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((Short description|15-volume series of non-fiction books by Samuel Eliot Morison))
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| name             = ''History of United States Naval Operations in World War II''
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| country          = United States
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| pub_date         = 1947–1962
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The '''''History of United States Naval Operations in World War II''''' is a 15-volume account of the [[United States Navy]] in [[World War II]], written by [[Samuel Eliot Morison]] and published by [[Little, Brown and Company]] between 1947 and 1962.

==Background==
Immediately after the [[attack on Pearl Harbor]], Morison, already convinced of the value of personal involvement as a result of sailing experience while writing his biography of [[Christopher Columbus]], wrote to [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|President Roosevelt]] suggesting the preparation of an official history of the Navy in the war, and volunteering for the task. Both President Roosevelt and the [[Secretary of the Navy]] [[Frank Knox]] agreed, and in May 1942 Morison was commissioned as a [[Lieutenant commander (United States)|Lieutenant Commander]] in the [[United States Naval Reserve]], and assigned a staff of assistants, with permission to go anywhere and to see all official records. Morison's reputation as a knowledgeable sailor (based on his analysis in the biography of Christopher Columbus) preceded him, and he was welcomed on a number of ships, eleven of them in all by the end of the war.<ref name="Morison-NHHC">((Cite web |title= Samuel Eliot Morison |publisher= [[Naval History and Heritage Command]] |website= The Navy Department Library |url= https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/library/research-guides/modern-biographical-files-ndl/modern-bios-m/Morison-Samuel-Text.html |access-date= February 21, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211214225502/https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/library/research-guides/modern-biographical-files-ndl/modern-bios-m/Morison-Samuel-Text.html |url-status= live |archive-date= December 14, 2021))</ref>

The result was a normal historical work, not a prescribed [[official history]]. James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy 1944-47, wrote: "The Navy Department has done everything possible to enable him [Morison] exhaustive and to afford him firsthand impressions. This work, however, is in no sense an official history. The form, style, and character of the narrative are the author's own. The opinions expressed and the conclusions reached are those of Dr. Morison, and of him alone. He has been subject to no restrictions other than those imposed by the necessity of safeguarding information which might endanger national security."<ref>Forrestal's Foreword from Volume One, "Battle of the Atlantic."</ref> 

Limitations of the ''History of U.S. Naval Operations'' are mostly due to its publication so soon after the war's end, which Morison understood: "No history written during or shortly after the event it describes can pretend to be completely objective or even reasonably definitive. Facts that I know not will come to light; others that I discarded will be brought out and incorporated in new patterns of interpretation. Nevertheless, I believe that more is to be gained by writing in contact with the events, when most of the participants are alive, than by waiting until the ships are broken up and the sailors have departed to wherever brave fighting men go. Historians in years to come may shoot this book full of holes; but they can never recapture the feeling of desperate urgency in our planning and preparations, of the excitement of battle, of exultation over a difficult operation successfully concluded, of sorrow for shipmates who did not live to enjoy the victory."<ref>Morison's Preface from Volume One, "Battle of the Atlantic."</ref> 

Some material, especially related to [[codebreaking]], was then still [[Classified information in the United States|classified]], and later in-depth research into particular occurrences in the war did clarify points that had been passed over rather lightly. Some rewriting was incorporated in the later printings of this series. This ''History of U.S. Naval Operations'' also intentionally avoided a certain amount of analysis, for instance deferring to other works for the causes of the Japanese [[Attack on Pearl Harbor]]. The intended audience for the work, to quote from the preface, was "the general reader rather than the professional sailor."

==Contents==
The volumes:<ref name="Morison-NHHC" />
# ((cite book
    |title= The Battle of the Atlantic: September 1939 – May 1943
    |date= 1946
  |last1= Morison
 |first1= Samuel Eliot
 ))
# ((cite book
    |title= Operations in North African Waters: October 1942 – June 1943
    |date= 1947
    |url= https://archive.org/details/historyofuniteds02mori
    |url-access= registration
    |ol= 2917797W
  |last1= Morison
 |first1= Samuel Eliot
  ))
# ((cite book
    |title= The Rising Sun in the Pacific: 1931 – April 1942
    |date= 1948
  |last1= Morison
 |first1= Samuel Eliot
 ))
# ((cite book
    |title= Coral Sea, Midway, and Submarine Actions: May 1942 – August 1942
    |date= 1949
  |last1= Morison
 |first1= Samuel Eliot
 ))
# ((cite book
    |title= The Struggle for Guadalcanal: August 1942 – February 1943
    |date= 1949
    |isbn=978-0-252-06996-3
  |last1= Morison
 |first1= Samuel Eliot
 ))
# ((cite book
    |title= Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier: July 22, 1942 – May 1, 1944
    |date= 1950
    |isbn=978-0-252-06997-0
  |last1= Morison
 |first1= Samuel Eliot
 ))
# ((cite book
    |title= Aleutians, Gilberts, and Marshalls: June 1942 – April 1944
    |date= 1951
  |last1= Morison
 |first1= Samuel Eliot
 ))
# ((cite book
    |title= New Guinea and the Marianas: March 1944 – August 1944
    |date= 1953
    |isbn=978-0-252-07038-9
  |last1= Morison
 |first1= Samuel Eliot
 ))
# ((cite book
    |title= Sicily – Salerno – Anzio: January 1943 – June 1944
    |date= 1954
    |url= https://archive.org/details/historyofuniteds09mori
    |url-access= registration
    |ol= 6510710M
  |last1= Morison
 |first1= Samuel Eliot
  ))
# ((cite book
    |title= The Atlantic Battle Won: May 1943 – May 1945
    |date= 1954
    |isbn=978-0-252-07061-7
  |last1= Morison
 |first1= Samuel Eliot
 ))
# ((cite book
    |title= The Invasion of France and Germany: 1944–1945
    |date= 1955
  |last1= Morison
 |first1= Samuel Eliot
 ))
# ((cite book
    |title= Leyte: June 1944 – January 1945
    |date= 1958
    |publisher= The Atlantic Monthly Press; Distributed by Little, Brown
 |url= https://archive.org/details/historyofuniteds00mori
    |url-access= registration
    |ol= 24388559M
  |last1= Morison
 |first1= Samuel Eliot
  ))
# ((cite book
    |title= The Liberation of the Philippines: Luzon, Mindanao, the Visayas: 1944–1945
    |date= 1959
    |url= https://archive.org/details/historyofuniteds13mori
    |url-access= registration
    |ol= 6510710M
  |last1= Morison
 |first1= Samuel Eliot
  ))
# ((cite book
    |title= Victory in the Pacific: 1945
    |date= 1960
    |url= https://archive.org/details/victoryinpacific00mori
    |url-access= registration
    |ol= OL24590968M
  |last1= Morison
 |first1= Samuel Eliot
  ))
# ((cite book
    |title= Supplement and General Index
    |date= 1962
    |url= https://archive.org/details/supplementgenera00mori
    |url-access= registration
    |ol= 24366206M
  |last1= Morison
 |first1= Samuel Eliot
  ))

An abridgement of the fifteen-volume work was written by Morison and published in 1963:

* ((cite book
    |title= The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War
    |date= 1963
    |publisher= Little, Brown
    |location= Boston
    |isbn = 9781591145240
  |last1= Morison
 |first1= Samuel Eliot
  ))

==Documentary==
This ''History of U.S. Naval Operations'' also played an indirect role in the history of television. One of Morison's research assistants in the project, [[Henry Salomon]], knew NBC's Robert Sarnoff and, in 1949, first proposed an ambitious documentary TV series on [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] and [[United States Marine Corps|Marine Corps]] warfare in World War II. In 1951 the [[National Broadcasting Company]] hired Salomon to produce what would become the 1952–1953 TV series, ''[[Victory at Sea]]''. The success of this TV series played a major role in establishing the historic documentary—using combat footage—as a viable television genre.

==References==
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[[Category:1947 non-fiction books]]
[[Category:20th-century history books]]
[[Category:United States Navy in World War II]]
[[Category:Books of naval history]]
[[Category:Series of history books about World War II]]
[[Category:Books about the United States Navy]]
[[Category:Book series introduced in 1947]]

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