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NNavy and Marine Corps Awards Manual [Rev. 1953]Index 

#### The Navy Department Library

                        -  Naming of Streets, Facilities and Areas On Naval Installations 
                        -  Narrative of Captain W.S. Cunningham, US Navy Relative to events on Wake Island in December 1941, and subsequent related events 
                        -  Narrative of Joshua Davis an American Citizen 1811 
                        -  Narrative of the Capture, Sufferings and Escape of Capt. Barnabas Lincoln 
                        -  Narrative of the March and Operations of the Army of the Indus 
                        -  Narrative of the United States' Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea 
                        -  Navajo Code Talker Dictionary 
                        -  Navajo Code Talkers: World War II Fact Sheet 
                        -  Naval Anecdotes Relating to HMS Leopard Versus USS Chesapeake, 24 June 1807. 
                        -   Naval Armed Guard Service in World War II                            -  Russian Convoys 
                          -  German Surface Raiders 
                          -  Naval Armed Guard at Bari, Italy 
                          -  Japanese Atrocities  
                          -  Normandy Invasion 
                          -  Research about the Naval Armed Guard 
                          -  Action at Okinawa 
                          -  Battle of the Philippines 
                        -   The Naval Bombing Experiments                            -  An Account of the Bombing 
                          -  Minutes of the Pre-Bombing Conferences 
                        -  Naval District Manual 1927 
                        -  Naval Districts 
                        -  Naval Gun Factory (Washington Navy Yard) Facilities Data: World War II 
                        -  Naval Guns at Normandy 
                        -  Naval Memorial Service, Casting Flowers on the Sea in Honor of the Naval Dead 
                        -   The Naval Quarantine of Cuba                            -  Quarantine 22 - 26 Oct 
                          -  Quarantine 27 - 30 Oct 
                        -  Naval Yarns by Captain Bartlett [manuscript] 
                        -  The Navy by Michael A. Palmer 
                        -  Navy and Defense Reform: A Short History and Reference Chronology 
                        -   Navy and Marine Corps Awards Manual [Rev. 1953]                            -  Pt. 1 - Personal Decorations 
                          -  Pt. 2 - Unit Awards 
                          -  Pt. 3 - Special and Commemorative Medals 
                          -  Pt. 4 - Campaign and Service Medals 
                          -  Pt. 5 - Decorations Awarded By Foreign Governments 
                          -  Pt. 6 - Other Federal Decorations (non-military) 
                          -  Index  
                          -  Memo - Changes 
                          -   Ships & Other Units Eligible for the Korean Service Medal                              -  Ships "A" 
                            -  Ships "B" 
                            -  Ships "C" 
                            -  Ships "D" 
                            -  Ships "E" 
                            -  Ships "F" 
                            -  Ships "G" 
                            -  Ships "H" 
                            -  Ships "I" 
                            -  Ships "J" 
                            -  Ships "K" 
                            -  Ships "L" 
                            -  Ships "M" 
                            -  Ships "N" 
                            -  Ships "O" 
                            -  Ships "P" 
                            -  Ships "Q" 
                            -  Ships "R" 
                            -  Ships "S" 
                            -  Ships "T" 
                            -  Ships "U" 
                            -  Ships "V" 
                            -  Ships "W" 
                            -  Ships "X-Z" 
                            -  Other Navy Units: Part I 
                            -  Other Navy Units: Part II 
                            -  US Marine Corps Units 
                        -  Navy at a Tipping Point - 2010 
                        -  Navy Civil War Chronology 
                        -  The Navy Department A brief history until 1945 
                        -  Navy Department Communiques 1-300 and Pertinent Press Releases 
                        -  Navy Department Communiques 301 to 600 
                        -  Navy Filing Manual 1941 
                        -  Navy Force Structure and Shipbuilding Plans - 2016 
                        -  The Navy in the Cold War Era, 1945-1991 
                        -  Navy Interdiction Korea Vol. II 
                        -  Navy Nurse Corps General Uniform Instructions 1917 
                        -  The Navy of the Republic of Vietnam 
                        -  Navy Records and [Navy Department] Library (E Branch) 
                        -  Navy Regulations, 1814 
                        -  Navy Ship Procurement: Alternative Funding Approaches 
                        -  Navy Ship Propulsion Technologies - 2006 
                        -  Navy Shipboard Lasers for Surface, Air, and Missile Defense 
                        -  Navy-Yard, Washington, History by Hibben 
                        -  The Navy's World War II-era Fleet Admirals 
                        -   Needs and Opportunities in the Modern History of the U.S. Navy                            -   Forward Presence in the Modern Navy: From the Cold War to a Future Tailored Force                              -  Forward Presence in the Modern Navy Bibliography 
                            -  Thomas G. Mahnken - Biography 
                          -   Historiography of Programming and Acquisition Management since 1950 - Hone                              -  Historiography of Programming and Acquisition Management Bibliography 
                            -  Thomas Hone - Biography 
                          -   Historiography of Technology Since 1950                              -  Historiography of Technology Since 1950 - Bibliography 
                            -  Mark D. Mandeles - Biography 
                          -   Naval Personnel since 1945: Areas for Historical Research                              -  Donald Chisholm Biography 
                          -   Navy, Science, and Professional History                              -  The Navy, Science, and Professional History - Bibliography 
                            -  Gary E. Weir - Biography 
                          -   The Social History of the U.S. Navy, 1945–Present                               -  Edward L. Marolda - Biography 
                            -  Social History of the U.S. Navy - Bibliography 
                          -   U.S. Navy’s Role in National Strategy                              -  US Navy Role in National Strategy - Bibliography 
                            -  Sebastian Bruns Biography 
                          -   Writing U.S. Naval Operational History 1980–2010                              -  Scott C. Truver - Biography 
                            -  Appendix 1- U.S. Navy Operations 1980–2010  
                            -  Appendix 2-U.S. Navy Operations 1980–2010 
                            -  Appendix 3-U.S. Navy Operations 1980–2010  
                            -  Appendix 4-Bibliography 
                        -  Negro in the Navy - 1947 
                        -  Negro in the Navy by Miller 
                        -  Neutrality Instructions US Navy 1940 
                        -  New Equation: Chinese Intervention into the Korean War 
                        -  A New Look at the Cuban Missile Crisis 
                        -  Nixon's Trident: Naval Power in Southeast Asia, 1968-1972 by John D. Sherwood 
                        -  Nomenclature of Decks 
                        -  Nomenclature of Naval Vessels 
                        -  Non-Discrimination in V-12 Program 
                        -  Northern Barrage and Other Mining Activities 
                        -  Northern Barrage: Taking Up Mines 
                        -  Northern Formosa, Pescadores 
                        -  Notes on Anti-submarine Defenses ONI Publication No. 8 
                        -  Notes on Writing Naval (not Navy) English 

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