With great sadness I share with you that Jim passed away yesterday. He was a great author and historian. May our thoughts and prayers be with his family.
Incidentally, I never saw it in a thread, but the wreckage of the USS Johnston of Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors fame was found a couple months ago.
Aw man. This is horrible news! I loved his work. If you haven't read Neptune's Inferno and The Fleet at Flood Tide, you need to pick them up. Outstanding works! He will be greatly missed!