{"id":382,"date":"2012-02-27T13:02:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T13:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sealitsearchable\/?p=382"},"modified":"2022-06-24T22:55:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T22:55:08","slug":"gallery-daniel-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/g\/gallery-daniel-v\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallery, Daniel V."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"gallerydadmirallg\"by Robert Shenk<\/em> (2000)<\/p>\n

GALLERY, DANIEL V[INCENT]. (1901-1977). Admiral Daniel V. Gallery, termed a “true original” by his friend Herman Wouk, was a brilliant career naval officer who published widely both during and after his naval duty. A 1920 Naval Academy graduate, Gallery first served on battleships and later volunteered for naval aviation. At the outbreak of World War II, he commanded an Icelandic antisubmarine base; in 1943 he directed the boarding and capture of the German submarine U-505 on the high seas while commanding the antisubmarine carrier Guadalcanal<\/em> and her task group, the first American capture of an enemy warship on the high seas since the War of 1812.<\/p>\n

At the end of the war, while serving in the Pentagon from 1946 to 1949, Gallery began writing. He described the U-505<\/em> episode and the Iceland duty in articles for the Saturday Evening Post<\/em>, he wrote humorous short stories for the Post<\/em> and other magazines; and he penned several articles on important naval subjects of the day. An official document, the fabled “Gallery Memorandum,” which leaked to the pen of journalist Drew Pearson, played a minor role in the 1949 “revolt of the admirals” about the planned denigration of naval aviation.<\/p>\n

Gallery retired from the navy in 1960. His collected short stories, Now Hear This <\/em>(1965) and Stand By-y-y to Start Engines <\/em>(1966), were successful enough to encourage Gallery to write two short “epics” about his favorite main character, the best of which was titled Cap’n Fatso <\/em>(1969). A comic figure without much depth, Fatso nevertheless possesses the ingenuity, bravado, and enlisted “wisdom” to make him an ideal vehicle for Gallery’s wit. Fatso shared with Gallery a deep knowledge of navy prerogatives and a refined ability to get around the regulations.<\/p>\n

Noteworthy among Gallery’s other books are his polemic, The Pueblo Incident <\/em>(1970), and his engaging autobiography, Eight Bells and All’s Well<\/em> (1965).<\/p>\n

Stand By-y-y to Start Engines <\/em>(1966)<\/p>\n

Archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n

keywords: white, male, World War II, submarines, autobiography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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