Papers, 1923-1988.

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Papers, 1923-1988.

Correspondence, photographs and miscellaneous materials, chiefly 1940s and 1950s. Personal correspondence is with his wife, Helen; his son, Thomas; his brothers John and Thomas; and his sister, Marie. Official correspondence focuses on his naval career, especially professorship of Naval Science, Columbia University. Photographs include naval and personal views as well as the aftereffects of the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan in 1945 and the USS Buckingham. Miscellany includes personal property items, certificates, imprints, and newspaper clippings.

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Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Moran, Henry G., 1899-1988.

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Henry G. Moran, U.S. Naval Officer, was born in West Haven, CT on May 4, 1899. He attended Yale University before enrolling in the U.S. Naval Academy, from which he graduated in 1923. He received an M.S. from Yale University in 1930. He saw action in the Pacific and Atlantic Theatres during World War II. He graduated from the Naval War College in 1946, where he served on the staff for the next two years. Moran retired from the Navy in 1953. His post retirement career was as a real estate apprais...

Moran, Thomas, 1940-

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Buckingham (Ship)

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