Jabarkan Kehidupan awal dari William D. Leahy

Berasal dari keluarga Irlandia-Amerika, Leahy lahir di Hampton, Iowa, dan pindah dengan orangtuanya ke Ashland, Wisconsin ketika masa kanak-kanak.

Adams, Henry H. Witness to Power: The Life of Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy (Naval Institute Press, 1985) 348 pp. the standard scholarly biography

Borneman, Walter "The Admirals: The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea" (Little, Brown, 2012)

Hayes, Grace P. The history of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in World War II (1982) 964 pages

Langer, William L. Our Vichy gamble (1947)

The Last Salute: Civil and Military Funeral, 1921-1969, CHAPTER XVII, Former Chief of Naval Operations, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, Special Military Funeral, 20-23 July 1959  by B. C. Mossman and M. W. Stark. United States Army Center of Military History.