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When I put out to Sea: World War II Story of Earl Davis Brown EM2/c 625-81-99 United States Navy aboard the USS Ralph Talbot DD390 (undated)
Papers (1941-1944) including correspondence, Naval flight School Handbook, memorabilia, and photographs.
Scrapbook, clippings, correspondence, photographs, reports, and other materials related to the World War II career of Lt. Commander Richard Hamilton Smith aboard the USS Teak and the USS Thomas J. Gray, and especially related to the successful evacuation during 7-9 September 1945 of British, Australian and American prisoners of war held by the Japanese at Kiirun, Formosa [Taiwan].
Papers (1934-1957, 1981-1985) including correspondence, service file, photographs, photo albums, and certificate.
Papers (1938–1993 [Bulk: 1938–1953]), of U.S. Naval Reserve officer and destroyer escort commander, including official files and service records, and a History of USS SC-631; postwar correspondence relating to the Destroyer Escort Commanders Organization (DECO); a History of the USS Kendall C. Campbell (DE-443), by Cdr. Richard E. Warner; a scrapbook, compiled by Cdr. Warner's father, entitled Sub Chaser Navy: World War II, 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 United States Ship USS Kendall C. Campbell (DE-443) 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.
Collection (1939-1970) of handbooks and manuals relating to operation and maintenance of radar, radio, oscilloscopes and electronics navigation equipment; Polaris fleet ballistic missile weapons systems; World War II vessels, naval operations and battle damage; sonar; loran; Navy chaplains; and the Chaplain Corps in the Vietnamese Conflict.
Diary (Sept. 1943-Dec. 1944) of Joseph John Valinsky, a sailor aboard the USS Monterey, kept during World War II duty in the Pacific, along with correspondence, certificates, and military service identification cards.
Papers (1928-1945, 1958) including correspondence, combat action reports, photographs, newspaper clipping, magazine article, etc.
Papers (1942-1972) of a U.S. Navy officer, including original memos, reports, newsletters, photographs, a certificate; and photocopies of war patrol reports and maps for the USS Flying Fish, during World War II.
Papers (1944-1945, 1955) including photographs, speech, publicity, biographical information for commander, etc.
This collection contains the Secret World War II Historical Narrative of District Operations Office and Inshore Patrol, Fifth Naval District, Norfolk, Virginia (August 31, 1945) Approved by R. S. [Russell Sydnor] Crenshaw, Captain, U.S.N. Assistant Commandant of the Fifth Naval District and commander of the Inshore Patrol during most of World War II.
A "War Diary" of U.S. Navy Service (1943-1946).
Papers (1942-1976) including flight log books, passports, letters, certificates of commendations, photographs, Naval flight certification.
A memoir of U.S. Navy service during World War II. (undated)
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