The Sentries

Acknowledgments

While simultaneously absolving them of any blame for inadvertent errors I may have made, I would like to thank the following gracious and helpful people for the valuable information they supplied to me during the writing of this novel:

Mr. Gordon E. Dunn, Chief Tropical Meteorologist of the United States Weather Bureau in Miami; Miss Geraldine B. Kamp of the Miami-Dade County Chamber of Commerce; Mr. L. R. Verchereau of the Lower Keys Chamber of Commerce; Mrs. Tom Cadenhead of the Upper Keys Chamber of Commerce; Mrs. Gloria Strassner of the Key West Chamber of Commerce; Mrs. Frank Malone of the Key West Garden Club; Mr. Michael E. Hart of the Chris-Craft Corporation; Mr. Robert Wacker, Jr., of the American Cyanamid Company; Mr. Daniel Mountin of the National Rifle Association; Mr. J. Fuller of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company; Capt. W. K. Thompson, Jr., of the United States Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington; Lt. George Mitchell and Lt. Bobby Wilks of the Coast Guard Air Station at Floyd Bennett Field; Lt. J. C. Goldthorpe of the Third Coast Guard District...

...and especially, for their untiring patience and willingness to answer the hundreds of questions I put to them:

Lt. (jg) C. L. Larance of the Seventh Coast Guard District in Miami, and...

Lt. Commander Rudy Roberts of the Third Coast Guard District in New York.

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