The Heel of Achilles, with edits and notes.

The Heel of Achilles, by Waters and F. Barley. Folder contains two copies dated 17 July 1959, one with substantial editing in red pen; a letter dated 1 October 1959 from William M.A. Greene, Commander, US Navy, to Waters regarding a revision of the article; 3 sets of manuscript notes on the subject of the Battle of the Atlantic, and other topics relevant to the article.

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ID:	WTS/30/12
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Waters, David Watkin
Date made:	1959
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	1 folder
Parts:	Notes, drafts of academic papers, speeches and articles, written or co-written by Waters in the 1950s. (Manuscript) Historical Survey of U-Boat and A/S Inshore Campaigns 1918 and 1945. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/1) Surface and air anti-submarine escort of shipping in convoy, and anti-submarine transit area patrols in two World Wars. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/2) Convoy as a Mine Countermeasure in Two World Wars. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/3) Review of "Richmond, the late Admiral Sir Herbert" (edited by K.A. Hughes), in The Navy as an Instrument of Policy, 1558-1727. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/4) The Convoy System: Offensive or Defensive. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/5) A New Look at Offence and Defence: The Anti-U-Boat Campaign 1939-1945 - A brief statement of facts. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/6) Convoy: The Core of Maritime Strategy. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/7) Merchant Shipping and its Protection in War, and Organisation and Control of Sea Transport in War Time. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/8) Notes on the Convoy System of Naval Warfare, Thirteenth to Twentieth Centuries. Part 1: Convoy in the Sail Era, 1204-1874. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/9) Reviews of D.W. Water's book "The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times". (Manuscript) (WTS/30/10) The Heel of Achilles. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/11) The Heel of Achilles, with edits and notes. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/12) The Defeat of Japan, article and notes. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/13) Second World War: The Campaign against Merchant Shipping, General notes and Statistics. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/14) Historical Survey of Shipping Protection in the Twentieth Century. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/15) Study material for students of Anti-Submarine Warfare. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/16) U-Boat Aces. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/17) Some Principles and Operational Laws of Anti-Submarine Warfare. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/18) Diagrams illustrating relationship between convoy size and escort numbers. (Manuscript) (WTS/30/19)

The Heel of Achilles, with edits and notes.

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