Reminiscences of George Frederick Hussey, Jr. : oral history, 1965.

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Reminiscences of George Frederick Hussey, Jr. : oral history, 1965.

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Background and education; Naval Academy; PENNSYLVANIA, 1920; courses in ordnance, ballistics; Australian cruise, 1925; Bureau of Ordnance, Armor and Projectile Section, Proof Officer, Naval Proving Ground; Gunnery Officer SALT LAKE CITY, destroyer command; command of Mine Division and Mine Squadron; command offshore patrol, Pearl Harbor, December 1941-April 1942; Bureau of Ordnance; Director of Production, Assistant Chief, later Chief of Bureau until September, 1947; contractor-operated ordnance plants; basis for postwar ordnance research; many military and naval vignettes.

Transcript: 582 leaves.

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

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