Oral history interview with Ralph C. Parker, 1963.

Biographical Note

Naval officer.

Scope and Contents

Education at Naval Academy and early cruises; destroyer duty, World War I convoys; Naval War College 1921-22; War Plans Division, 1929; cruiser duty; Command of Alaska Sector, 1941; Japanese attack on the Aleutians, 1942; training school at Princeton; Admiral Chester Nimitz's staff at Pearl Harbor. Impressions of Admirals Husband Kimmel and Samuel E. Morison.

Subjects

• Interviews.
• Mason, John T., 1909-1998, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Military education.
• Naval War College (U.S.)
• Navies--Officers.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Parker, Ralph C.--Interviews.
• United States. Navy.
• Veterans--Interviews.
• World War, 1914-1918.
• World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.