Ships for Victory: J.A. Jones Construction Company and Liberty Ships in Brunswick, Georgia

Suggested Readings

Suggested Readings

  • Ball, Lamar Q. Georgia in World War II: A Study of the Military and Civilian Effort. [Atlanta?, 1946].
  • Barber, Henry E. "Brunswick" in the New Georgia Encyclopedia [database online], 2003. Available from http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-850 [cited July 15, 2005].
  • Billy, George J., and Christine M. Billy. Merchant Mariners at War: An Oral History of World War II . Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008.
  • Brooks, Maria. Men Who Sailed the Liberty Ships. Written, produced, and directed by Maria Brooks. 57 min. PBS Video, 1998. Videocassette.
  • Brunswick Harbor, Georgia: Phase I, General Design Memorandum and Environmental Impact Statement. Savannah, Ga.: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, [1979?].
  • The Brunswick Mariner. Brunswick, Ga.: J.A. Jones Construction Co., Inc., 1943?-1945?.
  • Brunswick News. Brunswick, Ga.: News Pub. Co., [1906-]
  • Bunker, John. Liberty Ships: The Ugly Ducklings of World War II. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1972.
  • Cate, Margaret Davis. Our Todays and Yesterdays: A Story of Brunswick and the Coastal Islands. Rev. ed. Brunswick, Ga.: Glover Bros., Inc., 1930.
  • Clawson, Augusta H. Shipyard Diary of a Woman Welder. New York: Penguin Books, 1944.
  • Cooper, Sherod. Liberty Ship: The Voyages of the John W. Brown, 1942-1946. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1997.
  • Cope, Tony. On the Swing Shift: Building Liberty Ships in Savannah . Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2009.
  • Elphick, Peter. Liberty: The Ships that Won the War. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2001.
  • Fendig, Bruce. Brunswick: The Ocean Port of Georgia. Darien, Ga.: Darien Printing & Graphics, 1998.
  • Foxvog, Donald R. and Robert I. Alotta. The Last Voyage of the SS Henry Bacon. St. Paul, Minn.: Paragon House, 2001.
  • Ginn, Edwin H. Recollections of Glynn. Brunswick, Ga.: Glover Printing Co., 1987.
  • Guttman, Robert. “Victory’s Decades-Long Legacy.” World War II  19, no. 8 (December 2004): 24–28.
  • Heal, S. C. Ugly Ducklings: Japan's WWII Liberty Type Standard Ships. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2003.
  • Hirshfield, Deborah A. "From Hog Islanders to Liberty Ships: The American Government and Merchant Ship Construction in Two World Wars." American Neptune 54, no. 2 (Spring 1994): 85-98.
  • Hoehling, A. A. The Fighting Liberty Ships: A Memoir. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1990.
  • International Journal of Naval History, http://www.ijnhonline.org/
  • Jaffe, Walter W. The Liberty ships from A (A.B. Hammond) to Z (Zona Gale). Palo Alto, Calif.: Glencannon Press, 2004.
  • Jones, Edwin L. J.A. Jones Construction Company: 75 Years Growth in Construction. New York, Newcomen Society in North America, 1965.
  • Kaplan, Philip and Jack Currie. Convoy: Merchant Sailors at War, 1939-1945. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1998.
  • Kesselman, Amy Vita. Fleeting Opportunities: Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver during World War II and Reconversion. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1990.
  • Lane, Frederic C. Ships for Victory: A History of Shipbuilding Under the U.S. Maritime Commission in World War II . Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1951.
  • Northwest Women's History Project. Good Work, Sister! Women Shipyard Workers of World War II: An Oral History. 20 min. Northwest Women's History Project, 1982. Videocassette.
  • Reynolds, Michael, historian, and Thomas Whitley, principal investigator. "J.A. Jones Construction Company, Brunswick Shipyard, Brunswick, Georgia." Historic Resources Report, prepared for the U.S. Coast Guard and the Brunswick Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc., by Brockington and Associates, Inc., Atlanta, [Ga.], Charleston, [S.C.], and Raleigh, [N.C.], December 2004.
  • Sawyer, L. A. and W. H. Mitchell. The Liberty Ships: The History of the Emergency Type Cargoships Constructed in the United States during the Second World War. Colchester, U.K.: Lloyd's of London Press, 1985.
  • _____. Victory Ships and Tankers: The History of the Victory Type Cargo Ships and of the Tankers Built in the United States of America during World War II. Newton Abbot, U.K.: David and Charles, 1974.
  • Smith, Beth Laney and Karen Trogdon. Jones Construction: Looking Back, Moving Forward: Centennial, 1890-1990. Charlotte, N.C.: Laney-Smith, Distributed by Jones Group, 1989.
  • Smithsonian Institution. "Give it your best": Civilian Contributions on the Home Front. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, 1994.
  • Snow, John. “‘Start Swinging, Lady’:The Liberty Ships, 1941-45.” In A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest Battle of World War II.   New York: Scribner, 2010.
  • Steinmann, Phyllis Rhoades et al. Memories from the Marshes of Glynn: World War II. Decatur, Ga.: Looking Glass Books, 1999.
  • Vanstory, Burnette. Georgia's Land of the Golden Isles. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1970.
  • Wise, Nancy Baker and Christy Wise. A Mouthful of Rivets: Women at Work in World War II. 1st ed. San Francisco Jossey-Bass, 1994.