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Register of the Robert Alfred 60010 1 Theobald papers, 1908-1959 Title: Robert Alfred Theobald papers Date (inclusive): 1908-1959 Date (bulk): 1942-1957 Collection Number: 60010 Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Archives Language of Material: English Physical Description: 13 manuscript boxes(5.4 linear feet) Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, war diaries, dispatches, operations plans and orders, manuals, service lists, memoranda, reports, and war estimates relating to naval operations in Alaska from May 1942 to January 1943, including the Japanese invasion of the Aleutians, June 1942, and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives Creator: Theobald, Robert A. (Robert Alfred), 1884-1957. Access Collection is open for research. The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Robert Alfred Theobald papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives. Acquisition Information Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1960. Accruals Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid. 1884 Born, San Francisco, California January 25 1902-1903 Attended University of California 1903-1906 B.S., U.S. Naval Academy 1908 Commissioned Ensign, U.S. Navy 1917-1918 Gunnery Officer, U.S.S. New York, Flagship of U.S. Squadron with British Grand Fleet 1918 Promoted to Commander September 1919-1921 Executive Officer, Naval Post Graduate School 1922-1924 Destroyer Command, Asiatic Fleet 1924-1927 Commanding Officer, Naval Post Graduate School 1927-1929 Executive Officer, U.S.S. West Virginia 1930-1932 Secretary of War Plans, Navy Department and Member of Joint Army - Navy Planning Committee 1932 Promoted to Captain February 1932-1934 Chief of Staff, Destroyers, Pacific Fleet 1934-1935 Member of Advanced Class, Naval War College, engaged in seminar study of Japan and Pacific War 1935-1937 Strategy Division, Naval War College 1937-1939 Commanding Officer, U.S.S. Nevada 1939-1940 Chief of Staff, U.S. Fleet 1940 Spring Member, General Board, Navy Department 1940 June Promoted to Rear Admiral 1940 Commander, Cruiser Division Three Summer

Register of the Robert Alfred 60010 2 Theobald papers, 1908-1959 1940-1941 Commander, Flotilla One, Destroyers, Pacific Fleet 1941 December - Commander, Destroyers, Pacific Fleet 1942 May 1942 May - 1943 Commander, Northern Pacific Force, in Alaska Operations January 1943-1944 Commandant, First Naval District and Navy Yard, Boston 1945 Retired from active service 1954 Author, The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor Scope and Content of Collection Correspondence, speeches and writings, war diaries, dispatches, operations plans and orders, manuals, service lists, memoranda, reports, and war estimates relating to naval operations in Alaska from May 1942 to January 1943, including the Japanese invasion of the Aleutians, June 1942, and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Subjects and Indexing Terms United States. Navy--Officers Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941. United States--Armed Forces. World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Aleutian Islands. World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean. World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations. World War, 1939-1945.

Box 1 Personal Correspondence, 1943-1957 Scope and Contents note Correspondence, arranged alphabetically by last name of correspondent.

Alexander, Ensign William H., 1943 Associated Newspapers, Inc., 1955 Bledsoe, Captain A. M., 1943-1944 Brooks Bros., 1943 Burke, Arleigh (Chief of Naval Operations), 1957 Burwell, Commodore Louis E., 1944 Carlson, Lieutenant A. W., 1943 Cluverius, Rear Admiral (Ret.) Wat Tyler, 1943-1944 Collins, Edward T., 1943 Craig, Captain W., 1943 Crooker, Mrs. Doris Theobald, 1943 Cushing, Cardinal, 1944 Davis, Frank W., 1944 Dawson, N. E., 1944 Doggett, Professor L. A., 1944 Dykes, James, 1944 Erskine, W. J., 1943-1944 Fernety, Lieutenant Bolice P., 1944 Fahrion, Captain F. G., 1944 Fitz, Reginald, 1944 Forrestal, James (Secretary of the Navy), 1943-1944 Gehres, Commodore L. E., 1943 Graham, Jennie Theobald, 1943 Grosskopf, Ensign Homer L., Jr., 1943 Higgins, George T., CQM, USN, 1943 Hill, Robert W., 1943

Howell, James B., 1943 Huebl, Commander Roland M., 1944 Jones, Dr. Chester M., 1957 Jones, Mrs. Dan W., 1943 Kalbfus, Admiral E. C. (Commander Destroyers, Battle Force), 1934 Kimmel, Rear Admiral (Ret.) Husband E., 1943-1957 King, Fleet Admiral Ernest J., 1948 King, Captain Ogden, 1943 Knox, Frank (Secretary of the Navy), 1943 Lahey, Thomas B., 1943-1944 Leary, Vice Admiral N. F., 1944 Lowell Associates, 1943 Ludewig, Commander J. W., 1943 McCown, Captain H. Y., 1943 McKay, Lt. Commander Baxter M., 1943 McMorris, Rear Admiral C. H., 1943 McMurdie, Phillip C., 1943 Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, 1943-1944 Moring, Captain T. S., 1944 Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1948 Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Norbert, 1943 Myer, Harold, 1943 Office of Price Administration (Boston, MA), 1944 O'Rourke, Jonn, 1943 Pennypacker, J. A., 1944 Phillips, William (former Ambassador to Italy), 1947 Pierce, Reverend Michael G., S.J., 1943 Read (periodical), undated Reifkohl, Captain F. L., 1943 Reilly, Lt.-Colonel James A., 1943-1944 Ryan, Boatswain Vernon L., 1943 Santos, J. B., 1943 Simon, Frank J. (Secretary-Treasurer, Master Mechanics Association, Naval Ship Yard, Boston, MA), 1947 Simons, Captain R. B., 1943 Slocum, Major B. C., 1943 Smith, Commander and Mrs. Steele B., 1944 Smith, Talbot, 1943-1944 Sporting News (periodical), 1944 Theobald, Robert A., Jr., undated Thompson, H. Keith, 1957 United Press (Boston, MA Bureau), 1943 Vincent, Ensign Robert G., 1943 Wagner, Rear Admiral F. D., 1943 Walters, Lt.-Commander H. C., 1944 Wang, K. S. (Consulate of the Republic of China), 1948 Wessendorf, Mr. and Mrs. Homer, 1943 Who's Who in the Western Hemisphere, 1944 Windle, Lt. (j.g.) W. T., 1943 Winslow, Mrs. Mary W., 1944 Winterhalter, Harold, 1944 Withers, Rear Admiral T., 1943 Boxes 1-7 Speeches and Writings, 1943-1959 Scope and Contents note Articles, books, and speeches, arranged as listed, then chronologically thereunder. Includes correspondence and book reviews related to these works.

Articles, 1947-1957 Scope and Contents note Newspaper clippings of articles written by Robert A. Theobald for a biweekly column in the Beverly Evening Times, "Horizons in World and National Affairs."

Box 1 1947 January 26-June 27 1947 July 8-December 24 1948 January 3-July 3 Box 2 1948 July 7-November 10 1949 January 4-June 29 1949 July 2-December 31 1950 March 4-December 27 1951 January 3-December 29 Box 3 1952 January 5-December 31 1953 January 3-December 30 1954 January 6-December 30 1955 January 5-December 31 1956 January 4-June 30 1956 July 7-December 29 Box 4 1957 January 5-April 24

Books, 1945-1959

Death of a Navy, by Andrieu d'Albas (1957), 1955-1957 Scope and Contents note Translated from the French and with an introduction, maps, and notes by Robert A. Theobald.

Correspondence, 1955-1957 D'Albas, E. Andrieu, 1955-1957 Deland, Frank S., 1957 Devin - Adair Co., Publishers, 1955-1957 Fitzgerald, William H. G., 1957 Parker, Capt. R. C., 1957 Pearne, Pollinger & Higham, Ltd. (London), 1956 Robbins, Rear Admiral Thomas H., Jr., 1957 Supplementary materials to text: maps, notes, charts, etc. The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor (1954), 1949-1959 Book reviews Correspondence, 1949-1959 Unidentified, 1954 Abbot, Stephen, 1959 Allen, Joe M., 1954 Anderson, Henry W., 1954 Anderson, Paul F., 1954 Ashley, Clinton N., 1954 Askins, William F., Sr., 1959 Atkins, John B., 1954 Babbitt, Captain H. S., 1954 Babcock, Frederick (Editor, Magazine of Books, Chicago Tribune), 1954 Bacon, B. B., 1954 Ball, William H., 1954 Ballinger, Alice (Mrs. Webster), 1954 Ballinger, Webster, 1954 Ballinger, Willis, 1954

Baltzly, Commander (Ret.) Frederick, Sr., 1954 Barnes, Harry E., 1953 Barnes, Stuart C., 1954 Barroll, Henry H., 1954 Barry, William O., 1954 Bauer, A. J., 1954 Begin, Z. L., 1954 Belknap, Rear Admiral Reginald R., 1954 Bemis, Samuel F., 1954 Bennett, Milo O., 1954 Bequette, J. C., 1954 Berryhill, Mrs. M. B., 1954 Bertocki, Mrs. Mary A., 1954 Bierly, Charles R., 1954 Blum, Herman, 1954 Bragg, Colonel (Ret.) C. H., 1954 Braveman, David, 1954 Brewer, Basil, 1954 Bridgett, Charlie, 1954 Browne, Kenneth, 1954 Buckley, J. L., 1954 Butler, Dr. Harry H., 1954 Burke, Lt.-Commander (Ret.) John H., 1954 Calhoun, Admiral W. L., 1954 Callahan, Robert J., Jr., 1954 Callahan, Robert J., Sr., 1954 Campi, Reverend Vincent L. 1957 Cannings, Fred E., 1954 Capponi, John, 1954 Carlton, Miss Marjorie, 1954 Castle, William R., 1954 Cecil, Dr. Arthur B., 1954 Chase, Reverend Harry E., 1954 Choat, Harry, 1954 Church, Frederic C., 1954 Clark, Rear Admiral David H., 1954 Coburn, Commander (Ret.) Frederic G., 1954 Colegreave, Kenneth, 1954 Collins, E. D., 1954 Collins, Edward M., 1954 Colombel, John J., 1954 Combier, P. Hodges, 1954 Comstock, Captain L. Wells, 1954 Connors, Thomas K., 1954 Cooke, George P. and Sophie J., 1954 Coolidge, William A., 1954 Covington, Captain (Ret.) H. S., 1954 Crist, Lt.-Colonel (Ret.) Arthur P., 1954 Daley, Robert F., 1953 Daley, Robert L., 1954 Dalton, Lt.-Colonel Arthur T., 1954 Box 5 Dartnell, R. B., 1954 Davidson, Eugene (Editor, Yale University Press), 1952 Davy, Commander Charles G., 1954 DeArmond, Lt. (Ret.) George W., Jr., 1954 DeBurgh, R., 1954 Deland, Frank S., 1949-1953 Dement, Merritt H., 1954

Dickenson, Denny D., 1956 Diemer, Mrs. Anne F., 1954 Donavin, Lt.-Commander K. H., 1954 Dorney, H. Jackson, 1954 Downes, Captain Oliver L., 1954 Duffey, Walter E., 1954 Du Pont, Mrs. Marcella M., 1953-1954 Eckels, Richard P., 1954 Ehman, George C. (Athenian - Nile Club, Oakland, CA, President), 1954 Ettinger, Captain George M., 1954 Fairbank, Robert, 1954 Feeley, J. Richard, 1954 Fernety, Lt.-Commander Bolice P., 1954 Finch, J. D. (Chairman, Freedom Club, First Congregational Church of Los Angeles), 1954 Fischer, Marion, 1954 Flammer, Mrs. Betsy, 1954 Flint, Elder B. C., 1954 Flynn, John T., 1954 Folsom, Charles, 1954 Foote, P. W., 1954 Fuchs, Maria, 1954 Gagner, Beatrice (Mrs. Walter), 1954 Garrity, Devin A. (President, the Devin-Adair Co.), 1953-1957 Gatch, Thomas L., 1953 Glassford, Dodie, 1954 Glassford, Vice Admiral William, 1954-1957 Graves, F. L., 1954 Greaves, Percy L., Jr., 1954 Grenfell, Russell, 1954 Griffin, Robert, 1954 Grigg, Bessie, 1954 Grigsby, Joseph D., 1954 Grimm, Mrs. Verna B. (Librarian, the American Legion National Headquarters), 1954 Gruelick, Commander R. W., 1954 Haight, Rear Admiral (Ret.) Stanley M., 1954 Hall, James L., 1955 Halsey, Fleet Admiral William F., Jr., 1953 Harmon, Lt.-Commander (Ret.) Lloyd M., 1954 Harris, Walden E., 1954 Harrison, Ralph E., 1954 Hart, Mrs. Charles Spencer, 1954 Hart, Merwin K., 1954 Hassenkampf, Bruce H., 1954 Heaoner, Henry D., 1954 Heere, Leonard, 1957 Hefferan, Rear Admiral (Ret.) John B. (Director of Naval History, Dept. of the Navy), 1954 Hession, James M., 1954 Hession, L. S., 1954 Higham, Marritt, 1954 Hill, Major-General Jim Dan, 1954 Hodder, James R., 1954 Horan, Frank, 1954 Horton, J. J., 1954 Hoyt, Lawrence W., 1954 Houtz, Phillip (Executive Director, National Jewish Hospital at Denver), 1954

Humphrey, Churchill and Martha, 1954 Imperial War Museum, London, 1954 Isherwood, Mrs. Harry, 1954 Jennings, George C., 1953 Johl, Colonel Max G., 1954 Jones, Myron A., CRM (Ret.), U.S.N., 1954 Jones, William M., 1956 Joseph, Jerome, 1954 Kahala, Mrs. Aino, 1954 Kahn, David (President, New York Cipher Society), 1954 Keep America Committee, 1954 Kiesling, Clarence E., 1954 Killion, Robert H., 1954 Kitts, Vice Admiral Willard A., III, 1954 Klawans, Paul G., 1954 Knox, Commodore Dudley W., 1954 Kuhnle, Howard A., 1954 Lahey, Thomas B., 1954 Landes, Carl K., 1954 Lavender, Robert A., 1952 Lawrence, David (Editor, U.S. News and World Report), 1954 Leydon, Commander John K., 1954 Lilly, Herbert D., 1954 Lindbergh, Charles A., 1957 Lindsay, Commander Stewart, 1954 Box 6 Lowry, Vice Admiral (Ret.) Frank J., 1954 Lucas, Frances B. (Mrs. James C.) (Executive Secretary, National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution), 1955 Ludewig, Rear Admiral Joe W. and Minerva, 1954 McCabe, Hilton H., 1954 McCurdy, Florence, 1954 McDonald, Chester, 1954 McDonald, Irving T., 1954 McWilliams, John, 1954 Magoun, F. Alexander, 1954 Maraspin, Dana G. (Governor, Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts), 1954 Marr, Francis J. (Councillor, City Council of Lynn, MA), 1954 Mason, Frances E., 1954 Mercer, R. W., 1954 Mills, Lt.-Commander (Ret.) Charles A., 1954 Montgomery, Robert H., 1954 Moore, Alice, 1954 Morgan, Roy L., 1954 Morrison, Jay, 1957 Moseley, Major-General George Van Horn, 1954 Mulford, Allen, 1954 Nelson, Laurence E., 1957 Neustader, L. W., 1954 O'Donnell, John, 1953 Padrick, E. B. (Chairman, Armed Forces Fellowship Committee, Rotary Club of Chicago), undated Paine, John B., Jr., 1954 Paisana, Finca, 1954 Palmer, Paul (Executive Editor, The Reader's Digest), 1954 Parker, Captain Ralph C., 1954 Parsons, Charles, 1954 Pascual, Pacifico T., 1954

Patterson, Donald M., 1955 Paynter, Thomas G., 1954 Pier, H. W., 1954 Polowsky, Joseph, 1954 Porter, Jesse B., 1954 Powell, Rear Admiral Paulus P., 1954 Power, James H., Jr., 1955 Proctor, Joseph R., 1952 Pyne, Rear Admiral S. N., 1954 Ralston, Byron B., 1954 Reynolds, Mrs. G. Bergen, 1954 Rhodius, H. U., 1954 Richards, Ira, 1954 Richardson, Admiral James O., 1953-1954 Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 1954 Rodgers, Margaret H. (Mrs. Anthony G.), 1954 Rogers, Captain Winifred, 1954 Ruggles, William B. (Editor, The Dallas Morning News), 1954 Ruhtenberg, Mrs. Jan, 1954 Rutherford, Alexander, 1954 Rutherford, S. Morton, 1954 Ryan, Russell C., 1954 Sakahura, T., 1954 Salouka, Beulah G., 1954 Sampson, William J., Jr., 1954 Schnitzer, George C., Sr., 1954 Schroeder, H. L. (Director, The Schroeder Foundation), 1954 Schwartz, Irving P. (Dept. of Public Relations, Queens College), 1954 Seebeck, Volney, 1954 Sharp, Capt. (Ret.) W. D., 1954 Shattuck, S. F., 1954 Sherry, Edward J., 1954 Short, Isabel Dean (Mrs. Walter C.), 1954 Simmons, Edward ( The Standard-Times, New Bedford, MA), 1954 Skorvaga, Elizabeth A., 1954 Smith, Vice Admiral William Ward (Poco), 1954 Spencer, Ensign Herbert, 1954 Stafford, Colonel (Ret.) Ben, 1954 Stafsing, Ivar, 1954 Steefel, Lawrence D., 1954 Strassburger, R. B., 1954 Streu, Niels Henning, 1954 Sullivan, Colonel (Ret.) Alexander C., 1954 Swanton, Hobart P., 1954 Taeni, John, 1954 Tanner, W. R., 1954 Taylor, Bradley R., 1954 Thayer, Mr. and Mrs., 1953 Theobald, A. J., 1954 Theobald, Chester A., 1954 Theobald, Ralph E., 1954 Theobaldt, Mrs. Anni Schwarz, 1954 Thomas, Irene J., 1954 Thornton, R. S., 1954 Timmons, Bettie Edmonds, 1954 Tong, H. K., 1956-1957 Traut, Capt. (Ret.) F. A., 1954 Trohan, Walter (Correspondent, Chicago Tribune), 1954

Trundle, Mrs. I. F., 1954 Turner, Edward R., 1954 Vansant, Stephen S., 1955 Warner, Louis D., 1954 Warren, Dale (Houghton Mifflin Co.), 1952 Warshauer, Charles S., 1954 Welch, Rachel (Mrs. James), 1954 Wessendorf, Homer W., 1954 West, Ralph E., 1954 Whittemore, George A., 1954 Whittemore, K. Robert, 1954 Williams, John C., 1954 Wygant, Captain Benyaurd B., 1954 Yarnell, Admiral (Ret.) H. E., 1953-1954 Zemke, Captain (Ret.) Eric, 1954 Zochert, Roland W., 1954 Box 7 Printed copy (U.S. News and World Report), 1954 April 2 "A World Seeks Peace," 1945 General Physical Description note: Typewritten carbon copy of an unpublished manuscript.

Speeches and addresses, 1943-1945, 1956, undated

Outline for an unidentified speech, undated General Physical Description note: Typewritten draft and typewritten carbon copy.

Address to workers of the Boston Navy Yard and South Boston Naval Drydock, undated General Physical Description note: Typewritten and hand-written draft.

Address to Naval Graduating Units, Harvard University, 1943 General Physical Description note: Typewritten draft.

Response to the toast The United States Navy at the Annual Dinner of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, 1943 June 7 General Physical Description note: Typewritten carbon copy.

Address to workers of the Boston Navy Yard and South Boston Naval Drydock, 1943 July 15 General Physical Description note: Typewritten draft.

Address at Presentation of Army and Navy "E" Award to Boston Navy Yard at Boston Garden, 1943 August 20 General Physical Description note: Typewritten carbon copy.

Address at Commissioning of U.S.S. Wasp, 1943 November 20 General Physical Description note: Typewritten carbon copy.

Interview with Admiral Theobald on radio program Life to the Front, station WEEI, 1943 December 8 General Physical Description note: Typewritten carbon copy.

Radio talk by Rear Admiral Theobald over station WHDH, 1944 January 1 General Physical Description note: Typewritten carbon copy.

Register of the Robert Alfred 60010 10 Theobald papers, 1908-1959 Speeches and Writings, 1943-1959 Speeches and addresses, 1943-1945, 1956, undated

Statement for the Boston newspapers, 1944 June 6 General Physical Description note: Typewritten carbon copy.

Radio script for V-Day, 1945 General Physical Description note: Typewritten carbon copy.

Address before the Men's Corporate Communion Grace Church in Salem, Massachusetts, 1956 General Physical Description note: Typewritten draft.

Boxes 7-10 War Diaries, Commander North Pacific Force, Task Force Eight, U.S. Pacific Fleet, 1942-1943 Scope and Contents note Ships' logs and transcripts of radio dispatches, arranged chronologically.

Box 7 1942 May 22-31 1942 June Box 8 1942 June (cont'd.) 1942 July 1942 August 1942 September Box 9 1942 October 1942 November Box 10 1942 December 1943 January 1-3 Boxes 10-13 Naval Career Office File, 1908-1949 Scope and Contents note Dispatches, inventory reports, manuals, memoranda and reports, Navy Department correspondence and orders, operations plans and orders, service lists, and war estimates, arranged as listed, then chronologically thereunder. See also: Declassified U.S. Government Records.

Dispatches, 1942

Box 10 Assistance Information and Data Acquisition Center (AIDAC) dispatches, 1942 May 16-22 Scope and Contents note These consist of decoded messages between Commander-in-Chief Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC) and Commander Northwestern Sea Front (COMNOWESTSEAFRON), concerning Japanese operations against Midway and the Aleutians.

Dispatches from the Commander of Task Force 8 to the Commander of Task Group 8.1 and the Commanding General of Eleventh Air Force, Fort Greely, Alaska, 1942 June-July, November-December

Inventory reports, Inventory Reports of Registered Secret and Confidential Publications Distributed by the Chief of Naval Operations, 1943-1944

Manuals, 1940-1942

Staff Manual, Cruiser Division Three, Battle Force, United States Fleet, 1940 Staff Instructions, Destroyer Flotilla One, United States Pacific Fleet, 1941 Staff Instructions, Destroyers, Battle Force, United States Pacific Fleet, 1942

Sound Military Decision, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, RI, 1942

Memoranda and reports, 1942-1944

Box 11 Report from Headquarters of 11th Air Force Air Striking Group (Task Group 8.3), Kodiak, Alaska to Commanding General, Alaska Defense Command, Fort Richardson, Alaska Scope and Contents note Summary of operations to June 10th, 1942 (tactical employment of 11th Air Force in first phase of Japanese invasion of Aleutians), with relevant dispatches and notes.

Memorandum on the situation in Alaska, 1942 July 2 Scope and Contents note Written by Admiral Theobald for the Commandant of the Thirteenth Naval District at the latter's request for information on the Alaska situation.

Memorandum of Comtaskforce 8 concerning the proposed relocation of Headquarters of Fleet Air Wing Four to Adak, circa 1942 September "Planes Used in Kiska Mission," 1942 September 14-December 18 "Analysis of Command Relationship Between Commander Task Force Eight and Commanding General Eleventh Air Force," 1942 December 14 Memoranda on the grounding of the U.S.S. Alexander J. Luke, 1944 March 24 Scope and Contents note Written by the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, for the Commandant of the First Naval District, Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald.

Navy Department correspondence and orders, 1908-1949 Scope and Contents note Includes orders from, and correspondence with, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz (CINCPAC), Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (COMINCH), Frank Knox (Secretary of the Navy), Franklin D. Roosevelt (as acting Secretary of the Navy and as President), Major-General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs (Chief of the Bureau of Navigation), and others.

1908-1939 1940-1949

Operations plans and orders, 1942

CINCPAC, No. 28-42, May 21 Comtaskforce 8 No. 1-42, May 27 No. 2-42, May 29 No. 3-42, May 31 No. 4-42, June 10 No. 5-42, June 22 No. 6-42, undated Box 12 No. 7-42, July 8 No. 8-42, July 14 No. 9-42, August 1 No. 10-42, August 21 No. 11-42, undated No. 12-42, October 12

Register of the Robert Alfred 60010 12 Theobald papers, 1908-1959 Naval Career Office File, 1908-1949 Operations plans and orders, 1942

No. 13-42, October 12 No. 14-42, November 19 No. 15-42, December 2 No. 16-42, December 26 Comtaskgroup 8.1 (Air Group, Eleventh Air Force) No. 1-42, May 28 No. 2-42, June 9 Field Orders No. 1, June 24 Field Orders No. 2, June 25 Field Orders No. 3, July 16 Field Orders No. 4, August 23 Comtaskunit 8.1.1 (Air Striking Unit, Eleventh Air Force) Field Orders No. 4, June 25 Field Orders No. 5, July 16 Field Orders No. 6, August 3 Field Orders No. 7, August 23 Field Orders No. 8, November 1 Comtaskunit 8.1.2 (Air Search Unit, Eleventh Air Force), No. 3-42, June 29 Comtaskgroup 8.2 (Surface Search Group), No. 1-42, May 28 Comtaskgroup 8.3 (Air Striking Group, Eleventh Air Force) Field Orders No. 1, May 28 Field Orders No. 2, June 1 Field Orders No. 3, June 11 Comtaskgroup 8.5 (Submarines) No. 1-42, June 29 No. 4-42, July 5 No. 2-42, August 11 No. 3-42, November 26 Compatwing 4 Box 13 Standard Communications Plan Operations Schedule for Project Queen, August 2 Search Plan Dog, August 17 Operations Schedule for Project King Eleventh Air Force Plan of Operations, Project Queen Plan of Operations, Project King Comalsec, No. 1-42, July 16 U.S.S. Nashville (flagship of Task Force 8), Outline of Plan for Handling Flare Attack, August 25 Directive for Provision of Aircraft Support to Ships at Sea

Service lists, 1942-1944

War estimates, 1940-1943 Box 13 Subject File, 1951-1957 Scope and Contents note Articles and letters, arranged alphabetically by subject.

Marshall, George C., 1951 March Scope and Contents note The Tragedy of George Marshall by Walter Trohan, The American Mercury.

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1953

Theobald, Rear Admiral Robert A., 1957 Scope and Contents note Letters of condolence on the occasion of Admiral Theobald's death and memorial service program.

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, undated Scope and Contents note Foreword to The Soviet Impact on Society by Dr. Dagobert D. Runes.

Box 13 Miscellany, 1944-1951

Commencement programs Box 13 Declassified U.S. Government Records, 1942-1943 Scope and Contents note Formerly security-classified records of the U.S. government, released in full or in part. Arranged chronologically by date of release by Hoover, thereunder chronologically by date of creation.

2015 May release of records, 1942-1943 Scope and Contents note Operations plans, war diaries, orders, correspondence, and dispatches.

2016 February release of records, 1942 Scope and Contents note Appendices to Operation Plans and Communication Plans. See also: Naval Career Office File.