Richard E. Bennink collection, 1938-2002 (bulk, 1941-1945).

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Richard E. Bennink collection, 1938-2002 (bulk, 1941-1945).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71014304

Collection contains a wide range of items relating to his service in the U.S. Navy, the bulk of the material dating from World War II (1941-1945).

2 boxes of equipment and photographs.

Cambridge Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 8072082

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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...

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Bennink, Richard E., 1917-

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CDR Richard E. Bennink served in WWII where he was boat commander, USS Heywood at the landings at Gavutu and Tanambogo Islands in August 1942. From the description of Reminiscence, August 1942. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 730473617 Bennink was born in 1917, and graduated from Harvard University and the Navy ROTC in 1938, when he was commissioned as an ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve that June. He reported for active duty on 6 June 1941, and over the next four y...

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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...

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