Overview of the Charles Jonathan Whiting papers
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Overview of the Charles Jonathan Whiting papers
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Title: Charles Jonathan Whiting papers
Dates: 1925-1969
Collection Number: 74100
Creator: Whiting, Charles Jonathan, 1906-1973
Collection Size:
9 manuscript boxes, 1 album box
(4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Orders, reports, correspondence, photographs, and motion picture film, relating to the sinking of the American gunboat Panay
in China, 1937; to other activities of the United States Navy in China, 1937-1940; and to American naval operations in the
Atlantic and Mediterranean during World War II.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages: In
English
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Charles Jonathan Whiting papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1974.
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of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Rear admiral, United States Navy; judge advocate, court of inquiry investigating the Panay incident, 1937.
Scope and Content of Collection
Orders, reports, correspondence, photographs, and motion picture film, relating to the sinking of the American gunboat Panay
in China, 1937; to other activities of the United States Navy in China, 1937-1940; and to American naval operations in the
Atlantic and Mediterranean during World War II.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Panay (Gunboat)
United States. Navy--Officers.
Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations.
United States--Armed Forces--China.