Diary of Frank Mello, 1945-1946.

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Diary of Frank Mello, 1945-1946.

This collection consists solely of Frank Mello's handwritten diary that starts in May 1945 and ends in January 1946. In the back of the diary is a list of names and addresses. The autograph of the Bishop of Guam appears just above the October 12, 1945 entry.

1 diary.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6922680

Sturgis Library (Barnstable, Mass.)

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Sturgis Library (Barnstable, Mass.). Archives.

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Built in 1873, the Colin C. Baker was a 3-masted schooner partially owned and captained by Browning K. Baker of West Dennis (Mass.). From its home port of Boston, it sailed the Mid and North Atlantic in pursuit of trade in coal and other mined commodities. It was abandoned at sea in 1917. From the description of Schooner Colin C. Baker papers, 1874-1903. (Clams, Inc). WorldCat record id: 62879980 ...

Mello, Frank Cardoza

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Frank Mello was a Cape Cod, Massachusetts resident who served on the island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Details of his service are not generally known but he describes his time on Guam as uneventful and, in at least one entry as, "boring". In the diary Mello writes briefly about meeting Michael Angel Olano, Bishop of Guam (also known as, Bishop Leon Miguel Angel Olano y Urteaga) and speaking with him in Portuguese. As he records it he finally saw his wife and children, afte...