Robert N. Harrington letters 1942-1946 1943-1945 Harrington, Robert N. letters

University of Washington

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United States. Marine Corps

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The U.S. Marine Corps was established on November 10, 1775. From the description of Papers, 1933-1945. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 754107146 The history of the Marine Corps Navajo Code Talkers dates from 1942-1945. In 1942, a white man by the name of Phillip Johnston, who had lived on a Navajo reservation for many years of his life, conceived an idea that he thought might help the war. He believed that the Navajo language, a verbal, rarely-written language, coul...

Bliss, Ella

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Robert N. Harrington attended the University of Washington in 1942, where he studied chemistry and participated in the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps program. He joined the United States Marine Corps before May 1943, and trained at Camp Waldron in Farragut, Idaho, and Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Around November 1944, he was deployed overseas as a pharmacist's mate, and he participated in the Battle of Iwo Jima, where he was wounded. He was then stationed in Hawaii, where he ...

Pyle, Ernie, 1900-1945

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Ernest "Ernie" Taylor Pyle (August 3, 1900 – April 18, 1945) was a Pulitzer Prize—winning American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II. Pyle is also notable for the columns he wrote as a roving human-interest reporter from 1935 through 1941 for the Scripps-Howard newspaper syndicate that earned him wide acclaim for his simple accounts of ordinary people across North America. When the United States entered World W...

Bliss, George R., 1816-1893

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Robert N. Harrington attended the University of Washington in 1942, where he studied chemistry and participated in the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps program. He joined the United States Marine Corps before May 1943, and trained at Camp Waldron in Farragut, Idaho, and Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Around November 1944, he was deployed overseas as a pharmacist's mate, and he participated in the Battle of Iwo Jima, where he was wounded. He was then stationed in Hawaii, where he worked for a ...

Harrington, Robert N.

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