Destroyer Escort Commanding Officers Collection: Richard E. Warner Papers

Papers (1938–1993 [Bulk: 1938–1953]), of U.S. Naval Reserve officer and destroyer escort commander, including official files and service records, and a <emph render="italic" xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9">History of USS SC-631</emph>; postwar correspondence relating to the Destroyer Escort Commanders Organization (DECO); a <emph render="italic" xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9">History of the USS Kendall C. Campbell (DE-443)</emph>, by Cdr. Richard E. Warner; a scrapbook, compiled by Cdr. Warner's father, entitled <emph render="italic" xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9">Sub Chaser Navy: World War II</emph>, which documented the achievements of destroyer escorts, and Warner's service in destroyer escorts, patrol craft, and sub-chasers; also oversize material including a blueprint of USS PC-497 [renamed SC-497]; and a laminated fact sheet entitled <emph render="italic" xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9">United States Ship USS Kendall C. Campbell (DE-443)</emph> including orders, letters, printed forms, certificates, commissions, and documents signed by Admiral Chester Nimitz; Secretaries of the Navy Frank Knox, Francis P. Matthews, Claude A. Swanson, and James Forrestal; by Governor of California Frank F. Merriam.