William Edward Riley papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 800
Subjects: United States; United States. Marine Corps; Officers; Campaigns; American Naval operations; World War, 1939-1945; Demobilization; United States. Navy; United States. Navy. Fleet, 3rd
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, operation plans and reports, notes, maps, photographs, and other papers relating to Riley's World War II service on the staff of Admiral William Frederick Halsey, commander of South Pacific Area and commander in chief of the U.S. Navy 3rd Fleet.; invasions of the Philippines and Ulithi (Micronesia); and U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy demobilization efforts after the war.  Includes speeches by James Forrestal, William Frederick Halsey, Thomas C. Kinkaid, William D. Leahy, and Kenneth C. Royall.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Naval Historical Foundation, 1968-1976.

Converted to gift, 1998.

U.S. Marine Corps officer.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009010

Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.