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United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel
Behind many classic Navy training manuals was the bureau that managed U.S. Navy personnel policy, training, and administration for decades. As a corporate author, it is best known for practical publications that taught sailors everything from electricity and electronics to ratings-specific skills.
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Record of Medals of Honor issued to the officers and enlisted men of the United States Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, 1862-1923
by United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel
About the author
The Bureau of Naval Personnel, often called BUPERS, was a major office within the United States Department of the Navy. It handled personnel administration and policy for the Navy and became especially visible as the named author of many mid-20th-century manuals, guides, and training texts.
Library records show this corporate author is associated with a wide range of instructional books, including technical manuals on electricity, electronics, photography, blueprint reading, and other naval specialties. Those works were designed to train sailors clearly and efficiently, which gives the bureau's publications a practical, no-nonsense character.
Historically, the organization grew out of the Navy's Bureau of Navigation and was renamed the Bureau of Naval Personnel in 1942. Because this is a government bureau rather than an individual writer, there is no personal life story to tell in the usual sense; its legacy is the large body of training and reference material it produced for U.S. naval service.