Background and education, Naval Academy; European cruises, Asiatic Fleet, Canton, 1911, Sun Yat Sen; World War I, fleet exercises; Naval Proving Ground, testing ordnance; Presidential yacht MAYFLOWER, Warren G. Harding; Bureau of Ordnance; Australia, 1925; fleet gunnery officer; Naval War College, 1928-29; Naval Attaché, London, 1939-41; Joseph P. Kennedy; Director of Naval Intelligence, 1941; code s and war plans; Atlantic Fleet; naval mission to London, 1942-43; Mediterranean; amphibious force, 1943; John Mason Brown; North African landings; Operation Husky; planning for Normandy; impressions of many outstanding naval and political figures.
Veterans; Admirals; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American; Naval gunnery; Amphibious warfare; Diplomacy; Kirk, Alan Goodrich, 1888-1963; United States. Navy; United States. Office of Naval Intelligence
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1961
Physical Description
386 pages
Note (Biographical)
Naval officer.
Note
Interviewed by John T. Mason, Jr. on October 17, October 30, November 3, November 8, November 21, November 29, and December 8, 1961.