Family background; Annapolis; United States Navy of 1910-30; early cruises, torpedo training, destroyer duty; growth of naval aviation; World War I duty at Channel ports and in eastern Mediterranean; submarine training, Submarine Desk, 1923-28; the LEXINGTON and carrier duty; naval air stations, San Diego and Norfolk; World War II and Caribbean Sea Frontier, 1941-43; convoying and anti-submarine ef forts; impressions of Admirals Ernest King, John R. Edwards, Raymond Spruance, and Henry Wilson.
Veterans; World War, 1914-1918--Naval operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American; Submarine warfare; Naval aviation; Hoover, John H., 1887-1970; United States. Navy
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1964
Physical Description
432 pages
Note (Biographical)
Naval officer.
Note
Interviewed by John T. Mason, Jr. on September 16, October 7, and December 2, 1963, and on January 2, 1964.