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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:

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Bernard L. Austin Papers

Identifier: MSS61725
Abstract

Naval officer and educator. Correspondence, speeches and writings, and subject files documenting Austin's naval career.

Dates 1916-1979; Majority of material found within ( 1937-1968)
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John J. Ballentine Papers

Identifier: MSS78663
Abstract

United States Navy officer and air pilot. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, logbooks, military records, biographical material, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Ballentine's naval career after 1920.

Dates 1913-1973; Majority of material found within ( 1942-1954)
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William H. P. Blandy Papers

Identifier: MSS81522
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, reports, speeches, biographical material, scrapbooks, and clippings relating chiefly to Blandy's World War II service as head of the United States Navy Department Bureau of Ordnance and afterward as director of Operation Crossroads, the atomic tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946.

Dates 1913-1977
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Claude Charles Bloch Papers

Identifier: MSS12419
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, printed matter, and other material relating to Claude Charles Bloch’s naval career before and during World War II, including his command at Pearl Harbor.

Dates 1926-1945; Majority of material found within 1937-1941
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Harold Gardiner Bowen Papers

Identifier: MSS31476
Abstract

Naval officer and engineer. Correspondence, military orders, news clippings, writings, and other papers relating to Bowen's activities with the Newcomen Society and the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation and his various business interests. Some material pertains to his duties as chief of the United States Navy Bureau of Engineering and as director of the Naval Research Laboratory during World War II.

Dates 1907-1977; Majority of material found within ( 1940-1959)
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Thomas T. Craven Papers

Identifier: MSS61733
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, family papers, and subject files relating primarily to his convoy duty and command of United States Naval Aviation Forces in Europe during World War I, and his command of a gunboat flotilla on the Yangtze River in China during 1929-1931.

Dates 1842-1969; Majority of material found within 1917-1945
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Benjamin S. Custer Papers

Identifier: MSS86171
Abstract

United States Navy officer and air pilot. Correspondence, military records, photographs, scrapbooks, writings, clippings, and other papers relating primarily to Custer's naval career after 1922, naval aircraft carriers and seaplane tenders during World War II, and the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corp at Princeton University during the 1950s.

Dates 1912-2000; Majority of material found within 1920-1958
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Morton L. Deyo Papers

Identifier: MSS60590
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, subject files, speeches and writings documenting Deyo's career in the Navy, particularly as a naval task force commander during World War II in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters.

Dates 1911-1981; Majority of material found within ( 1911-1954)
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George C. Dyer Papers

Identifier: MSS79426
Abstract

United States Navy officer. Correspondence, memoranda, diary, speeches and lectures, research files, reports, biographical material, photographs, and printed matter relating to Dyer's naval career and to his publications, primarily his biographies of navy admirals during the World War II era.

Dates 1898-1988; Majority of material found within ( 1935-1959)
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Edward Ellsberg Papers

Identifier: MSS86193
Abstract

United States Navy officer and author. Notebooks, correspondence, memoranda, lectures, articles, book drafts, short stories, play drafts, radio scripts, patents, military files, newspaper clippings, digital files, and other material relating to Ellsberg's service as an engineer and naval salvage expert. Also included are drafts and research files relating to John Doughty Alden's book entitled Salvage Man: Edward Ellsberg and the U.S. Navy.

Dates 1891-2008; Majority of material found within 1926-1998
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William Rea Furlong Papers

Identifier: MSS78539
Abstract

Author and United States Navy rear admiral. Correspondence, memoranda, ship diaries, lecture and research notes, drafts of speeches and writings, reports, rosters, biographical materials, photographs, and other papers relating mainly to Furlong's service in the United States Navy.

Dates 1892-1985; Majority of material found within 1930-1945
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John Wills Greenslade Papers

Identifier: MSS13235
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, diaries, memoranda, reports, speeches and writings, subject files, dispatches, contracts, blueprints, charts, maps, tables, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and other papers documenting Greenslade's career in the United States Navy from the Spanish-American War through both world wars.

Dates 1847-1961; Majority of material found within ( 1895-1952)
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William Frederick Halsey Papers

Identifier: MSS49643
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, war diaries, logs, journals, narratives of military campaigns, military orders, books, periodicals, poems, songs, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia relating mostly to Halsey's social and business career after World War II, his personal life and club activities, and the history of American naval involvement in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

Dates 1907-1959; Majority of material found within 1943-1959
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H. Kent Hewitt Papers

Identifier: MSS61740
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, naval planning memoranda, writings, and newspaper clippings documenting Hewitt's naval career, especially as commander of United States naval forces in the Mediterranean during World War II.

Dates 1903-1972; Majority of material found within ( 1940-1949)
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Frederick Joseph Horne Papers

Identifier: MSS14936
Abstract

U.S. Navy officer. Correspondence, reports, speeches and writings, aviator's logbooks, scrapbooks, printed matter, and memorabilia relating to Horne's naval career during World War I and World War II.

Dates 1893-1967; Majority of material found within ( 1900-1945)
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Ernest Joseph King Papers

Identifier: MSS38687
Abstract

Naval officer. Official and general correspondence, orders to duty, speech, article, and book file, memoranda, notes, printed material, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to King's activities as commander in chief of the United States Fleet and chief of naval operations during World War II.

Dates 1908-1991; Majority of material found within 1936-1952
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Herbert Bain Knowles Papers

Identifier: MSS12112
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, orders to duty, subject files concerning invasion plans and occupation reports for Guam, Japan, Kwajalein Islands (Marshall Islands), Leyte Island (Philippines), Lingayen (Luzon, Philippines), Okinawa Island (Japan), Saipan (Northern Mariana Islands), and Tarawa Atoll (Kiribati), and printed matter relating to Knowles's service with the Amphibious Forces in the Pacific during World War II.

Dates 1941-1945
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Emory Scott Land Papers

Identifier: MSS29314
Abstract

Naval officer and public official. Correspondence, diary notes, speeches, copies of orders, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and other papers chiefly relating to Land's government service as head of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Construction and Repair, chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission, and chief administrator of the U.S. War Shipping Administration. Includes material relating to his cousin, Charles A. Lindbergh, and Land's testimony in the Lindbergh kidnapping case.

Dates 1900-1972
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William D. Leahy Papers

Identifier: MSS29678
Abstract

Naval officer, diplomat, and governor of Puerto Rico. Diaries, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers relating to Leahy's naval and diplomatic career.

Dates 1897-1959; Majority of material found within ( 1935-1959)
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Charles A. Lockwood Papers

Identifier: MSS48694
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, reports, writings, photographs, newspaper clippings, and printed matter relating mainly to Lockwood's naval career during World War II as commander of the United States Submarine Force in the Pacific and his research and writings on submarines after his retirement.

Dates 1904-1967; Majority of material found within ( 1940-1960)
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John Dougall Metcalfe Papers

Identifier: MSS86364
Abstract

United States Navy officer. Family papers, correspondence, journals, notes, writings, photographs, maps, orders, memorabilia, employment applications and résumés, and other material relating primarily to Metcalfe's naval career from 1941 to 1963.

Dates 1878-1996; Majority of material found within 1941-1963
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Alfred Easton Poor Papers

Identifier: MSS75450
Abstract

Architect and naval officer. Correspondence, writings, publications, reports, and appointment calendars pertaining primarily to Poor's architectural career, particularly his designs for public buildings, and his naval service during World War I and World War II.

Dates 1866-1985; Majority of material found within ( 1919-1983)
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William Edward Riley Papers

Identifier: MSS14944
Abstract

Marine Corps officer. Correspondence, operation plans and reports, memoranda, notes, maps, photographs, and other papers relating to Riley’s World War II service on the staff of Admiral William Frederick Halsey, commander of South Pacific Area and commander in chief of the United States Navy 3rd Fleet; invasions of the Philippines and Ulithi (Micronesia); and United States Marine Corps and United States Navy demobilization efforts after the war.

Dates 1941-1948
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William K. Romoser Papers

Identifier: MSS84707
Abstract

United States naval officer. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, certificates, account book, radio script, and printed matter relating to Romoser's career in the United States Navy.

Dates 1922-1982; Majority of material found within ( 1948-1961)
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J. F. Shafroth Papers

Identifier: MSS14043
Abstract

Naval officer. Official correspondence, memoranda, directives, and reports sent to William Frederick Halsey and Chester W. Nimitz relating primarily to Shafroth's experiences as a commander in the South Pacific and head of a task group that conducted the first heavy bombardment of Japan during World War II. Includes material relating to Shafroth's course work at the Army War College.

Dates 1926-1945; Majority of material found within ( 1943-1945)