, and performing the tasks that would give the ship and crew a fighting chance for survival. After the war, engineering personnel were unlikely to talk about their experiences, let alone write them down. These modest and self-effacing men were more comfortable in a world of turbines and pistons, so they seldom brought their stories forward. Liberty’s War sets out to explore the experiences of one such engineer, Herman Melton, from his time as a cadet at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy through his experiences at sea as a third assistant engineer. Melton’s story is representative of the thousands of Merchant Marine engineers who served on board Liberty ships during the war. Like many young Americans, he sought to do his part, and in 1942 he obtained an appointment to the newly created U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York. As a cadet on board the Liberty ship SS Cornelius Harnett, Melton saw action against German U-boats and bombers as part of the Murmansk Run convoys of 1943. After graduating from the academy in 1944, he shipped out to the Pacific Theatre, surviving the sinking of his Liberty ship, the SS Antoine Saugrain, and its top-secret cargo. He also helped to salvage two damaged Liberty ships before sailing in the William Sharon back to San Francisco, displaying all the resourcefulness, intelligence, and grit Americans came to expect of its merchant mariners. In a 1992 ceremony at the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C., Melton received a memorial medal from the Russian government for his service on the Murmansk Run. In the last years of his life, he sought to reconstruct and understand his wartime experiences, aided by his son Will. The result is this compelling and meticulously researched personal account of World War II as seen by a young merchant marine engineering officer. Herman Melton (1920–2013) was a World War II veteran of both the Murmansk Run and Pacific convoys. Will Melton, son of the author, retired in 2015 after forty years as a public relations officer and fund-raiser for schools, colleges, and scientific research organizations. His lifelong interest in military history was inspired by family trips as a boy to battlefields and history museums.

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    PRESS RELEASE: Liberty's War: An Engineer's Memoir of The Merchant Marine, 1942-1945

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    In the dark days of World War II, merchant mariners made heroic contributions to the eventual Allied victory and suffered tremendous casualties in so doing. Among these were the engineers who toiled deep in the bowels of the ship and suffered appalling casualties. In part, this was because enemy submarines typically targeted engine rooms to cripple the vessels, but often it was because ships engineers remained at their stations aligning fire pumps, securing the boilers, and performing the tasks that would give the ship and crew a fighting chance for survival. After the war, engineering personnel were unlikely to talk about their experiences, let alone write them down. These modest and self-effacing men were more comfortable in a world of turbines and pistons, so they seldom brought their stories forward. Liberty’s War sets out to explore the experiences of one such engineer, Herman Melton, from his time as a cadet at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy through his experiences at sea as a third assistant engineer. Melton’s story is representative of the thousands of Merchant Marine engineers who served on board Liberty ships during the war. Like many young Americans, he sought to do his part, and in 1942 he obtained an appointment to the newly created U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York. As a cadet on board the Liberty ship SS Cornelius Harnett, Melton saw action against German U-boats and bombers as part of the Murmansk Run convoys of 1943. After graduating from the academy in 1944, he shipped out to the Pacific Theatre, surviving the sinking of his Liberty ship, the SS Antoine Saugrain, and its top-secret cargo. He also helped to salvage two damaged Liberty ships before sailing in the William Sharon back to San Francisco, displaying all the resourcefulness, intelligence, and grit Americans came to expect of its merchant mariners. In a 1992 ceremony at the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C., Melton received a memorial medal from the Russian government for his service on the Murmansk Run. In the last years of his life, he sought to reconstruct and understand his wartime experiences, aided by his son Will. The result is this compelling and meticulously researched personal account of World War II as seen by a young merchant marine engineering officer. Herman Melton (1920–2013) was a World War II veteran of both the Murmansk Run and Pacific convoys. Will Melton, son of the author, retired in 2015 after forty years as a public relations officer and fund-raiser for schools, colleges, and scientific research organizations. His lifelong interest in military history was inspired by family trips as a boy to battlefields and history museums.

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    (410) 295-1028, jbarnes@usni.org
    www.usni.org

    An Engineer's Memoir of the Merchant Marine,


    1942-1945
    By: Herman E. Melton and Edited by Will Melton

    "Libertys War lives up to the merchant mariners' motto, Well Deliver.


    Meltons memoir of his career as a cadet at the fledgling U.S. Merchant
    Marine Academy and as a wartime merchant mariner is written with a
    frankness that belies the wrenching uncertainty that must have gripped
    his generation. The mixture of terrifying experiences aboard and
    alongside Liberty ships from Murmansk to the Philippines and pranks,
    hasty cross-country treks on leave, and marriage are a refreshing
    reminder that life goes on, as it mustand that the cost of freedom is
    paid by the many, not a few.
    Lincoln Paine, author of The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime
    History of the World

    In the dark days of World War II, merchant mariners made heroic contributions to the eventual Allied victory and
    suffered tremendous casualties in so doing. Among these were the engineers who toiled deep in the bowels of the
    ship and suffered appalling casualties. In part, this was because enemy submarines typically targeted engine rooms
    to cripple the vessels, but often it was because ships engineers remained at their stations aligning fire pumps,
    securing the boilers, and performing the tasks that would give the ship and crew a fighting chance for survival.
    After the war, engineering personnel were unlikely to talk about their experiences, let alone write them down.
    These modest and self-effacing men were more comfortable in a world of turbines and pistons, so they seldom
    brought their stories forward. Libertys War sets out to explore the experiences of one such engineer, Herman
    Melton, from his time as a cadet at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy through his experiences at sea as a third
    assistant engineer.
    Herman Melton (19202013) was a World War II veteran of both the Murmansk Run and Pacific convoys.
    Will Melton, son of the author, retired in 2015 after forty years as a public relations officer and fund-raiser for
    schools, colleges, and scientific research organizations. His lifelong interest in military history was inspired by
    family trips as a boy to battlefields and history museums.
    Naval Institute Press
    August 15, 2017
    ISBN: 978-1-59114-640-7
    256 pages
    Paperback & eBook: $24.94

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