Box 16
Container
Contains 1 Result:
C. Elmo Turner memoir and photograph, before 2001
File — Box: 16, Folder: 18
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 File 426
Scope and Contents note
Materials include memoir and photographs detailing C. Elmo Turner's military experiences in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a radio operator. He speaks of his enlisting, basic training, and mostly of his duties and experiences aboard the CVE 83, the "Rudyerd Bay," including going through a typhoon, in which he volunteered to go out on the deck to cut a wire that had come loose and shorted out the ships communications, and watching as the fighters engaged Japanese Kamikaze pilots...
Dates:
before 2001