transcriptions (documents)
Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:
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Logistics and Strategy by Robert B. Carney
Marion, Professor: Homing Pigeons for Sea Services, 1896 Jul 20
Transcript of a lecture delivered by Professor Henri H. Marion, US Naval Academy at the Naval War College. The lecture discusses historical uses of pigeons as "war messengers," primarly to transmit intelligence between ship and shore, including a successful pigeon communication programs in France, Belgium, and Portugal. He concludes the lecture with a summary of pigeon experiments at USNA, and expresses hope that Congress will support a pigeon breeding and experiment station.
Mary A Smith: History of the Navy in Narragansset Bay oral history transcription, 1985
Smith, Larry 1892-1987. Reminiscences of her youth and life as a Navy wife, including growing up in Annapolis on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Academy, social life with midshipmen, marriage, World War I, life in Shanghai and Chefoo, China, and travel to Manila, 1925-1928; Assignment to the Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, R.I., and comments on the Naval War College in the 1930s; Impressions of Admirals W. T. Sampson, W. Rodgers,]. P. Pringle, T. Hart, R. A. Spruance, E. G. Kalbfus and CAPT R. C. Smith; Assignment to Hawaii; Retirement in Newport, R.I., 1940. Part of History of the Navy in Narragansett Bay Project.
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Mary A Smith: History of the Navy in Narragansset Bay oral history transcription
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Military Considerations in Grand Strategy by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Photocopies of letters sent to Admiral Harold Stark from Kichisaburo Nomura
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Principles of Seapower by Robert B. Carney
Dr. Nathaniel M. Sims collection of Sims and Hitchcock family papers
This collection consists of correspondence, logbooks, photographs, publications, and other papers relating to the Sims and Hitchcock families, particularly Admiral William S. Sims, his wife Anne Hitchcock Sims, and her father Ethan Allen Hitchcock. These papers detail the families’ personal lives and relationships as well as the careers of Adm. Sims and Ethan Allen Hitchcock.
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Tactics and Techniques of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency by Victor H. Krulak
Transcriptions of letters sent from a Cuban prison and from Omoa, Honduras, 1818-1819, 1832
Notebook containing letters written by Asa Hosmer to his wife and son from City Prison, Havana, Cuba, December 7, 1818, June 24, 1819- November 3, 1819.
Also includes letters from Omoa, Honduras to Ludyah Robinson, esq. from May 27, 1832-May 30, 1832, a letter to Mrs. Hosmer from Stanford Robinson, June 3, 1832, and a letter from James Price to Ludyah Robinson, May 30, 1832 from Belize.