Overview of the Joseph U. Lademan Papers

Processed by Hoover Institution Archives Staff

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California 94305-6010

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Overview of the Joseph U. Lademan Papers

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California

Processed by:: Hoover Institution Archives Staff
Date Completed:: 2008
Encoded by:: Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record by David Sun.

Collection Summary

Title: Joseph U. Lademan papers

Dates: 1941-1969

Collection Number: 75002

Creator: Lademan, Joseph U., 1889-

Collection Size: 1 manuscript box, 2 envelopes, 1 motion picture film reel (0.7 linear feet)

Repository: Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford, California 94305-6010

Abstract: Memoranda, writings, reports, printed matter, clippings, and photographs, relating to the return of the U.S.S. Milwaukee (re-named Murmansk by the Russians) to the United States Navy from the Soviet Union in 1949, and to the atomic bomb testing at Bikini Island, July 1946. Includes a memoir entitled The Gold Star and Guam : War in the Western Pacific, 1941-1942 (1961), relating to the freighter U.S.S. Gold Star, which supplied Guam during World War II.

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives

Languages: In English

Administrative Information

Access

Collection is open for research.

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Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Joseph U. Lademan papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1975.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid.

Biographical Note

Captain, United States Navy.

Scope and Content of Collection

Memoranda, writings, reports, printed matter, clippings, and photographs, relating to the return of the U.S.S. Milwaukee (re-named Murmansk by the Russians) to the United States Navy from the Soviet Union in 1949, and to the atomic bomb testing at Bikini Island, July 1946. Includes a memoir entitled The Gold Star and Guam : War in the Western Pacific, 1941-1942 (1961), relating to the freighter U.S.S. Gold Star, which supplied Guam during World War II.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Gold Star (Freighter)

Milwaukee (Freighter)

United States. Navy--Officers.

Nuclear weapons--Testing.

Lend-lease operations (1941-1945)

Oil fields--Equipment and supplies.

Point Barrow Supply Expedition, 1948.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean.

World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations.

Motion pictures.

Declassified U.S. government records 1949

Scope and Content Note

Formerly security-classified records of the U.S. government. Arranged chronologically by date of release by Hoover

box 1

2011 September release of records 1949

Scope and Content Note

Records concerning the return of the ex-USS Milwaukee

Rest of collection not yet described

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