Claude Charles Bloch papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1400
Subjects: Correspondence; United States; World War, 1939-1945; American Naval operations; Naval districts; United States. Navy. Naval District, 14th; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941; United States. Navy. Office of the Judge Advocate General; United States. Navy; Navy-yards and naval stations
Description: Correspondence, journal (1934) kept by Bloch as judge advocate general of the U.S. Navy, subject file, and miscellaneous material relating chiefly to Bloch's activities as commander in chief of the U.S. Fleet (1938-1940) and commandant of the 14th Naval District, Pearl Harbor (1940-1942).  Correspondents include Charles A. Edison, James Forrestal, Ernest L. Jahncke, Hiram Johnson, Frank Knox, William D. Leahy, Chester W. Nimitz, David Sarnoff, Harold R. Stark, Claude Augustus Swanson, Burton K. Wheeler, and Harry Hines Woodring.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Naval Historical Foundation, 1968.

Converted to gift, 1998.

Naval 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.ms009012

Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.