Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Conference records, including planning, country and correspondence files; Speeches and papers, records of proceedings, translations and biographical information, 1962–1998; Curriculum guides, study plans and journals of Latin American War Colleges, 1962–1985; Working files and presentations of the Latin American Lecture Team, 1971–1974; Planning and Country files of the Sixth Inter-American Naval Conference, 1971; Records of the Permanent Coordinating Secretariat, 1970–1973.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence and memoranda regarding College administration, faculty and staff, curriculum, facilities, finances and organization, visitors, lectures, conferences and events.

The majority of this collection is filed using Navy file numbers. For more information about this filing system, please refer to the Navy Filing Manuals and Bureau of Ordnance File Numbers in the External Documents section of this finding aid.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains research materials accumulated by Edward S. Miller while writing War Plan Orange, the definitive work on the US Navy's war planning activities against Japan that was published in 1991 by the Naval Institute Press. Orange was the code name for Japan in US war plans. The bulk of the collection consists of copies of documents, articles, and notes taken by Mr. Miller during a twenty-year period of study involving investigations into the various the versions of War Plan Orange, the functioning of the Navy's war planning branches and divisions, and the senior naval officers involved in the process of developing the Navy's war plans. In addition to specific materials on War Plan Orange and war planning in general, the collection includes a biographical file containing information on the US Navy's war planners, a geographical file containing information on various islands in the Pacific, and a subject file containing information on such topics as aviation and logistics.

The collection also includes Mr. Miller's personal papers relating to the pre and post-publication of War Plan Orange including reviews and commentaries on prepublication manuscripts and a copy of the book itself.

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Curriculum records, including syllabi, curriculum, lectures and student papers, 1956–1983; Reading files, 1956–1998; Correspondence and memoranda treating NCC reunions, 1972–1993; Student files, 1957–1998; Miscellany, including photographs, 1957–1999; Cookbooks, 1960–2000; Alumni newsletters and newsgrams, 1958–1998; Videos, 1992–2000 and yearbooks, 1987–1995.

These records consist of syllabi and curriculum materials, student presentations, handouts, lectures by professors, directives for the study course, photographs of Naval Command College classes, and disc recordings of presentations by students.

Content Description From the Collection:

Biographical information; Naval Orders, 1935–1965; Subject Files treating ship and shore assignments, including, CO, MTB RON 23, 1943–1944; CO, USS Stormes, 1947–1949; Naval Liaison Officer, CONARCO, Ft. Monroe, VA, 1955–1958; CO, USS Wyandot, 1958–1959; Operation Deep Freeze IV: Newspaper clippings, citations, photographs and cruise books of USS Wyandot, 1956–1959; Publications by Raymond Priestly, including Antarctic Diary; Useful Tables from the American Practical Navigator, 1931; Memorabilia, and Flag.

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Personal files, undated–1983; Correspondence files, 1977–1983; Speeches given at the Naval War College and other institutions, undated–1982; Subject Files treating electives courses, 1976–1981, while State Department Advisor to the President, NWC

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence and memoranda regarding College administration, faculty and staff, curriculum, facilities, finances and organization, visitors, lectures, conferences and events.

The majority of this collection is filed using Navy file numbers. For more information about this filing system, please refer to the Navy Filing Manuals and Bureau of Ordnance File Numbers in the External Documents section of this finding aid.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection is divided into four series: correspondence, speeches and writings, subject files, and miscellany. A majority of materials are unclassified; however, several boxes relating to negotiations over U.S. Base Lease Agreements with the West Indies Federation, 1957–1960, are classified. Researchers must have a bona fide security clearance to examine the latter. Unclassified portions of this material are in the main collection. Series I, correspondence, consists of both official and personal letters sent and received. The official sector contains U.S. Navy orders, accounts, travel vouchers, promotions, and commendations along with intelligence reports submitted as an observer of the Royal Navy, 1940–1941. In addition, there are several cartons of correspondence and messages relating to negotiations with the West Indies Federation over U.S. Lease Agreements at the naval base at Chaguaramas, Trinidad. The bulk of the correspondence, however, contains Wellings’ personal letters to his wife during his active naval service. They focus on major commands and aspects of his career, including his witnessing of the sinking of the Bismarck aboard the Rodney, 1940–1941; his command of USS Strong during WWII operations in the Solomon Islands, 1943; and destroyer operations in the Pacific, 1944–1945. In addition, a small segment focuses on his personal business affairs. The collection contains some, but not all, of the letters received from Mrs. Wellings, as well as...

Content Description From the Collection:

Papers: Copies of personal letters sent, July 1944-October 1945; Personal letters received, January 1944-February 1986; Official memoranda sent and received, October 1944-September 1945; Miscellany, including certificates and ciations, maps and photographs, 1943-1949; Biographical statement and two CDS of the collection contents. CD-Rom of PDFs of letters, naval orders, maps, charts, memoranda, a journal and photographs of his WWII service, 1943-1945.

Content Description From the Collection: Writings, drafts of published book, Submarine Commander; Draft contributions on John Connally, Paul Nitze and Fred Korth to the American Secretaries of the Navy; Drafts of edited work, The Evolution of the American Military Establishment Since WWII and copies of published articles; Drafts and notes on military topics, including Continental and Maritime Philosophies in Modern War, WWI, Seven Years War, Thucydides, Seapower and Strategy; Subject Files on Air War College Course; Drafts of lectures/writings for the course and resource source materials; Writings of others, including course and resource source materials; Speeches by others on military and naval topics; Correspondence, letters sent and received, 1968–1988; Miscellany, including syllabi, slides and cassette tape. Scope and Contents Collection consists of Schratz's writings, including a draft of Submarine Commander, drafts of his contributions to American Secretaries of the Navv,drafts of contributors to The Evolution of the American Militarv Establishment Since World War II, draft chapters of his proposed work The Histo rv of Strategic Thought Subject Files on seapower, strategy, lectures for Air War College Elective, including those on Machiavelli, Thucydides, air warfare and air power; Published articles by various authors on the History and theory of war, military power, strategic theory, seapower and Mahan; Speeches of Others on mlVal and military topics;...