Collection, 1916-1945 (inclusive), 1942-1945 (bulk).

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Collection, 1916-1945 (inclusive), 1942-1945 (bulk).

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One letter, dated July 23, 1916, from L. P. Wood to J. B. Leonard comments on Naval action at the close of World War I. The bulk of the collection is correspondence addressed to Edith Lincoln Leonard, a school teacher during World War II. The correspondents include: Phil Huffman, Alan Grout, Dick Thomas, J. P. Danton, George Dawson Perry, and Warner Bunden. The letters discuss life in the service from training camp through to the end of the men's service. Some topics include: censorship, active duty in the Army, Naval Air Combat Intelligence, West coast and Pacific assignments, the Zoot Suit Riots, Marine life, and Navy life.

ca. 100 items.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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SNAC Resource ID: 6756269

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Grout, Alan

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Danton, J. Periam, 1908-2002

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Biographical Information Joseph Periam Danton was born in Palo Alto, California at the Stanford University hospital on July 5, 1908. His parents were German language educators George Henry and Annina Periam Danton, who had both earned Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. In 1916, the Danton family moved to Peking, China to teach at Tsinghua University (now part of Peking University), where they stayed for nearly ten years. The family also ...

Thomas, Dicks

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Bunden, Warren

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Perry, George Dawson

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Huffman, Phil

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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...

Leonard, Edith Lincoln.

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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...

Leonard, J. B.

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United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...