Register of the Robert Alfred Theobald papers

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Title: Robert Alfred Theobald papers
Date (bulk): 1942-1957
Collection Number: 60010
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 13 manuscript boxes (5.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, war diaries, dispatches, operations plans and orders, manuals, service lists, memoranda, reports, and war estimates relating to naval operations in Alaska from May 1942 to January 1943, including the Japanese invasion of the Aleutians, June 1942, and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Creator: Theobald, Robert A. (Robert Alfred), 1884-1957
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1960.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Robert Alfred Theobald papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

1884 January 25 Born, San Francisco, California
1902-1903 Attended University of California
1903-1906 B.S., U.S. Naval Academy
1908 Commissioned Ensign, U.S. Navy
1917-1918 Gunnery Officer, U.S.S. New York, Flagship of U.S. Squadron with British Grand Fleet
1918 September Promoted to Commander
1919-1921 Executive Officer, Naval Post Graduate School
1922-1924 Destroyer Command, Asiatic Fleet
1924-1927 Commanding Officer, Naval Post Graduate School
1927-1929 Executive Officer, U.S.S. West Virginia
1930-1932 Secretary of War Plans, Navy Department and Member of Joint Army - Navy Planning Committee
1932 February Promoted to Captain
1932-1934 Chief of Staff, Destroyers, Pacific Fleet
1934-1935 Member of Advanced Class, Naval War College, engaged in seminar study of Japan and Pacific War
1935-1937 Strategy Division, Naval War College
1937-1939 Commanding Officer, U.S.S. Nevada
1939-1940 Chief of Staff, U.S. Fleet
1940 Spring Member, General Board, Navy Department
1940 June Promoted to Rear Admiral
1940 Summer Commander, Cruiser Division Three
1940-1941 Commander, Flotilla One, Destroyers, Pacific Fleet
1941 December - 1942 May Commander, Destroyers, Pacific Fleet
1942 May - 1943 January Commander, Northern Pacific Force, in Alaska Operations
1943-1944 Commandant, First Naval District and Navy Yard, Boston
1945 Retired from active service
1954 Author, The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor

Scope and Content of Collection

Correspondence, speeches and writings, war diaries, dispatches, operations plans and orders, manuals, service lists, memoranda, reports, and war estimates relating to naval operations in Alaska from May 1942 to January 1943, including the Japanese invasion of the Aleutians, June 1942, and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean
Officers
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Alaska -- Aleutian Islands
United States. Navy

 

Personal Correspondence 1943-1957

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, arranged alphabetically by last name of correspondent.
box 1

Alexander, Ensign William H. 1943

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Associated Newspapers, Inc. 1955

box 1

Bledsoe, Captain A. M. 1943-1944

box 1

Brooks Bros. 1943

box 1

Burke, Arleigh (Chief of Naval Operations) 1957

box 1

Burwell, Commodore Louis E. 1944

box 1

Carlson, Lieutenant A. W. 1943

box 1

Cluverius, Rear Admiral (Ret.) Wat Tyler 1943-1944

box 1

Collins, Edward T. 1943

box 1

Craig, Captain W. 1943

box 1

Crooker, Mrs. Doris Theobald 1943

box 1

Cushing, Cardinal 1944

box 1

Davis, Frank W. 1944

box 1

Dawson, N. E. 1944

box 1

Doggett, Professor L. A. 1944

box 1

Dykes, James 1944

box 1

Erskine, W. J. 1943-1944

box 1

Fernety, Lieutenant Bolice P. 1944

box 1

Fahrion, Captain F. G. 1944

box 1

Fitz, Reginald 1944

box 1

Forrestal, James (Secretary of the Navy) 1943-1944

box 1

Gehres, Commodore L. E. 1943

box 1

Graham, Jennie Theobald 1943

box 1

Grosskopf, Ensign Homer L., Jr. 1943

box 1

Higgins, George T., CQM, USN 1943

box 1

Hill, Robert W. 1943

box 1

Howell, James B. 1943

box 1

Huebl, Commander Roland M. 1944

box 1

Jones, Dr. Chester M. 1957

box 1

Jones, Mrs. Dan W. 1943

box 1

Kalbfus, Admiral E. C. (Commander Destroyers, Battle Force) 1934

box 1

Kimmel, Rear Admiral (Ret.) Husband E. 1943-1957

box 1

King, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. 1948

box 1

King, Captain Ogden 1943

box 1

Knox, Frank (Secretary of the Navy) 1943

box 1

Lahey, Thomas B. 1943-1944

box 1

Leary, Vice Admiral N. F. 1944

box 1

Lowell Associates 1943

box 1

Ludewig, Commander J. W. 1943

box 1

McCown, Captain H. Y. 1943

box 1

McKay, Lt. Commander Baxter M. 1943

box 1

McMorris, Rear Admiral C. H. 1943

box 1

McMurdie, Phillip C. 1943

box 1

Military Historical Society of Massachusetts 1943-1944

box 1

Moring, Captain T. S. 1944

box 1

Morison, Samuel Eliot 1948

box 1

Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Norbert 1943

box 1

Myer, Harold 1943

box 1

Office of Price Administration (Boston, MA) 1944

box 1

O'Rourke, Jonn 1943

box 1

Pennypacker, J. A. 1944

box 1

Phillips, William (former Ambassador to Italy) 1947

box 1

Pierce, Reverend Michael G., S.J. 1943

box 1

Read (periodical) undated

box 1

Reifkohl, Captain F. L. 1943

box 1

Reilly, Lt.-Colonel James A. 1943-1944

box 1

Ryan, Boatswain Vernon L. 1943

box 1

Santos, J. B. 1943

box 1

Simon, Frank J. (Secretary-Treasurer, Master Mechanics Association, Naval Ship Yard, Boston, MA) 1947

box 1

Simons, Captain R. B. 1943

box 1

Slocum, Major B. C. 1943

box 1

Smith, Commander and Mrs. Steele B. 1944

box 1

Smith, Talbot 1943-1944

box 1

Sporting News (periodical) 1944

box 1

Theobald, Robert A., Jr. undated

box 1

Thompson, H. Keith 1957

box 1

United Press (Boston, MA Bureau) 1943

box 1

Vincent, Ensign Robert G. 1943

box 1

Wagner, Rear Admiral F. D. 1943

box 1

Walters, Lt.-Commander H. C. 1944

box 1

Wang, K. S. (Consulate of the Republic of China) 1948

box 1

Wessendorf, Mr. and Mrs. Homer 1943

box 1

Who's Who in the Western Hemisphere 1944

box 1

Windle, Lt. (j.g.) W. T. 1943

box 1

Winslow, Mrs. Mary W. 1944

box 1

Winterhalter, Harold 1944

box 1

Withers, Rear Admiral T. 1943

 

Speeches and Writings 1943-1959

Scope and Contents note

Articles, books, and speeches, arranged as listed, then chronologically thereunder. Includes correspondence and book reviews related to these works.
 

Articles 1947-1957

Scope and Contents note

Newspaper clippings of articles written by Robert A. Theobald for a biweekly column in the Beverly Evening Times, "Horizons in World and National Affairs."
box 1

1947 January 26-June 27

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1947 July 8-December 24

box 1

1948 January 3-July 3

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1948 July 7-November 10

box 2

1949 January 4-June 29

box 2

1949 July 2-December 31

box 2

1950 March 4-December 27

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1951 January 3-December 29

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1952 January 5-December 31

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1953 January 3-December 30

box 3

1954 January 6-December 30

box 3

1955 January 5-December 31

box 3

1956 January 4-June 30

box 3

1956 July 7-December 29

box 4

1957 January 5-April 24

 

Books 1945-1959

 

Death of a Navy, by Andrieu d'Albas (1957) 1955-1957

Scope and Contents

Translated from the French and with an introduction, maps, and notes by Robert A. Theobald.
 

Correspondence 1955-1957

box 4

D'Albas, E. Andrieu 1955-1957

box 4

Deland, Frank S. 1957

box 4

Devin - Adair Co., Publishers 1955-1957

box 4

Fitzgerald, William H. G. 1957

box 4

Parker, Capt. R. C. 1957

box 4

Pearne, Pollinger & Higham, Ltd. (London) 1956

box 4

Robbins, Rear Admiral Thomas H., Jr. 1957

box 4

Supplementary materials to text: maps, notes, charts, etc.

 

The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor (1954) 1949-1959

box 4

Book reviews

 

Correspondence 1949-1959

box 4

Unidentified 1954

box 4

Abbot, Stephen 1959

box 4

Allen, Joe M. 1954

box 4

Anderson, Henry W. 1954

box 4

Anderson, Paul F. 1954

box 4

Ashley, Clinton N. 1954

box 4

Askins, William F., Sr. 1959

box 4

Atkins, John B. 1954

box 4

Babbitt, Captain H. S. 1954

box 4

Babcock, Frederick (Editor, Magazine of Books, Chicago Tribune), 1954

box 4

Bacon, B. B. 1954

box 4

Ball, William H. 1954

box 4

Ballinger, Alice (Mrs. Webster) 1954

box 4

Ballinger, Webster 1954

box 4

Ballinger, Willis 1954

box 4

Baltzly, Commander (Ret.) Frederick, Sr. 1954

box 4

Barnes, Harry E. 1953

box 4

Barnes, Stuart C. 1954

box 4

Barroll, Henry H. 1954

box 4

Barry, William O. 1954

box 4

Bauer, A. J. 1954

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Begin, Z. L. 1954

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Belknap, Rear Admiral Reginald R. 1954

box 4

Bemis, Samuel F. 1954

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Bennett, Milo O. 1954

box 4

Bequette, J. C. 1954

box 4

Berryhill, Mrs. M. B. 1954

box 4

Bertocki, Mrs. Mary A. 1954

box 4

Bierly, Charles R. 1954

box 4

Blum, Herman 1954

box 4

Bragg, Colonel (Ret.) C. H. 1954

box 4

Braveman, David 1954

box 4

Brewer, Basil 1954

box 4

Bridgett, Charlie 1954

box 4

Browne, Kenneth 1954

box 4

Buckley, J. L. 1954

box 4

Butler, Dr. Harry H. 1954

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Burke, Lt.-Commander (Ret.) John H. 1954

box 4

Calhoun, Admiral W. L. 1954

box 4

Callahan, Robert J., Jr. 1954

box 4

Callahan, Robert J., Sr. 1954

box 4

Campi, Reverend Vincent L. 1957

box 4

Cannings, Fred E. 1954

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Capponi, John 1954

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Carlton, Miss Marjorie 1954

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Castle, William R. 1954

box 4

Cecil, Dr. Arthur B. 1954

box 4

Chase, Reverend Harry E. 1954

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Choat, Harry 1954

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Church, Frederic C. 1954

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Clark, Rear Admiral David H. 1954

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Coburn, Commander (Ret.) Frederic G. 1954

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Colegreave, Kenneth 1954

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Collins, E. D. 1954

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Collins, Edward M. 1954

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Colombel, John J. 1954

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Combier, P. Hodges 1954

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Comstock, Captain L. Wells 1954

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Connors, Thomas K. 1954

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Cooke, George P. and Sophie J. 1954

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Coolidge, William A. 1954

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Covington, Captain (Ret.) H. S. 1954

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Crist, Lt.-Colonel (Ret.) Arthur P. 1954

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Daley, Robert F. 1953

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Daley, Robert L. 1954

box 4

Dalton, Lt.-Colonel Arthur T. 1954

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Dartnell, R. B. 1954

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Davidson, Eugene (Editor, Yale University Press) 1952

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Davy, Commander Charles G. 1954

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DeArmond, Lt. (Ret.) George W., Jr. 1954

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DeBurgh, R. 1954

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Deland, Frank S. 1949-1953

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Dement, Merritt H. 1954

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Dickenson, Denny D. 1956

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Diemer, Mrs. Anne F. 1954

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Donavin, Lt.-Commander K. H. 1954

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Dorney, H. Jackson 1954

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Downes, Captain Oliver L. 1954

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Duffey, Walter E. 1954

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Du Pont, Mrs. Marcella M. 1953-1954

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Eckels, Richard P. 1954

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Ehman, George C. (Athenian - Nile Club, Oakland, CA, President) 1954

box 5

Ettinger, Captain George M. 1954

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Fairbank, Robert 1954

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Feeley, J. Richard 1954

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Fernety, Lt.-Commander Bolice P. 1954

box 5

Finch, J. D. (Chairman, Freedom Club, First Congregational Church of Los Angeles) 1954

box 5

Fischer, Marion 1954

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Flammer, Mrs. Betsy 1954

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Flint, Elder B. C. 1954

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Flynn, John T. 1954

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Folsom, Charles 1954

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Foote, P. W. 1954

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Fuchs, Maria 1954

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Gagner, Beatrice (Mrs. Walter) 1954

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Garrity, Devin A. (President, the Devin-Adair Co.) 1953-1957

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Gatch, Thomas L. 1953

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Glassford, Dodie 1954

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Glassford, Vice Admiral William 1954-1957

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Graves, F. L. 1954

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Greaves, Percy L., Jr. 1954

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Grenfell, Russell 1954

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Griffin, Robert 1954

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Grigg, Bessie 1954

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Grigsby, Joseph D. 1954

box 5

Grimm, Mrs. Verna B. (Librarian, the American Legion National Headquarters) 1954

box 5

Gruelick, Commander R. W. 1954

box 5

Haight, Rear Admiral (Ret.) Stanley M. 1954

box 5

Hall, James L. 1955

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Halsey, Fleet Admiral William F., Jr. 1953

box 5

Harmon, Lt.-Commander (Ret.) Lloyd M. 1954

box 5

Harris, Walden E. 1954

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Harrison, Ralph E. 1954

box 5

Hart, Mrs. Charles Spencer 1954

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Hart, Merwin K. 1954

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Hassenkampf, Bruce H. 1954

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Heaoner, Henry D. 1954

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Heere, Leonard 1957

box 5

Hefferan, Rear Admiral (Ret.) John B. (Director of Naval History, Dept. of the Navy) 1954

box 5

Hession, James M. 1954

box 5

Hession, L. S. 1954

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Higham, Marritt 1954

box 5

Hill, Major-General Jim Dan 1954

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Hodder, James R. 1954

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Horan, Frank 1954

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Horton, J. J. 1954

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Hoyt, Lawrence W. 1954

box 5

Houtz, Phillip (Executive Director, National Jewish Hospital at Denver) 1954

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Humphrey, Churchill and Martha 1954

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Imperial War Museum, London 1954

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Isherwood, Mrs. Harry 1954

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Jennings, George C. 1953

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Johl, Colonel Max G. 1954

box 5

Jones, Myron A., CRM (Ret.), U.S.N. 1954

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Jones, William M. 1956

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Joseph, Jerome 1954

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Kahala, Mrs. Aino 1954

box 5

Kahn, David (President, New York Cipher Society) 1954

box 5

Keep America Committee 1954

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Kiesling, Clarence E. 1954

box 5

Killion, Robert H. 1954

box 5

Kitts, Vice Admiral Willard A., III 1954

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Klawans, Paul G. 1954

box 5

Knox, Commodore Dudley W. 1954

box 5

Kuhnle, Howard A. 1954

box 5

Lahey, Thomas B. 1954

box 5

Landes, Carl K. 1954

box 5

Lavender, Robert A. 1952

box 5

Lawrence, David (Editor, U.S. News and World Report) 1954

box 5

Leydon, Commander John K. 1954

box 5

Lilly, Herbert D. 1954

box 5

Lindbergh, Charles A. 1957

box 5

Lindsay, Commander Stewart 1954

box 6

Lowry, Vice Admiral (Ret.) Frank J. 1954

box 6

Lucas, Frances B. (Mrs. James C.) (Executive Secretary, National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution) 1955

box 6

Ludewig, Rear Admiral Joe W. and Minerva 1954

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McCabe, Hilton H. 1954

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McCurdy, Florence 1954

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McDonald, Chester 1954

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McDonald, Irving T. 1954

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McWilliams, John 1954

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Magoun, F. Alexander 1954

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Maraspin, Dana G. (Governor, Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts) 1954

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Marr, Francis J. (Councillor, City Council of Lynn, MA) 1954

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Mason, Frances E. 1954

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Mercer, R. W. 1954

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Mills, Lt.-Commander (Ret.) Charles A. 1954

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Montgomery, Robert H. 1954

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Moore, Alice 1954

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Morgan, Roy L. 1954

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Morrison, Jay 1957

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Moseley, Major-General George Van Horn 1954

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Mulford, Allen 1954

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Nelson, Laurence E. 1957

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Neustader, L. W. 1954

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O'Donnell, John 1953

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Padrick, E. B. (Chairman, Armed Forces Fellowship Committee, Rotary Club of Chicago) undated

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Paine, John B., Jr. 1954

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Paisana, Finca 1954

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Palmer, Paul (Executive Editor, The Reader's Digest) 1954

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Parker, Captain Ralph C. 1954

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Parsons, Charles 1954

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Pascual, Pacifico T. 1954

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Patterson, Donald M. 1955

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Paynter, Thomas G. 1954

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Pier, H. W. 1954

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Polowsky, Joseph 1954

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Porter, Jesse B. 1954

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Powell, Rear Admiral Paulus P. 1954

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Power, James H., Jr. 1955

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Proctor, Joseph R. 1952

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Pyne, Rear Admiral S. N. 1954

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Ralston, Byron B. 1954

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Reynolds, Mrs. G. Bergen 1954

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Rhodius, H. U. 1954

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Richards, Ira 1954

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Richardson, Admiral James O. 1953-1954

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Rinehart, Mary Roberts 1954

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Rodgers, Margaret H. (Mrs. Anthony G.) 1954

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Rogers, Captain Winifred 1954

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Ruggles, William B. (Editor, The Dallas Morning News) 1954

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Ruhtenberg, Mrs. Jan 1954

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Rutherford, Alexander 1954

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Rutherford, S. Morton 1954

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Ryan, Russell C. 1954

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Sakahura, T. 1954

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Salouka, Beulah G. 1954

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Sampson, William J., Jr. 1954

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Schnitzer, George C., Sr. 1954

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Schroeder, H. L. (Director, The Schroeder Foundation) 1954

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Schwartz, Irving P. (Dept. of Public Relations, Queens College) 1954

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Seebeck, Volney 1954

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Sharp, Capt. (Ret.) W. D. 1954

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Shattuck, S. F. 1954

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Sherry, Edward J. 1954

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Short, Isabel Dean (Mrs. Walter C.) 1954

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Simmons, Edward ( The Standard-Times, New Bedford, MA) 1954

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Skorvaga, Elizabeth A. 1954

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Smith, Vice Admiral William Ward (Poco) 1954

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Spencer, Ensign Herbert 1954

box 6

Stafford, Colonel (Ret.) Ben 1954

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Stafsing, Ivar 1954

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Steefel, Lawrence D. 1954

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Strassburger, R. B. 1954

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Streu, Niels Henning 1954

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Sullivan, Colonel (Ret.) Alexander C. 1954

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Swanton, Hobart P. 1954

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Taeni, John 1954

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Tanner, W. R. 1954

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Taylor, Bradley R. 1954

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Thayer, Mr. and Mrs. 1953

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Theobald, A. J. 1954

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Theobald, Chester A. 1954

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Theobald, Ralph E. 1954

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Theobaldt, Mrs. Anni Schwarz 1954

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Thomas, Irene J. 1954

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Thornton, R. S. 1954

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Timmons, Bettie Edmonds 1954

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Tong, H. K. 1956-1957

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Traut, Capt. (Ret.) F. A. 1954

box 6

Trohan, Walter (Correspondent, Chicago Tribune) 1954

box 6

Trundle, Mrs. I. F. 1954

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Turner, Edward R. 1954

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Vansant, Stephen S. 1955

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Warner, Louis D. 1954

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Warren, Dale (Houghton Mifflin Co.) 1952

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Warshauer, Charles S. 1954

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Welch, Rachel (Mrs. James) 1954

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Wessendorf, Homer W. 1954

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West, Ralph E. 1954

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Whittemore, George A. 1954

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Whittemore, K. Robert 1954

box 6

Williams, John C. 1954

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Wygant, Captain Benyaurd B. 1954

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Yarnell, Admiral (Ret.) H. E. 1953-1954

box 6

Zemke, Captain (Ret.) Eric 1954

box 6

Zochert, Roland W. 1954

box 7

Printed copy (U.S. News and World Report) 1954 April 2

box 7

"A World Seeks Peace," 1945

General Physical Description note: Typewritten carbon copy of an unpublished manuscript.
 

Speeches and addresses 1943-1945 1956 undated

box 7

Outline for an unidentified speech undated

General Physical Description note: Typewritten draft and typewritten carbon copy.
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Address to workers of the Boston Navy Yard and South Boston Naval Drydock undated

General Physical Description note: Typewritten and hand-written draft.
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Address to Naval Graduating Units, Harvard University 1943

General Physical Description note: Typewritten draft.
box 7

Response to the toast The United States Navy at the Annual Dinner of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts 1943 June 7

General Physical Description note: Typewritten carbon copy.
box 7

Address to workers of the Boston Navy Yard and South Boston Naval Drydock 1943 July 15

General Physical Description note: Typewritten draft.
box 7

Address at Presentation of Army and Navy "E" Award to Boston Navy Yard at Boston Garden 1943 August 20

General Physical Description note: Typewritten carbon copy.
box 7

Address at Commissioning of U.S.S. Wasp, 1943 November 20

General Physical Description note: Typewritten carbon copy.
box 7

Interview with Admiral Theobald on radio program Life to the Front, station WEEI 1943 December 8

General Physical Description note: Typewritten carbon copy.
box 7

Radio talk by Rear Admiral Theobald over station WHDH 1944 January 1

General Physical Description note: Typewritten carbon copy.
box 7

Statement for the Boston newspapers 1944 June 6

General Physical Description note: Typewritten carbon copy.
box 7

Radio script for V-Day 1945

General Physical Description note: Typewritten carbon copy.
box 7

Address before the Men's Corporate Communion Grace Church in Salem, Massachusetts 1956

General Physical Description note: Typewritten draft.
 

War Diaries, Commander North Pacific Force, Task Force Eight, U.S. Pacific Fleet 1942-1943

Scope and Contents note

Ships' logs and transcripts of radio dispatches, arranged chronologically.
box 7

1942 May 22-31

box 7

1942 June

box 8

1942 June (cont'd.)

box 8

1942 July

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1942 August

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1942 September

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1942 October

box 9

1942 November

box 10

1942 December

box 10

1943 January 1-3

 

Naval Career Office File 1908-1949

Scope and Contents note

Dispatches, inventory reports, manuals, memoranda and reports, Navy Department correspondence and orders, operations plans and orders, service lists, and war estimates, arranged as listed, then chronologically thereunder. See also: Declassified U.S. Government Records.
 

Dispatches 1942

box 10

Assistance Information and Data Acquisition Center (AIDAC) dispatches, 1942 May 16-22

Scope and Contents

These consist of decoded messages between Commander-in-Chief Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC) and Commander Northwestern Sea Front (COMNOWESTSEAFRON), concerning Japanese operations against Midway and the Aleutians.
box 10

Dispatches from the Commander of Task Force 8 to the Commander of Task Group 8.1 and the Commanding General of Eleventh Air Force, Fort Greely, Alaska 1942 June-July November-December

box 10

Inventory reports, Inventory Reports of Registered Secret and Confidential Publications Distributed by the Chief of Naval Operations, 1943-1944

 

Manuals 1940-1942

box 10

Staff Manual, Cruiser Division Three, Battle Force, United States Fleet, 1940

box 10

Staff Instructions, Destroyer Flotilla One, United States Pacific Fleet, 1941

box 10

Staff Instructions, Destroyers, Battle Force, United States Pacific Fleet, 1942

box 10

Sound Military Decision, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, RI 1942

 

Memoranda and reports 1942-1944

box 11

Report from Headquarters of 11th Air Force Air Striking Group (Task Group 8.3), Kodiak, Alaska to Commanding General, Alaska Defense Command, Fort Richardson, Alaska

Scope and Contents

Summary of operations to June 10th, 1942 (tactical employment of 11th Air Force in first phase of Japanese invasion of Aleutians), with relevant dispatches and notes.
box 11

Memorandum on the situation in Alaska 1942 July 2

Scope and Contents

Written by Admiral Theobald for the Commandant of the Thirteenth Naval District at the latter's request for information on the Alaska situation.
box 11

Memorandum of Comtaskforce 8 concerning the proposed relocation of Headquarters of Fleet Air Wing Four to Adak circa 1942 September

box 11

"Planes Used in Kiska Mission," 1942 September 14-December 18

box 11

"Analysis of Command Relationship Between Commander Task Force Eight and Commanding General Eleventh Air Force," 1942 December 14

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Memoranda on the grounding of the U.S.S. Alexander J. Luke, 1944 March 24

Scope and Contents

Written by the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, for the Commandant of the First Naval District, Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald.
 

Navy Department correspondence and orders 1908-1949

Scope and Contents

Includes orders from, and correspondence with, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz (CINCPAC), Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (COMINCH), Frank Knox (Secretary of the Navy), Franklin D. Roosevelt (as acting Secretary of the Navy and as President), Major-General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs (Chief of the Bureau of Navigation), and others.
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1908-1939

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1940-1949

 

Operations plans and orders 1942

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CINCPAC, No. 28-42 May 21

 

Comtaskforce 8

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No. 1-42 May 27

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No. 2-42 May 29

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No. 3-42 May 31

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No. 4-42 June 10

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No. 5-42 June 22

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No. 6-42 undated

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No. 7-42 July 8

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No. 8-42 July 14

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No. 9-42 August 1

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No. 10-42 August 21

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No. 11-42 undated

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No. 12-42 October 12

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No. 13-42 October 12

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No. 14-42 November 19

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No. 15-42 December 2

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No. 16-42 December 26

 

Comtaskgroup 8.1 (Air Group, Eleventh Air Force)

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No. 1-42 May 28

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No. 2-42 June 9

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Field Orders No. 1 June 24

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Field Orders No. 2 June 25

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Field Orders No. 3 July 16

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Field Orders No. 4 August 23

 

Comtaskunit 8.1.1 (Air Striking Unit, Eleventh Air Force)

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Field Orders No. 4 June 25

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Field Orders No. 5 July 16

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Field Orders No. 6 August 3

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Field Orders No. 7 August 23

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Field Orders No. 8 November 1

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Comtaskunit 8.1.2 (Air Search Unit, Eleventh Air Force), No. 3-42 June 29

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Comtaskgroup 8.2 (Surface Search Group), No. 1-42 May 28

 

Comtaskgroup 8.3 (Air Striking Group, Eleventh Air Force)

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Field Orders No. 1 May 28

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Field Orders No. 2 June 1

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Field Orders No. 3 June 11

 

Comtaskgroup 8.5 (Submarines)

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No. 1-42 June 29

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No. 4-42 July 5

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No. 2-42 August 11

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No. 3-42 November 26

 

Compatwing 4

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Standard Communications Plan

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Operations Schedule for Project Queen August 2

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Search Plan Dog August 17

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Operations Schedule for Project King

 

Eleventh Air Force

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Plan of Operations, Project Queen

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Plan of Operations, Project King

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Comalsec, No. 1-42 July 16

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U.S.S. Nashville (flagship of Task Force 8), Outline of Plan for Handling Flare Attack August 25

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Directive for Provision of Aircraft Support to Ships at Sea

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Service lists 1942-1944

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War estimates 1940-1943

 

Subject File 1951-1957

Scope and Contents note

Articles and letters, arranged alphabetically by subject.
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Marshall, George C. 1951 March

Scope and Contents

The Tragedy of George Marshall by Walter Trohan, The American Mercury.
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Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1953

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Theobald, Rear Admiral Robert A., 1957

Scope and Contents

Letters of condolence on the occasion of Admiral Theobald's death and memorial service program.
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, undated

Scope and Contents

Foreword to The Soviet Impact on Society by Dr. Dagobert D. Runes.
 

Miscellany 1944-1951

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Commencement programs

 

Declassified U.S. Government Records 1942-1943

Scope and Contents note

Formerly security-classified records of the U.S. government, released in full or in part. Arranged chronologically by date of release by Hoover, thereunder chronologically by date of creation.
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2015 May release of records 1942-1943

Scope and Contents note

Operations plans, war diaries, orders, correspondence, and dispatches.
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2016 February release of records 1942

Scope and Contents note

Appendices to Operation Plans and Communication Plans. See also: Naval Career Office File.