Lepper, Robert
Person
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Robert Lepper oral history transcription, 2005
Item
Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 357
Scope and Contents
Lepper discusses his youth in Westerly, RI, education at the University of Rhode Island, teaching in Warwick, RI and his service in WWII on LCTs in the Mediterranean at the invasions of Sicily and Salerno and his assignments as ferry commander during the invasion of France on D-Day, June 6, 1944. His last assignments were at Fire Fighting School, Philadelphia, PA and as an NROTC instructor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He comments on the significance of his naval career.
Dates:
2005