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?.
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.
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.
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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.