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    <title>William Edward Riley papers, 1941-1948</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Riley, William Edward</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1897-</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, memoranda, operation plans and reports, notes, maps, photographs, and other papers relating to Riley's World War II service on the staff of Admiral William Frederick Halsey, commander of South Pacific Area and commander in chief of the U.S. Navy 3rd Fleet.; invasions of the Philippines and Ulithi (Micronesia); and U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy demobilization efforts after the war.  Includes speeches by James Forrestal, William Frederick Halsey, Thomas C. Kinkaid, William D. Leahy, and Kenneth C. Royall.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>U.S. Marine Corps officer.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009010">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009010</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Forrestal, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1892-1949</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Halsey, William Frederick</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1882-1959</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Kinkaid, Thomas C. (Thomas Cassin)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-1972</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Leahy, William D</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Royall, Kenneth C. (Kenneth Claiborne)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1894-1971</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Marine Corps</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Demobilization</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Marine Corps</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Officers</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Navy</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Demobilization</topic>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Navy.</namePart>
      <namePart>Fleet, 3rd.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
    <geographic>Micronesia</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
    <geographic>South Pacific Ocean</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
    <geographic>Philippines</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <topic>Naval operations, American</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Ulithi (Micronesia)</geographic>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Marine Corps officers</occupation>
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