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The list below describes unclassified and declassified collections of official Navy records held by the Operational Archives Branch. Clicking on the collection name below will take you to a brief description of each collection. Material held by the Operational Archives Branch does not circulate, and these collections are available for use only at the Archives. While the majority of these collections are available without restriction, portions of some collections are closed due to conditions placed by the donor, privacy concerns, or classification level. You may wish to contact the Archives prior to your visit for specific information regarding restrictions on collections.

Collection Name	Span Dates	Size
Administrative History Appendices	1941-1947	149 cu. ft.
ALNAVs	1918-present	10 cu. ft.
Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University; Records of the	1942-1956	2 cu. ft.
Argentia U.S. Naval Facility; Records of	1941-1979	2 cu. ft.
Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel for Women (WAVES), Bureau of Naval Personnel; Records of	1942-1972	18 cu. ft.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and Environment); Records of	1961-2003	65 cu. ft.
U.S. Atlantic Fleet Video Collection	1984-1995	18 cu. ft.
Bainbridge Recruit Training Center, Women; Scrapbooks of	1957-1972	0.5 cu. ft.
Base Maintenance Division, Field Liaison and Records Section; Records of	1939-1957	63 cu. ft.
Bethesda National Naval Medical Center, Rapid Implementation Team (RIT); Records of	1988-1989	0.25 cu. ft.
Bicentennial Coordination Office; Records of	1969-1976	7 cu. ft.
Booz, Allen and Hamilton, Inc.; Records of	1946-1973	6 cu. ft.
British Navy; Records and Publications of the (and Related Source Materials)	1914-1955	78 cu. ft.
Bureau of Aeronautics, Akron, Ohio; Representative Records	1944-1966	2 cu. ft.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Nurse Corps; Records of	1881-1978	19 cu. ft.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Vietnam War; Documents Relating to	1965-1970	2 cu. ft.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; Miscellaneous Records	1824-1970	7.5 cu. ft.
Bureau of Navigation/Bureau of Personnel; Circular Letters of	1860-1951	7.5 cu. ft.
Bureau of Personnel, Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel for Women (WAVES); Records of	1942-1972	18 cu. ft.
Bureau of Personnel, Casualty Assistance Branch; Purple Heart Cards	1898-1950s	12.3 cu. ft.
Bureau of Personnel, Casualty Branch; Records of the	1921-1959	4 cu. ft.
Bureau of Personnel, Naval Home; Papers Relating to	1878-1976	5 cu. ft.
Bureau of Personnel; Reports and Statistics	1909-1984	0.5 cu. ft.
Bureau of Personnel, Special Assistant for Women's Policy (PERS-00W); Records of	1947-1991	9 cu. ft.
Bureau of Personnel, Strength and Statistics Branch; Records of	1946-1966	56 cu. ft.
Bureau of Personnel, Uniform Board; Records of	1939-1983	19 cu. ft.
Chart and Map Collection	1946-present	98 cu. ft.
Chief of Information Biography Files	1939-present	c. 345 cu. ft.
Chief of Information USS Scorpion/USS Thresher Files	1960s, 1993	0.25 cu. ft.
Chief of Information Speech Files	1917-1977	13 cu. ft.
Chief of Information Subject Files	1958-1990	24.75 cu. ft.
Chief of Naval Operations, Awards and Special Project Branch (OP-09B12); Records of	1919-1973	45 cu. ft.
Chief of Naval Operations, Fleet Operations Division: Cold Weather Operations Section, Carrier and Aircraft Operations Section, Cruiser and Destroyer Operations Section, Continental Shelf Development Section, and Movement Reports Center; Records of	1940-1972	63 cu. ft.
Chief of Naval Operations Immediate Office Files (Double Zero Files)	1946-1975	c. 1400 cu. ft.
Chief of Naval Operations, Oceanographer of the Navy; Records on Operation Deep Freeze	1954-1998	2.5 cu. ft.
Chief of Naval Operations, Organization Research and Policy Division (OP-23); Records of	1944-1949	95 cu. ft.
Chief of Naval Operations, Organizational Records of the Office of	1946-2000	12.5 cu. ft.
Chief of Naval Operations, Ship Material Readiness Division; Records of	1942-1963	1 cu. ft.
Chief of Naval Operations, Speeches	1973-1997	10.5 cu. ft.
Chief of Naval Operations, Underseas/Submarine Warfare Division; Historical/Administrative Files	1915-1970	24 cu. ft.
China Repository	1908-1990s	10 cu. ft.
CINCPAC Scientific Advisory Group	1965-1972	1.5 cu. ft.
CINCPAC/CINCPACFLT, Pueblo Command Information Bureau; Records of	1965-1971	6 cu. ft.
Citations, Medal and Award	1940s-1970s	47.5 cu. ft.
Civil Affairs/Military Government/Island Government Branch, Chief of Naval Operations; Records of	1899-1976	88 cu. ft.
Coastal Division 12; Records of	1967-1970	4 cu. ft.
Comfort, USNS and Hosptial Ships in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm; Records Relating to	1906-1991	5 cu. ft.
Constitution, USS; Historical Materials Relating to OPSAIL 200	1997-1998	1 cu. ft.
Defense Department Reorganization; Records of	1937-1975	29 cu. ft.
Earhart, Amelia; Records Regarding the Loss of	1937-present	4 cu. ft.
Fleet Readiness Liaison Branch, Chief of Naval Operations; Records of	1946-1971	46 cu. ft.
French Translations Collection	1948-1965	2 cu. ft.
From the Sea; Working Papers and Drafts of	1992	0.5 cu. ft.
German Naval Archives/Tambach Archives Materials	1922-1945	75 cu. ft.
Hospital Ships and USNS Comfort in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm; Records Relating to	1906-1991	5 cu. ft.
International Naval Review (CINCLANTFLT); Records Relating to	1976	0.5 cu. ft.
Interview and Statement Transcripts	1942-1946	18 cu. ft.
Japanese Navy and Related Source Materials	1939-1952	130 cu. ft.
Map Collection		25 cu. ft.
Mercury 3, Records Relating to	1959-1961	0.25 cu. ft.
Military Armistice Commission, United Nations Command; Transcripts of Meetings	1965-1966	1 cu. ft.
Microfilm Collections	1950-present	c. 3500 reels
Military Sealift Command; Records of	1975-1985	1 cu. ft.
Military Sealift Command; Records of Transportation Directorate	1950-1993	1.5 cu. ft.
National Association of USS LCS(L)(3) 1-130	1940s-present	12.75 cu. ft.
National Yeomen (F); Records of	1920-1976, 1986	0.8 cu. ft.
Naval Forces Vietnam Records	1958-1972	334 cu. ft., 814 microfilm reels
Naval Historical Center, Director of Naval History; Files of	1942-1989	30 cu. ft.
Naval History Documentation Team; Records Relating to Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm	1990-1991	0.5 cu. ft.
Naval Home, Bureau of Naval Personnel; Papers Relating to	1878-1976	5 cu. ft.
Naval Material Command, Speech Bureau; Records of	1965-1981	6.75 cu. ft.
Naval Military Personnel Command; Records of	1930-1964	0.5 cu. ft.
Naval Sea Systems Command, Supervisor of Diving and Salvage; Records of	1915-1985	3 cu. ft.
Naval Sea Systems Command; Records Relating to USS Scorpion (SSN-589)	1969-1970	0.75 cu. ft.
Naval Security Group Command; Records of	1942-1945	2.5 cu. ft.
Naval Security Group Command Intelligence; Records of	1909-1925, 1942-1946	6.5 cu. ft.
Naval Special Warfare Group (OP-16W), Cover & Deception; Records of	1942-1958	2.5 cu. ft.
Naval Technical Mission in Europe; Records of	1945-1947	33 cu. ft.
Navy Laboratory/Center Coordinating Group; Archives of the	1940s-1990s	750 cu. ft.
Nurse Corps, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; Records of	1881-1978	19 cu. ft.
Oral History Collections	1940-present	c. 95 cu. ft.
Organization and Research Policy Division (OP-23), Chief of Naval Operations; Records of	1944-1949	95 cu. ft.
Post 1946 Action and Operational Reports	1946-1973	291.5 cu. ft.
Post 1946 Command File	1946-1973	ca. 711 cu. ft.
Post 1946 Plans, Orders, and Related Documents	1946-1973	413.66 cu. ft.
Post 1946 Submarine Patrol Reports	1946-1963	22 cu. ft.
Post 1946 War Diaries	1946, 1950-1953	59 cu. ft.
Post 1974 Command File	1974-1989	ca. 600 cu. ft.
Post 1990 Command File	1990-present
Privileged Manuscript Collection (Unpublished Histories and Autobiographies)	1939-1975	c. 20 cu. ft.
Rapid Implementation Team, Bethesda National Naval Medical Center; Records of	1988-1989	0.25 cu. ft.
Research and Public Queries Branch, CHINFO (Office of Chief of Information); Records of	1941-1972	16 cu. ft.
Research and Development Unit, Vietnam; Records of	1967-1972	1 cu. ft.
Reserve Fleet (OP-432); Records of	1947-1960	17.5 cu. ft.
Rio de Janiero Naval Operating Base Records	1943-1946	0.5 cu. ft.
Sea Frontier Routing Instructions for Ships and Convoys during WW II		1.5 cu. ft.
Second Fleet Public Affairs Files	1980s-1990s	0.75 cu. ft.
Secretary of the Navy; ALNAVs	1918-present	10 cu. ft.
Security Watch Officer, Chief of Naval Operations; Log Books Maintained by	1939-1957	3 cu. ft.
Seventh Fleet Public Affairs; Records of	1985-1991	18 cu. ft.
Ship Material Readiness Division, Chief of Naval Operations; Records of	1942-1963	1 cu. ft.
Shore and Fleet Organization Branch (N09B22), Chief of Naval Operations; Records of	1940s-1990s	30 cu. ft.
Special Assistant for Women's Policy (PERS-00W), Bureau of Naval Personnel; Records of	1947-1991	9 cu. ft.
Special Assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations/Chief of Naval Personnel on Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Matters; Records of	1964-1981	35 cu. ft.
Speech Files, CHINFO (Office of Chief of Information)	1917-1977	13 cu. ft.
Strategic Bombing Survey, Naval Analysis Division; Records of	1940-1947	41 cu. ft.
Strategic Plans Division, Chief of Naval Operations, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Plans and Policy); Records of	1948-1970	250 cu. ft.
Strength and Statistics Branch, Bureau of Naval Personnel; Records of	1946-1996	56 cu. ft.
Strike Assault Boat Squadron Twenty/Barnes, Lawrence; Papers of Lieutenant (jg)	1960s	0.25 cu. ft.
Study Group on Women in the Navy; Records of	1942-1987	5.5 cu. ft.
Subic Bay U.S. Naval Air Station; Records of	1982-1989	1 cu. ft.
Subic Bay U.S. Naval Station; Records of	1898-1991	2 cu. ft.
Sugar Grove, West Virginia Naval Radio Station; Records of	1965-1992	0.5 cu. ft.
Tambach Archives Materials	1922-1945	75 cu. ft.
Teapot Dome Scandal; Papers of Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss Relating to	1940-1947	41 cu. ft.
Tonkin Gulf Collection	1962-1984	4.5 cu. ft.
Underseas/Submarine Warfare Division, Chief of Naval Operations; Historical/Administrative Files	1915-1970	24 cu. ft.
Uniform Board, Bureau of Naval Personnel; Records of	1939-1983	19 cu. ft.
United Nations Command, Military Armistice Commission Meeting Transcripts	1965-1966	1 cu. ft.
Vietnam Command File	1959-1973	205 cu. ft.
World War II Command File	1939-1945	ca. 323 cu. ft.
Year 2000 (Y2K) Project; Records of the Navy	1996-2000	3.0 cu. ft.
Year 2000 Project Office; Records of the	1997-2000	2.0 cu. ft.
Yorktown Mine Warfare Engineering Activity; Records Relating to Mine Warfare	1918-1971	1.5 cu. ft.

27 March 2007