Action reports prepared and pictures collected by Lieutenant Charles A. Sisson, USNR, Clarksdale, who served as flag secretary to Vice Admiral John Sidney McCain, Carrollton, Commander of the Second Carrier Task Force, Pacific Fleet. (Task Group Thirty-eight Point One, Flagship U.S.S. Wasp; Task Force Thirty-eight, Flagship U.S.S. Hancock during World War II.)

The collection contains 64 loose pictures and eight volumes of mimeographed reports, maps, and pictures. The volumes are as follows:

1. "Action Report of Commander Task Group Thirty-Eight Point One: Operations against Palau, Mindanao, Visayas, Luzon, Celebes and Morotai during Period from 29 August through 28 September 1944," pp. 42
2. "Action Report of Commander Task Group Thirty-Eight Point One: Operations against Okinawa, Formosa, Northern Luzon, Leyte and the Japanese Fleet during the Period from 2 October to 29 October 1944," pp. 58
3. "Action Report of Commander Task Force Thirty-Eight: Operations in support of the Occupation by U.S. Forces of the Central and Northern Philippines, 30 October 1944 to 26 January 1945," pp. 96
4. "Task Force 38 Operations against Luzon, Formosa, China, Indo-China, and Mansei Shoto between 3 January and 22 January 1945," pp. 37
5. "Action Report of Commander Task Force Thirty-Eight: Operations in support of the occupation of Okinawa and Directly against Japan, 28 May to 1 July 1945," pp. 50
6. "War Diary, 1 July 1945–31 July 1945, Attacks of Task Force 38 on the Japanese Home Islands of Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu," pp. 19
7. "Action Report of Commander Task Force 38: Operations against Japan, 2 July–15 August 1945," pp. 140
8. Album of Pictures Task Force Thirty-Eight, 113 pictures