Hoehling, A(dolph) A(ugust) 1915-2004
HOEHLING, A(dolph) A(ugust) 1915-2004
OBITUARY NOTICE—
See index for CA sketch: Born July 7, 1915, in Chevy Chase, MD; died of pneumonia March 13, 2004. Editor, journalist, and author. Hoehling was a former journalist best known for his books about naval battles and disasters. Graduating from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1936, he was a reporter in Washington, D.C., before enlisting in the U.S. Navy. During World War II he served as a lieutenant commander on merchant vessels for the Armed Guard. One of his most harrowing memories, the sinking of one of his ships, is recounted in his memoir, The Fighting Liberty Ships (1990). After the war, Hoehling worked in magazine and newspaper publishing in New York City and Portland, Maine, before becoming a book editor for the Army Times Publishing Company in 1959. He stayed in this position until 1972, when he returned to Washington, D.C., as an editor for the Library of Congress's Congressional Research Service. Besides this work, Hoehling was a prolific author of nonfiction books that mostly dealt with sailing and the navy. Among these are Lonely Command (1957), The Great War at Sea: A History of Naval Action, 1914-1918 (1965), Great Ship Disasters (1971), Lost at Sea (1984), and Ships That Changed History (1992).
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Sarasota Herald Tribune, March 22, 2004, p. BS8; March 24, 2004, p. BS11.