Oral history interview with Walter Stratton Anderson [electronic resource], 1962

Biographical Note

Naval officer.

Scope and Contents

Childhood and education; Naval Academy; Naval War College; teaching at Naval Academy and St. John's; New York Harbor Supervisor; sea commands; Naval attache, London, 1934-1937; Director of Naval Intelligence, 1939-1941; Pearl Harbor attack; Board of Inspections; Commander, Gulf Sea Frontier; Automatic Electric Company, 1946-1956. Impressions of Admirals Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and Hugo Osterhaus, and of Josephus Daniels and Frank Knox.

Subjects

• Anderson, Walter Stratton, 1881-1981--Interviews.
• GTE Automatic Electric Incorporated.
• Interviews.
• Mason, John T., 1909-1998, interviewer.
• Military education.
• Naval War College (U.S.)
• New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)
• Oral histories.
• United States. Navy. Office of the Commander of the Gulf Sea Frontier.
• United States. Office of Naval Intelligence.
• United States Naval Academy.
• Veterans--Interviews.
• World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1971.