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Carol-Ann Lantz oral history transcription
Lantz discusses her service in the Marine Corps, 1950-1955, as an enlisted officer. She comments on boot camp at Parris Island, her assignments, advanced schools, social life, Quantico, and her affection for the corps. Lantz was born in Warwick, RI in 1924. She attended Pembroke College for three years, served in the Marine Coprs, 1950-1955, ran a kennel, and married a Marine Corps Colonel in 1956. She is a member of the National Association of Women Marines. This oral history of part of the Women in Military Oral History Program.
Carroll Caffrey oral history transcription, 2009
Caffrey discusses his service in the US Navy during WWII, including his joining the Navy in 1944, naval training in Sampson, NY, engineering training in Gulfport, MS, Advanced Diesel training in Dearborn, MI, assigned to the USS New Jersey as a Fire Control man, life aboard ship, comments on ADMS Raymond A. Spruance and William F. Halsey, typhoon of 1944, Battles of Leyte Gulf and Okinawa, return to the US and discharge in 1946, College on the GI Bill and employment with Northeast Utilities. Positive comments about the Navy.
Caspar F. Goodrich letter, 1917 Jan 1
Letter from RADM Charles E. Clark, USN (Ret.), thanking him for a copy of The Nation. Copy of original tipped in the volume (from Goodrich's Library) My Fifty Years in the Navy by Charles E. Clark, Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1917.
Catherine A. Leahey oral history transcription
Leahey, Catherine A., CDR, USN (Ret.) 1955. Youth in Texas; NROTC Purdue University; NAVSTA Panama; Surface Warfare Officers School; USS Point Loma; Surface Warfare Officers School, Department Head School; Operations Officer, USS Simon Lake; Naval War College; USS Pyro; Fleet Logistics Planning Officer, U.K.; Exchange Officers, Royal Navy Staff College; Views on sexism and attitudes towards women.
Catherine E. Fitzgerald Brown oral history transcription, 1997
Betty Brown, born 1923, joined the WAVES in 1943 after registering on a dare at a recruiting booth in New York City. She attended boot camp at Hunter College and was displeased with the regimentation. She was then sent to storekeeper school in Milledgeville, Georgia. After completing her training, she was assigned to the Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Virginia where she worked at the Boat House. After the war ended, she got married and settled in various locations before retiring in Rhode Island. She discussed her experiences in the WAVES and reactions to key events in the war.
Catherine Nimitz Lay oral history transcription
Lay discusses her life as a Navy Junior and as a Navy wife. She comments on the Nimitz family life, her mother, siblings, and most of all on her father -his parents, his interests, habits, hobbies, personality, religion, naval friendships, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and navy admirals with whom he served.
Celeste Griffin oral history transcription, 2003
Griffin, Celeste, 1919. Education at Pembroke College; Officer training at U.S. Naval Midshipmen's School, Northampton, Mass., 1942; Communications billet, Third Naval District, New York City; Social life and housing; U.S. Naval Ordnance Unit, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., May 1945; Seventh Naval District, Miami, Fla., 1945; Gulf Sea Frontier, New Orleans, La., 1945-1946; Promoted to Lieutenant; Postwar active reseives, 1948-1950; Significance of naval service: Postwar career at Brown University Admissions Office.