Background and education, Naval Academy; convoy duty, World War I; submarine school, 1918; Yangtze River patrol; fleet problems and training; merchant marine inspections; Director, Submarine School, New London, 1938-40; submarine observer in England, 1940; London Blitz, Portsmouth and Coventry damage; Mediterranean mission, submarine patrol; impressions of General Archibald Wavell, Colonel William Donovan, Anthony Eden, Sir John Dill; General Board, Washington, 1941; Pearl Harbor; Philippines, Admiral Thomas Hart, Corregidor; submarine operations, Australia and South Pacific; Battle of Java Sea; General Douglas MacArthur; Task Force 42; Solomons campaign; impressions of Admirals William Leahy, Chester Nimitz, Alan Kirk, Arthur Hepburn, Ernest King, Robert Ghormley, Arthur Carpender, Thomas Kinkaid, Charles Lockwood, and Fairfax Leary.
Veterans; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations; Submarine warfare; Military education; Fife, James, 1897-1975
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1962
Physical Description
617 pages
Note (Biographical)
Naval officer.
Note
Interviewed by John T. Mason, Jr. on July 12, July 29, August 30, October 19 and December 19, 1961; and on March 17, May 17, and May 30, 1962.
