U.S. Navy

("To-do" list: Documents available in electronic form)

"Administrative Histories" (Histories compiled by the various divisions of the Navy):

  • Annotated Bibliography of Naval Gunfire Support

  • Combat Information Center (Pamphlet describing operation of CIC)
  • Some Notes on the Early History of the Radio Division

  • The Evolution of Aircraft Class and Squadron Designation Systems
  • The role of sailors as naval infantry
  • Naval Aviation Combat Statistics--World War II
  • U.S. Naval Aviation in the Pacific

  • The Employment of Naval Mines
  • U.S. Bombs and Fuzes: Pyrotechnics
  • Handbook of Damage Control
  • Know Your Enemy! Suicide Weapons and Tactics
  • How To Build Terrain Models
  • General Navy Register
  • Antisubmarine Warfare: Notes for the Use of Naval Armed Guards
  • Prisoner Sense (Handbook for Captured Personnel)
  • General Instructions for Planning Naval and Air Bombardment of Shore Positions
  • Current Tactical Order: Battleships (U.S.F. 16)
  • Analysis of Fratricide in U.S. Naval Surface and Submarine Forces in the Second World War

  • Battle Damage to Surface Ships During World War II
  • U.S. Fleet Landing Exercise Number TWO (1936)
  • Report of Board to Evaluate and Make Recommendations on Ordnance Matters as the Result of War Experiences
  • Report of a Board Convend by the Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet, to Make Recommendations on Radasr and Countermeasures Based on Experience in the War
  • Records of U.S. Naval Technical Mission in Europe
  • Historical Data on U.S. Naval Technical Mission in Europe, First Narrative
  • Report on Fleet Problem XX (1939)
  • Strategic Concepts of the U.S. Navy -- NWP 1(A)
  • US Naval Technical Mission to Japan: Target Report--Bombing Effects of Normal Bombs in Japan

  • List of Naval Vessels Named for Places, Arranged by States and Territories
  • Histories of individual LSMs (Landing Ship, Medium)
  • USS California (BB-44) Cruise Book
  • USS San Francisco: Report of engagement of 20 February 1942
  • USS Montpelier (CL-57) War Diary
  • USS Bagley: Action Against Japanese Aircraft Bombing Attack, 20 February 1942
  • USS Dale: Engagement with the enemy on 20 February 1942
  • USS Patterson: Engagement with Japanese Aircraft on 20 February, 1942
  • USS Thresher's First Three War Patrols

  • World War ONE Publications: