Samuel Eliot Morison papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
Subjects: Operation Overlord; Anti-submarine warfare; Operation Torch, 1942; Campaigns; Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943; Operation Galvanic, 1943; Operation Dragoon, 1944; World War, 1939-1945; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941; Kolombangara, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1943; Naval operations; Operation Neptune; History
Description: Journals relating to the oceanic theaters of World War II and to anti-submarine warfare.  Research notebooks relate to Morison's writings.  Journals contain wartime entries and a record of interviews with William H.P. Blandy; Andrew Browne Cunningham, Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope; Royal E. Ingersoll; Douglas MacArthur; Sir Henry Ruthven Moore; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Raymond Ames Spruance; Harold R. Stark; Richmond Kelly Turner; and others.  Topics include the battles of Casablanca, Guadalcanal, Kolombangara, and Pearl Harbor; and operations Dragoon, Galvanic, Neptune, Overlord, and Torch.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Naval Historical Foundation, 1994.

Converted to gift, 1998.

Gift, Naval Historical Foundation, 1999.

U.S. naval officer and historian.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.

Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.