A Marine’s Short War in France

In the autumn of 1969, when the Naval Institute’s oral history program had just gotten started, John T. Mason Jr., the director, sat down for an interview at the Army-Navy Club in Washington. His interviewee was a distinguished elder statesman, Colgate W. Darden Jr., then president emeritus of the University of Virginia. During World War II, he had been governor of Virginia, and before that he was a member of the House Naval Affairs Committee as it dramatically built up the Navy’s strength prior to the war.

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