Oral history interview with George Hussey, Jr. 1967
Abstract
Background and education; Naval Academy; PENNSYLVANIA, 1920; courses in ordnance, ballistics; Australian cruise, 1925; Bureau of Ordnance, Armor and Projectile Section, Proof Officer, Naval Proving Ground; Gunnery Officer SALT LAKE CITY, destroyer command; command of Mine Division and Mine Squadron; command offshore patrol, Pearl Harbor, December 1941-April 1942; Bureau of Ordnance; Director of Pro duction, Assistant Chief, later Chief of Bureau until September, 1947; contractor-operated ordnance plants; basis for postwar ordnance research; many military and naval vignettes.
Veterans; Ordnance, Naval; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American; Hussey, George F. (George Frederick), 1894-1983; United States. Navy
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1967
Physical Description
582 pages
Note (Biographical)
Naval officer.
Note
Interviewed by John T. Mason, Jr. on March 22, April 21, May 10, and May 25, 1965; on March 29 and April 19, 1966; and on July 26 and October 30, 1967.