Description
Limited edition of Wings of the Dawn by Commander Eugene E. Wilson, USN, presented to Admiral John T. Haywood.
Octavo, xxxvi, 175pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine, gilt with illustration on cover. Light wear to blue cloth covers, transference to endpapers from dust jacket. In publisher’s dust jacket, $5.00 on the front flap, a bright, near fine example.
Ownership inscription of Vice Admiral John T. Haywood on the front pastedown. From a limited edition of 500 copies, this being number 36.
Author’s inscription reads: “To Vice Admiral John T. Haywood / from / Eugene E. Wilson / April 1967.”
Vice Admiral John T. “Chick” Hayward (1908-1999) was a nuclear-weapons specialist whose career spanned from World War II through the Vietnam era. A 1930 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Hayward joined the Manhattan Project in 1944 at the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake, where he helped develop components of the atomic bomb used at Nagasaki. He later worked on nuclear-weapons programs at Los Alamos, working with Edward Teller. Hayward went on to command the Navy’s first nuclear-powered task force aboard the USS Enterprise and served as president of the U.S. Naval War College from 1966 to 1968.
