Oral history interview with William M. Fechteler, 1962.

Biographical Note

Naval officer.

Scope and Contents

Education, Naval Academy, training cruises, Yangtze River Patrol; teaching at Naval Academy; Hawaii, 1940-42, Pearl Harbor; Bureau of Naval Personnel; Pacific operations; demobilization problems; Hook Commission; Commander in Chief, Atlantic Fleet, 1951; Chief of Naval Operations, 1951; unification; North Atlantic Treaty Organization relationships; impressions of Winston Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower, Dan Kimball, and Forrest Sherman.

Subjects

• Fechteler, W. M. (William Morrow), 1896-1967--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Mason, John T., 1909-1998, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States. Navy.
• United States Naval Academy.
• World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.