Oral history interview with George Hussey, Jr., 1967.

Biographical Note

Naval officer.

Scope and Contents

Background and education; Naval Academy; PENNSYLVANIA, 1920; courses in ordnance, ballistics; Australian cruise, 1925; Bureau of Ordnance, Armor and Projectile Section, Proof Officer, Naval Proving Ground; Gunnery Officer SALT LAKE CITY, destroyer command; command of Mine Division and Mine Squadron; command offshore patrol, Pearl Harbor, December 1941-April 1942; Bureau of Ordnance; Director of Production, Assistant Chief, later Chief of Bureau until September, 1947; contractor-operated ordnance plants; basis for postwar ordnance research; many military and naval vignettes.

Subjects

• Hussey, George F. (George Frederick), 1894-1983--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Mason, John T., 1909-1998, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Ordnance, Naval.
• United States. Navy.
• Veterans--Interviews.
• World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972.