ZO (Operations) Files in the Navy Department Library
Introduction
Use and Reproduction Policy
Squadrons and Fleets
Expeditions
Minor Operations
Major Operations
Wars
This series of files is comprised of 4.5 linear feet of material, and contains documentation pertaining to operations of the US Navy throughout its history before World War II. A few files provide information on squadrons, peacetime cruises, and scientific expeditions. Examples of the types of records in this file are: (1) official Office of Naval Records and Library, and Naval History Division reports and correspondence; (2) manuscripts items; (3) copies of material found in other depositories; (4) newspaper and magazine articles; (5) cross-reference sheets to records in Record Groups 45 and 80 at the National Archives.
Z File materials are unavailable for loan and must be consulted in the library. Photocopying of manuscripts, as well as fragile items, is generally prohibited, though the use of digital cameras by researchers to reproduce non-copyrighted materials is permitted. Permission to photocopy a few pages may be granted by the reference staff, contingent upon the physical state of items. All photocopying of materials shall be done by the reference staff, or under their close supervision. The use of personal scanners by non-library staff personnel must be approved by the reference staff on a document-by-document basis (Reference: Naval History and Heritage Command Instruction [NAVHISTCENTINST] 5070.1C.).
Squadrons, Fleets, Cruises (General file)
African Squadron
Asiatic Fleet and Asiatic Squadron
Submarine Division Sixteen Smoker, Tsingtao, China - 1928.
Atlantic Fleet
Attack Squadron Thirty-Four - "Blue Blasters"
Attack Squadron Eighty-Six - "Sidewinders"
Azores Detachment, US Fleet
Brazil Squadron
Combat Support Squadron Eight (COMSUPPRON EIGHT) - Decommissioning brochure - 1994
Destroyer Squadron Six
Destroyer Squadron Thirteen
East India Squadron
Great White Fleet
Surgeon Eugene Potter Stone Diary, January 1907 - July 1911 (Great White Fleet)
Helicopter Combat Support Squadron One (HELSUPPRON ONE) - Decommissioning brochure - 1994
Home Squadron
Mediterranean Squadron
Naval Detachment in Turkish Waters, 1919-1924
Pacific Fleet and Pacific Squadron
Special Service Squadron
Squadron of Evolution
Squadron Sixteen - newsletter 11 September 1944
Squadron Forty (T) - Records and Reports (18 September 1936 - 26 October 1937)
Sub Group V - Green Cove Springs Florida
Thanksgiving and Christmas menus - 1947
Submarine Squadron Three
Submarine Squadron Four (COMSUBRON FOUR) - "Swamp Fox-81" brochure - 1981
West India Squadron
Yangtze River Patrol Squadron
Expeditions in general
Amazon Expedition
Antarctic Expeditions (General)
Arctic Expeditions (General)
Darien Expedition
Greely Relief Expedition
Grinnell Expedition
Jeanette Expedition
MacMillan Expedition
Paraguay Expedition
Perry Expedition to China and Japan - See also ZB files for Jonathan Goble diary
Polaris Expedition
Ringgold - Rodgers Expedition
West Indies Volcanic Relief Expedition, 1902
Wilkes Expedition
Wilkine Submarine Expedition to Arctic, 1931
Australia/New Zealand - Visit by US Fleet, 1925
Brazil - Visit by American Squadron, 1894
Central America - Visits by US Navy
China/Japan - Perry expedition
New Orleans, Louisiana - Naval Operations
Qualla Battoo, Sumatra
Quebec - Siege of, 1759
Unitas VIII - Exercise (1968) in Latin American waters
US Navy as an Instrument of National Policy, 1815-1861
Indian Wars
Operations Against Pirates
Joint Anglo-American Attack on Peiho Forts, 1859
Bombardment of Alexandria, Egypt, 1882
Boxer Rebellion, 1900
Russo-Japanese War - General
Russo-Japanese War - Cost (Financial) to Japan and Russia
Russo-Japanese War- Naval Lessons of, by J.L. de Lanessan
Russ-Japanese War - Report by Lieutenant Commander Newton A. McCully
Mexican Border Disturbances, 1915-1919
Nicaragua - Intervention in
Wars of the US and Other Nations - General
Revolutionary War - General
Revolutionary War - Benedict Arnold's Fleet
Revolutionary War - Battle of Bunker Hill
Revolutionary War - West Manuscript (incomplete) on frigate Alliance
Privateers and Privateering (General) - See also ZV file
Wars with Barbary Powers
Quasi-War with France
War of 1812 - General
War of 1812 - Battle of Lake Erie
War of 1812 - Battle of Lake Champlain
War of 1812 - Fort McHenry and Bombardment of Baltimore
War of 1812 - Iron Grey Volunteers of New York City
Mexican War
Civil War - General Information
Civil War - Confederate States Navy
Civil War - Confederate States Navy Index to Shipping Articles
Civil War - Confederate Papers Concerning River Defense Fleet, Virginia Volunteer Navy Company, etc.
Civil War - Blockade Runners
Civil War - Instruction to Lieutenant Fairfax from Captain Wilkes
Civil War - Battle of Hampton Roads
Civil War - Evansville Steamboats
Civil War - The Journal of Joshua Warren, 1861-1865 (written in 1892)
Civil War - Engagement Between USS Kearsarge and CSS Alabama
Civil War - Battle of Mobile Bay
Civil War- Capture of Plymouth, North Carolina
Civil War - Manuscript on Vermont Participants
Spanish-American War - General
Spanish-American War - Report on Items Captured From the Spanish
Philippine Insurrection
World War I - General Information
World War I - German Vivat Commemorative Ribbons
World War I - Statistical Data
World War I - List of Ships Serving in War Zone
World War I - Cruiser & Transport Force, Secret & Confidential Letters, 1917-1918 (See also Papers of Captain Charles C. Gill for history of force & misc. papers)
World War I - Summary of Activities of US Naval Forces Operating in European Waters
World War I -Turkey - "The Turk at Canakkale in 1915" by Turkish Ministry of Defense (1957)
World War I - Brief History of US Naval Forces in France
World War I - American Port at Talmont-sur-Giraonde, France
World War I - List of Ships Serving with the Army of Occupation in Germany, 1918-1923
World War I - Interned German Ships
World War I - Intervention in Russia
World War I - Balloon Fight
World War I - Mine Barrage
World War I - "History of Work Training Division, Bureau of Navigation, During World War I," Vol. I
World War II - Annual Reports of Admiral Ernest J. King
