| DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY OCTOBER 1, 1939 Charles Edison, Secretary of the Navy (Acting) Charles Edison, Assistant Secretary of the Navy |
| OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY Capt. Irving H. Mayfield, Aide |
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| Shore Establishments Division Capt. Charles W. Fisher, Jr. (CC) Director of Shore Establishments |
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| Technical Division RADM Stanford C. Hooper Technical Assistant |
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| Naval Petroleum Reserves RADM Harry A. Stuart Director |
| Naval Examining Board RADM John Downes President |
| Compensation Board RADM Ivan E. Bass Senior Member |
| Naval Retiring Board RADM Benjamin H. Dorsey (MC) President |
| Navy Budget Office Capt. Ezra Allen Budget Officer |
| General Board RADM Walter Sexton Senior Member Members RADM John Greenslade RADM Adolphus Watson RADM Alfred Johnson RADM Frederick Horne RADM J. D. Wainwright RADM Charles S. Freedman RADM Ernest King Capt. Oscar C. Badger Cmdr. Charles A. Baker |
| OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY Cmdr. Ralph S. Riggs, Aide |
| OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations RADM Robert Ghormley Assistant Chief of Naval Operations |
| War Plans Division Capt. Russell S. Crenshaw Director |
| Central Division Capt. Roscoe E. Schuirmann Director |
| Communication Division RADM Leigh Noyes Director |
| Inspection Division RADM Harry L. Brinser President PACIFIC COAST SECTION RADM Sinclair Gannon Senior Member |
| Fleet Maintenance Division Capt. Edward D. Washburn, Jr. Director |
| Division of Fleet Training RADM H. Fairfax Leary Director |
| Naval Districts Division Capt. Charles C. Hartigan Director |
| Ship Movements Division Capt. Roland M. Brainard Director |
| Intelligence Division RADM Walter S. Anderson Director |
| NAVAL ATTACHES |
| London Captain Alan Kirk Rome and Belgrade Capt. Thomas Kinkaid The Hague Capt. Monroe Kelly Madrid Capt. Ben. H. Wyatt |
| Tokyo Capt. H. H. Smith-Hutton Peiping Cmdr. Harvey E. Overesch |
| Berlin, Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Helsingfors Capt. Albert E. Schrader Brussels Capt. J. A. Gade, USNR (ret) Paris Capt. Ellis S. Stone |
| Guatamala City Maj. F. H. Lamson-Schibner, USMC Santiago Cmdr. Walter W. Webb Mexico City Cmdr. Wallace M. Dillon Rio de Janeiro Lt. Cmdr. Edwin D. Graves, jr. |
| Bogota Capt. John C. Munn, USMC Lima Lt. Cmdr. Willard R.. Gaines Buenos Aires and Montevideo Capt. William D. Brereton, Jr. Havana Col. Ross E. Rowell, USMC |
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| SPECIAL DUTY |
| Naval Aide to the President Capt. Daniel Callaghan |
| Navy Company, New York World's Fair Lt. Cmdr. Edward R. Gardner, Jr. |
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| Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations from 1939 to 1942. Following US entry into WWII, Stark became Commander, US Naval Forces in Europe from 1942 to 1945. Some blame him for the disaster at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Photo from the NHC On-Line Library. As far as I know it is in the public domain |
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