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Philip Karl Boraas Lundeberg papers, circa 1940-2017
- Title
- Philip Karl Boraas Lundeberg papers, circa 1940-2017
- Identifier
- P1667
- Date
- 1940-2017
- Creator
- Lundeberg, Philip K.
- Description
- Born in Minneapolis into a distinguished Norwegian-American family (see papers of other Lundebergs), Lundeberg was educated at Duke University and Harvard University, where he was assistant to Samuel E. Morison. He was officer on the destroyer escort "Frederick C. Davis" when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat near the close of World War II. He taught at St. Olaf College and the Naval Academy, but most of his career was as a naval curator at the Smithsonian Institution.
He collected and donated papers of his relatives to NAHA, 1987-2003. Includes:- Abstract Ship Log in Historical Perspective of U.S.S. Frederick C. Davis, 1941-1945;
- German Naval Critique of the U-Boat Campaign by Philip Lundeberg, 1963, Military Affairs; Oral History Program from Naval Historical Foundation, 2003;
- Correspondence with Forrest Brown and Philip Lundeberg. Added Nov. 8, 2012: Philip K. Lundeberg, "Undersea Warfare and Allied Strategy in World War I (The Smithsonian Journal of History, Vol. 1, 1966).
- Lundeberg, Philip K., Arthur B. Cohn and Jennifer Jones. Tale of Three Gunboats: Lake Champlain’s Revolutionary War Heritage (National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 2017).
- In the spring of 1776, the Lake Champlain Valley became a pivotal location in the American War for Independence. The British invasion from Canada and subsequent battle for naval supremacy of this strategic waterway was critical to the Americans' eventual success in later years. With General Benedict Arnold leading the American effort, the combatants met on October 11, 1776, at the Battle of Valcour Island. This and other wartime encounters on Lake Champlain left behind a legacy of shipwrecks and an underwater archaeological collection.
- Location: 13/C/2
- Extent
- 2 folders
- Type
- Correspondence
- History
Collection
Citation
Lundeberg, Philip K., “Philip Karl Boraas Lundeberg papers, circa 1940-2017,” Norwegian American Historical Association, accessed October 17, 2026, https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/items/show/10948.