Box 17

Holograph letter signed to Frank (?), regarding queries from authors, which he does not have the expertise to answer. Cites examples of WWII captured aviators in Japan prison camps who were killed. Refuses to be quoted because he does not have details.

Autographed note signed to Commodore Stephen B. Luce, with signature of Luce regarding employment of men.

Holograph letter signed to John Roper, Esq. from Boston, MA, regarding the date of the next meeting of the Military Historical Society.

Holograph letter to Admiral David D. Porter requesting housing assignment at the U.S. Naval Academy prior to his transfer.

Typescript copy of and account of WWI Battle May 26, 1916, by Executive Officer CDR Waylwyn, RN, of H.M.S. Warspite, describing the attack, chaos and damage to the ship.

Typed letter signed to NWC Library Director regarding donation of NWC Swimming Society ashtray, 1958-1959, and including favorable comments on his years at the Naval War College. Photograph of ashtray.

An article entitled "The Waukesha, Nagasaki and the Atomic Bomb" by Thomas F. Coon, a Lieutenant, USNR, aboard the ship in 1945. This is an account of the ship's stopover at Ulithi, military leave there, a stopover at Okinawa and a typhoon there, landings at Yokosuka Naval Base, 28 August 1945, and at Nagasaki, 28 September 1945, and effects of radiation on naval officers who went ashore there.

Typescript copy of "The Torpedo Boats of Bristol, RI.," by Richard V. Simpson, 1993.This article treats the history of the torpedo boats built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company for the U.S. Navy, ca.1877-1900. Contents include information on boat types, including the steel torpedo boats, the war with Spain and torpedo boats during that war. Appendices include information on torpedo boat practice in Narragansett Bay, speed records of U.S. torpedo boats, Herreshoff's other Navy boats, Rhode Island and the war with Spain.

Typed letter signed to Terry Leaderstick, Indian Rocks, Fla., regarding homosexuals in the military and sensitivity training before a move toward integration is made.

Letter written by Stephen B. Luce to an unnamed commodore from the Naval Academy in Newport R.I., regarding personal and financial business, his orders to USS Nantucket. memories of Fauvel on the Macedonian, and the trials of moving.