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For Adm. Halsey himself, the book of course is his own biography; for those in a hurry, a biographical sketch at The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia, although somewhat hostile, provides a good overview of his career. Co‑author Lt. Cdr. Joseph Bryan, III (properly, Joseph St. George Bryan, b. April 30, 1904 in Henrico County, VA, † April 3, 1993 in Richmond, VA) came from a family of journalists and wrote a number of books on various historical and military subjects. In the course of his career, he served in the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force, and the CIA as head of its psychological warfare division. A rather full, formal biographical sketch at Encyclopedia Virginiana omits one of the more interesting chapters of his life, though: in 1969 he became Acting President of NICAP, a UFO organization which had been prominent in the preceding decades; he was brought in to clean up its financial mismanagement, and is still suspected by some to have been a government mole whose purpose was to discredit NICAP and disband it. His son C. D. B. Bryan became a well-known journalist and author as well; some of the family’s interesting inner history may be found scattered thru several entries in the blog of a grandson, „Boxes in the Attic”.
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