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Box 20

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

John Hortt Adams memoir, approximately 2000

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 28
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 8 File 527
Scope and Contents note Materials contain a World War II memoir of John Hortt Adams regarding his service as a Cadet Midshipman and engineer on the Flying Yankee and U.S.S. Herald of the Morning in the U.S. Merchant Marines from 1944- 1946. Describes how he grew up in Kanab, Utah, and was hired by Lockheed while a sophomore at Brigham Young University in 1941, to work on the P-38 planes in Los Angeles, California. Discusses his marriage to Betty Adams before being drafted as a Merchant Marine and his training in...
Dates: approximately 2000
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2350, Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II (Pacific) / Saints at War Project records for the United States Merchant Marines

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