Edward Ellsberg

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Edward Ellsberg


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Edward Ellsberg (1891-1983) graduated first in his class from the United States Naval Academy in 1914. After he did a stint aboard the USS Texas, the navy sent Ellsberg to Massachusetts Institute of Technology for postgraduate training in naval architecture. In 1925, he played a key role in the salvage of the sunken submarine USS S-51 and became the first naval officer to qualify as a deep-sea diver. Ellsberg later received the Distinguished Service Medal for his innovations and hard work.

Rear Admiral Ellsberg was awarded the C.B.E. by His Majesty King George VI, and two Legions of Merit by the United States Government.

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Mid Watch

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Men Under the Sea

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“(A slide rule always impresses, giving to the bystanders a feeling that the user thereof knows what he’s about and will shortly come up with the answer.)”
Edward Ellsberg, The World War II Chronicles: Under the Red Sea Sun, The Far Shore, and No Banners, No Bugles

“Even so I had always come up after a dive numbed and stiff from the cold, requiring a powerful “submarine cocktail,” a pint of hot coffee and whisky, mixed half-and-half, to help thaw me out.”
Edward Ellsberg, The World War II Chronicles: Under the Red Sea Sun, The Far Shore, and No Banners, No Bugles

“But wait till Ike had to deal with de Gaulle, whom I had seen in the Middle East. Giraud then would seem to Ike the acme of rational and complaisant Frenchmen.”
Edward Ellsberg, The World War II Chronicles: Under the Red Sea Sun, The Far Shore, and No Banners, No Bugles

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