Box 26

Letter from Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, appointing Luce lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy as of 16 July 1862.

Holograph copy of Senate Resolution, 6 March 1862, appointing Luce a lieutenant as of 15 September 1855, signed by J. W. Forney.

This collection consists of single manuscripts items from past NWC presidents, faculty, and staff, as well as other other naval officers and military service members from Rhode Island and the surrounding area. These items include correspondence, journals, reports, certificates, commissions, scrapbooks, and other ephemera that relate to the history of the U.S. Naval War College, the history of navies in the Narragansett Bay region, and the history of naval warfare and strategy.

Album of photographs of All Service Women Veterans luncheons, 1991-1995; letters sent and received from Janice Klein, 1991-1997; and newspaper clipping regarding Hardin, the oldest female veteran of the Armed Services, 1997-2000.

Diary of Yeoman Third Class Wiley, USNR, 23 November 1943 to 4 December 1944. Wiley describes service in LST 126 in the Pacific Theater, including battles in the Marshall Islands, the invasion of Saipan, Tinian and Leyte Gulf, weather, general quarters, maneuvers, marines, accidents and near collisions, Japanese attacks, various islands, including Eniwetok, Tarawa, Namur, Hawaiian Islands, Kwajalein, Makin, and Tarawa and voyages from New Orleans, La., to Hawaii to the war zone and back. Photograph of Wiley with sea bag.

Letter from W. F. Shubrick, President of the Board of Examiners, U.S. Naval School, Annapolis, Md., informing Luce that he passed exams in Seamanship, Mathematics, Navigation, Mechanics, Astronomy, Gunnery, Steam, and French. Includes typed copy of letter.