Box 14

Copies of a history of the NAVAIRSTA on Ford Island with chronology, appendix and documents relating to the attack on Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941, and copies of photographs and captions.

Doctoral dissertation by Willis E. Snowbarger, University of California; Topics discussed include security in the Pacific, the building of the Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and the expansion and development of the base, 1898-1945.

Account of his naval service while in the USS Jamestown on the African Squadron.

Diary kept aboard USS Fanning (DD-37) during WWI, relating his encounter with submarines off France and Ireland.

Typed letter to Barbara Rice, Astoria, N.Y., regarding the Enhanced Radiation Weapon and its uses.

Autographed letter to Chief Engineer T. Zeller with orders detaching him from the Eastern Blockading Squadron and ordering him to the northeast Blockading Squadron.

Letter to Mr. Fallen regarding handling by navy officials of the capture of USS Pueblo in 1968. He voices his support for LCOL Oliver North and asserts that he should have received a pardon; Expresses admiration for Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, ADM William Crowe.

Typed letter to Frederick Wile in which Sims discusses the superiority of aircraft carriers to battleships in combat with each other.

Typescript of a reminiscence entitled "A Night on the Soi Rap," 10 February 1966. Account of the trip to the Soi Rap River and a patrol cruise on the river itself. Description of river scenes, U.S. Navy vessels and a river battle.

Reminiscence of WWII in the Pacific entitled "A Review of the Philippine Sea Battle, 20 June 1944." Rear Admiral Ramage was skipper of VB-10 attached to USS Enterprise; He gives a detailed account of the air battle.