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Naval War College (U.S.)

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Found in 742 Collections and/or Records:

View of NWC Campus, circa 1978

 Item — Box 1: Series I; Series II, Folder: 20
Identifier: MSC-385- Series I- Sub-Series A- Item 100.3027
Scope and Contents

8x10 black and white photo of a view of NWC campus

Dates: circa 1978
Found in: Naval War College Archives / NWC collection of photographs / Series I. Photographs / Sub-Series A. Naval War College / Campus Views

View of the cannons, circa 1970-1980

 Item — Box 1: Series I; Series II, Folder: 20
Identifier: MSC-385- Series I- Sub-Series A- Item 100.3015
Scope and Contents

8x10 black and white photo of the cannons in front of Founders Hall, no date associated with photo

Dates: circa 1970-1980
Found in: Naval War College Archives / NWC collection of photographs / Series I. Photographs / Sub-Series A. Naval War College / Campus Views

View of the Luce-Mahan-Pringle Complex, circa 1953

 Item — Box 1: Series I; Series II, Folder: 17
Identifier: MSC-385- Series I- Sub-Series A- Item 100.3030
Scope and Contents

8x10 print of the Luce-Mahan-Pringle complex of the Naval War College

Dates: circa 1953
Found in: Naval War College Archives / NWC collection of photographs / Series I. Photographs / Sub-Series A. Naval War College / Campus Views

Virginia Downs Colby oral history transcription, 2001

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Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 275
Scope and Contents

Colby, Virginia Downs, 1923. Youth in Glendale and La Crescenta, Calif.; Attended Glendale College as an art major; Enlisted in the Navy; Trained at U.S. Naval Training School (WR), Hunter College; Assigned to the Hospital Corps and trained at Chelsea Naval Hospital; Physician's Assistant, Bar Harbor and Brunswick, Maine, and Hickam Air Base, Oahu, Hawaii; VJ Day celebrations; Discharged in San Francisco; Significance of WAVES service; Postwar education, work, and family.

Dates: 2001
Found in: Naval War College Archives / NWC collection of oral histories

Virginia Smith oral history transcription, 1995

 Item
Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 193
Scope and Contents

Smith, Virginia, 1924-. Reminiscences of a WWII WAVE. Includes early years in Attleboro, Mass.; Training as Occu­ pational Therapist at Westbrook, Jr. College; Reaction to Pearl Harbor bombing, enlisted in WAVES in 1944; Description of training; Housing; Classes at U.S. Naval Training School (WR) Bronx, N.Y.; Assignment at St. Albans Naval Hospital and duties there; Social Life and recreation; Course in occupational therapy, Cornell Medical School; V:J Day celebrations in NYC; Assigned to Brooklyn Naval Hospital with rating of Pharmacist's Mate, Second Class; Discharged,September 1946; Enjoyed service in the WAVES; Postwarjobs and interests; Member WAVES Na­ tional and Ocean State WAVES.

Dates: 1995
Found in: Naval War College Archives / NWC collection of oral histories

WAVES Officers oral history transcription

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Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 118
Scope and Contents WAVES Officers. Horton, Mildred McAfee, CAPT, USNR Organization and training of WAVES during World War II; Director, WAVES, 1942-1945.Palmer,Jean, CAPT, USNR Education, Bryn Mawr College; Business Manager, Association ofjunior Leagues of America, New York, 14 years; Senior LT, Com 3, 1942; WAVE Representative, Enlisted Personnel Office.Hancock, joy Bright, CAPT, USN Enlisted with the Navy 1918; First Class Yeoman, Naval Superintending Constructor, Cam­ den, NJ., 1918; Naval Air Station, Cape May, NJ.; Captain's Writer, NAS, Gipe May, NJ.; Dis­ charged 1920; In England for one year; BuAer, Washington, D.C., 1921; Founder and Editor, Newsletter, BuAer, Washington, D.C., 1925; Representative, BuAer, Washington, D.C.; Enrolled in the Navy 1942; Editorial Research, BuAer; Publicity Agent, BuAer; Liaison Officer, WAVES, BuAer; Women's Reseive Representative Policies for WAVES in Naval Aviation; Director, WAVES, 1946-1953; Retired, 1954. Shelly, MaryJosephine, LCDR, USNR Assistant, Dean of Students, University of Chicago, Ill.;Assistant to the President, Educational Administration, Bennington College, Vt.; LCDR, WAVES, BuPers, Washington, D.C., 1942-1945 (was in charge of WAVE officer recruitment) ; Bennington College, Vt., 1945-1951).Stratton, Dorothy, CAPT, USCG Women's Reserve, Navy; B.A., Ottawa University, Ottawa, Kans.; Master's Degree, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.;Ph.D., Columbia University; Dean of Women, Purdue University;...
Dates: undated
Found in: Naval War College Archives / NWC collection of oral histories

WAVES Officers oral history transcription

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Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 119
Scope and Contents WAVES Officers. Crandall, Elizabeth B., CDR, USNR Graduate work, Western Reserve University; Volunteer, Grenfell Medical Mission, Labrador; Graduate work, Stanford; Dean of Women, Idaho; Personnel Staff, Stanford; Women's Director, District Headquarters, 1944-1945; Twelfth Naval District; Retired.Kitchen, Etta Belle, CDR, USN Attorney; Lt. (jg), Thirteenth Naval District, Seattle, Wash.; Bremerton, 1946; Civilian 1946- 1948; LCDR USN, Naval Training Board, 1948; Personnel Office, WAVES, San Diego. Calif., 1951; Office of Performance Division, BuPers, Washington, D.C.; CDR, Reserve Training Department, WAVES, San Diego; CO, Recruit Training Command, Bainbridge, Md.Lenihan, Rita, CAPT, USN College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ.; Columbia University; Home lighting engineer, six years; WAVES, Washington, D.C., 1941; Master's degree, George Washington University, Wash­ ington, D.C.; Commissioned, 1943; Plans and Policy Division, BuPers, Washington, D.C.Rich, Frances L., CDR, USNR Engineering Draftsman, Lockheed Aircraft Co., Burbank, Calif.; Drill and Discipline Officer, USNMS (WR), Northampton, Mass., 1943; Lt. (jg), Communications Department, WAVES, Washington, D.C., 1943-1944; LCDR, Special Assistant, CAPT Mildred McAfee, WAVES, Wash­ ington, D.C., 1944-1945.Rigby, Eleanor Grant, CDR, USNR Graduated, Smith College, 1918; Connecticut Defense Council, 1941-1942; Lt. (jg), Assis­ tant, Regimental Commander, LT Crandall, WAVES,...
Dates: undated
Found in: Naval War College Archives / NWC collection of oral histories

What Did You Do In The War, Grandma?

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Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 147
Scope and Contents

World War II. "What did you do in the War, Grandma?" An oral history of Rhode Island women during World War IIwritten by students in the Honors English Program at South Kingstown High School and supported by a grant from the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities and co-5pon­ sored by the South Kingstown School Department and the Rhode Island Historical Society, with an Introduction by Linda Wood and an essay on Women and World War IIby Dr. Sharon H. Strom and Linda Wood. Interviews focus on the reactions of local women to the war, their involvement as volunteers and on active duty, pacifism, life on the home front, the end of the war and the impact it had on their lives as well as the social changes it brought.

Dates: undated
Found in: Naval War College Archives / NWC collection of oral histories

Willard G. Triest oral history transcription

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Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 68
Scope and Contents

Triest, Willard G., CAPT, USN, 1905-. Family background; Education, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Joined Civil Engineer Corps, 1941; Budget and Project Officer, Quonset Point, R.I.; Helped to design and plan logistics for refueling base, Bobcat, Christmas Islands, with description of construction activities on Ascen­ sion Island, 1941; XO, Fifty-seventh Battalion, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 1942; Trouble Shooter, Twenty-seventh Seabee Battalion, Tulagi, including discussion of their construction pro­ jects on Emirau and Guadalcanal; Return to the United States, Camp Part, Calif., with Battalion 27; Okinawa, construction of roads and supply depots, during battle with the Japanese for the is­ land; Visit toJapan after surrender, 1945; Visit to Korea, 1945.

Dates: undated
Found in: Naval War College Archives / NWC collection of oral histories

William F. Bundy oral history transcription

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Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 492
Scope and Contents

Bundy served in the Navy as a career submarine officer. He served as the third African-American Naval officer to command a submarine with the distinction of being the first to advance from the enlisted ranks to earn a commission and become a submarine skipper.

Dates: undated
Found in: Naval War College Archives / NWC collection of oral histories
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