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John T. Hayward papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-183
Abstract

Biographical information and vita; Correspondence, official and personal letters sent and received, 1936–1994; Speeches, including notes, scripts, lectures and committee presentations, 1940–1993; Published writings, articles, papers and notes; Unpublished writings, journal entries, poems, articles and aviation logs; Military papers,orders, leave papers, fitness reports and retirement papers, 1925–1968; Subject Files, consulting reports, corporate board reports, 1958–1985; Career photographs; Newspaper clippings, certificates and maps.

Dates: undated

Willard Helburn letters

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSC-286
Content Description

Copies of typescript letters of Helburn to Albert F. Butts from Miami, Florida, Panama and Coloumbia, and one letter from Margaret Helburn, May 29-August 28, 1944, regarding their travels in the region. Letter to Albert Butts, February 14, 1945.

Dates: 1944 and 1945

Donald Henault papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSC-282
Content Description

Newspaper clippings (copies), Navy messages, commendations, photographs (originals and copies) maps, and press releases, ship's newspaper and war record of USS Mobile (CL-63), 1942-1945; The Pawtucket Times, January 12, 1943; four books, including Admiral Halsey's Story, Modern Seamanship, U.S. Navy at War, 1941-1945 and The American Practical Navigator.

Dates: 1941 - 1945

Harry B. Heneberger papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSC-118
Content Description

Subject Files, including action report, interviews, memoranda and lists regarding the sinking of the USS Quincy (CA-39) on August 9, 1942 at the Battle of Savo Island; Miscellaneous correspondence, 1942, 1960; Naval War College Thesis, 1948; Photographs of the International Air Races, 1923, and the surrender of the Japanese at Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945; Newspaper clippings of the sinking of the Quincy, 1942, and the Japanese surrender, 1945

Dates: 1923 - 1948

Philip Hewes papers

 Collection — Box: 1x
Identifier: MSC-337
Content Description

Papers: Copies of Hewes' obituary in The Hartford Courant and The Jamestown Press; Drawings of WWII pilot David Hughs in the USS Enterprise for the 1944 national election campaign of Democrats versus Republicans. Bound volume entitled "Philip Hewes Letters Home WWII, 1943-1945", "Ordinary Heroes, Reminiscences of Air Group Twenty, 1993; and "Air Group Twenty, 1949; Table Chart #3, Air Force, Pacific Fleet, with annotations.

Dates: 1943 - 1993

Henry Kent Hewitt papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-032
Content Description The Naval War College Naval Historical Collection houses a small but interesting segment of Hewitt materials. The collection focuses mainly on the illustrious wartime career of Admiral Hewitt, although there are materials from both earlier and later time periods. The materials are contained in fourteen boxes and a folio file drawer. The collection measures thirteen linear feet and is divided into four series: correspondence, writings, miscellany, and photographs.Series I, official correspondence, consists of letters, memoranda, and telegrams, both congratulatory and informational, dealing with the various amphibious operations that ADM Hewitt commanded. They include Operations Torch, Husky, Avalanche, and Dragoon-Anvil. Correspondents were from the highest military and civilian echelons and include General Dwight D. Eisenhower, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Admiral Ernest .J. King. Other correspondence deals with President Roosevelt's voyage in USS INDIANAPOLIS to the Pan American Conference in Buenos Aires in 1936 and in the post-war period with reminiscences of World War II. Correspondents from this Lime period include Winston Churchill, Admiral Sir John Cunningham, RN, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.The second series, writings, contains the unpublished memoirs of Admiral Hewitt. The memoirs contain a ten page chronology of his life and career as well as a full autobiographical treatment.Series III, miscellany,...
Dates: 1903 - 1957

Lloyd F. Hill papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSC-176
Content Description

Papers: Correspondence, personal letters sent March 13, 1918-June 22, 1918 to friend Wesley Smith, Roslyn, NY, regarding his assignment to USS Ossippee awaiting overseas orders, the Philadelphia Navy Yard and training at Camp Upton, NY, during WWI.

Dates: 1918

Hitchcock family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-165
Content Description

Letters sent from Ethan Allen Hitchcock, U.S. Ambassador to the Imperial Russian Court in St. Petersburg to his brother Henry Hitchcock, July 11, 1897–January 30, 1899; Letters sent from Margaret and Anne Hitchcock to Sarah Hitchcock Shepley, Isabel and an uncle, from St. Petersburg, July 27, 1897–October 2, 1898, describing their daily life and social activities.

Dates: 1860 - 1984

William H. Honan collection of research materials

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-133
Content Description

Research source materials used in writing and researching the biography of Hector C. Bywater, Visions of Infamy. The material is arranged by chapter and includes holograph notes, newspaper clippings, correspondence, reports, drafts, articles, photographs, attaché reports, maps, notebooks, monographs and translations. Information can be found on inter-war U.S. and Japanese navies, the British Secret Service and the 1934 London Naval Conference. The remainder of the collection contains correspondence regarding Bywater, the publication of the book, the controversy with Mark Peattie and David Evans, reviews and comments on the book, Honan’s speeches regarding it and books by Hector C. Bywater.

Dates: 1934

John H. Hoover papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-308
Abstract

Papers: Naval Orders, 1903-1952; Correspondence as CO, Caribbean Sea Frontier, 1941-1943, CO, Forward Area, Central Pacific, and CO, Air Central Pacific, including letters from ADM Chester W. Nimitz, 1943-1945; Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1941-1948; Speeches, 1945-1949; Reports, 1920-1928; Personal Journal, 1907-1914; Subject files on ships, 1912-1935; Roster of officers, 1941-1957; Administrative History of the Caribbean Sea Frontier, 1948; Miscellany, including citations, programs, diplomas and news releases; WWII photographs of the Caribbean and the Pacific, 1941-1945; Night Order Book, 1918; Memoir entitled "Some Navy Years, 1903-1919" by E.F. Johnson; 16 mm film on Operation Crossroads, 1946; 78 LPR of interview with ADM Hoover on the Iwo Jima invasion and Gaum; Folio photographs and newspapers.

Dates: 1903-1957

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Midway, Battle of, 1942 5
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memorandums 5
research notes 5
Spanish-American War, 1898 4
World War, 1939-1945 4
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Fort Adams (Newport, R.I.) 3
Leyte Gulf, Battle of, Philippines, 1944 3
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Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography 3
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ships' logs 3
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Admirals -- United States -- History 2
Admirals' spouses 2
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Coral Sea, Battle of the, 1942 2
Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943 2
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Naval War College (U.S.) 72
United States. Navy 14
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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 6
Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer), 1840-1914 5
Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966 5
Spruance, Raymond Ames, 1886-1969 5
International Seapower Symposium 4
LeBourgeois, Julien J. 4
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 4
Sims family 4
Sims, Anne Hitchcock, 1875-1960 4
Sims, William Sowden, 1858-1936 4
United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve 4
Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919 3
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 3
Hitchcock family 3
King, Ernest Joseph, 1878-1956 3
Luce, Stephen Bleecker, 1827-1917 3
Moore, Charles J. 3
Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976 3
Naval War College (U.S.). Naval Historical Collection 3
Pineau, Roger, 1916-1993 3
Barber, Charles F., 1917-2012 2
Bates, Richard W., 1892-1973 2
Brennan, Joseph Gerard, 1910-2004 2
Buell, Thomas B. 2
Burke, Arleigh A., 1901-1996 2
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 2
Colbert, Richard G., 1915-1973 2
Eccles, Henry E. (Henry Effingham), 1898-1986 2
Forrestal, James, 1892-1949 2
Forrestel, Emmet Peter, 1898- 2
Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901 2
Hattendorf, John B. 2
Hewitt, H. Kent (Henry Kent), 1887-1972 2
Hitchcock, Ethan Allen, 1835-1909 2
Hitchcock, Henry, 1829-1902 2
Hitchcock, Margaret Dwight, 1878-1926 2
Howland, Llewellyn, III 2
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 2
Knox, Dudley Wright, 1877-1960 2
Little, Brown and Company 2
Low, Francis S. (Francis Stuart), 1894-1964 2
Naval Command College (U.S.) 2
Naval War College (U.S.). Center for Naval Warfare Studies 2
Naval War College (U.S.). Joint Military Operations Department 2
Naval War College (U.S.). Library 2
Naval War College (U.S.). National Security Decision Making Department 2
Naval War College Museum 2
Schonland, Herbert E. (Herbert Emery), 1900-1984 2
Shepley, Sarah Hitchcock, 1870-1957 2
Smith, Roy Campbell, 1858-1940 2
Sowden family 2
Sperry, Charles S. (Charles Stillman), 1847-1911 2
Stark, Harold R. (Harold Raynsford), 1880-1972 2
Stockdale, James B. 2
Strasser, Joseph C. 2
Taussig, Edward David, 1847-1921 2
Tracy, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1830-1915 2
Turner, Stansfield, 1923-2018 2
United States Military Academy Preparatory School 2
United States. Department of the Navy 2
United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff 2
United States. Navy. Atlantic Fleet. Battleship Force 2
United States. Navy. Officer Candidate School 2
United States. Navy. Surface Warfare Officers School 2
Abromitis, William, 1925-1975 1
Ahlgren, Charles 1
Albion, Robert Greenhalgh, 1896-1983 1
Aldrich, Barbara Tanner 1
Aldrich, Nelson W. (Nelson Wilmarth), 1841-1915 1
Almgren, Neal, 1915-1984 1
Amberg, Richard H. 1
Anderson, Bern, 1900-1963 1
Anderson, Henry H. 1
Andrea Doria (Steamship) 1
Army and Navy Staff College (U.S.) 1
Atlanta (Protected cruiser) 1
Bailey, William Whitman, 1843-1914 1
Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes), 1870-1965 1
Baruch, Bernard M., Jr., 1902-1992 1
Battaglia, Charles 1
Bauer, A. L. 1
Bauernschmidt, George W. (George William), 1899- 1
Belknap, George E. (George Eugene), 1832-1903 1
Belknap, Reginald Rowan, 1871-1959 1
Bennington (Aircraft carrier) 1
Bennington (Gunboat No. 4) 1
Bieri, Bernhard H. (Bernhard Henry), 1889-1971 1
Billingsley, Edward Baxter, 1910-1997 1
Bismarck (Battleship) 1
Bogart, Gerald S., 1914- 1
Bogart, Margaret Spruance, 1919-1996 1
Boyd, Carl 1
Bradley, Omar Nelson, 1893-1981 1
Braun, Boynton L. 1
Braun, Mary 1
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