Papers, 1898-1984 (bulk 1914-1984).

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Papers, 1898-1984 (bulk 1914-1984).

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Correspondence, speeches, writings, subject files, and photographs, relating primarily to McCrea's career as a naval officer (1914-1953). Includes material relating to his service under Admiral Hugh Rodman in European waters during World War I and in the Pacific (1919-1921); as an aide to the special service squadron commander in Central American waters (1929-1931); with the naval government of Guam (1936-1937); as an aide to chief of naval operations Harold R. Stark and naval secretary at a meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff (1941); as a naval aide to President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1942-1943); as commander of the battleship Iowa (1943-1944) and commander of a cruiser division operating in the Aleutian and Kuril islands (1944-1945); and as deputy chief of naval operations, deputy commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and commander of the First Naval District after World War I. Topics include French mobilization in 1914; cooperation between the U.S. and British navies during World War I; surrender of the German High Seas Fleet (1918); military, political, and social conditions in Nicaragua and Panama (1929-1931) and Guam (1936-1937); McCrea's assessment of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet and its commander, Thomas Charles Hart (1940-1941); and the establishment of the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md. Correspondents include Russell S. Berkey, William H.P. Blandy, E.H. Campbell, Richard L. Conolly, Louis E. Denfeld, Robert L. Dennison, W.M. Fechteler, Thomas C. Hart, William D. Hassett, Walter A. Hicks, Jonas H. Ingram, B.V. McCandlish, Chester W. Nimitz, Herbert Lamont Pugh, Lynne C. Quiggle, Hugh Rodman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Allan E. Smith, Arthur St. Clair Smith, Kemp Tolley, and Harry S. Truman.

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Ingram, Jonas H. (Jonas Howard), 1886-1952

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Hicks, Walter A. (Walter Alexander), 1892-1953

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Conolly, Richard L. (Richard Lansing), 1892-1962

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