Oral history interview with James L. Holloway, 1962.

Biographical Note

Naval officer.

Scope and Contents

Education, Naval Academy; convoy duty, World War I; Atlantic Fleet; World War II, exercises off Puerto Rico, Operation Torch; Bermuda training exercises; Director of Training, 1943-44; Holloway Plan for Naval Academy; Superintendent Naval Academy; Chief of Naval Personnel; reserve officers; relationship with Congress; impressions of Harry Truman, James Forrestal, Admiral Louis Denfeld.

Subjects

• Holloway, James L. (James Lemuel), 1898-1984--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Mason, John T., 1909-1998, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Naval education.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States. Navy.
• United States Naval Academy.
• Veterans--Interviews.
• World War, 1914-1918--Naval operations, American.
• World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.