New Mexico (Battleship)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Robert W. de Haas Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 472
Scope and Content
The bulk of the collection contains declassified documents, official orders, maps and internal memoranda about the Pacific theater during World War II and the battleship’s engagement against Japanese forces. Additional material contains de Haas’s on-ship memoranda, internal command memoranda, Japanese propaganda, a scrapbook, issues of the battleship newsletter The Queen’s Daily News, United States Navy (USN) publications on battle experiences and USN periodicals.
Dates:
1939-1946
USS New Mexico Newsletters and Printed Ephemera
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1024-BC
Scope and Content
Contains newsletters edited and produced onboard by the crew, memoranda, and assorted commemorative pamphlets.
Dates:
1919-1945; Majority of material found within 1935-1945
USS New Mexico photographs and printed material
Collection
Identifier: MSS-905-SC
Abstract
The collection consists of photographs and printed material relating to the USS New Mexico.
Dates:
1945, 1995; Majority of material found in 1945