Memoir and photograph, ca. 1943-2001.

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Memoir and photograph, ca. 1943-2001.

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Contains brief summary of his military assignments and service on the island of Tinian. Also mentions his experiences as an LDS servicemen and watching the "Enola Gay" B-29 Bomber depart for Japan to drop the atomic bomb. Includes 1 photocopied photograph of Parsons while in the Marines.

1 folder (4 p. and 1 photocopied photograph)

Harold B. Lee Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7642223

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Parsons, Leonard Garth, 1925-

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Served in the US Marine Corps during World War II from 1943-1945. Parsons was apart of the USMC 18th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion. He was assigned as a Radar Technician and achieved the rank of a Technical Sergeant. From the description of Memoir and photograph, ca. 1943-2001. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81057204 From the description of Memoir and photograph, ca. 1943-2001. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 51654188 ...

United States. Marine Corps

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The U.S. Marine Corps was established on November 10, 1775. From the description of Papers, 1933-1945. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 754107146 The history of the Marine Corps Navajo Code Talkers dates from 1942-1945. In 1942, a white man by the name of Phillip Johnston, who had lived on a Navajo reservation for many years of his life, conceived an idea that he thought might help the war. He believed that the Navajo language, a verbal, rarely-written language, coul...