Robert Louis Stevens letters and photographs, 1944-1946.

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Robert Louis Stevens letters and photographs, 1944-1946.

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The collection contains letters from Stevens to his parents, 1944-1946. The letters document his service career from boot camp at the U.S. Naval Training Station in Bainbridge, Md., and radar school in Norfolk, Va., to escort and patrol duty in such locations as New Guinea, the Philippines, Borneo, and China. Subject matter primarily consists of daily life in training and active service, especially Stevens's literary interests.

About 200 items (0.5 linear feet).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7152930

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Stevens, Robert Louis, 1925-2003

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Robert Louis Stevens was born 11 July 1925. The son of Robert Alexander Stephens and Dorothy Sloan Stevens of Asheville, N.C., he matriculated at the University of North Carolina before being inducted into the United States Navy in February 1944. During World War II, Stevens served as a radarman third class aboard the U.S.S. Doyle C. Barnes, a destroyer escort that saw duty in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. After completing his undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina in 1949, ...

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...

Doyle C. Barnes (Destroyer escort)

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United States. Naval Training Center (Bainbridge, Md.)

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