Joe W. Stryker Oral History Interview, June 3, 1978

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Joe W. Stryker Oral History Interview, June 3, 1978

June 3, 1978

http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/OH0053/

Stryker elaborates on his experiences at the Naval Academy (pp. 3-7), including his midshipman cruises to Europe, the Caribbean, and Australia (pp. 7-9). He mentions seeing Hyman Rickover while at submarine school (pp. 12-13) and meeting with Count Felix von Luckner at Mackinac Island, Michigan, during the Depression (pp. 15-16). After submarine school (graduated in 1930), Stryker was attached to Submarine Squadron 4 in Hawaii (1935-1939) (pp. 18-19), and he describes his activities there as communications officer. He then goes on to discuss his command of the USS RAVEN (1940-1941) (pp. 21-23), which began his work in the area of amphibious warfare. During World War II, he served as navigator in the USS NORTH CAROLINA (pp. 24-27). He describes navigating in poor weather conditions with little radar. He then relates his experiences after the war concerning his years attending and teaching at the Naval War College (pp. 29-31) and later when he was in command of the USS FREMONT (1948-1949) involved in amphibious transport warfare (p. 33). Concerning his tenure as Chief of Staff, Amphibious Group II in the Atlantic, he details the development of the amphibious operational training element for small craft just prior to the Korean War (pp. 35-37). Continuing his amphibious operations work he relates his experiences with the Amphibious Warfare Office of the Chief of Naval Operations in the early 1950s (pp. 40-41). Prior to his retirement, Stryker was involved with overseas education for the armed forces (pp. 42-45). During his discussion of this work he describes how he was instrumental in the development of the General Educational Development test (pp. 43-45) through the office of Armed Forces Information and Education, which was to be given as a high school equivalency test. He also discusses a problem he encountered while working in this office concerning frivolous accusations of communistic teachings (pp. 44-45).

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East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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