Papers, 1913-1977.

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Papers, 1913-1977.

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Correspondence, reports, speeches, biographical material, scrapbooks, and clippings, relating chiefly to Blandy's World War II service as head of the U.S. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance and afterward as director of Operation Crossroads, the atomic tests at Bikini Island in 1946.

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Blandy, William H. P. (William Henry Purnell), 1890-1954

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U.S. naval officer. From the description of Papers, 1913-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 34149462 Naval officer. From the description of Papers of William H. P. Blandy, 1913-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71072426 ...

United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance.

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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...