Naval War College (U.S.)

Caffrey discusses his service in the US Navy during WWII, including his joining the Navy in 1944, naval training in Sampson, NY, engineering training in Gulfport, MS, Advanced Diesel training in Dearborn, MI, assigned to the USS New Jersey as a Fire Control man, life aboard ship, comments on ADMS Raymond A. Spruance and William F. Halsey, typhoon of 1944, Battles of Leyte Gulf and Okinawa, return to the US and discharge in 1946, College on the GI Bill and employment with Northeast Utilities. Positive comments about the Navy.

Copies of a letter sent by Winfield S. Schley, Chief of Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting to Captain Arthur R. Yates, commanding officer of the U.S.S. New Hampshire. In this letter, Schley informs Yates that the Superintendent of the Naval War College will be allowed a cook, steward, and a Barge’s crew (to consist of a coxswain, 1st class machinist, and a seaman).

Included is one handwritten copy and one typewritten copy of the letter. The location of the original letter is unknown.

Presentations given by Naval War College faculty and staff.

Lecture delivered by Naval War College President, William Pye, on naval strategy, possibly to students at NWC. He introduces the term "sea strategy" as a modern replacement for naval strategy positing that "there is no longer any such thing."

Typewritten copy of a letter from William L. Rodgers while serving on the U.S.S. Delaware in Cuba to William McCarty Little regarding his perceptions of how the work done at the war college affected the fleet. Rodgers urged the NWC to “stick hard to plenty of problem solving and order writing as the foundation of war college work.”

Handwritten copy of a letter from William V. Pratt to William McCarty Little regarding Little’s lecture on the “Philosophy of Order Form” and how impressed he was by its message.