Blanche D. Coll has a Master of Arts degree in history from the Johns Hopkins University and is a collaborating author of Ships for Victory: Shipbuilding Under the U.S. Maritime Commission in World War II. She has been on the staff of the Historical Division, Office of the Chief of Engineers, since 1948. Jean E. Keith, a Bachelor of Arts from Western Kentucky State College, has done graduate work in history at the Johns Hopkins University. During World War II he served as a gunnery officer on a destroyer in the Pacific. He has been with the Engineer Historical Division since 1951. Herbert H. R...