Register of the Milton E. Miles papers
| 1900 April 6 | Born, Jerome, Arizona, son of Lewis E. Robbins and Mae Belle Cook, stepson of George A. Miles |
| 1917 | Apprentice seaman, U.S. Navy |
| 1918-1922 | Midshipman, U.S. Naval Academy |
| 1922-1927 | Commissioned as Ensign and promoted to Lieutenant (Junior Grade), U.S. Asiatic Fleets |
| 1927-1929 | Post Graduate School, U.S. Naval Academy |
| 1928 | Promoted to Lieutenant |
| 1929 | M.S., Columbia University |
| 1929-1932 | Electrical officer, U.S.S. Saratoga |
| 1932-1934 | Member, Bureau of Engineering, Navy Department |
| 1934-1939 | Destroyer duty, U.S. Pacific and Asiatic Fleets |
| 1937 | Promoted to Lieutenant Commander |
| 1939-1942 | Member, Interior Control Board, Navy Department |
| 1942 | Promoted to Commander and Captain |
| 1942-1943 | U.S. Naval Observer, Chung King, China and Chief of OSS (Office of Strategic Services) for the Far East |
| 1943-1945 | Deputy Director, Sino-American Cooperative Organization (SACO) |
| 1944-1945 | Commander, U.S. Naval Group, China |
| 1945 | Appointed Rear Admiral, for temporary service |
| 1946 | Commanding Officer, U.S.S. Columbus |
| 1947 | Planning Officer, Staff of Commander Service Force, Atlantic Fleet |
| 1948 | Promoted to Rear Admiral |
| 1948 | Commander, Cruiser Division One |
| 1949 | Commander, Cruiser Division Six |
| 1949 | Commander, Cruiser Division Four |
| 1950-1954 | Director, Pan American Affairs and U.S. Naval Missions in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and Senior Naval Delegate to Inter-American Defense Board |
| 1954 | Commandant, Fifteenth Naval District, Panama Canal Zone |
| 1955 | On-site Commander, Operation Friendship, flood relief program, Tampico, Mexico |
| 1956 | Commandant, Third Naval District, New York, and Commander, U.S. Naval Base, New York |
| 1958 | Promoted and retired as Vice Admiral |
| 1961 March 25 | Died |
| 1967 | Author (posthumously) A Different Kind of War: The Little-Known Story of the Combined Guerilla Forces Created in China by the U.S. Navy and the Chinese during World War II |
Scope and Content of Collection
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Alley, Rewi 1942
Alger, Ambassador Frederick M., Jr. 1954
Arias, Harmodio 1956
Baly, Commandant M., France 1949
Barringer, William 1946
Baruch, Bernard M., Jr. 1958
Beebe, M. U. 1949
Beyerly, Commander Irving F. 1946-1951
Bibby, Lowe H. 1950
Blandy, Admiral W. H. P. 1948
Bledsoe, Rear Admiral A. M. 1950 1957
Blick, R. E. 1948
Bookhamer, Commander R. H. 1957
Bowman, Commander George 1945
Bowen, Vice Admiral Harold G. 1950
Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. 1951
Brennecke, Margaret 1949
Brown, Vice Admiral Charles ("Cat") 1957
Brown, Dayton R. E. 1942
Bruggemann, Major Lester G. (Gus) 1945
Brunet, Meade 1947 1949 1954
Bullitt, Ambassador William C. 1949
Burkhart, H. W., Jr. 1949
Burke, Admiral Arleigh A. 1948 1956-1957
Byes, Donald F. 1949
Calvert, Commander James 1957
Campbell, Air Vice Marshall Hugh, Canada 1950
Campbell, General Thomas D. 1949
Cannon, J. B. 1951
Capieto, Rudolph 1946
Champe, Joseph E. 1950
Chan, Anna 1947
Chang, Chun 1957
Chang, Wan-ying 1945 (?)
Chen, Chih-Ping 1948 1951
Chen, Yao-hung 1946
Cheng, General Kai-Ming, Republic of China 1946-1948 1954
Chiang, General Ching-Kuo, Republic of China 1956
Chiang, Generalissimo Kai-shek, Republic of China 1945-1946 1948 1954 1957
Chiang, (Madame) Kai-shek 1942 1950
Chennault, Major General Claire L. 1946-1947 1958
Chu, Y. L. 1947
Clark, Admiral D. H. 1957
Cochran, Commander D. E. 1946
Cochran, S. W. 1941
Coffin, Elizabeth 1951
Colbert, Dr. John W. 1955-1956
Coleman, Dr. Ernest H. 1946
Cramer, Leigh R. 1956
Daly, Paul A. 1952
Dealy, Roland 1950
Diaz, Emilio 1956-1957
Dietrich, Neil 1949
Dobbins, C. G. 1945-1946
Dornin, Captain Marshall E. 1956
Drake, Waldo 1948
Duval, Captain Miles P. 1950
Earnshaw, Fenton W. 194?-1946
Earnshaw, Harry A. 1946
Eastman, R. J. 1947-1948
Eccles, Henry E. 1957
Eckberg, Captain H. F. 1947 1950
Efron, George A. 1949 1951-1952
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1949
Eller, Rear Admiral Ernest M. (Judge) 1942 1949 1957
Emblanc, Colonel, Fighting French Military Mission 1943
Eraso, Jaime Annexy 1957
First Aid for Hungary, Inc. 1956
Fisher, A. L. 1940
Fitzpatrick, Commander J. P. 1956
Forester, C. S. 1956
Forrestal, Secretary of Defense James 1948-1949
Galantin, Commander I. J. (Pete) 1945 1952
Galvez, Juan Manuel 1954
Gardner, Ambassador Arthur 1954
Garnett, Captain P. W. 1957
Gilfillan, Ruth 1945
Giraud, General Henri, France 1946
Goldberg, Captain Joshua L. 1957
Goodwin, Dr. Robert H. 1946 1949
Grable, Colonel Jack 1949
Green, Thomas 1955
Grover, Preston L. 1949
Guardia, Ernesto de la, President of Panama 1956
Haatvedt, Rollo 1957
Halsey, Admiral William F. 1957
Hammond, Mr. and Mrs. S. A., Jr. 1956
Hardy, Congressman Porter, Jr. 1956
Harriman, Governor Averell 1956
Haselton, N. S. 1957
Heagy, Lieutenant Commander Daniel Webster 1947
Healey, Roy 1946
Herren, Lieutenant General Thomas W. 1957
Heimburg, Rear Admiral E. H. von 1950-1952
Hoffman, Dr. Rolla E. 1942
Hofmann, Dean 1957
Holloway, Rear Admiral J. L. 1949
Holmes, Captain W. J. 1946
Hon, George S. Y. 1946
Horton, John 1947
Hsiao, Colonel Sin-ju, Republic of China 1945 1948-1950 1955
Huang, Bessie 1951
Huang, Siu-feng 1951
Hurley, General Patrick, Jr. 1948
Hurt, Willie F. 1941
Hwang, Deputy Commissioner You, Republic of China 1947
Hwang, (Mrs.) Z. 1947
Ironmonger, Commander Richard 1958
Jones, Richard E. 1956
Kendig, Richard and Dorothy 1955
Kimball, Lieutenant Commander K. W. 1957
Kimmel, Admiral Husband E. 1941 1950 1958
Kotrla, Ray 1952
Kunjara, Colonel Karb and Tieb, Thailand 1947
Kunjara, Toy 1949
Kwei, Paul (Chi-ting) 1946-1947
Land, Edwin H. 1947
Lane, Most Reverand Raymond A. 1951
Langen, Commander T. E. F. 1945
Larco, Rafael Herrera 1951 1954
Larson, Robert P. 1946
Lawlar (?), Bill 1947
LeBarre, Weston 1950
Lee, General Chung-shih 1945-1947
Lee, Tai-Yih 1945
Lee, Rear Admiral Young Woon, Republic of Korea 1957
Liang, Admiral Hsu-Chao, Commander-in-Chief, Chinese Navy 1957
Lin, Captain P. C. (Charles) 1951
Liu, Lieutenant Colonel Cheng Fong (Eddie), Republic of China 1946 1950 1952
Liu, Frederick F. 1947 1951 1956
Longton, Captain E. W. 1957
Looney, Jack and Joyce 1955
Lynch, R. E. 1949
Ma, General Chi-Chow, Republic of China 1947
Ma, Vice Admiral Chi Chuang, Republic of China 1954
McCaffrey, Lieutenant Commander Stanley E. 1945
McGaha, F. Leroy 1946 1948
McNaughton, General A. G. L. 1955
Madden, Lieutenant Commander Vic G. 1947
Manson, Lieutenant Commander Frank A. 1947
Mao, (Mrs.) Hsiang-Hsing 1957
Mao, General Jen-Feng, Republic of China 1946-1947 1950
Mao, General Shen, Republic of China 1947
Mar, Timothy T. 1957
Metzell, Captain Jeffrey C. 1938 1949
Meyertholen, Lieutenant Commander Joe 1946 1949
Meynier, Commander Robert and Madame Kathiou Do Huu Thinh, France 1943 1945 1947-1949
Miles, Mrs. Milton E. ("Billy") (holographs) 1946-1947 1950 1955
Milliren, Howard C., and Pearl 1946 1948-1949 1951
Moll, Mr. and Mrs. Peter 1945-1946 1948-1949
Morison, Samuel Elliot 1957
Morris, S. I. (Si) 1946
Mountbatten, Rear Admiral the Earl, Great Britain 1948
National War College 1951
Naval War College 1949-1950 1958
Nimitz, Fleet Admiral Chester W. 1948
Norton, Edward 1949-1950
Oard, Harry C. 1956
Opie, Captain John N. 1947
Owen, Lieutenant Commander Emmett 1957
Pan, General Chi-wu 1947 1950 1952-1953
Pan, John 1949
Parkin, Charles M. 1948 1950
Pechkoff, General Vinovi 1946
Peterson, Bruce A. 1952
Plake, F. Marvin 1946
Podmaniczky, Sandor 1946
Pottle, Mrs. V. L. (Edna) 1945
Ragan, Rear Admiral Thomas C. 1957
Robinson, Commander Reuel V. 1946
Rojas, Contraalmirante Isaac F. 1958
Rousset, Major J. F. 1947-1948
Ruiz Cortines, Adolio, President of Mexico 1958
Saldias, Admiral Rouge A., Peru 1957
Salisbury, Stanton W. 1949-1950
San Diego Zoological Gardens 1946
Savage, S. S. 1948
Scott, Hoyt S. 1945
Shen, Yin 1945
Slonim, Gilven M. 1957
Smith, Rear Admiral Allan E. 1948
Smith, Captain C. D. 1950
Smith, Francis H. 1945
Smith, Ward J. ("Smitty"; Ehr Shih Li) 1945-1949 1956 1958
Smoot, Captain Roland N. 1947
Spellman, Cardinal Francis 1950
Stimson, Robert 1947
Stratton, Commander Roy O. 1945 1949-1950
Su, Hsin-min 1945
Symand, Louis undated
Tai, General Li, Republic of China 1942 1945-1946
Tai, Madame Lao Tai 1946
Talbot, Philips 1957
Tao, General Yi-shan, Republic of China 1947-1948
Tayloe, Dr. G. B. 1948
Taylor, W. L. 1941
Tetrault, Ernie 1956
Thomas, Secretary of the Navy Charles S. 1956-1957
Thompson, H. Keith 1956
Thurrell, Robert F. 1955
Tong, Ambassador Hollington K. 1957
Tong, General Tsung, Republic of China 1947
Trefny, Commander W. P., Jr. 1953
Tsen, Captain T. C. 1957
United States Naval Institute 1946 1953
United States Naval ROTC Unit, Cornell University 1957
Utley, Freda 1951
Wales, George H. 1957
Wells, Commander Tom H. 1956
Whitten Major General Lyman P. 1951
Wight, Dave 1951
Williams, H. S. (Hal) 1951
Wright, Rear Admiral C. H. 1945
Wu, Amy H. 1950
Wu, General Te-Chen, Republic of China 1939 1947
Yee, Frank 1951
Young, Mrs. E. W. ("La Mary") circa 1950
Yuan, Ching-yuen 1952
Unidentified letters
"Important Police Activities in Wartime China," address before the Fifty-Seventh Annual Conference of the New York State Association of Chiefs of Police 1957 July 24
"Navy Supply and Logistics Problems in China during W.W. II," remarks made before the U.S. Naval Supply Depot Supervisor's luncheon 1957
Memorandum concerning U.S. intelligence service organization in China, sent to the Chief of the Information Branch, Central Planning Staff, Central Intelligence Group 1946 May 17
Notes
Alaska
Alaska Railroad
U.S. Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4 1952
Chennault, Major General Claire L. 1945-1948
China
Maps
News clippings
Chao Hon Middle School
China-Burma Highway, report of trip made by Milton E. Miles 1939
Chinese Railway, engineers and administrative officials 1945
Communism
Currency, comparative chart of exchange and the price index of the Associated Church Treasurers in the period 1937-1945
Flood relief, delivery of supplies to the U.S. Marine detachment, Tientsin, China 1939 August
Kamikaze Ships, report concerning the disconnection of the motors of such ships in the Chushan Archipelago area 1945
Missionaries, article about "How the 'Reds' Drove American Missionaries from Wuchow" by Charles Daily in The China Weekly Review 1926 July 17
Sino-American Cooperative Organization (SACO)
Ionospheric project, settlement of payment for services
SACO-The Rice Paddy Navy by Roy Olin Stratton, Pleasantville, New York: C. S. Palmer Publishing Co., unbound printed copy 1950
Training of Chinese guerillas
Sino-Japanese Conflict
Japanese Army circular 1939
Snow, Edgar, "The What-the-Hell Pennant," Saturday Evening Post, 1945 November 10
"Some Phases of the Sino-Japanese Conflict (July to December, 1937)," by Captain W. A. Angwin 1938 December
U.S. Naval Intelligence reports 1937 1939
U.S. Naval Group, China
Correspondence, memoranda, messages
"An Official History of the United States Naval Group, China," 1946
"Operational Report on U.S. Naval Group, China," an essay submitted to the Department of English History and Government, United States Naval Academy, by Midshipman W. B. Miles 1952 March
Postal Service, history 1945 September 15
Post-war relations with Chinese government 1947
Receipts and expenditures 1942-1944
U.S. Military attache personnel 1951
China Emergency Committee
Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy
Communism
French Military Mission in the Far East
Greece, personalities in Athens 1949
Guerilla warfare
H.M.S. Rodney, inspection visit 1940
Indonesia
International Naval Review, Hampton Roads, Virginia 1957 June
Korean War
Latin America
Argentina
General
"La Campaña Antartica (The Antarctic Company), 1951-1952," article by Emilio L. Diaz
Peron, Juan, inauguration 1952
Tierra del Fuego
Bolivia
General
Bolivian attitude on regional disarmament 1955
Economic aid
Brazil
General
Anti-American propaganda
Brazilian National Security Council
Miles, Admiral Milton E., official visit 1952
Political and military affairs
U.S. Naval Mission
U.S. relations with the Brazilian Navy
Chile
Miles, Admiral Milton E., official visit 1951
Political and economic affairs, U.S. relations with the Chilean Navy
Colombia
General
Piedrahita, Admiral Ruben
Political and military affairs
Sinking of the schooner Resolute
U.S. Naval Mission
U.S. relations with the Colombian Navy
Costa Rica
Pan-American Highway
Political and military affairs
U.S. relations with Costa Rica
Cuba
Political affairs
U.S. relations with Cuba
Dominican Republic
General
Cabot, John Moors, political observation tour 1953
U.S. relations with the Dominican Navy
Ecuador
General
Plaza Lasso, President Galo
Political affairs and border disputes
United States Government Operations, summary report 1955
U.S. Naval Mission
Guatemala
Guatemalan military personnel
Haiti - U.S. relations with the Haitian Navy
Inter-American Defense Board
Mexico
General
Flood relief in Tampico (Operaciòn de Amistad/Operation Friendship) 1955
Military decorations
Military parades
Return to Mexico of flags caputured in the War of 1846-1848
Ruiz Cortines, President Adolfo, inauguration 1952
Salinas Carranza, General Alberto, Director of Civil Aviation
Nicaragua - Somoza, President Anastasio
Panama
Assassination of President Jose Antonio Remon 1955
Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Independence of the Republic of Panama 1953
Overland trail from David to Chiriquicito
Panama Railroad
Political, economic, and diplomatic affairs
U.S. relations with Panama
Paraguay - Miles, Admiral Milton E., official visit (includes photographs) 1955
Peru
Border controversy between Peru and Ecuador
Crops and livestock, reply by United States Operations Mission to an inquiry by Arnold J. Toynbee
Maritime technical assistance
Miles, Admiral Milton E., trip on the Marañón and Ucayali Rivers 1954
Peruvian naval interests
Transporation and sanitary conditions along the Amazon River
U.S. relations with Peru
Uruguay
General
Martinez Trueba, President Andrés, inauguration 1951 March
Venezuela
Betancourt, Romulo
Larrazabal Ugueto, Wolgan
Military personnel
Miles, Admiral Milton E.
General
Biographies and vitae
Citations, commendations, letters of appreciation
Papers of Admiral Miles relating to New York Naval District, notes on
Return trip from China 1945
Neutralism in Asia
"Operation-Remember" (Honoring Wartime Leaders and Enlisted Heroes of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps) 1957 May
Pearl Harbor, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel's reply to the remarks of Congressman Clarence Cannon concerning the Japanese attack in December 1941 1958
Permanent Joint Board on Defense (Canada-United States)
General
Canadian National Defense College and Army Staff College
Fort Churchill, Manitoba
Frobisher Bay, Royal Canadian Air Force unit
U.S. Naval Ordinance Test Station, China Lake
Tai, General Li, death and funeral services 1946-1947
Turkey
American fleet visit 1949
Joint Military Mission for Aid to Turkey, officer personnel 1951
U.S. Army, Arctic orientation tours 1951-1952
U.S., Department of State, relations with Latin America, address by John M. Cabot, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American affairs 1953 October 9 October 14 1953
U.S. Navy
Administration, principles and problems
Inspection of defense project facilities (Bell Telephone Laboratory, RCA Victor Company, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sperry Gyroscope Company, Bendix Company, Electro Dynamic Companies), by M. E. Miles 1940-1941
Inspection of U.S. Naval Missions in Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, and Haiti, memorandum by E. J. Foster
Naval interests in Latin America
Personnel, Asiatic Fleet and Station 1939-1941
U.S.S. Atlantic, sinking of vessel 1942
U.S.S. John D. Edwards, loss of ration records 1942
U.S.S. Juneau, sinking of the vessel 1942
U.S.S. Panay, inquiry into the sinking of the vessel 1937
U.S.S. Preble, visit to Kobe, Japan 1923
U.S.S. Saratoga, special report on detachment by Lieutenant Jeffrey C. Metzel 1930
U.S. Senate - Investigation of Communism by the Subcommittee on Internal Security of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary 1955
Yu, General Ta-Wei, biographical data 1951
Zikawei Observatory 1946
Miscellaneous
1 group photo of the Inter-American Defense Board, July, 1951, with a list of members attached; 1 photo of M. E. Miles with President Galo Plaza lasso of Ecuador at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco, 1951. 1 photo of M. E. Miles with Captain D'Ambrosio and Admiral Aqwar of the Argentine Navy and Colonel Porch of the U.S. Army, circa early 1950s; 3 photos of the body of Gilmer Fisher, killed in the "Campeche Affair" in Mexico in 1953, with a letter from Abraham Katz, American Vice Consul, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, attached; 8 photos of M. E. Miles with Venezuelan naval officers during a visit to Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, circa June, 1951, with notes from Captain Oscar Ghersy Gomez and Commander Wolfgang Larrazabal attached
4 photos of Chinese junks flying American flags, circa 1945; 1 photo of M. E. Miles with Admiral Charles M. Cooke, Jr., and Commander Ed Burroughs, undated; 1 photo of M. E. Miles visiting Chiang Kai-shek in Chungking, China, circa April-May, 1942
1 photo of M. E. Miles riding in a helicopter from the U. S. S. Worcester, undated; 1 photo of Queen Fredericka of Greece and Admiral T. S. Combs during a royal visit aboard the U. S. S. DesMoines, November 3, 1949
8 photos of M. E. Miles during a visit to the Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Point Barrow, Alaska, January, 1952; 3 photos of the Permanent Joint Board on Defense (Canada-U.S.), circa 1951-1952; 1 photo of M. E. Milesbeing welcomed to Miramare Castle, Trieste, 1948; 1 negative of a $20,000 check payable to M. E. Miles, March 18, 1942
2010 release of records 1954
