Troy Valos, SMC Special Collections Librarian, May 2023
Primary Sources:
Records:
Norfolk War History Commission WWII Records (Microfilm) https://worldcat.org/en/title/47116085
Norfolk (Va). 1991. Index to Records of the Norfolk War History Commission. Norfolk Va: City Clerk's Office. https://worldcat.org/en/title/47141348
Newspapers:
Rouse, Parke, Jr. “The Death of the Nazi U-85,” Commonwealth (Richmond, Va), June 1963, page 55-57.
Virginian-Pilot
Norfolk Journal and Guide
Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch
Portsmouth Star
Virginia Beach News
[Also available here: https://cdm16450.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/search/searchterm/newspaper!newspapers/field/all!all/mode/all!all/conn/or!and/order/nosort]
Photographs:
Folders “1940s” from SMC Main Photograph Collection (MSS 0000-MPC)
Virginian-Pilot Photograph Collection (MSS 0000-187)
Secondary Sources:
Books:
Cheatham James T. 1990. The Atlantic Turkey Shoot: U-Boats Off the Outer Banks in World War Ii. Greenville N.C: Williams & Simpson. https://worldcat.org/en/title/21879796
Foss William O. 1984. The United States Navy in Hampton Roads. Norfolk: Donning. https://worldcat.org/en/title/9894488
Gannon Michael. 1991. Operation Drumbeat: The Dramatic True Story of Germany's First U-Boat Attacks along the American Coast in World War II. New York: HarperPerennial. https://worldcat.org/en/title/23818504
Harrell Carlton. 2014. Ocean Ablaze: War Reaches the Outer Banks. Bloomington IN: AuthorHouse. https://worldcat.org/en/title/864846488
Hickam Homer H. 1989. Torpedo Junction: U-Boat War Off America's East Coast 1942. Annapolis Md: Naval Institute Press. https://worldcat.org/en/title/34844925
Linder Bruce. 2005. Tidewater's Navy: An Illustrated History. Annapolis Md: Naval Institute Press. https://worldcat.org/en/title/60931416
Offley Edward. 2014. The Burning Shore: How Hitler's U-Boats Brought World War II to America. New York: Basic Books a member of the Perseus Books Group. https://worldcat.org/en/title/853310544
Parkin Simon. 2020. A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II New York: Little Brown and Company. https://worldcat.org/en/title/1135867326
Powell James R. 1991. “Antisubmarine Warfare in the Fifth Naval District during World War II: The Defenses of the Chesapeake Bay.” Dissertation Powell. Old Dominion University. https://worldcat.org/en/title/25387642
Powell James R and Alan B Flanders. 2004. Wolf at the Door: The World War II Antisubmarine Battle for Hampton Roads. Richmond Va: Brandylane. https://worldcat.org/en/title/53144549
Wheeler W. Reginald. 1946. The Road to Victory a History of Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation in World War II. Newport News Va: Yale University Press. https://worldcat.org/en/title/1268423
Wynn Kenneth G. 1997. U-Boat Operations of the Second World War. Annapolis Md: Naval Institute Press. https://worldcat.org/en/title/38583217 {NPL General Storage]
Resources at Other Institutions:
National Archives (Washington DC)
Correspondence and Subject Files, 1942–1945
Record Group 38: Records of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Creator: Department of the Navy. U.S. Fleet. Readiness Section. Anti-Submarine Warfare Division. 6/12/1945-10/1945 (Most Recent), NAID: 874207 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/874207
File Unit: Commander, Atlantic Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Unit, Fleet Operational Training Command, Atlantic Fleet NOB Norfolk, VA, 4/30/44-2/28/45 Series: Muster Rolls of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Other Naval Activities; Record Group 24: Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel
NAID: 190101697 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/190101697
US Naval History and Heritage Command
· Battle of the Atlantic
· Capture of German Submarine U-505
Europeana https://www.europeana.eu/en