Oral history interview with Richard L. Conolly, 1959.

Biographical Note

Naval officer.

Scope and Contents

Early education and training at Annapolis; junior naval officer experiences aboard destroyers and battleships; World War I; Washington, Geneva, and London Conferences; naval training schools, 1920s and 1930s; Pearl Harbor; wartime experiences in the Pacific; Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington; invasion of North Africa; assault on Sicily; Operation Avalanche (assault on Salerno); cooperation with the British; Guam, Saipan, and the Philippines; Paris Peace Conference, 1946; Commander United States Fleet in Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean; 6th Fleet; struggle over unification of the armed forces; President, United States Naval War College.

Subjects

• Conolly, Richard L. (Richard Lansing), 1892-1962--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Military education.
• Naval War College (U.S.)
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Shaughnessy, Donald F., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• United States. Navy.
• United States Naval Academy.
• Veterans--Interviews.
• World War, 1914-1918.
• World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.