The reminiscences of Admiral Harry W. Hill, USN
Series: N.Y.T. [i.e. New York times oral history program -- 1]; Columbia University oral history collection -- pt. 2, no. 91
Published: 1975
Language: eng
Number of pages: 970
Subjects: Admirals; Interviews; World War, 1939-1945; American Naval operations; United States. Navy
Other titles: Hill, Harry Wilbur
Description: Naval officer. Topics include: Naval Academy; early cruises, gunnery training; World War I: Scapa Flow, German Fleet surrender; Navy Department reorganization; arms limitation, naval budget, congressional liaison; Hoover good will cruise to South America, 1928; Naval War College, 1937; War Plans Division, 1940; World War II: United-Canada Joint Board Armed Defense, convoys and patrols, Murmansk, Iceland; Pacific theater commands: detailed analysis of amphibious assault at Tarawa; operations at Saipan, Tinian, Iwo Jima, Okinawa; plans for assault on Japan; National War College, Naval Academy superintendent; Naval Home. Accounts of Generals Douglas MacArthur and Holland M. Smith; Admirals Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, Raymond Spruance, Kelly Turner, and othrer military, naval, and political figures.
Notes: Transcript of interviews conducted for the Naval History Project of the Oral History Research Office of Columiba University in 1966 and l967.

Includes index.

Microfiche of typescript. Glen Rock, N.J. : Microfilming Corp. of America, 1975. -- 10 sheets ; 11 X 15 cm. -- (Columbia University oral history collection ; pt. 2, no. 91)