George D. Jepson

Books by George D. Jepson

Sailing the Sweetwater Seas

Wooden Boats and Ships on the Great Lakes, 1817–1940

The Great Lakes were America’s first superhighway before railroad lines and roads arrived in the late nineteenth century. This book tells the story of the ships and boats on which the United States, barely decades old, moved to the country’s middle and beyond, established a robust industrial base...
Crash Boat

Rescue and Peril in the Pacific During World War II

After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, young Americans lined up at recruiting stations across the nation. Crash Boat is the compelling story of an armed United States air-sea rescue boat crewed by volunteers during World War II in the South Pacific. Only months earlier, the...
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