Oral history interview with H. Kent Hewitt [electronic resource], 1961

Biographical Note

Naval officer.

Scope and Contents

Youth and education, Naval Academy; world cruise, 1907; teaching at Naval Academy; hydrographic survey work; Cuban Revolution, 1917; destroyerduty, 1918; Naval Institute; War College; President Franklin Roosevelt's trip to Buenos Aires, 1936; fleet exercises, ammunition depot, Bremerton; Panama Canal Zone; Pearl Harbor; neutrality patrol; amphibious training;training for combined operations, London; Operation Torch; Commander US Naval Forces, Mediteranean, 1943; Operation Husky; Salerno. Impressions of many political and military figures.

Subjects

• Amphibious warfare.
• Hewitt, H. Kent (Henry Kent), 1887-1972--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Mason, John T., 1909-1998, interviewer.
• Military education.
• Oral histories.
• United States. Navy.
• Veterans--Interviews.
• World War, 1914-1918--Naval operations, American.
• World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.

Access Conditions

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