Oral history interview with Ralph C. Parker 1963
- Name
- Parker, Ralph C (Interviewee)
- Mason, John T., 1909-1998 (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Ralph C. Parker 1963
- Abstract
- Education at Naval Academy and early cruises; destroyer duty, World War I convoys; Naval War College 1921-22; War Plans Division, 1929; cruiser duty; Command of Alaska Sector, 1941; Japanese attack on the Aleutians, 1942; training school at Princeton; Admiral Chester Nimitz's staff at Pearl Harbor. Impressions of Admirals Husband Kimmel and Samuel E. Morison.
- Collection Name
- Naval history project
- Subjects
- Veterans; Navies--Officers; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American; Military education; Parker, Ralph C; Naval War College (U.S.); United States. Navy
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1963
- Physical Description
- 146 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Naval officer.
- Note
- Interviewed by John T. Mason, Jr. on May 27 and June 6, 1963.
- Note (Provenance)
- Ralph C. Parker, Gift 1963
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 13887894
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-kkmm-5819
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.