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Mary A Smith oral history, 1985
Item
Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 62
Scope and Contents
Smith, Larry 1892-1987. Reminiscences of her youth and life as a Navy wife, including growing up in Annapolis on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Academy, social life with midshipmen, marriage, World War I, life in Shanghai and Chefoo, China, and travel to Manila, 1925-1928;Assignment to the Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, R.I., and comments on the Naval War College in the 1930s; Impressions of Ad mirals W. T. Sampson, W. Rodgers,]. P. Pringle, T. Hart, R. A. Spruance, E. G. Kalbfus and CAPT R. C. Smith; Assignment to Hawaii; Retirement in Newport, R.I., 1940. Part of History of the Navy in Narragansett Bay Project.
Dates:
1985