O'Connor, Raymond Gish

Classified and unclassified lectures delivered by visiting scholars, flag rank officers, and government officials.

Correspondence, principally letters received from RADM Edwin T. Layton, 1974–1984; Critique of And I Was There by Layton, et.al.; Vita; Prospectus and copy of Whitehat /Bluejacket: An American Sailor in Peace and War, an account of O’Connor’s career in the U.S. Navy; Published articles, 1967–1992; Typescripts of “Origins of the American Navy: Sea Power in the Colonies and New Nation.” Book entitled Powers of the President in Foreign Affairs, 1945–1965; Subject Files on professional history conferences attended and syllabi and notes for college courses that he taught, 1975–1994. O’Connor was E. J. King Professor of Naval History at the Naval War College, 1967–1968.

Recording of a session at the American Historical Association and the American Committee on the History of the Second World War held in Atlanta, GA, 1975. The session, "Strategy For Victory In The Pacific: An Evaluation Thirty Years After" is chaired by Philip A. Crowl of the Naval War College.

In Part 1, the first speaker is Clark G. Reynolds presenting his paper, Admiral Ernest J. King and The Strategy for Victory in the Pacific, published in Naval War College Review, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Winter 1976), pp. 57-64.

The second speaker, Forrest C. Pogue of Smithsonian Institution, starts at 20:31 delivering a paper entitled, General George C. Marshall.

The third speaker begins at 39:35. E. B. Potter from the United States Naval Academy delivers his paper, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and the Central Pacific Offensive, 1943—45. Potter's talk is cut off at 59:55.

Part 2 of the panel features D. Clayton James of Mississippi State University presents General Douglas MacArthur and the War in the Southwest Pacific.

Following that, Raymond G. O’Connor of University of Miami makes a comment.