World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Japanese
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
William H. Honan collection of research materials
Research source materials used in writing and researching the biography of Hector C. Bywater, Visions of Infamy. The material is arranged by chapter and includes holograph notes, newspaper clippings, correspondence, reports, drafts, articles, photographs, attaché reports, maps, notebooks, monographs and translations. Information can be found on inter-war U.S. and Japanese navies, the British Secret Service and the 1934 London Naval Conference. The remainder of the collection contains correspondence regarding Bywater, the publication of the book, the controversy with Mark Peattie and David Evans, reviews and comments on the book, Honan’s speeches regarding it and books by Hector C. Bywater.
Edwin T. Layton papers
Correspondence, letters received regarding Naval Institute oral history and Naval War College Chair of Intelligence, 1970–1975; Miscellany, including yearbook, Japanese texts, maps and charts, programs, certificates, USN commissions, and photographs, 1924–1984; Research source materials used in writing And I Was There, including published volumes of Japanese War Series, Senshi Sosho, 1967–1975,Pacific Mobile Radio Intelligence Unit Reports, 1942–1945; Books, Japanese monographs, military intelligence pamphlets, magazines, oral histories and maps; Unpublished materials, including various SRH histories, 1942–1947; SRNS, Japanese Naval Radio Intelligence Summaries, 1942–1945; SRN, Translations of Japanese Naval Messages, 1941–1942; SRNM, Japanese Naval Communications, 1942; CINCPAC messages, 1942; Tapes of interviews conducted by authors,1970–1983; Ships logs and action reports, 1941–1942; Translations of Japanese War History, 1942–1944; Notes and notebooks on WWII events and Japanese Intelligence; Photographs and personal letters; Promotion certificate to Rear Admiral; Drafts, Letters, memoranda and book reviews of And I Was There; Pacific Mobile Radio Intelligence Unit Reports, 1942–1945; Miscellaneous lists of diagrams, maps and biographies.
Edward S. Miller collection of research material relating to War Plan Orange
Research materials on the US Navy's Navy's pre-World War II plans for war with Japan accumulated by Edward Miller for his award winning book War Plan Orange: The US. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945 published by the Naval Institute Press in 1991 accompanied by his personal papers related to the book's publication.
Rabaul translation, circa 1960s-1980s
Handwritten translation by Layton regarding the Battle of Rabuel.
Translation of Naval Operations in the South East Area, Guadalcanal, Volume I, circa 1960s-1980s
Handwritten translation by Layton of a volume from the "Senshi Sōsho" (War History Publications), the official military history of Imperial Japan's involvement in World War II.
This is the first part of Layton's translation of Senshi Sōsho volume 83: Nanto Homen Kaigun Sakusen (Naval operations in the South east area, Volume I, up to the beginning of operations to recapture of Guadalcanal).
Translation of Naval Operations in the South East Area Vol. 1, circa 1960s-1980s
Translation of "War History Publications #49" from the original Japanese by Layton.
Translations of Multiple Operations during World War II, circa 1960s-1980s
This notebook includes translations produced by Layton from the original Japanese souces on the following: Air reconnaissance of Petropavlovsk (pg. 1), The air attack on Tokyo April 18, 1942 - the Dolittle Attack (pg. 3), CARDIV 2 - Wake Invasion Reinforcement Force (pg. 31), British PBY shot down (pg. 39), andThe American Float-Plane adrift off Japan (BOISE) (pg. 41).
Various translations of Japanese Communication Plan, Radio Intelligence Organization and Operations in home waters, circa 1960s-1980s
Translations prepared by Layton from various Japanese sources.