Naval Ordnance and Gunnery (1957) is a basic textbook on the subject of naval weapons and their control. Prepared for use primarily as a classroom text for midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy and in the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps, it will also serve to support other officer and officer candidate training programs and will have general use as a reference book.
Volume 1 covers ordnance fundamentals: explosives, ammunition, armor, gun mounts and turrets, interior ballistics, semiautomatic and automatic weapons, rockets, guided missiles, torpedoes, and mines — Chapters 1 through 13.