Oral history interview with Alan G. Kirk, 1961.

Biographical Note

Naval officer.

Scope and Contents

Background and education, Naval Academy; European cruises, Asiatic Fleet, Canton, 1911, Sun Yat Sen; World War I, fleet exercises; Naval Proving Ground, testing ordnance; Presidential yacht MAYFLOWER, Warren G. Harding; Bureau of Ordnance; Australia, 1925; fleet gunnery officer; Naval War College, 1928-29; Naval Attaché, London, 1939-41; Joseph P. Kennedy; Director of Naval Intelligence, 1941; codes and war plans; Atlantic Fleet; naval mission to London, 1942-43; Mediterranean; amphibious force, 1943; John Mason Brown; North African landings; Operation Husky; planning for Normandy; impressions of many outstanding naval and political figures.

Subjects

• Admirals--Interviews.
• Amphibious warfare.
• Diplomacy.
• Interviews.
• Kirk, Alan Goodrich, 1888-1963--Interviews.
• Mason, John T., 1909-1998, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Naval gunnery.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States. Navy.
• United States. Office of Naval Intelligence.
• Veterans--Interviews.
• World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1971.