reminiscenses

Reminiscences entitled “A Navy Wife Remembers”, which includes an account of her trip to New York City, her engagement to William Crose, and people, events and customs encountered at various duty stations in Savannah, Georgia, Sitka, Alaska, China, Japan, the Philippine Islands, and American Samoa. Page 1 of this document is not present.

Admiral Francis S. Low's personal narrative about his association with Admiral Ernest J. King.

Caffrey discusses his service in the US Navy during WWII, including his joining the Navy in 1944, naval training in Sampson, NY, engineering training in Gulfport, MS, Advanced Diesel training in Dearborn, MI, assigned to the USS New Jersey as a Fire Control man, life aboard ship, comments on ADMS Raymond A. Spruance and William F. Halsey, typhoon of 1944, Battles of Leyte Gulf and Okinawa, return to the US and discharge in 1946, College on the GI Bill and employment with Northeast Utilities. Positive comments about the Navy.

The Ingraham family first immigrated to the United States in the seventeenth century from Great Britain, with many settling in South Carolina where they became a seafaring family with strong connections to both the U.S. Navy and the Navy of the Confederate States. This collection includes ships’ logs and reminiscences maintained by members of the Ingraham family while on board serving in either the U.S. Navy of the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War.

Reminiscences of his naval career: USNA, 1930-1934; Cruises; Language instruction in Japan, 1938-1940; Intelligence staff, FRUPAC, 1942-1944; NWC student and staff, Attache duties; Harvard University, 1965-1966; Civilian career posts; Retirement.

This collection consists of one notebook detailing Lawson's naval service during the final months of World War I, as well as photographs of Lawson on the USS Worden. Naval documents are present as well, including Lawson’s discharge papers and citations of merit.

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.