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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Samuel Eliot Morison papers, 1939-1972 (bulk 1942-1956)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Morison, Samuel Eliot</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1887-1976</namePart>
    <role>
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  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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    <extent>78</extent>
    <extent>8</extent>
    <extent>3.2</extent>
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  <abstract>Journals relating to the oceanic theaters of World War II and to anti-submarine warfare.  Research notebooks relate to Morison's writings.  Journals contain wartime entries and a record of interviews with William H.P. Blandy; Andrew Browne Cunningham, Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope; Royal E. Ingersoll; Douglas MacArthur; Sir Henry Ruthven Moore; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Raymond Ames Spruance; Harold R. Stark; Richmond Kelly Turner; and others.  Topics include the battles of Casablanca, Guadalcanal, Kolombangara, and Pearl Harbor; and operations Dragoon, Galvanic, Neptune, Overlord, and Torch.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>U.S. naval officer and historian.</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.ms009103">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009103</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Blandy, William H. P. (William Henry Purnell)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1954</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Viscount</namePart>
      <namePart>Cunningham of Hyndhope, Andrew Browne Cunningham</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1883-1963</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ingersoll, Royal E. (Royal Eason)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1883-1976</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>MacArthur, Douglas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1880-1964</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Sir</namePart>
      <namePart>Moore, Henry Ruthven</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1886-1978</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1882-1945</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Spruance, Raymond Ames</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1886-1969</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stark, Harold R. (Harold Raynsford)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1880-1972</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Turner, Richmond Kelly</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1885-1961</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Anti-submarine warfare</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Kolombangara, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1943</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Operation Dragoon, 1944</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Operation Galvanic, 1943</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Operation Neptune</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Operation Overlord</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Operation Torch, 1942</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
    <geographic>France</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
    <geographic>Africa, North</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
    <geographic>Solomon Islands</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <topic>Naval operations</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Casablanca (Morocco)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Historians</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Naval officers</occupation>
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