Oral history interview with Charles Moore [electronic resource], 1967

Biographical Note

Naval officer.

Scope and Contents

Family and early life; Naval Academy, early cruises; World War I convoys; Naval Overseas Transportation Service; teaching at Naval Academy, Navigation Department; Yorktown Sesquicentennial; Naval War College duty; Pacific Fleet: Gilberts campaign, attacks on Kwajalein, Truk, Saipan; diversion of forces to the Marianas, Philippine Sea Battle; impressions of Admirals. Chester Nimitz, Edward Kalbfuss, H. Kent Hewett, Raymond Spruance, and others.

Subjects

• Interviews.
• Mason, John T., 1909-1998, interviewer.
• Military education.
• Moore, Charles--Interviews.
• Naval War College (U.S.)
• Oral histories.
• United States. Navy.
• United States Naval Academy.
• Veterans--Interviews.
• World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.