Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.
Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.
Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of the pages that referenced them, have been collected, sequentially renumbered, and placed at the end of the book.
The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
Original text uses two forms of the following words; both retained here:
- “moral” and “morale”
- “underwater” and “under-water”
- “minefield” and “mine-field”
- “seaplanes” and “sea-planes”
Redundant book title on [page 1] has been removed by Transcriber.
[Page 316]: The times in the illustration's heading use a mix of Roman and Arabic numerals.
[Page 360]: The time shown as “7.8” was printed that way. It may mean “8 minutes after 7”. Similar times appear on other pages.