Moore, Charles K., Captain, USN (Ret.) 1923-. Navy family background; Boyhood in various naval ports; Graduation from St. Albans School and U.S. Naval Academy, 1944; Comments on Academy education and routine; Cruise in USS South Dakota (BB 49); Gunnery Department, USS Remey; Invasion of Palau, Surigao Strait, Iwo jima, Okinawa.japan, and Kurile Islands; Torpedo School, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: USS Remey; V:J Day in Adak, Alaska; Occupation Force, Japan, 1945; Comments on officers clubs, entertain­ ments, ship's band, attitude of reseive officers towards the war; Comments of postwar Navy and downsizing; Commissioning of USS Forrest Royal, CO, USS Milledgeville; Coast Command, Londonderry, Ireland; CO, USS Francis Robinson; CO USS Gainard; XO, USS Oklahoma City; CO Tenth Destroyer Squadron; Military Chair of Surface Warfare, Naval War College; Retire­ ment in 1974; Comments on women in the Navy, sailors, ADM Arleigh Burke, and the Navy of the 1970s.

Moore, Charles, RADM, USN, 1889-1974. Education, USNA, 1910; USS New Hampshire; USS Petrel; Cruise in USS Logan on Asiatic Station; USS Modnadnock; USS Bainbridge; USS Saratoga; USS Balch and convoy duty during WWI; USS McLanahan; CO, USS Drayton; Navy Department, Naval Overseas Transportation Ser­ vice; Destroyer Force, Pacific Fleet; Faculty, USNA; CO, USS Hatfield; Navigator, USS New York; Yorktown Sesquicentennial Committee; XO, USS Altair; Student, NWC Navy Department, War Plans Division; CO, USS Philadelphia; Staff, CIC, U.S. Fleet; Chief of Staff to ADM Spruance in the Pacific; WWII operations in the Pacific area, including Battle of the Philippine Sea; Reminis­ cences of R A Spruance; Assistant to Deputy, COMINCH; Deputy CNO for Postwar Plans; Dep­ uty,JCS; Retired, 1947.