Steve Ewing

Background

Steve Ewing was born on October 7, 1941, in Hinton, West Virginia, United States.

Education

Steve Ewing received his Bachelor of Arts at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, in 1966. A year later, he had his Master of Arts.

Then, Ewing pursued his academic training at the University of Southern Mississippi, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi where he obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1972 and five years later, the Master of Arts degree.

Career

The start of Steve Ewing’s career can be counted form the publication of his first book, ‘Man, Religion, and the Environment: Selected Area’, in 1975. Since then, he has written many books on historical events paying important attention to the events of the Second World War. Having an academic background in sociology, in his writings, Ewing has tried to understand the reasons why people acted or reacted in certain ways.

He also authored the biographies of three Navy fighter pilots, Vice Admiral J. H. Flatley, also known as Jimmy Flatley, Butch O'Hare, and Jimmie Thach.

Nowadays, Steve Ewing serves as a senior curator at Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

Works

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• book

  • C.S.S. Enterprise CV-6, the Most Decorated Ship of World War II

    (The author presents a detailed narrative twenty-year hist...)

    1982
  • Thach Weave

    (This biography completes a trilogy on the three Navy figh...)

    2004
  • Reaper Leader: The Life of Jimmy Flatley

    (A book about a formidable fighter pilot in combat, an ins...)

    2002
  • Patriots Point: in Remembrance

    (Nice pictures of Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum)

    1999
  • American Cruisers of World War II

    (A Pictorial Encyclopedia by Steve Ewing)

    1984
  • Fateful Rendezvous: The Life of Butch O'Hare

    (A book in collaboration with J. B. Lundstrom about a figh...)

    1997
  • Man, Religion, and the Environment

    (Selected area studies)

    1975
  • Lady Lex and the Blue Ghost: A Pictorial History of the USS Lexingtons CV-2 and CV-16 1984
  • Memories and Memorials. The World War II U.S. Navy: Forty Years After Victory 1986

Views

Quotations: "My primary motivation for writing is a desire to record and preserve history and to assist in filling known voids in naval literature."

"In June, 1958, I saw the U.S.S. Enterprise CV-6 in New York City just before she was towed away to be scrapped. The aircraft carrier that earned more battle stars than any other ship during World War II should have been retained as a memorial. Her inexcusable loss to future generations was the inspiration for me to assist in the preservation of World War II naval history."

Interests

• boating