Box 5
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Billy Junior Wilhite memoir and photographs, approximately 1943, approximately 2000
File — Box: 5, Folder: 22
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 File 126
Scope and Contents
Materials contain a memoir of Billy Junior Wilhite regarding his service in the U.S. Navy during World War II aboard the destroyer U.S.S. McCall DD-400 as an electrician's mate. Includes highly detailed description of Wilhite's naval training and service, the service record and history of the U.S.S. McCall, purposes and functions of destroyer vessels. Also discusses the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the rescue of navy radioman George Ray Tweed from Guam, naval combat including...
Dates:
approximately 1943; approximately 2000