Copyright, © 1955 by Ivan Ray Tannehill
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No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher

Published November, 1955
Second Printing, February, 1956

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 55-9480

Printed in the United States of America
by The Cornwall Press, Inc., Cornwall, N. Y.

To my daughter and son-in-law,
Doris and Bill

Acknowledgment

At appropriate places in the book the narrative serves as anacknowledgment by giving the names of a large number ofmen who furnished information in personal interviews, bycorrespondence, or in their reports which were included inthe voluminous files searched in the last year.

In writing this book I had unstinted cooperation fromthe Air Weather Service and its Commander, Brigadier GeneralThomas Moorman, from the Aerological Branch of theNavy Department and its Head, Captain C. J. S. McKillip,and from the Chief of the Weather Bureau, Dr. F. W. Reichelderfer,and his associates in the field and the central office.In particular, Major William C. Anderson and associates inthe Office of Information Services of the Air Weather Serviceand Captain Robert O. Minter of the Fleet WeatherCentral at Miami and his associates there in Airborne EarlyWarning Squadron Four at Jacksonville were extremelyhelpful. Of the associates of these men I wish to mentionespecially the assistance of Lieutenant Commander R. W.Westover and Air Force Captain Ed Vrable, both of whomare seasoned hurricane hunters.

Others not mentioned in the book who contributed to theviiiwarning service and indirectly to the material used herewere Isaac M. Cline and Charles L. Mitchell of the WeatherBureau. Their writings supply much of the background forany work on tropical storms.

The Air Force, Navy and Weather Bureau kindly suppliedofficial photographs used here, except the wave breaking onthe sea wall by the Miami Daily News and the drawings ofsailing ships in hurricanes which are credited to ColonelWilliam Reid who published them in 1850 in his book on the“Law of Storms.”The Author

CONTENTS

1. Monsters of the World of Storms 1

2. The Saddler’s Apprentice 19

3. At the Bottom of the Sea 32

4. Storm Warnings 45

5. Radio Helps—Then Hinders 59

6. The Eye of the Hurricane 75

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