Reminiscences of Daniel Wellington Torrey, Jr. : oral history, 1968.

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Torrey, Daniel Wellington, 1904-

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David Wellington Torrey was born in Deer Isle, Maine in 1904, the son of Daniel W. and Elizabeth Barbour Torrey Sr. He graduated with a B.S. degree in Dairy Husbandry from the University of Maine in 1927. He served for 30 years as a naval aviator in the U.S. Marine Corps, retiring in 1959 as a brigadier general. He died in 1979. From the description of Memoirs, 1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 55972702 Marine Corps officer. From the description of Reminiscenc...

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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...