Japan-US relations 1930s

We don't do research or comprehensive searching here at the library as our
reference policy states. Recommend you consider visiting our library and our
Operational Archives Branch
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/nhcorg10.htm
to conduct in-person, in-depth research.

The National Archives http://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/ is probably critical as well.
Basically all of the Navy's World War II documents were transferred to the
National Archives several years ago. Pre-World War II documents were already
there.

Starting point to research this subject:
Here's what we have:
1. The USS Panay incident, 1937 - In our collection, we have some titles related to this subject. Some titles are held in our Special Collection Room and can
only be viewed here at the library. They are not available for interlibrary
loan.
Another title - The China Incident - is not
copyrighted and you could have this duplicated as well. Because this
document is over 100 pages and had been bound.

If you want it reproduced, the Naval Historical
Foundation www.navyhistory.org, which is in an office next to us, has a
Document Reproduction Service and will duplicate the document for you for a
fee. The fee schedule is posted online at
http://www.navyhistory.org/documentservice.html.

2. Naval Conferences - Again, any titles held in our Special Collection Room or Rare
Book Room can only be viewed here at the library. They are not available for
interlibrary loan.

3. Rape of Nanking - Other than the 1997 book by Iris Chang, we don't have
any published material on this topic.
We aren't an archives, so we maintain very few official records of any sort. I think the National Archives is your best bet for this.

4. Naval attaches - we have naval attache reports on microfilm (3 reels).
You can probably borrow these from us through interlibrary loan. Dates cover
1937-1943, reports relating to the "world crisis." Also, you should probably
talk to an archivist at the National Archives. Additional records should be
held there.

5. Plan Orange - We have one book about this. War Plan Orange by Edward
Miller. Additional documents would be at the National Archives.

6. BuShips/BuAir - again, records are at the National Archives, BUT you
could look through our annual Secretary of the Navy reports. We do have
various BuShips and BuAir reports and we have handbooks on foreign ships and
aircraft, but as for designs, we don't have that kind of documentation here.

7. Admirals - we have published biographies here of many admirals and
political leaders; most would be available through interlibrary loan. But
what you probably want are the personal papers collections of these
individuals to really know what they were thinking.

Our Operational Archives
Branch has the personal papers of:
Fleet Admiral Nimitz http://www.history.navy.mil/ar/november/nimitz.htm
Admiral Spruance http://www.history.navy.mil/ar/sierra/spruance.htm
Fleet Admiral King http://www.history.navy.mil/ar/kilo/king.htm
Fleet Admiral Leahy http://www.history.navy.mil/ar/lima/leahy.htm
Secretary of the Navy Knox http://www.history.navy.mil/ar/kilo/knox.htm
and many others http://www.history.navy.mil/ar/mss.htm
Fleet Admiral Halsey's papers are held at the Library of Congress and Vice
Admiral Lockwood's papers are held at the Library of Congress and some at
the Hoover Institution at Stanford http://www.hoover.org/.


You may want to search the Index of US Naval Institute Proceedings for relevant articles.
Even a magazine like Our Navy may have an occasional article useful to your research.
There are other periodicals in our collection which also probably would provide
articles relevant to research.
Here in the library, we have few primary sources. Although in our Historical
Manuscrips collection
http://www.history.navy.mil/library/manuscript/manuscript_list.htm

I did find the following which maybe useful to you:

Cone, Hutch I., Commander, USN (later RADM)
The title of the bound journal, Diary of Rear Admiral Hutch I. Cone, First
World War is inaccurate. Cone attained the rank of Rear Admiral in 1924,
however his service during World War One was actually as a Commander. He
served as a Navy attache involved with the coordination of aviation
resources. His diary reveals he traveled to Paris, London, and throughout
Europe to meet with Admiral Sims, Winston Churchill, Admiral Jellicoe, and
the Aircraft Production Board.
Jones, Carlton B., Rear Admiral, USN
Six official messages sent to Destroyers, Atlantic Fleet in December 1941.
Jones collected these "flimsies" while serving as a lieutenant on the staff
of the Commander, Destroyer Squadron Seven. The following communications are
included:
"Air Raid On Pear[l] Harbor X This Is Not Drill" (7 Dec.).
"Executive WPL Forty Six Against Japan" (7 Dec.).
"Place Naval Censorship In Effect" (8 Dec.).
"Germany Has Declared War On the United States" (11 Dec.).
"Italy Has Declared War On the United States" (11 Dec.).
"Executive WPL 46 Against Germany and Italy in Addition to Japan Naval
Attaches Advise Naval Authorities" (11 Dec.).
[Additional messages collected by Jones are located in the USS Owen (DD-536)
ZC File.].

As for the Marine Corps, we do collect some material on history of the
Corps, but we recommend you contact the Marine Corps History Division
http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/HD/Home_Page.htm for guidance with your research
in that area.