Spruance, Raymond Ames, 1886-1969
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Thomas B. Buell collection on Raymond A. Spruance
Collection
Identifier: MSC-037.1
Abstract
This collection consists of research materials collected by Thomas B. Buell, author and retired naval officer, for his biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, The Quiet Warrior, published by Little, Brown and Company in 1974.
Dates:
1866-2002 and undated; Majority of material found within 1971-1974
Found in:
Naval War College Archives
Notes for a talk before the RI Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, 1947 May 5
Item — Box 4A, Folder: 17
Identifier: RG-28
Scope and Contents
Notes used by Admiral Spruance for his talk before the Rhode Island Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of the America at the Hope Club in Providence.
Dates:
1947 May 5
Outline of talk to students of Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts College, 1947 Jan 15
Item — Box 4A, Folder: 17
Identifier: RG-28
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
Biographical sketches, career material, publication and writings of NWC presidents.
Dates:
1947 Jan 15
Photo of ADM Chester W. Nimitz, ADM Ernest J. King, and ADM Raymond A. Spruance
Digital Record
Identifier: MSC385_22_25_4928
Dates:
1944
Found in:
Naval War College Archives
Raymond A. Spruance papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-012
Scope and Contents
The personal papers of Raymond A. Spruance, was donated to the Naval War College by Mrs. Spruance in 1970, only a year after the admiral's death. The collection contains eleven boxes of manuscript materials, along with memorabilia, including uniform items, medals, and Japanese Samurai swords. The papers focus, in the main, on the admiral's distinguished naval career, aspects of his ambassadorial appointnent, and his retirement years.Series I, Correspondence, consists of letters relating to his position as Commander of the Central Pacific
Force, 1943-1944; the Battle of Midway, 1943; official orders and copies of messages sent relating to duty assignments, 1906-1950; and letters received and drafts of letters sent regarding naval matters. Other correspondence focuses on the Naval History Division Spruance biography by V ADM Emmet P. Forrestel. Spruance was not a particularly loquacious person and was reluctant to commit his thoughts to paper, hence the correspondence series is limited in both scope and quantity.Writings and speeches comprise Series II and Series III. Speeches consist of holograph drafts and typescripts given when Spruance was Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet, President of the Naval War College, and in a retired status. His Naval War College thesis on Command, Naval War College lecture on Naval Tactics, notes made by Spruance for a book by E.B. Potter and the typescript of a 1965 Paris Match interview complete the writings...
Dates:
1898-1969 and undated
Found in:
Naval War College Archives
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- Archival Object 2
- Collection 2
- Digital Record 1
- Subject
- photographs 3
- Admirals -- United States -- History -- 20th century 2
- Ambassadors -- United States -- History 2
- Midway, Battle of, 1942 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American 2
- newspaper clippings 2
- Admirals -- United States -- Biography 1
- Historians -- United States 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations 1
- audiocassettes 1
- drafts (documents) 1
- ephemera 1
- letters (correspondence) 1
- oral histories (literary works) 1
- research notes 1
- scrapbooks 1
- speeches (documents) 1 + ∧ less
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