Box 14
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Lee Truax Dalton memoir, approximately 2001
File — Box: 14, Folder: 33
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 4 File 376
Scope and Contents note
Materials include handwritten memoir of Lee Truax Dalton relating his experiences in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He writes of his time aboard the U.S.S. Instill as part of a mine-sweeper crew, and of his shore duty at Argentia, Newfoundland, in the North Atlantic. He also tells of a German prisoner-of-war U-Boat crew they supervised, and a heart-warming Christmas experience as part of the local Navy Choir who collected donations and distributed presents to the children of St. Johns,...
Dates:
approximately 2001