Memoir, 1937-1991.

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Memoir, 1937-1991.

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Memoir of his service in the Navy in USS Fleming (DE 32) as EXO and CO in the Pacific Theater. Includes NROTC at Yale University, sub chaser training in Miami, Florida, ASW escort for convoys, Battle of the Marshall Islands and Okinawa invasion, and positive comments on the navy. Appendix includes narrative report of the anti-sub-marine action by USS Fleming, January 1945, photocopy of citation for Legion of Merit and Silver Star, map of the Pacific and newspaper clipping from the Oregonian, November 11, 1945.

1 item, 8.5" x 11".

Naval War College, Henry E. Eccles Library

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Naval War College, Henry E. Eccles Library

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Yale University.

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Burgess, Kenneth Farwell, 1887-1965

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Burgess served in the Navy from 1941-1945. From the description of Memoir, 1937-1991. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 707327419 ...

Fleming (Destroyer escort)

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