Contemporary History Branch Staff
Dr. Gary E. Weir, Acting Branch Head: modern naval-industrial-scientific
complex; naval-industrial relations governing American submarine construction;
undersea warfare; German Navy - Imperial,Weimar, and Third Reich; currently
working on histories of naval oceanography (1919-1970) and the Arctic as
a naval operating environment (1930-present).
Dr. Jeffrey G. Barlow: World War II; post-World War II naval strategy;
nuclear strategic thinking; U.S. naval aviation, 1945-1965; history of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff; unification and Defense Department organization;
currently working on the Navy and national security affairs during post-World
War II period.
Robert J. Cressman: Naval aviation in World War II; Pearl Harbor;
the Battle of Wake Island; Vietnam War; currently working on a history of
river and coastal operations in Vietnam.
Richard A. Russell: U.S.-Russian and U.S.-Soviet Naval Relations;
World War II in the Pacific.
Dr. Robert J. Schneller: Persian Gulf War; integration of African-Americans
into the U.S. Navy; Civil War; currently working on a social history of
the Navy in the Cold War.
Last update: 5 October 96