- Eastern Sea Frontier
Eastern Sea Frontier was located at 90 Church Street in Lower
Manhattan and was responsible for the coastal waters fromCanada toJacksonville, Florida . The commander of the Eastern Sea Frontier, until the closing months of1943 , was Vice AdmiralAdolphus Andrews whose operational orders could only be appealed to Admiral King. This frontier was the “parent” of all frontiers, and its authority extended beyond its own frontier.Eastern Sea Frontier was designated in official records:
* EASTSEAFRON – Eastern Sea Frontier.
* COMEASTSEAFRON – Commander, Eastern Sea Frontier.ee also
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Sea Frontier References
Admiral Earnest J. King, [http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/cno/cnorpt_1.html First Report to the Secretary of the Navy: Covering our Peacetime Navy and our Wartime Navy and including combat operations up to 1 March 1944] . April 1944, pp. 75-88.
Samuel Eliot Morrison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1943. ISBN 0-7858-1302-0
External links
* [http://www.uboatarchive.net/ESF.htm U-boat Archive - Eastern Sea Frontier]
* [http://www.uboatarchive.net/ESFWarDiaryMar42.htm U-boat Archive - Eastern Sea Frontier - War Diary March 1942]
* [http://www.history.navy.mil/books/OPNAV20-P1000/E.htm Glossary of U.S. Naval Abbreviations (OPNAV 29-P1000)]
* [http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Comant44.html Naval Operations in the Atlantic and Mediterranean to March 1944]
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