Overview of the Joseph U. Lademan papers
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Title: Joseph U. Lademan papers
Date (inclusive): 1941-1969
Collection Number: 75002
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1 manuscript box, 2 envelopes, 1 motion picture film reel
(0.7 Linear Feet)
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.
Creator:
Lademan, Joseph U., 1889-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1975.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Joseph U. Lademan papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Motion pictures
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean
Officers
Nuclear weapons -- Testing
Lend-lease operations (1941-1945)
Oil fields -- Equipment and supplies
Point Barrow Supply Expedition, 1948
United States. Navy
Gold Star (Freighter)
Milwaukee (Freighter)
Declassified U.S. government records
1949
Scope and Contents 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 Contents note
Records concerning the return of the ex-USS
Milwaukee
Rest of collection not yet described
envelope A
1 photograph of the light cruiser Murmansk (lent to the U.S.S.R), formerly the U.S.S. Milwaukee
1949
envelope B
6 photographs depicting atomic bomb testing explosions near Bikini Island attended by Captain Joseph Lademan, Jr., as a non-participating
observer for the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet
July 1946
