Scrapbook, 1937-1942.

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Scrapbook, 1937-1942.

A scrapbook kept by Richard Harvey from 1937-1942. The volume contains family information, memorabilia, greeting cards, newspaper clippings, photographs, etc., documenting his school days in Portland, his college years, and his entry into the Naval Reserve in 1942.

1 v. ; 34 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6906649

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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Harvey family.

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College of the Holy Cross Worcester, Mass.

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Harvey, Richard D. (Richard David), 1928-

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Richard Eric Harvey, Jr., the son of Richard E. and Mary E. McCahill Harvey, was born on April 3, 1920 in Portland, Maine. He graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. in 1942 and entered the U.S. Naval Reserve upon his graduation. From the description of Scrapbook, 1937-1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 163566726 ...

United States. Naval Reserve

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On Aug. 19, 1916, with the prospect of World War I looming, the Navy Reserve Force was formally organized. The first official U.S. Navy Reservists hunted enemy U-boats from the cockpits of biplanes. When World War II erupted on September 1, 1939, the Navy Reserve was ready. By the summer of 1941, virtually all of its members were serving on active duty, their numbers destined to swell when Japanese planes roared over Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Over the course of the ensuing four years, th...