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Title: Charles Maynard Cooke papers
Date (inclusive): 1920-1964
Collection number: 68005
Creator:
Cooke, Charles Maynard, 1886-1970
Collection Size:
37 manuscript boxes, 2 envelopes
(17.8 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, dispatches, memoranda, and photographs, relating to American naval operations
in World War II, inter-Allied diplomacy in World War II, the defenses of Taiwan, and American domestic and foreign policy.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
English
Box 36 closed. Eligible to be opened in 2025. Collection otherwise open for research.
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Archives.
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975.
United States. Navy--Officers.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic history.
World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations.
Taiwan.
Taiwan--Defenses.
United States--Politics and government.
United States--Foreign relations.
United States--Armed Forces.
United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
| 1886, December 19 | Born, Fort Smith, Arkansas |
| 1905 | B.S., University of Arkansas |
| 1906-1910 | Midshipman, U.S. Naval Academy |
| 1912 | Commissioned, Ensign |
| 1913-1916 | Submarine duty |
| 1915 | Promoted to the rank of Lieutenant (junior grade) |
| 1916-1918 | Assistant Inspector of Machinery, Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation |
| 1917 | Naval member, First Naval District Section of Joint Army and Navy Survey of Merchant Vessels |
| 1918 | Promoted to the rank of Lieutenant |
| 1921 | Promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander |
| 1923 | Superintendant and Engineer Officer, Naval Station, Cavite, Philippine Islands |
| 1929 | Promoted to the rank of Commander |
| 1931 | Promoted to the rank of Captain |
| 1931-1933 | Commander, Submarine Division Eleven, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii |
| 1934-1937 | Commandant, Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba |
| 1936-1938 | Fleet War Plans and Logistics Officer, U.S. Fleet |
| 1938-1941 | Staff, War Plans Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations |
| 1941 | Commanding officer, U.S.S. Pennsylvania |
| 1942 | Promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral |
| 1942-1944 | Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Fleet |
| 1944 | Promoted to the rank of Vice Admiral |
| 1944-1945 | Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Fleet (Deputy Chief of Naval Operations) |
| 1945 | Distinguished Service Medal |
| 1946 | Promoted to the rank of Admiral |
| 1946-1948 | Commander, Seventh Fleet, Western Pacific (U.S. Naval Force, Western Pacific) |
| 1948 | Transfered to the Retired List of the Navy |
| 1950-1951 | Coordinator, Commerce International China, Special Technician Program (STP) to the Republic of China (Taiwan); unofficial advisor to the government of Chiang Kai-shek |
| 1957-1961 | Director, Ingalls Taiwan Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company |
| 1970, December 24 | Died |