Passport Not Required: U.S.Volunteers in the Royal Navy, 1939-1941

摘要

Reviewed by John Hattendorf All Americans who have visited the famous Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich, England, during the past 70 years will probably have noticed the intriguing floor stone with the inscription, "15 June 1941. On this day came three citizens of the United States of America, the first of their countrymen to become Sea Officers of the Royal Navy." The three authors of Passport Not Required have long been enticed by the unanswered questions that the inscribed stone has posed: Who were these officers? Were there others? How did they manage to do this? What became of them?