Reminiscences of Richard L. Conolly : oral history, 1959.

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Reminiscences of Richard L. Conolly : oral history, 1959.

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Early education and training at Annapolis; junior naval officer experiences aboard destroyers and battleships; World War I; Washington, Geneva, and London Conferences; naval training schools, 1920s and 1930s; Pearl Harbor; wartime experiences in the Pacific; Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington; invasion of North Africa; assault on Sicily; Operation Avalanche (assault on Salerno); cooperation with the British; Guam, Saipan, and the Philippines; Paris Peace Conference, 1946; Commander United States Fleet in Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean; 6th Fleet; struggle over unification of the armed forces; President, United States Naval War College.

Transcript: 411 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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