Captain William R. Anderson

Captain William R. Anderson

William Anderson graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1942 and served in the  United States Navy from 1957 to 1962. He participated in 11 submarine combat patrols in the Pacific and was awarded the Bronze Star and other combat awards. Anderson was the commanding officer of the Nautilus, the first atomic submarine, from 1957 to 1959  and made the first transpolar voyage under ice. He also  served as assistant to Vice Admiral H. G. Rickover; was a consultant to President Kennedy for the National Service Corps, 1963; and was elected to Congress. Before his death in 2007, he was a resident of Alexandria, Virginia.

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The Ice Diaries
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The Ice Diaries
  • By: Captain William R. Anderson
  • Length: 10 hours 1 minutes
  • Publisher: Thomas Nelson
  • Publish date: October 01, 2019
  • Language: English
  • (627 ratings)
(627 ratings)
The greatest undersea adventure of the 20th century.The Ice Diaries tells the incredible true story of Captain William R. Anderson and his crew’s harrowing top-secret mission aboard the USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered... Read more

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