Robert F. Walden Collection
The Robert F. Walden Collection documents the wartime operations of the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard. The collection focuses on work done to salvage the ships that were damaged in both the initial Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 and the later battles of the war, as well as on the development of Civilian Housing Area III (CHAIII), where thousands of Navy Yard workers lived.
The Walden Collection includes photographs, reports, war diaries, correspondence, speeches, clippings, personnel and administrative records, and Robert F. Walden biographical materials. Most of the materials were compiled at the end of the war and left with Walden by his friend H. L. Stickney, Jr. The materials were then donated to the University of Hawaiʻi Library by Walden’s widow, along with memorabilia saved by Walden and documentation concerning Walden’s life and naval career.
- Finding Aid to the Robert F. Walden Collection (pdf)
- Inventory of Manuscripts (pdf)
- Inventory of Photographs (pdf)
- Appendix 1 (pdf): Index to Ships Named in the War Diaries of Admiral William R. Furlong, Commandant, Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, December 1943 – July 1944
- Appendix 2 (pdf): Transcript of the Report “USS Maryland: Chronological Account of Work Performed by Pearl Harbor Navy Yard”
