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This is a list of nicknames of notable people, both current and historical.

This list does not include athletes, criminals, entertainers, monarchs, or U.S. Presidents, who are dealt with elsewhere.


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For more nicknames of type Doctor X, see Latin nicknames of the Middle Ages.

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  • Gallery, Daniel V., Admiral, USN (rtd). U-505. New York: Paperback Library, 1968 (reprints Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea, 1956).
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  • Holmes, Wilfrid J. "Jasper", USN. Double-Edged Secrets. New York: Berkley, 1981.
  • ______. Undersea Victory. New York: Doubleday, 1966.
  • Beach, Edward L. "Ned", Captain, USN (rtd). Submarine!. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1952 (reprinted 2003 by United States Naval Institute Press).
  • Blair, Clay, Jr. Silent Victory. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1975.
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See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Blair, Clay, Jr. (1975). Silent victory: the U.S. submarine war against Japan. Philadelphia: Lippincott. ISBN 9780397007530. OCLC 821363. 
  2. ^ Erich Hartmann
  3. ^ Alfred Schreiber
  4. ^ Blair, Silent Victory, page 673
  5. ^ Prange, Gordon W.; Donald M Goldstein; Katherine V. Dillon (1988). December 7, 1941 : the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 20. ISBN 9780070506824. OCLC 15793660. 







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