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Snyder, Charles Philip, 1879-1964. Papers, 1896-1953.

Title: Papers, 1896-1953.

Correspondence, miscellany, and photographs, chiefly 1896-1953. Bulk of the collection consists of both official and personal correspondence documenting his naval career and includes navy requests, assignments, claims, and instructions, complete correspondence files for his years, 1937-1939, as president of the naval War College, with information on the Munich Crisis, 1938, the American Naval Mission in Brazil, with civic organizations, with Heads of Bureau of Navigation, and with prominent naval officers, including Jonas Ingram, William Moffet, Edward C. Kalbfus, Chester W. Nimitz, and David F. Sellers, and letters of condolence upon the death of his wife, Cornelia, in 1944. Speeches of Snyder as well as Ernest J. King, Chester W. Nimitz, and James Forrestal are included. Miscellany includes programs, invitations, maps, newspaper clippings of the Spanish American War and Dewey's victory at Manila Bay, 1898, scrapbooks of Great White Fleet visits to foreign ports, 1907-1908, and the return of remains of John Paul Jones to USA, 1908, and diplomas and certificates. Photographs include family pictures as well as ships, naval officers, naval visits, and navy ceremonies.

ArchivalResource: 9.4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/759932555 View

"March of Time" Collection. 1934 - 1951. March of Time Documentary/Newsreel Films Relating to U.S. History, Government, Politics, Culture, and International Affairs. 1935 - 1953. CRISIS IN THE PACIFIC, 1940

Title: "March of Time" Collection. 1934 - 1951. March of Time Documentary/Newsreel Films Relating to U.S. History, Government, Politics, Culture, and International Affairs. 1935 - 1953. CRISIS IN THE PACIFIC, 1940

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/97558 View

Morton L. Deyo Papers, 1911-1981, (bulk 1911-1954)

Title: Morton L. Deyo Papers 1911-1981 (bulk 1911-1954)

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.

ArchivalResource: 3,150 items; 9 containers; 3.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008028 View

Kretz, Charles H. Oral history reminiscences of Capt. Kretz.

Title: Oral history reminiscences of Capt. Kretz.

Focuses on his years in the Asiatic Fleet in the 1930's as an old China Hand. He served on the USS PANAY and the USS Bulmer, prior to WWII, and has extensive commentary on the Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Culture.

ArchivalResource: 1 v., 109 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18181031 View

Howland, Daniel,. Papers, 1902.

Title: Papers, 1902.

Correspondence of August 16, 1902, to R.G. Howland, Butterwood, RI, owner of the yacht Moose, from R. Johnston, CO., USTB Biddle, which collided with the yacht, explaining the accident. Report of the investigating board composed of LTs Stanford E. Moses and Harry E. Yarnell, August 16, 1902, to flotilla CO, U.S. Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, RI. First endorsement on board report, August 26, 1902. Photographs of NWC president French E. Chadwick and of Mrs. Chadwick.

ArchivalResource: 5 manuscript items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/758674545 View

William Frederick Halsey Papers, 1907-1959, (bulk 1943-1959)

Title: William Frederick Halsey Papers 1907-1959 (bulk 1943-1959)

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.

ArchivalResource: 20,000 items; 55 containers plus 2 oversize; 22 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011173 View

Smith-Hutton, Henri. Oral History typescript of reminiscences.

Title: Oral History typescript of reminiscences.

Reminiscences of boyhood in S. Dakota; USNA education, cruises; Asiatic Fleet in preWWII era; Japanese language study in Tokyo; USS HOUSTON, Asiatic Fleet Staff, Flt Intelligence Officer; Asst. Naval Attache, Tokyo; USS LAWRENCE, EXO; USS AUGUSTA, CO; US Naval Attache, Tokyo prior to WWII; Interned in Japan, 1941 and repatriation to USA, 1942.

ArchivalResource: 1 v., v. I.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18172737 View

Ford, J. mss., 1906-1976

Title: Ford, J. mss. 1906-1976

Consists of the correspondence, papers, and memorabilia of motion picture director John Ford, 1895-1973.

ArchivalResource: 7,000 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAC2724 View

McNutt, Paul V. (Paul Vories), 1891-1955. Mss., 1899-1955

Title: McNutt mss. 1899-1955

Consists of the papers of Paul Vories McNutt, 1891-1955, lawyer, governor of Indiana and federal official.

ArchivalResource: 31,923

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAC4948 View

Edward Lindley Bowles Papers, 1869-1990, (bulk 1920-1982)

Title: Edward Lindley Bowles Papers 1869-1990 (bulk 1920-1982)

Inventor, engineer and educator. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, manuscripts, speeches, transcripts of recorded recollections, reports, minutes, subject files, notes, legal documents, printed material, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Bowles's career as an engineer and consultant in private industry and in government, his association with research universities, and work relating to the securing and defense of patents.

ArchivalResource: 32,200 items; 92 containers plus 1 classified; 36.8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010308 View

Edward Lindley Bowles Papers, 1869-1990, (bulk 1920-1982)

Title: Edward Lindley Bowles Papers 1869-1990 (bulk 1920-1982)

Inventor, engineer and educator. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, manuscripts, speeches, transcripts of recorded recollections, reports, minutes, subject files, notes, legal documents, printed material, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Bowles's career as an engineer and consultant in private industry and in government, his association with research universities, and work relating to the securing and defense of patents.

ArchivalResource: 32,200 items; 92 containers plus 1 classified; 36.8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010308 View

Yarnell, Harry E. (Harry Ervin), 1875-1959. Memorandum on war situation / H.E. Yarnell.

Title: Memorandum on war situation / H.E. Yarnell. 1942 Apr. 15.

ArchivalResource: 12 leaves ; 33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51038124 View

Yarnell, Harry E. (Harry Ervin), 1875-1959. Papers, 1879-1960.

Title: Papers, 1879-1960.

This collection consists of diaries, journals, correspondence, subject files, press clippings, scrapbooks, speeches, and personal orders covering all aspects of Admiral Harry Yarnell's career, including his command of the Asiatic Fleet from 1936 to 1939. The final series of these papers documents the activities of Rear Admiral Charles M. Thomas, Yarnell's father-in-law, in the period 1889-1909.

ArchivalResource: 10 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57552600 View

Kimmel, Husband Edward, 1882-1968. Papers of Husband Edward Kimmel, 1954-1955.

Title: Papers of Husband Edward Kimmel, 1954-1955.

Correspondence and newspaper and magazine articles relating to the publication of Kimmel's book Admiral Kimmel's Story (1955) concerning the controversy surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor, Kimmel's defense of his position in that affair, and the role of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Correspondents include John O. Beaty, Joseph Grew, Fred L. Krause, H. Hayes Landon, Romaine Poindexter, James O. Richardson, John F. Shafroth, Edgar W. Waybright, and Harry E. Yarnell.

ArchivalResource: 200 items.1 microfilm reel (negative)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83754112 View

James M. McHugh papers, 1930-1965.

Title: James M. McHugh papers, 1930-1965.

Included are military correspondence and intelligence reports, personal correspondence, diaries, including a journal McHugh kept on his trip over the Burma Road (Dec. 1938-Jan. 1939), photographs (ca. 1300 items, many not precisely identified, of wartime figures, and colleagues and friends), manuscripts of articles and books, and printed items.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM02770.xml View

Harry E. Yarnell Papers, 1909-1958, (bulk 1939-1945)

Title: Harry E. Yarnell Papers 1909-1958 (bulk 1939-1945)

Naval officer. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, reports, articles, printed matter, and miscellaneous papers related to military aspects of United States China policy, reorganization of United States armed forces, naval and military strategy during World War II, and Yarnell’s naval career.

ArchivalResource: 875 items; 3 containers plus 1 classified; 1 linear foot

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007033 View

The Personal Collection of Adm. Gerald Francis Bogan, 1919-1963

Title: The Personal Collection of Adm. Gerald Francis Bogan 1919-1963

This collection contains military orders, papers, photographs and artifacts relating to the career of Adm. Gerald F. Bogan of the U.S. Navy.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 Linear feet; 4 manuscript boxes

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt129034x1 View

McHugh, J. M. (James Marshall), 1899-. James M. McHugh papers, 1930-1965.

Title: James M. McHugh papers, 1930-1965.

Included are military correspondence and intelligence reports, family and other personal correspondence, diaries, among them a journal that McHugh kept on his motor trip over the Burma Road (December 1938-January 1939), photographs (ca. 1300 items, many not precisely identified, of wartime figures, and colleagues and friends), manuscripts of articles and books, and printed items. Subjects of the correspondence and reports to 1946 include China in general, the Sino-Japanese War, McHugh's association with or impressions of the Chiangs, T.V. Soong, Ai-Ling Soong (Madame H.H. Kung), and other Chinese public figures, the management of the Bank of China, disputes and rivalries among American interests with contracts for supplying the Chinese Air Force. Other subjects include the bribery of Chinese officials, the administration of Lend-Lease in China, the construction and use of the Burma Road, the bombing of the British gunboat H.M.S. "Sandpiper," the work of the American Volunteer Group (AVG), Japan and the Japanese people, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the activities of William Henry Donald, advisor to the Chiangs, Ambassador Nelson Trusler Johnson, and Clarence Gauss, Vice-President Hyman G. Rickover, General Evans F. Carlson, and General Claire Lee Chennault. After 1946, the letters are primarily analyses of events of national and international importance, such as the civil war in Indo-China and tVietnamese conflict, Soviet-American relations, Sino-Soviet relations, Amcan presidential elections, and the foreign policies of the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations, written to and from various representatives of Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Balfour, Guthrie & Co., including Hugh David MacEwen Barton, David Bosanquet, Michael Alexander Robert Young-Herries, John Henry Keswick, William Johnson Keswick, and Erik Watts; also correspondence with Richard R. Smith, formerly with the British-American Tobacco Company (BAT) in Shanghai, on world affairs and on Smith's life in California. Also, manuscripts and correspondence relating to an article by K.C. Wu (Kuo-chen Wu), former governor of Formosa; and correspondence and articles of McHugh's wife, Maxine Davis, the writer. Other correspondents include Major Ronald Aubry Boone, John H. Bruins, General Evans Fordyce Carlson, General Claire Lee Chennault, Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Mayling Soong), Oscar Sidney Cox, Commander John Marion Creighton, C.D. Culbertson, Lauchlin Currie, William Henry Donald, Herbert B. Elliston, Abijah Upson Fox, Clarence E. Gauss, Robin Gordon. Other correspondents include Major Edward Gillette Hagan, Luther Hartwell Hodges, General Thomas Holcomb, Cordell Hull, Juang P'ing-heng (P.H. Whang), British Ambassador Archibald Clark Kerr, Claire (Lady) Keswick, Val St. J. Killery, Franklin William Knox, John Magruder, Rear Admiral Edward John Marquart, Lieutenant Commander Milton Edward Miles, Sir Geoffrey Alexander Stafford Northcote, Duncan Oppenheim, George M. Schurman, Charles Vincent Sheehan, Edgar Snow, Harold John Timperley, Rear Admiral Kemp Tolley, John Carter Vincent, and Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell.

ArchivalResource: 8.5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64687347 View

General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moffett Field Naval Air Station General Photograph Files

Title: General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moffett Field Naval Air Station General Photograph Files

This series consists of photograph files maintained in the photography laboratory at the Naval Air Station (NAS) Moffett Field in California. The photographs, taken by members of the Fleet Imaging Command, Pacific and its predecessors, provide a pictorial history of Moffett Field. Included are aerial views of Moffett Field; photographs documenting construction projects at the facility; and a panoramic photograph showing the first landing of the Navy airship USS Macon at Moffett Field in 1933 (428-MP-578). There are additional pictures of the USS Macon and the USS Akron, including photographs showing interior fitments and the airships in-flight; balloon training and non-rigid airship operations during World War II; various Navy aircraft; and Navy photo reconnaissance activities at Guadalcanal during World War II. Personalities pictured in the series include Admiral William Moffett, for whom the facility was named (428-MP-263); Rear Admirals Harry E. Yarnell, Joseph M. Reeves, and Captain John H. Towers aboard the USS Saratoga in 1928 (428-MP-822); and President Gerald Ford visiting Moffett Field in 1975 (428-MP-613). In addition, the series includes views of Half Dome, Lower Yosemite Falls, and El Capitan at Yosemite National Park, California (428-MP-692 , 693, and 694); the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge; typhoon damage to photo reconnaissance squadron VP-3's facilities at Yonabaru, Okinawa in 1945 (428-MP-834 to 845, with gaps); U.S. destroyers run aground at Point Honda, California in 1923 (428-MP-873 to 878); and a visit of U.S. Navy ships to New Zealand and Australia in 1925 (428-MP-829 to 860, with gaps). All of the photographs are captioned.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear feet, 10 linear inches

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/563073 View