Crowl, Philip A.

Philip A. Crowl, who has an M. A. from the State University of Iowa and a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University, taught History at the Johns Hopkins University and at Princeton. Commissioned in the Navy in World War II, he became a lieutenant (senior grade) and commanding officer of an LCI gunboat that was in action at Leyte Gulf, Lingayen Gulf, and Okinawa. He is author of Maryland During and After the Revolution (1943) and co-author of The U. S. Marines and Amphibious War (1951). He was awarded the James V. Forrestal Fellowship for 1953-54 to prepare a study of command relationships in amp...