Naval War College (U.S.)

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

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.

Moore, Charles K., Captain, USN (Ret.) 1923-. Navy family background; Boyhood in various naval ports; Graduation from St. Albans School and U.S. Naval Academy, 1944; Comments on Academy education and routine; Cruise in USS South Dakota (BB 49); Gunnery Department, USS Remey; Invasion of Palau, Surigao Strait, Iwo jima, Okinawa.japan, and Kurile Islands; Torpedo School, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: USS Remey; V:J Day in Adak, Alaska; Occupation Force, Japan, 1945; Comments on officers clubs, entertain­ ments, ship's band, attitude of reseive officers towards the war; Comments of postwar Navy and downsizing; Commissioning of USS Forrest Royal, CO, USS Milledgeville; Coast Command, Londonderry, Ireland; CO, USS Francis Robinson; CO USS Gainard; XO, USS Oklahoma City; CO Tenth Destroyer Squadron; Military Chair of Surface Warfare, Naval War College; Retire­ ment in 1974; Comments on women in the Navy, sailors, ADM Arleigh Burke, and the Navy of the 1970s.

Moore, Charles, RADM, USN, 1889-1974. Education, USNA, 1910; USS New Hampshire; USS Petrel; Cruise in USS Logan on Asiatic Station; USS Modnadnock; USS Bainbridge; USS Saratoga; USS Balch and convoy duty during WWI; USS McLanahan; CO, USS Drayton; Navy Department, Naval Overseas Transportation Ser­ vice; Destroyer Force, Pacific Fleet; Faculty, USNA; CO, USS Hatfield; Navigator, USS New York; Yorktown Sesquicentennial Committee; XO, USS Altair; Student, NWC Navy Department, War Plans Division; CO, USS Philadelphia; Staff, CIC, U.S. Fleet; Chief of Staff to ADM Spruance in the Pacific; WWII operations in the Pacific area, including Battle of the Philippine Sea; Reminis­ cences of R A Spruance; Assistant to Deputy, COMINCH; Deputy CNO for Postwar Plans; Dep­ uty,JCS; Retired, 1947.

Hume discusses her youth, enlistment in the WAVES in 1944, training at US Naval Training School (WR), yeoman school. assigned to CO, Air Force Atlantic Fleet, Norfolk, VA, discharged in 1946; attended American University and graduated from Barnard College, worked at the CIA, joined regular Navy in 1951, Women Officers School, Newport, RI, various career assignments, including Director, Personnel, First Naval District, 1970-1971, retiring that year. Comments on naval career and opportunities for women.

Nimitz, Chester W., Jr., RADM, USN (Ret.) 1915-2002. Education at the U.S. Naval Academy, 1932-1936; USS Indianapolis, 1936-1938, and cruise to South America with President Roosevelt; Attended Submarine School, New London, Conn., 1938; USS Sturgeon,1939-1941; XO, USS Bluefish, 1943-1944; CO, USS Haddo and discussion of torpedo misfiring; Head, Torpedo Gunnery Department, Submarine School, New London, Conn., 1944-1945; CO, USS Sarda, 1946-1948; Associate Professor of Naval Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1948-1950; CO, USS O'Brien; CO, Submarine Division 12,San Diego, Ca­ lif., 1951-1952; Student, Armed Forces Staff College, 1953; CINCNELM, Strategic Plans Division, London, England, 1953-1956; CO, USS Orion, 1956-1957; Retired, 1957; Employed at Texas In­ struments, 1957-1961; President, Perkin Elmer, 1961-1980; Memories of his father, ADM Nimitz and impressions of ADM Spruance and President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Letter from Chester W. Nimitz to VADM Charles L. Melson, USN, President of U.S. Naval War College with comments on the high educational quality of the institution and the importance of the post of NWC President. Nimitz credits the NWC with whatever success he achieved in strategy and tactics.

Color 8x10 photograph of the NWC Civilian Faculty 1972 Group Portrait.

Color 8x10 photograph of the NWC Civilian Faculty 1972 Group Portrait.

Black and white 8x10 photograph of the NWC civilian staff in 1984.