Register of the Ralph E. Jennings Papers, 1918-1966
Processed by Hoover Institution staff; machine-readable finding aid created by
Brooke Dykman Dockter
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-6010
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Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Register of the Ralph E. Jennings Papers, 1918-1966
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California
Contact Information
- Hoover Institution Archives
- Stanford University
- Stanford, California 94305-6010
- Phone: (650) 723-3563
- Fax: (650) 725-3445
- Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu
- Processed by:
- Hoover Institution staff
- Encoded by:
- Brooke Dykman Dockter
© 1998 Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Ralph E. Jennings Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1918-1966
Collection number: 71059
Creator:
Jennings, Ralph E., 1897-1971
Extent:
5 manuscript boxes, 9 envelopes, 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folder
(3.5 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, personnel records, memoranda, speeches, logbooks, clippings, printed
matter, and photographs, relating to U.S. naval operations in World War II, the U.S.S.
Yorktown, a historic telecast from the U.S.S.
Leyte in August 1947, and the Military Assistance Group to Norway.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection open for research.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Ralph E. Jennings Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Access Points
Copahee (Ship)
Leyte (Ship)
Yorktown (Aircraft carrier, 2d of the name)
United States. Military Assistance Advisory Group to Norway.
United States. Navy--Officers.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations.
Norway.
Norway--Military relations--United States.
United States--Armed Forces.
United States--Military relations--Norway.
Biographical Note
| 1897, June 14 |
Born, New York City |
| 1943 |
Rear Admiral |
| 1943-44 |
Commander, U.S.S.
Copahee
|
| 1944 |
Commander, U.S.S.
Yorktown
|
| 1946-47, 1949-50 |
Commander, Fleet Aircraft, Alameda, Calif. |
| 1947-49 |
Commander, Carrier Division, Atlantic Fleet |
| 1950-52 |
Chief, Military Assistance Advisory Group to Norway |
| 1952-53 |
Deputy Commander, Eastern Frontier and Atlantic Fleet |
| 1953 |
Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy, Retired |
Container List
Boxes 1-3
CORRESPONDENCE, 1918-1959
Scope and Content Note
Personal correspondence. Includes U.S. Navy personnel records, such as orders for duty,
appointments and promotions, and pay and travel expense reports; memoranda and reports,
including a memorandum on postwar organization of the military services, December 1944.
Arranged chronologically
Box 3
1949-1959. Includes undated correspondence
Boxes 4-5
SUBJECT FILE, 1928-1966
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, reports, speeches, awards and citations, log books, ship's rosters,
telegraphic communications, patent, newspaper clippings, and printed matter. Arranged
alphabetically by subject
Box 4
Aviators flight log books, July 1928 -August 1952
Awards, citations, and letter of appreciation from the Secretary of the Navy
Battle of Philippine Sea. Includes a British Naval Air Observer's report, June 1944
"Functional Speaking for Naval Officers," a syllabus
News clippings of foreign and domestic press about Admiral Jennings and his ships' visitations to foreign ports
Patent for skid indicator and related material
Printed matter, miscellaneous
Speeches by Ralph Jennings
Television broadcast of U.S.S.
Leyte's maneuvers, August 1948
U.S. Military Commission to Norway, 1950-51
U.S.S.
Yorktown Association's 18th Reunion, August 27, 1966
Reports of strike attacks, March 1944
Telegraphic communications to and from the U.S.S.
Yorktown, February-July 1944
