Oral history interview with Donald Collins, [videorecording], 2002.

Bush, George, 1924-2018

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George Herbert Walker Bush (1924-2018) was Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1992. He was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts, to Dorothy Walker Bush and Prescott Bush (who was a Republican Senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1962). He graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts on his 18th birthday, June 12, 1942. That same day, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy as a Seaman 2nd Class. Receiving ...

Derks, Mik.

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Collins, Donald E., 1924-2006

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Collins (1924-2006) served twelve patrols aboard the submarine USS Finback during World War II. He was born in Sunbury (Pennsylvania), grew up in New York City, and eventually settled in Portage (Wisconsin). He worked for the Division of Corrections in Madison, Wausau, and, for thirty-five years, in Portage (Wisconsin). From the description of Oral history interview with Donald Collins [sound recording], 2002. (Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center). Worl...

Queenfish (Submarine)

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Finback (Submarine)

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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...

Wisconsin Public Television

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Tokyo Rose, 1916-2006

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Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino (July 4, 1916 – September 26, 2006) was an American who participated in English-language radio broadcasts transmitted by Radio Tokyo to Allied soldiers in the South Pacific during World War II on The Zero Hour radio show. Toguri called herself "Orphan Ann", but she quickly became inaccurately identified with the name "Tokyo Rose", coined by Allied soldiers and which predated her broadcasts. After the Japanese defeat, Toguri was detained for a year by the United State...

Wisconsin Veterans Museum

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University of Wisconsin--Madison

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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...

Lockwood, Charles A., 1890-1967

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Vice admiral, United States Navy; commander, Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet, 1943-1945. From the description of Charles A. Lockwood papers, 1924-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754869195 Naval officer. Full name: Charles Andrews Lockwood. From the description of Charles A. Lockwood papers, 1904-1967 (bulk 1940-1960). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84294178 Naval officer. From the description of Reminiscences of Charles Andrews Lockwood, ...