Whan Papers 1942-1945

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Whan Papers 1942-1945

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Edgar Whan was a graduate of the US Navy Japanese Language School, located at the University of Colorado in Boulder from 1942-1946. During World War II Edgar Whan served in Japan as a Japanese Language Officer in the Naval Intelligence (1943-1945). Shirley Whan taught General Science at Junior High School in Mt. Clemens, Michigan. After the war Edgar Whan received his Ph.D. in English and taught at Ohio University, he also a volunteered at a hospice home. Shirley Whan raised their three children, became an advocate for various causes, and worked with ex-mental patients.

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Whan, Shirley Alice

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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...

Whan, Edgar William, 1920-2013

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Edgar Whan was born in November, 1920 in Billings, Montana and earned an AB from Eastern Michigan University in 1942. He took an intensive Japanese language course in the summer of 1942 at the University of Michigan and entered the Japanese Language School in the fall of 1942. He married Shirley Westrick in February 1943 and reported to JICPOA on December 1, 1943. At JICPOA, he was assigned to a division which catalogued and evaluated captured Japanese maps and charts, he translated top secret n...