Merrill L. BartlettMerrill Bartlett is a retired Marine Corps officer who served from 1963 to 1983. His final assignment was at the U. S. Naval Academy where he earned three awards for excellence in teaching history. He is the editor or co-editor and author or co-autho of seven books on naval history, as well as having written more than a hundred published essays, encyclopedia entries, forewords to books, and book reviews. Read More Read Less