| Scope and content |
Papers of Joe Warren Stryker include a diary, copy of a manuscript, bulletins, newsletters, and photographs. Diary entries reflect experiences as a navigator aboard the U.S.S. NORTH CAROLINA. Stryker comments on the instability of Admiral John W. Wilcox, being trailed by German submarines, and the NORTH CAROLINA's voyage to California and Hawaii. Other entries record his experiences in the Pacific, including naval engagements at Guadalcanal, Tulagi, Noumea, and Espiritu Santo (Torpedo Junction), where the NORTH CAROLINA was damaged by a Japanese torpedo. Entries describe shipboard life and leisure activities of naval officers during World War II. A photocopy of a manuscript entitled China Ensign contains reflections of Stryker's experiences as an ensign in the Asiatic Squadron. Stryker describes incidents occurring during duty aboard the U.S.S. PITTSBURGH and the destroyers TRENTON and HULBERT in the South Pacific Islands; experiences during river patrol duty on the Yangtze River aboard the U.S.S. PENGUIN; experiences in Indochina, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Japan; the daily lives of Chinese peasants and city dwellers; and the relationship between American sailors and the Chinese people. |
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| Cite as |
Joe Warren Stryker papers (#339), Special Collections Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
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| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of Rear Admiral J. W. Stryker. |
| Biographical note | Rear Admiral Joe Warren Stryker (1904-1980), 1925 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, served in the Asiatic Squadron in the Pacific Islands, on patrol duty on the Yangtze River in China, as communications officer in a submarine squadron in Hawaii, as navigator on the U.S.S. NORTH CAROLINA, as a teacher at the U.S. Naval Academy and the Naval War College, and as a commander of amphibious operations. He served on a variety of other ships including the battleship WEST VIRGINIA, the armored cruiser PITTSBURGH, the destroyers HULBERT and TRENTON, the river patrol gunboat FREMONT . |
