Naval War College (U.S.)

Carlson, Elizabeth Malm, 1912-. Youth in Boston suburbs; Simmons College graduate;Joined the WAVES in December 1942; Training and indoctrination at U.S. Naval Midshipmen's School (WR) , Northampton, Mass.; At­ tendance at Navy Supply School, Harvard Business School where learned accounting procedures; Assigned to First Naval District headquarters, Boston Navy Yard, as assistant to the disbursing offi­ cer; Married in 1943;Assigned to the Philadelphia Navy Yard; discharged in December 1945; Sig­ nificance of her naval career; Postwar employment.

Strauss, Elliott B., RADM, USN, 1903-. USNA, 1923; USS Concord, 1923-1925; USS Hannibal, 1925-1926; USS Arkansas, 1926-1927; USS Toucey and USS Blakeley, 1927-1929; Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, R.I.; USS Manley, 1932-1936; istant Naval Attache, London, England, 1935-1937; CO, USS Brooks, 1939-1940; Navigator, USS Nashville, 1940-1941; U.S. Naval Observer, London, Staff of ADM Mountbatten, where he took part in the Allied Raid on Dieppe, 1942; Staff duty, Task Force 122 and Allied Naval Commander in Chief, 1942-1944; CO, USS Charles Carroll, 1944-1945; Served as naval adviser to the United Nations General Assembly. 1946; CO, USSFresno, 1946-1947; Stu­ dent, Imperial Defense College, 1948; CO, Destroyer Flotilla Six, 1951; Head, Long Range Plans Branch, Office of the CNO, 1952; Retirement, 1955; Staff, Assistant Secretary of Defense for In­ ternational Security Affairs, 1953-1956; Chief, Foreign Aid Mission to Tunisia, 1957-1960; Direc­ tor, AID Mission to Malagasy Republic, 1961-1963; Foreign Service Inspection Corps, 1965.

Cocroft discusses her enlisting in the WAVES in 1942, training at the Radio School at the University of Wisconsin, her assignment to the NAS San Diego, CA, work living conditions, recreation, attendance at US Naval Midshipmen's School (WR) in 1944, communications training and assignment at HDQs, 12th Naval District, San Francisco and discharge in 1945.

Birdy discusses her service in the WAVES from 1944 to 1946 as storekeeper in Pasco, WA, Klamath Falls, Oregon, and Seattle, WA. Included are her comments on training at the U.S. Naval Training School (WR), housing, recreation, marriage in Seattle, and thirty-three years as a Navy wife.

Corvese discusses his enlistment in the Navy in 1944, training at Sampson Naval Training Center, preparations for D-Day, training with the Naval Demolition Group in England, landings on Omaha Beach, return to England and the USA, assignment to Palawan, PI, V-J Day, and discharge from the Navy.

Eller, Ernest, M., RADM, USN, 1903-1992. This volume is devoted in its entirety to World War II and Eller's ignments during the war, including his tenure as Assistant Naval Attache and observer of the Royal Navy which took him aboard warships and to defense establishments in the British Isles; he was aboard the HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales before the encounter with the Bismarck in May 1941; Following his re­ turn from England he was assigned to the Fleet Training Division and Ordnance Department, Navy Department, during which he helped to select the site for the Navy's Anti-Aircraft Gunnery Training School at Dam Neck, Virginia; Gunnery Officer, USS Saratoga, 1941-1942; Assistant Gunnery and Anti-Submarine Training Officer, Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet, 1942- 1945, during which he participated in and helped to plan the campaigns in the South and Central Pacific; CO, USS Clay, which transported occupation troops toJapan, 1945; Public Information Officer, Twelfth Naval District, San Francisco, Calif., and Washington, D.C., 1945-1946. Retired, 1954.

Villeneuve, Esther Fritz, 1922-. Reminiscences ofa WAVE who seived as a storekeeper during WWII. Focus is on early years in Titonka, Iowa, where she attended High School and worked; Attended Warburg College; Worked in Mason City, Iowa; Enlisted in WAVES in 1943; Comments on training at USNTS, Bronx, N.Y.; Advanced training at Milledgeville, Ga., as storekeeper; Assigned to Norfolk Naval Base in Dis­ persing Office; Social life; Barracks life; Met husband there; Sang in WAVES chorus; V:J Day in Norfolk; Discharged in April 1946; Impact of WAVES on life; Settled in Pawtucket, R.I.; Work and family; Membership and offices in Ocean State WAVES.

Cohen, Evelyn Stein, 1919-. Reminiscences of an enlisted SPAR during WWII. Includes youth in Brockton, Mass.; Post High School work as legal secretary, Boston, Mass.; Reaction to Pearl Harbor Bombing; Joined SPARS in 1943 for patriotic reasons; Husband was killed on Merchant Marine Ship; Attended USNTS (WR), Hunter College, N.Y.; Attended Yeoman School, Palm Beach, Fla.; Assigned to Merchant Marine Unit, NYC where did clerical work; Recreation; Discharge in February 1946; Attended SPAR reunions; Member Ocean State WAVES; Postwar family and work experi­ences; Maintained contacts with SPARS.

Pike, Exum L., 1916-. Youth in North Carolina; Enlistment in the Navy in 1942; Basic training; Subchaser duty in the Caribbean where escorted convoys to Brazil; Describes his billet as petty officer; Sinking of German submarine and rescue of its captain; morale; Patrolling the English Channel; D-Day on Omaha Beach; Occupation duty in Bremerhaven, Germany, and discharge in 1945; Cook, Biltmore Hotel;Joined the Naval Reserves; Cook, Newport, R.I., Officers' Club and Newport Hos­pital; Comments on significance of his naval career and reunions of PG 565.