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James E Wise Author

The late James E. Wise, Jr., a retired Navy captain in Alexandria, Virginia (d. 2013), wrote many books on history and the performing arts. He served as an intelligence officer aboard USS America during the 1967 Six Day War in the eastern Mediterranean and later in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War. Scott Baron, Vietnam era Army veteran and former law enforcement officer, teaches United States history in Salinas, California.