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Box 16

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Leon Packer Taylor memoir and photograph, approximately 2001, 1943

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 14
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 File 422
Scope and Contents note Materials include a memoir and photographs detailing the service of Leon Packer Taylor in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a shipfitter. In this handwritten memoir, Taylor speaks of his basic training in Idaho, and of moving aboard the U.S.S. Corregidor for his duty station. He discusses his assignment to Task Force 58 through the battles of the Marianas, and Marshall Islands. He tells of conducting Latter-day Saint Church services aboard the ship, and of being in a typhoon which caused...
Dates: approximately 2001; 1943