Youth and education, Naval Academy; world cruise, 1907; teaching at Naval Academy; hydrographic survey work; Cuban Revolution, 1917; destroyerduty, 1918; Naval Institute; War College; President Franklin Roosevelt's trip to Buenos Aires, 1936; fleet exercises, ammunition depot, Bremerton; Panama Canal Zone; Pearl Harbor; neutrality patrol; amphibious training;training for combined operations, London ; Operation Torch; Commander US Naval Forces, Mediteranean, 1943; Operation Husky; Salerno. Impressions of many political and military figures.
Veterans; Military education; Amphibious warfare; World War, 1914-1918--Naval operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American; Hewitt, H. Kent (Henry Kent), 1887-1972; United States. Navy