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Box 27

 Container

Contains 13 Results:

Surrender of Japan report, 1946 Feb 11

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 552
Scope and Contents

Report of the surrender and occupation of Japan issued by Admiral John H. Towers, CIC, U.S. Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, 11 February 1946.

Dates: 1946 Feb 11

Warren C. Hamm memoir, undated

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 553
Scope and Contents

Memoir entitled "Steady as you go, Midshipman to Flagbridge." Discusses youth in St. Albans, Vt.; attendance at the Maine Maritime Academy, 1946-1949; served in USS Charles H. Roan, USS Algol; attended General Line School; XO, USS Springfield; CO, U.S. Naval Destroyer School; served as Senior Advisor to Vietnamese Navy; CO, USS Dale; CO, Naval Forces Korea; CO, Amphibious Group Two; Military Sealift Command; Deputy CIC, IBERLANT.

Dates: undated

Harlan P. Ro memoir, 2003

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 554
Scope and Contents

Reminiscences of signalman in the Navy Armed Guard in 1944 when he served aboard an Army tugboat. Includes crossing the North Atlantic in February 1944, participation in the D-Day invasion and in Antwerp, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge; along with personal vignettes.

Dates: 2003

Maynard B. Williamson memoir, 2003 Sep 5

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 4
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 555
Scope and Contents

Memoir of service in the USS Maloy (DE 791) , Normandy and the Channel Islands, 1944- 1945. Includes biographical information, entry in the V7 program of the Navy in 1942, active duty in 1943, Navy training with USS Maloy in England screening landing craft movements, and preparing for the invasion of Normandy, D-Day, battle action off the Channel Islands, patrols off Cherbourg and the Channel Islands.

Dates: 2003 Sep 5

Arthur V. Keller, Jr. memoir, 2003

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 556
Scope and Contents

Memoir of service in the Navy as an enlisted sailor and limited duty officer, 1960-2002. Includes biographical information, training at Great Lakes Receiving Station Boot Camp, service in USS Independence (CVA-62), Cuban Blockade of 1962, transfer to USS Fulton, U.S. Naval Reserve, enlisted surface warfare specialist and commission as a limited duty officer.

Dates: 2003

Henry A. Wristen memoir, 2003

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 6
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 557
Scope and Contents

Memoir of a Senior Chief Gunner's Mate, USN, of an incident involving USS Deliver, 19 June 1947, in Tsingtao, China, where an armed landing was made against Chinese troops who fired upon the ship.

Dates: 2003

Robert W. Hoel memoir, 2003

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 7
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 558
Scope and Contents

World War II memories of service in USS Chepachet (A078), including prelude to war, signed on A-7 program, attendance at Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School, Columbia University, commissioning of the Chepachet, convoy duty in the Atlantic, trips to Mediterranean to deliver oil, assignment to the Pacific Theater and the USS Soubarissen, Battle of Okinawa, 1945, and detached from active duty in February 1946.

Dates: 2003

Irwin J. Kappes memoir, 2003 Sep 13

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 8
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 559
Scope and Contents

Memoir of a reluctant warrior who did not want to go to war, was drafted, trained at Great Lakes Naval Training Station, assigned to USS Champlin, convoy duty to Europe and North Africa, transfer to USS Moale, served as radarman, ship saw action in the Pacific at Battle of Ormuc Bay, Mindoro, Lingayen Gulf, and Iwo Jima, transferred to shore duty at Fleet Recreation and Morale 14th Naval District, Hawaii.

Dates: 2003 Sep 13

James A. Ferren, Jr. memoir, 2003

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 9
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 560
Scope and Contents

Memoir of World War II radioman on subchasers and USS Mount Olympus, 1944-1945, enlisted in the Navy in 1941, U.S. Naval Training Station, Newport, R.I., assigned to USS SC768, Miami, Florida, assigned in 1943 to USS Mount Olympus in Pacific Theater. Comments on incidents, people, Leyte Gulf engagement, Monnt Olympus rammed but not sunk, liberty in the Philippines and discharge from the Navy, 1945.

Dates: 2003

Katharine Ainsworth Semmes memoir, 2004

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 10
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 561
Scope and Contents

Memoir entitled "Reflections on the Navy Life." Includes youth, father's naval career, life as a Navy junior, courtship with B. J. Semmes, World War II, life in occupied Germany, 1949, Newport, RI., life in Bahrain in the 1960s, Norfolk, Va, Naval War College, and retirement in Wonalancet, N.H. Includes article "Bahrain-Pearl of the Persian Gulf."

Dates: 2004