William H. P. Blandy Papers 1913-1977

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William H. P. Blandy Papers 1913-1977

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Naval officer. Correspondence, reports, speeches, biographical material, scrapbooks, and clippings relating chiefly to Blandy's World War II service as head of the United States Navy Department Bureau of Ordnance and afterward as director of Operation Crossroads, the atomic tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946.

400 items; 2 containers plus 4 oversize; 3.6 linear feet

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6356700

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance.

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United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ordnance

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United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Blandy, William H. P. (William Henry Purnell), 1890-1954

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U.S. naval officer. From the description of Papers, 1913-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 34149462 Naval officer. From the description of Papers of William H. P. Blandy, 1913-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71072426 ...