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Naval War College (U.S.)

 Organization

Found in 728 Collections and/or Records:

Carroll Caffrey oral history transcription, 2009

 Item
Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 437
Scope and Contents

Caffrey discusses his service in the US Navy during WWII, including his joining the Navy in 1944, naval training in Sampson, NY, engineering training in Gulfport, MS, Advanced Diesel training in Dearborn, MI, assigned to the USS New Jersey as a Fire Control man, life aboard ship, comments on ADMS Raymond A. Spruance and William F. Halsey, typhoon of 1944, Battles of Leyte Gulf and Okinawa, return to the US and discharge in 1946, College on the GI Bill and employment with Northeast Utilities. Positive comments about the Navy.

Dates: 2009

Caspar F. Goodrich letter, 1917 Jan 1

 File — Box 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 014
Scope and Contents

Letter from RADM Charles E. Clark, USN (Ret.), thanking him for a copy of The Nation. Copy of original tipped in the volume (from Goodrich's Library) My Fifty Years in the Navy by Charles E. Clark, Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1917.

Dates: 1917 Jan 1

Catherine A. Leahey oral history transcription

 Item
Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 312
Scope and Contents

Leahey, Catherine A., CDR, USN (Ret.) 1955. Youth in Texas; NROTC Purdue University; NAVSTA Panama; Surface Warfare Officers School; USS Point Loma; Surface Warfare Officers School, Department Head School; Opera­ tions Officer, USS Simon Lake; Naval War College; USS Pyro; Fleet Logistics Planning Officer, U.K.; Exchange Officers, Royal Navy Staff College; Views on sexism and attitudes towards women.

Dates: undated

Catherine E. Fitzgerald Brown oral history transcription, 1997

 Item
Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 226
Scope and Contents

Betty Brown, born 1923, joined the WAVES in 1943 after registering on a dare at a recruiting booth in New York City. She attended boot camp at Hunter College and was displeased with the regimentation. She was then sent to storekeeper school in Milledgeville, Georgia. After completing her training, she was assigned to the Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Virginia where she worked at the Boat House. After the war ended, she got married and settled in various locations before retiring in Rhode Island. She discussed her experiences in the WAVES and reactions to key events in the war.

Dates: 1997

Catherine Nimitz Lay oral history transcription

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Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 462
Scope and Contents

Lay discusses her life as a Navy Junior and as a Navy wife. She comments on the Nimitz family life, her mother, siblings, and most of all on her father -his parents, his interests, habits, hobbies, personality, religion, naval friendships, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and navy admirals with whom he served.

Dates: undated

Celeste Griffin oral history transcription, 2003

 Item
Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 299
Scope and Contents

Griffin, Celeste, 1919. Education at Pembroke College; Officer training at U.S. Naval Midshipmen's School, Northampton, Mass., 1942; Communications billet, Third Naval District, New York City; Social life and housing; U.S. Naval Ordnance Unit, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., May 1945; Seventh Naval Dis­trict, Miami, Fla., 1945; Gulf Sea Frontier, New Orleans, La., 1945-1946; Pro­moted to Lieutenant; Postwar active reseives, 1948-1950; Significance of naval service: Postwar career at Brown University Admissions Office.

Dates: 2003

Center for Naval Warfare Studies records

 Record Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-37
Scope and Contents

Records of the Director, CNWS, including correspondence files regarding administrative matters, 1971–1995; Records of the Director, CAR/ARP, including correspondence files, 1976–1979; Minutes of meetings of Center for Advanced Research, 1972–1979; Advanced Research Program student applications and research proposals, 1973–1980; Advanced Research Program non-college applications and research proposals, 1973–1980; CAR/ARP unclassified student research papers, 1972–2000; CAR/ARP classified student research papers, 1972–2000; Strategic Studies Group, classified and unclassified papers and reports, 1991–1996; CNWS Command Histories, 1993–1994; Decision Support Group, applications and evaluations, 1995; Strategy and Campaign Department, Conference materials and RUKUS War Game, 1991–1995, War Gaming Videocassettes, 1994, and photographs.

Dates: 1971 - 2010

Central Office records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-03
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and memoranda regarding College administration, faculty and staff, curriculum, facilities, finances and organization, visitors, lectures, conferences and events.

The majority of this collection is filed using Navy file numbers. For more information about this filing system, please refer to the Navy Filing Manuals and Bureau of Ordnance File Numbers in the External Documents section of this finding aid.

Dates: 1945-2010

Charles F. Adams oral history, 1990

 Item
Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 153
Scope and Contents

Adams, Charles Francis, 1910-1998. Reminiscences of Adams regarding his father's tenure as Secretary of the Navy, 1929-1933, and his own naval career in NROTC at Harvard University; WWII assignments with the Neutrality Patrol, 1941; Naval War College, 1942; Destroyer Escort commands, 1943-1945; Aide to CINCLANT, 1945; Bureau of Personnel, 1945; CEO, Raytheon Corporation and work with the USN and NWC; Impressions of WWII Naval leaders, CNOs and other prominent naval officers.

Part of the History of the Navy ORal History Program

Dates: 1990

Charles F. Barber oral history transcription, 1996

 Item
Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 329
Scope and Contents

Barber, Charles F., 1917-. Reminiscences of his service in the Navy, 1941-1945, as flag secretary to ADM Raymond A Spruance in USS Indianapolis and USS New Mexico; Comments on Admirals Chester Nimitz, William F. Halsey, and Richmond K. Turner; Spruance's character, personality, habits, relations with staff, Japanese as enemy and the Naval War College; Postwar visits with Admiral Spruance.

Dates: 1996