Naval Academy; early cruises, gunnery training; World War I: Scapa Flow, German Fleet surrender; Navy Department reorganization; arms limitation, naval budget, congressional liaison; Hoover good will cruise to South America, 1928; Naval War College, 1937; War Plans Division, 1940; World War II: United-Canada Joint Board Armed Defense, convoys and patrols, Murmansk,Iceland; Pacific theater commands: detailed analysis of amphibious assault at Tarawa; operations at Saipan, Tinian, Iwo Jima, Okinawa; plans for assault on Japan; National War College, Naval Academy superintendent; Naval Home. Accounts of Generals Douglas MacArthur and Holland M. Smith; Admirals Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, Raymond Spruance, Kelly Turner, and othrer military, naval, and political figures.
Veterans; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American; Amphibious warfare; United States Foreign relations 20th century; Hill, Harry W., 1890-1971; National War College (U.S.); United States Naval Academy; Naval War College (U.S.); United States. Navy
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1968
Physical Description
964 pages
Note (Biographical)
Naval officer.
Note
Interviewed by John T. Mason, Jr. on April 14, April 27, June 14, June 20, July 5, July 25, September 30, October 17, and November 14, 1966; on January 16 and November 6, 1967; and on December 16, 1968.