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Charles F. Pickering papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSC-195
Content Description

Letters of a Navy enlisted man to his parents during WWII, 1942–1945, from Norfolk, VA and from the USS Refuge (AH-11) in Europe and in the South Pacific, giving an account of his daily routine, assignments, pay, seasickness, liberty, recreation, crossing the equator, Tokyo Rose, and the Japanese soldier. Letters of unidentified person, 1934, 1941; Photographs of friends on the beach.

Dates: 1934 - 1945
Found in: Naval War College Archives

Roger Pineau papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-212
Content Description The collection is divided into ten series. Series One, Biographical Information, contains Pineau’s vita and biographical information, while Series II, Civilian and Naval Papers, has personnel and retirement papers, 1965–1972, as well as his naval orders and fitness reports, 1943–1978.Correspondence, both letters sent and received, is one of the largest components of the collection and it is arranged by last name and topic for the years 1942–1993. Prominent correspondents include Hanson Baldwin, Captain Edward Beach, CDR Masatake Chihaya, James Fahey, Goro Nakano, the U.S. Naval Institute, Jurgen Rohwer, Robert Sherrod, and the Smithsonian Institution. A second segment of correspondence contains letters to and from individuals for whom he performed appraisals.Series Four holds speech notes and speeches that Pineau gave between 1965 and the early 1990s. In addition, there are speeches given by other individuals. Captain Pineau was a prolific writer on military topics, especially World War II. Included in Series Five, Writings, are his articles and book reviews, as well as articles and book reviews of others on military topics. Prominent among these are the works of Robert Sherrod.An oral history interview with Robert D. Ogg in 1983 is in Series Six. Subject files form Series Seven. Topics covered include research materials for And I Was There, ballooning, the Panay incident, Pearl Harbor, Silas Talbot, the Quasi-War with France, and White...
Dates: 1864 - 1999
Found in: Naval War College Archives

Edwin T. Pollock papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-351
Content Description

Papers related to Edwin T. Pollock: Career correspondence and documents, 1891-1929 Personal correspondence, 1890-1927 Journals (3) covering assignments at sea, 1898-1902 U.S. Naval Academy school work books (2), 1887-1893 Unidentified work book for physics and chemistry, 1910 Photographs Colgate shaving stick tin (ca. 1920s) Arnold’s of Boston can/bottle opener (ca. 1926)

Dates: undated
Found in: Naval War College Archives

Edward J. Pope Jr. papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSC-291
Abstract

Diary and photographs, 1944-1945. The diary begins on April 1, 1944 with the voyage on SS Cape Victory to Guadalcanal and Treasury Island and concludes on June 6, 1945 with his return to the USA in USS Hershey with a stop in Hawaii. Pope comments on his daily routine, a bombing mission over Rabaul, broadcasts of Tokyo Rose, his assignment on PT 129, the 1944 typhoon, the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Kamikaze attacks, battle at Olmuc, Pl, the war in Europe, assignment with PT 134, PT boat raids, recreation, social life with WACS, nurses, and Red Cross workers, death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, V-E Day, PT boat hits and list of PT boats damaged, and casualties. Photographs are of PT boats, crews, officers, and Filipino natives.

Dates: 1944 - 1945
Found in: Naval War College Archives

Neil C. Porter papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSC-350
Abstract

This collection consists of papers detailing Captain Neil C. Porter’s (1913-2015) life and career in the U.S. Navy and at the Naval War College. It also includes the diary of Lieutenant Commander Charles H. Ritt (1890-1965), his father-in-law.

Dates: 1919-1986; Majority of material found within ( 1933-1962)
Found in: Naval War College Archives

Gabrielle C. Pouliot papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSC-153
Content Description

Imprints, including “A Short History of the U.S. Naval Training School (WR), Bronx, NY” and “Our Days at U.S. Naval Training School, Bronx, NY”; Photographs of WAVES marching and June 1944 class at USNTS, Bronx, NY; WAVES ninth birthday celebration, 1951; President Truman and Winston Churchill, 1952; ADM Forrest Sherman’s funeral procession, 1951; Miscellany, including WAVES songbook and prayer, press release, 1945, and radio interview, 1944, and certificate, 1968.

Dates: 1944 - 1968
Found in: Naval War College Archives

POW's - Vietnam War scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: NC-10
Dates: 1966-1979
Found in: Naval War College Archives

William Veazie Pratt papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-024
Content Description The William Veazie Pratt papers document Admiral Pratt’s active naval career from 1910 to 1933, and through his retirement until his death in 1957. They consist of official and personal materials that are especially important for an insight into the problems facing the U.S. Navy during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Included are materials on the Washington Naval Conference, 1921–1922; naval disarmament; U.S. naval policy in the 1920s and 1930s; and the Naval War College in the 1920s.The bulk of the papers were acquired by the Naval War College Foundation from William Veazie Pratt, Jr., of Belfast, Maine, in four separate accessions made between 1968 and 1971. Photocopies of Pratt materials located in the Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington, D.C., and in the Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, Iowa, are also included.The papers are divided into five series: Correspondence; Writings and Speeches; Miscellany; Copies of Pratt Papers in Other Repositories; and Conference and Committee Records and Reports.Series I, Correspondence, 1901–1963 Series I is divided into three subseries: official, personal, and letters of Mrs. Pratt. Official correspondence consists of memoranda, telegrams, letters received, and copies of letters sent to naval officers, government officials, and civilian associates, 1910–1957. Prominent correspondents include Herbert Hoover, Henry Stimson, Charles Adams,...
Dates: 1874-1963, undated
Found in: Naval War College Archives

Public Affairs Office records

 Record Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-07
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings, 1950–1993, and news releases, 1953–1993, treating Naval War College events, ceremonies and activities; Military Media Conference records, 1968–1998.

Dates: 1950 - 2001
Found in: Naval War College Archives

Publications Office records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-04
Scope and Contents

College curriculum items, including orientation materials, lectures, addresses, tactical, strategic, demonstrative, scouting and screening and operational problems, maneuver rules, fire effect diagrams, quick decision problems, directives, manuals, articles, historical presentations compiled by members of the Department of Intelligence on naval battles, and translations of the War at Sea, 1914–1918, and miscellaneous NWC publications.

Dates: 1912 - 1977
Found in: Naval War College Archives

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lectures 6
Midway, Battle of, 1942 5
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Navy-yards and naval stations -- Newport (R.I.) 5
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memorandums 5
research notes 5
Spanish-American War, 1898 4
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audiocassettes 4
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Admirals -- United States -- Correspondence 3
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Ambassadors -- United States -- History 3
Fort Adams (Newport, R.I.) 3
Leyte Gulf, Battle of, Philippines, 1944 3
Military education 3
Narragansett Bay -- History 3
Naval strategy -- Congresses 3
Newport (R.I.) 3
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 3
Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography 3
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
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ships' logs 3
writings (documents) 3
Admirals -- United States -- Biography 2
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Admirals' spouses 2
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Camp Endicott (Davisville, R.I.) 1
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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 6
Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer), 1840-1914 5
Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966 5
Spruance, Raymond Ames, 1886-1969 5
International Seapower Symposium 4
LeBourgeois, Julien J. 4
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 4
Sims family 4
Sims, Anne Hitchcock, 1875-1960 4
Sims, William Sowden, 1858-1936 4
United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve 4
Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919 3
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 3
Hitchcock family 3
King, Ernest Joseph, 1878-1956 3
Luce, Stephen Bleecker, 1827-1917 3
Moore, Charles J. 3
Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976 3
Naval War College (U.S.). Naval Historical Collection 3
Pineau, Roger, 1916-1993 3
Barber, Charles F., 1917-2012 2
Bates, Richard W., 1892-1973 2
Brennan, Joseph Gerard, 1910-2004 2
Buell, Thomas B. 2
Burke, Arleigh A., 1901-1996 2
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 2
Colbert, Richard G., 1915-1973 2
Eccles, Henry E. (Henry Effingham), 1898-1986 2
Forrestal, James, 1892-1949 2
Forrestel, Emmet Peter, 1898- 2
Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901 2
Hattendorf, John B. 2
Hewitt, H. Kent (Henry Kent), 1887-1972 2
Hitchcock, Ethan Allen, 1835-1909 2
Hitchcock, Henry, 1829-1902 2
Hitchcock, Margaret Dwight, 1878-1926 2
Howland, Llewellyn, III 2
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 2
Knox, Dudley Wright, 1877-1960 2
Little, Brown and Company 2
Low, Francis S. (Francis Stuart), 1894-1964 2
Naval Command College (U.S.) 2
Naval War College (U.S.). Center for Naval Warfare Studies 2
Naval War College (U.S.). Joint Military Operations Department 2
Naval War College (U.S.). Library 2
Naval War College (U.S.). National Security Decision Making Department 2
Naval War College Museum 2
Schonland, Herbert E. (Herbert Emery), 1900-1984 2
Shepley, Sarah Hitchcock, 1870-1957 2
Smith, Roy Campbell, 1858-1940 2
Sowden family 2
Sperry, Charles S. (Charles Stillman), 1847-1911 2
Stark, Harold R. (Harold Raynsford), 1880-1972 2
Stockdale, James B. 2
Strasser, Joseph C. 2
Taussig, Edward David, 1847-1921 2
Tracy, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1830-1915 2
Turner, Stansfield, 1923-2018 2
United States Military Academy Preparatory School 2
United States. Department of the Navy 2
United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff 2
United States. Navy. Atlantic Fleet. Battleship Force 2
United States. Navy. Officer Candidate School 2
United States. Navy. Surface Warfare Officers School 2
Abromitis, William, 1925-1975 1
Ahlgren, Charles 1
Albion, Robert Greenhalgh, 1896-1983 1
Aldrich, Barbara Tanner 1
Aldrich, Nelson W. (Nelson Wilmarth), 1841-1915 1
Almgren, Neal, 1915-1984 1
Amberg, Richard H. 1
Anderson, Bern, 1900-1963 1
Anderson, Henry H. 1
Andrea Doria (Steamship) 1
Army and Navy Staff College (U.S.) 1
Atlanta (Protected cruiser) 1
Bailey, William Whitman, 1843-1914 1
Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes), 1870-1965 1
Baruch, Bernard M., Jr., 1902-1992 1
Battaglia, Charles 1
Bauer, A. L. 1
Bauernschmidt, George W. (George William), 1899- 1
Belknap, George E. (George Eugene), 1832-1903 1
Belknap, Reginald Rowan, 1871-1959 1
Bennington (Aircraft carrier) 1
Bennington (Gunboat No. 4) 1
Bieri, Bernhard H. (Bernhard Henry), 1889-1971 1
Billingsley, Edward Baxter, 1910-1997 1
Bismarck (Battleship) 1
Bogart, Gerald S., 1914- 1
Bogart, Margaret Spruance, 1919-1996 1
Boyd, Carl 1
Bradley, Omar Nelson, 1893-1981 1
Braun, Boynton L. 1
Braun, Mary 1
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