Oral history interview with Harry Hill [electronic resource], 1968

Biographical Note

Naval officer.

Scope and Contents

Naval Academy; early cruises, gunnery training; World War I: Scapa Flow, German Fleet surrender; Navy Department reorganization; arms limitation, naval budget, congressional liaison; Hoover good will cruise to South America, 1928; Naval War College, 1937; War Plans Division, 1940; World War II: United-Canada Joint Board Armed Defense, convoys and patrols, Murmansk,Iceland; Pacific theater commands: detailed analysis of amphibious assault at Tarawa; operations at Saipan, Tinian, Iwo Jima, Okinawa; plans for assault on Japan; National War College, Naval Academy superintendent; Naval Home. Accounts of Generals Douglas MacArthur and Holland M. Smith; Admirals Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, Raymond Spruance, Kelly Turner, and othrer military, naval, and political figures.

Subjects

• Amphibious warfare.
• Hill, Harry W., 1890-1971--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Mason, John T., 1909-1998, interviewer.
• National War College (U.S.)
• Naval War College (U.S.)
• Oral histories.
• United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
• United States. Navy.
• United States Naval Academy.
• Veterans--Interviews.
• World War, 1914-1918.
• World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1974.