Register of the Lorenzo Sherwood Sabin, Jr. papers
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Title: Lorenzo Sherwood Sabin, Jr. papers
Date (inclusive): 1909-1978
Collection Number: 80120
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
5 manuscript boxes, 2 envelopes
(2.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Memoirs and other writings, correspondence, orders, and memoranda relating to American naval operations in the Atlantic during
World War II, the evacuation of North Vietnamese refugees to South Vietnam in 1954, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Creator:
Sabin, Lorenzo Sherwood, 1899-
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 1980.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Lorenzo Sherwood Sabin, Jr. papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library &
Archives.
Biographical Note
1899 May 23 |
Born, Dallas, Texas |
1921 |
B.S., U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis |
1930 |
Naval engineer, U.S. Navy Postgraduate School, ordnance engineering |
1941 |
Staff gunnery officer, U.S.S.
Maryland, Pearl Harbor
|
1942 |
Commander, LCI (L) Flotilla Two |
1943 |
Commander, Landing Craft Groups, Tunisian, Sicilian, and Solarno campaigns |
1944 |
Commander, Assault Convoy, Force 0, assault on Normandy |
1948 |
Promoted, Rear Admiral |
1954 |
Commander, Sea Lift, Operation Passage to Freedom |
1955 |
Awarded, Legion D'Honneur |
|
Awarded, Distinguished Service Medal |
1956 |
Promoted, Vice Admiral |
1957-1961 |
Chief of Staff, Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic, NATO |
1961 |
Retired |
Scope and Content of Collection
Memoirs and other writings, correspondence, orders, and memoranda relating to American naval operations in the Atlantic during
World War II, the evacuation of North Vietnamese refugees to South Vietnam in 1954, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations
Officers
Refugees
United States -- Defenses
Indochinese War, 1946-1954
United States. Navy
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Biographical File
1927-1961
Scope and Contents note
Biographical data, personal records, correspondence, orders, and other records relating to the career of Lorenzo S. Sabin,
arranged alphabetically by subject.
Awards
Scope and Contents note
Memoranda, congratulatory correspondence, and certificates. Typescript copies.
box 1
Distinguished Service Medal
1955
box 1
Biographical sketches
General Physical Description note: Typescript copies.
Orders
Scope and Contents note
Memoranda and correspondence re appointments, promotion, and change of duties. Typescript copies.
box 1
Promotion to flag rank
1948
box 1
Appointment, Chief of Staff, Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic, NATO
1957-1961
box 1
Retirement
1961
Scope and Contents note
Congratulatory correspondence.
Correspondence File
1930-1976
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence of Lorenzo S. Sabin, arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Columbia Broadcasting Company
Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas
Korean Embassy, Washington, D.C.
Rockefeller, John D., III
South African Press and Information Office
U.S. Naval Institute
Proceedings
U.S. Office of the President
Speeches and Writings
1947-1978
Scope and Contents note
Drafts and printed copies of articles, autobiographical reminiscences, and memoranda, arranged alphabetically by title.
box 2
Untitled speech, conference, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Norfolk, Virginia
1956 December 18
General Physical Description note: Typescript (carbon copy).
Untitled speech, Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, San Diego
1977 December 4
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
"Amphibian Means Action,"
Phiblant Information Bulletin,
1957 January 1
General Physical Description note: Printed copy.
Autobiographical notes
undated
General Physical Description note: Handwritten transcript.
"Biography of Vice Admiral L. S. Sabin, Transcribed and Edited from Taped Interviews by Commander E. B. Kitchen,"
1970
General Physical Description note: Annotated typescript.
"Deep Selections,"
Proceedings, U.S. Naval Institute
1960 March
Scope and Contents note
Typescript copy, printed copy, and related correspondence.
Letter to the editor,
Proceedings, U.S. Naval Institute
1973 November
General Physical Description note: Printed copy.
Letter to the editor,
San Diego Union, re free press
1977 July 23
General Physical Description note: Printed copies.
Memorandum re performance of duty
1947 October 31
General Physical Description note: Mimeographed copy.
Memorandum re enlistment rates
1954 October 5
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
"Omaha Beach,"
Shipmate,
1969 June
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy and related correspondence.
"Our Involvement in Southeast Asia--An Assessment,"
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
"The Panama Canal--Is It Ours?--Do We Need It?,"
Examiner,
1976 May 26
General Physical Description note: Printed copy.
box 4
"Personal War Notes--LCI (L) Flotilla Two Operations,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript and related material.
"Random Thoughts on Assorted Subjects,"
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Review of
The Luciana Project by Rodney Campbell
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Review of
Our Endless War by Tran Van Don, in
The San Diego Union,
1978 October 1
General Physical Description note: Typescript and printed copies.
"Rising Suns Over Pearl,"
Shipmate,
1966 December
General Physical Description note: Printed copy.
"Sentiments of a Sailor" (autobiographical notes)
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
"The Significance of Angola,"
San Diego Examiner,
1976 March 17
General Physical Description note: Typescript and printed copies.
"A Sledge Hammer to Crack a Nut,"
Shipmate,
1967 March
General Physical Description note: Printed copy.
"Soviets Want a 'Red Lake' --Threat in Caribbean," reprint from the
San Diego Union,
1976 June 25
General Physical Description note: Printed copy.
"Tragedy of Vietnam" (unfinished manuscript)
1963-1965
General Physical Description note: Typescript and holographic notes.
"Unfinished Story of Flotilla Two,"
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript and holograph.
"Vignette of a Man's Thoughts While File Clearing,"
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Subject File
1909-1961
Scope and Contents note
Memoranda, essays, pamphlets, and clippings by others, and official and semi-official correspondence of the Supreme Allied
Command, Atlantic, NATO, arranged alphabetically by subject.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic (SACLANT)
Scope and Contents note
Official and semi-official correspondence, arranged alphabetically by correspondent. See also: Declassified U.S. Government
Records, 2016 January release of records.
Normandy, assault on, Task Force O
Sicily, invasion of, Action Report, LCI (L) Flotilla II
La Vestale, report on French submarine
Photograph File
1943, undated
Scope and Contents note
52 prints.
envelope A
15 prints of Lorenzo S. Sabin
undated
envelope B
37 prints of North Africa, LCI (L) Flotilla II, and other scenes of World War II,
1943
Declassified U.S. Government Records
1951-1960
Scope and Contents note
Formerly security-classified records of the U.S. government, released in full or in part. Includes some interfiled, unclassified
government records. Arranged chronologically by date of release by Hoover, thereunder chronologically by date of creation.
box 5
2016 January release of records
1951
1954
1958-1960
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence and memoranda (some neither to nor from Sabin) relating to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Supreme
Allied Commander, Atlantic (SACLANT) and the Department of the Navy.