Charles Alan Pownall papers, 1912-1976.

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Charles Alan Pownall papers, 1912-1976.

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Correspondence, orders, reports, memoranda, personnel records, printed matter, and photographs, relating to American naval aviation, especially in the Pacific Theater during World War II, and to postwar naval administration of Guam.

10 ms. boxes, 2 oversize boxes.

Stanford University, Hoover Institution Library

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Stanford University, Hoover Institution Library

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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...

Pownall, C. A. (Charles Alan), 1887-1975

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Vice admiral, United States Navy; commander, Air Force, Pacific Fleet, 1944; governor of Guam, 1946-1949. From the description of Charles Alan Pownall papers, 1912-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123438855 Charles Alan Pownall was born October 4, 1887, at Atglen, Pennsylvania. He received his commission from Annapolis in 1912, and served as Chief of Naval Air Training Command in Pensacola from 1944 to 1946, and later retired as vice admiral in November 1949. Pownall die...