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Kimmel, Husband E.
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1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
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Paul S. Burtness was a professor at Northern Illinois University when, along with Warren U. Ober, he began researching the events surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor and the war in the Pacific. Both men are U.S. Navy Veterans of World War II. Letters were written to a number of prominent military figures who were in power either at the time of the attack or shortly after America entered into the conflict. The letters, and subsequent research, have lead to a variety of publications over a fifty year period. (From GA 261 and http://english50th.uwaterloo.ca/faculty/profiles/WOber.html).
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Dr. Warren Ober (b. 1925) is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Ober came to Waterloo in 1965 from Northern Illinois University when he accepted the position of Chair of English, and retired in 1994. He has written, or collaborated on, works about Keats, Wordsworth, Alice Munro, Thomas Crofton Croker, William Blake, and Pearl Harbor.
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Admiral Husband E. Kimmel was Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Hawaii, during World War II.
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File consists of eleven items of correspondence from Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and one photograph of a painted portrait of Kimmel. The letters are dated:
- November 11, 1960 (handwritten, 4 leaves);
- November 30, 1960 (handwritten, 1 leaf);
- February 14, 1961 (handwritten 1 leaf);
- August 2, 1961 (handwritten, 1 leaf);
- August 20, 1961 (handwritten, 2 leaves);
- September 1, 1961 (handwritten, 1 leaf);
- November 3, 1961 (handwritten, 5 leaves);
- January 21, 1962 (handwritten, 1 leaf);
- May 22, 1962 (handwritten, 1 leaf plus envelope);
- June 25, 1962 (typed, 1 leaf - note that this letter is addressed to the publishers Harper & Row who published "The Puzzle of Pearl Harbor");
- June 25, 1962 (handwritten, 1 leaf).
The letters discuss the events surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor, the publication of books on the history of WWII, an interview with Kimmel, possible resources to consult and the publication of "The Puzzle of Pearl Harbor."