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Evelyn M. Powell Grubaugh papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSC-173
Content Description

Memoirs of naval service in the WAVES; Naval papers, including separation from service, 1946; Newspaper clippings, WAVES Matchbook, ration card; Imprints, including Havelock, November–December 1945; WAVES songbook and jokebook; Group photograph of WAVES at U.S. Training School (WR) Bronx, NY and in Washington, D.C., 1944–1946.

Dates: 1944 - 1946

Norma G. Smith papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSC-175
Content Description

Photograph album of VJ Day Parade in Honolulu, Hawaii, September 3, 1945 and other photographs of Hawaii; Two photographs of nurses and patients at Newport Naval Hospital, 1945; Imprints of Base Eight Hospital, Honolulu, Hawaii, second Anniversary Edition, 1945, and Aloha booklet for those who served in Hawaii, 1941–1945; Resume of service in Navy Nurse Corps, 1944–1946.

Dates: 1944-1945 and undated

Roger Pineau papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-212
Content Description The collection is divided into ten series. Series One, Biographical Information, contains Pineau’s vita and biographical information, while Series II, Civilian and Naval Papers, has personnel and retirement papers, 1965–1972, as well as his naval orders and fitness reports, 1943–1978.Correspondence, both letters sent and received, is one of the largest components of the collection and it is arranged by last name and topic for the years 1942–1993. Prominent correspondents include Hanson Baldwin, Captain Edward Beach, CDR Masatake Chihaya, James Fahey, Goro Nakano, the U.S. Naval Institute, Jurgen Rohwer, Robert Sherrod, and the Smithsonian Institution. A second segment of correspondence contains letters to and from individuals for whom he performed appraisals.Series Four holds speech notes and speeches that Pineau gave between 1965 and the early 1990s. In addition, there are speeches given by other individuals. Captain Pineau was a prolific writer on military topics, especially World War II. Included in Series Five, Writings, are his articles and book reviews, as well as articles and book reviews of others on military topics. Prominent among these are the works of Robert Sherrod.An oral history interview with Robert D. Ogg in 1983 is in Series Six. Subject files form Series Seven. Topics covered include research materials for And I Was There, ballooning, the Panay incident, Pearl Harbor, Silas Talbot, the Quasi-War with France, and White...
Dates: 1864 - 1999

Harold E. Roesler papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-248
Abstract

Correspondence, letters sent and received and greeting cards, 1942-1945. Roesler wrote to his parents and his wife in New Jersey about his daily routine. His wife's letters are full of news of the home front, air raid drills, church and local news and her social activities. His father's letters tell of his activities and are humorous and religious.

Dates: 1942 - 1945

George A. Van Horn papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-322
Content Description

Papers: Naval papers, 1944-1946; Correspondence, letters sent mainly to his parents during World War II, 1943-1946; News Clippings, 1945-1967, Navigational Reports, 1945-1946; Typed accounts and notes on the Philippines; Miscellany, including obituary, 1998; Booklet on Guam, Guide to the Pacific, Program, 1946, maps of the Pacific Ocean Area, 1936-1952; Photographs of Hawaii, Guam, the Philippine Islands and Truk, 1945-1946; and a scrapbook of letters and photographs of USS LCI (G) 398, crew members, scenes of the Philippines and Van Horn, 1945-1946. Folio maps of the Pacific Theater of War, 1936-1952 and Newspapers, 1946-1967.



Scope and Contents

Naval Papers, Correspondence and photographs, chiefly 1945-1946. The bulk of the Collection deals with his service during World War II in the Pacific Theater, including a Diary, report, notes and typed accounts of his time in the Philippines, including a navigational Survey, maps and news clippings, and a scrapbook with letters sent and photographs.

Dates: 1936 - 1988

Thaddeus V. Tuleja research materials on ADM H. Kent Hewitt

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-297
Content Description

Thermo fax copies of action reports for Operation Torch 1942, Operation Husky, 1943, Operation Avalanche, 1943, Operation Dragoon/Anvil, 1944; Draft typed manuscript of the Life of H. Kent Hewitt by John Clagett; Draft typed manuscript of the autobiography of H. Kent Hewitt; Subject files on H. Kent Hewitt; USS Juneau (LPD-10), ship's history and command histories, 1976-1988; ship's history USS Lexington; two copies of Stephen Roskill's The War at Sea. Vol. III



Scope and Contents

Subject files treating ADM H. Kent Hewitt, 1936 -1997. The collection includes John Clagett's typescript biography of Hewitt and Hewitt's own memoirs as well as action reports for Operation Torch, Avalanche, Husky, Brassard, and USS Catoctin, 1942-1945; letters sent and received by Hewitt and Tuleja, reminiscences by officers who served with him, biographical information, administrative history of the Eighth Fleet, Hewitt's Naval War College lectures, Bibliography, WWII photographs, history of the ships named Lexington and Command Histories of USS Juneau (LPD 10).

Dates: 1936 - 1997

Kenneth M. Brett papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-278
Content Description

Papers: Copies of personal letters sent, July 1944-October 1945; Personal letters received, January 1944-February 1986; Official memoranda sent and received, October 1944-September 1945; Miscellany, including certificates and ciations, maps and photographs, 1943-1949; Biographical statement and two CDS of the collection contents. CD-Rom of PDFs of letters, naval orders, maps, charts, memoranda, a journal and photographs of his WWII service, 1943-1945.

Dates: 1943 - 1986

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

W. Starling Burgess papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-038
Abstract Papers: Blueprints of and calculations for devices to counter the Acoustic Torpedo developed for ASDEVLANT, Quonset Point NAS, RI, and Surface Division of ASDEVLANT, Port Everglades, FL, 1943–1945; Blueprints and calculations for Damage Control and Hull Stability tests developed for Damage Control Project, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, 1945–1947; Correspondence, memoranda and reports regarding inventions and devices, 1938–1948. Scope and Contents The collection consists of forty-seven boxes of blueprints of anti-submarine and damage control devices, as well as those for yachts and the Aluminette. Included are mathematical calculations, technical booklets and reports, and correspondence relating to his work for the U.S. Navy in World War II and the immediate postwar era. From 1943 to 1947, Burgess worked for the Navy under personal service contracts: first for the Surface Division of ASDEVLANT at Quonset Point Naval Air Station, Rhode Island, and the U.S. Coast Guard Base at Port Everglades, Florida, and second, with the Damage Control Project administered by the Navy’s Office of Research and Inventions at Stevens Institute of Technology, 1945–1947. During his first assignment, he worked on acoustic torpedo countermeasures. At Stevens, he worked on hull stability measures and devised a method to calculate a ship’s stability when it had been damaged in action. By using these calculations, a ship would be...
Dates: undated

Edwin T. Layton papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-069
Abstract

Correspondence, letters received regarding Naval Institute oral history and Naval War College Chair of Intelligence, 1970–1975; Miscellany, including yearbook, Japanese texts, maps and charts, programs, certificates, USN commissions, and photographs, 1924–1984; Research source materials used in writing And I Was There, including published volumes of Japanese War Series, Senshi Sosho, 1967–1975,Pacific Mobile Radio Intelligence Unit Reports, 1942–1945; Books, Japanese monographs, military intelligence pamphlets, magazines, oral histories and maps; Unpublished materials, including various SRH histories, 1942–1947; SRNS, Japanese Naval Radio Intelligence Summaries, 1942–1945; SRN, Translations of Japanese Naval Messages, 1941–1942; SRNM, Japanese Naval Communications, 1942; CINCPAC messages, 1942; Tapes of interviews conducted by authors,1970–1983; Ships logs and action reports, 1941–1942; Translations of Japanese War History, 1942–1944; Notes and notebooks on WWII events and Japanese Intelligence; Photographs and personal letters; Promotion certificate to Rear Admiral; Drafts, Letters, memoranda and book reviews of And I Was There; Pacific Mobile Radio Intelligence Unit Reports, 1942–1945; Miscellaneous lists of diagrams, maps and biographies.

Dates: 1924 - 1986

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Pineau, Roger, 1916-1993 3
United States Naval Academy 3
Buell, Thomas B. 2
Forrestel, Emmet Peter, 1898- 2
Hewitt, H. Kent (Henry Kent), 1887-1972 2
Howland, Llewellyn, III 2
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 2
Little, Brown and Company 2
Low, Francis S. (Francis Stuart), 1894-1964 2
Moore, Charles J. 2
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 2
Spruance, Raymond Ames, 1886-1969 2
Stark, Harold R. (Harold Raynsford), 1880-1972 2
United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve 2
Albion, Robert Greenhalgh, 1896-1983 1
Almgren, Neal, 1915-1984 1
Anderson, Bern, 1900-1963 1
Andrea Doria (Steamship) 1
Barber, Charles F., 1917-2012 1
Bates, Richard W., 1892-1973 1
Bennington (Aircraft carrier) 1
Bieri, Bernhard H. (Bernhard Henry), 1889-1971 1
Bogart, Gerald S., 1914- 1
Bogart, Margaret Spruance, 1919-1996 1
Braun, Boynton L. 1
Braun, Mary 1
Brett, Kenneth M. 1
Buell, Marilyn 1
Bull, Cornelius H. 1
Burgess, W. Starling (William Starling), 1878-1947 1
Burke, Arleigh A., 1901-1996 1
Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 1
Bywater, Hector C. (Hector Charles), 1884-1940 1
Cannon, Robert M. (Robert Mylchrist), 1901-1976 1
Carpenter, William Milner 1
Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-2003 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Constellation (Ship) 1
Dietrich, Neil K. (Neil Kittrell), 1901-1982 1
Eccles, Henry E. (Henry Effingham), 1898-1986 1
Fahy, Edward J. (Edward Joseph), 1910-1989 1
Filmer, Charles 1
Forrestal, James, 1892-1949 1
Galard, Geneviève de, 1924- 1
Ginna, Robert Emmett 1
Grubaugh, Evelyn M. Powell 1
Harvard University 1
Honan, William H. (William Holmes) 1
Hopkins, Harry L. (Harry Lloyd), 1890-1946 1
Hughes (DD-410) 1
Keyes, C. M. (Charles M.) 1
King family 1
King, Ernest J., Jr., 1922-1990 1
Knox, Dudley Wright, 1877-1960 1
Lacy, William Sterling Byrd, 1910-1978 1
Lansdale, Edward Geary, 1908-1987 1
Layton, Edwin T., 1903-1984 1
LeBourgeois, Julien J. 1
Levine, Morton 1
Liberty (Ship) 1
Lovett, Ralph B., 1890-1977 1
Low family 1
Low, Alice Paul Requa 1
MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964 1
Mare Island Naval Shipyard 1
Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959 1
Matter, Elizabeth, 1915-1989 1
McCann, Allan R. (Allan Rockwell), 1896-1978 1
Miller, Edward S. 1
Milner, Verna, fl. 1935 1
Moreno, John A., 1908- 1
Naval Underwater Systems Center (U.S.). New London Laboratory 1
Naval War College (U.S.). Foundation 1
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Noel, Shirley L., 1922-2017 1
Orem, Howard E. 1
Pihl, Charlotte E., 1899-1979 1
Pihl, Paul E., 1898-1991 1
Porter, Neil C. (Neil Claiborne), 1913-2015 1
Potter, E. B. (Elmer Belmont), 1908- 1
Princeton (Aircraft carrier) 1
Raleigh (LPD-1) 1
Ramsey, Donald J., 1903-1968 1
Rice, Robert Henry, 1903-1994 1
Ritt, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1890-1965 1
Robbins, Thomas H. (Thomas Hinckley), 1900-1972 1
Rochefort, Joe, 1900-1976 1
Roesler, Harold E. 1
Russell, George L., 1929- 1
Smedberg, William R. (William Renwick), 1902-1994 1
Smith, Norma G. 1
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