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[Letter from Grover Barron Bishop to Grover Bishop, January 19, 1936]

Description: Letter sent by Grover Barron Bishop to his father discussing life at the Naval Training Station in San Diego, California. He discusses his daily schedule, meals, sleeping in hammocks, differences between Southerners and Northerners, the station's cleanliness, and the Navy's strict ways of doing things.
Date: January 19, 1936
Creator: Bishop, Grover Barron
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter from Grover Barron Bishop to Grover Bishop, January 28, 1936]

Description: Letter sent by Grover Barron Bishop to his father discussing life at the Naval Training Station in San Diego, California. He discusses being sent to the Naval Hospital for pneumonia and his experience there, church in the Navy, the lack of theft in the Navy, and the punishment for not hanging your clothes correctly.
Date: January 28, 1936
Creator: Bishop, Grover Barron
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter from Grover Barron Bishop to Grover Bishop, February 6, 1936]

Description: Letter from Grover Barron Bishop to his father discussing life at the Naval Training Station in San Diego, California. He discusses the progression of his pneumonia and his experience staying at the hospital, Navy breakfasts, and insurance and savings policies the Navy offers. He closes telling his father he thinks he is the best dad in the world and that he loves him.
Date: February 6, 1936
Creator: Bishop, Grover Barron
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter from Grover Barron Bishop to Grover Bishop, April 1936]

Description: Letter sent by Grover Barron Bishop to his father discussing life at the Naval Training Station in San Diego, California. He discusses an academy appointment from Representative Sam Rayburn, standing night watch and getting sick from it, the Texas Centennial, a card to his grandmother that got lost, a German cruiser that came to port, his friend J. P. Fits, rating second class in May, and asks Miss Buster to write to him.
Date: 1936-04?
Creator: Bishop, Grover Barron
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter from Grover Barron Bishop to Grover Bishop, August 19, 1936]

Description: Letter from Grover Barron Bishop to his father discussing life aboard the USS Arizona (BB-39). He discusses orders from the commander, getting into fights, the potential to go to Spain, being shot with tear gas, and pumping fuel to make the ship lean.
Date: August 19, 1936
Creator: Bishop, Grover Barron
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter from Grover Barron Bishop to Grover Bishop, August 26, 1936]

Description: Letter from Grover Barron Bishop to his father and sister discussing life aboard the USS Arizona (BB-39). He discusses the end of a battle and says he'll tell them about it in person, he discusses the girls in Hawaii, trying to find friends on liberty, his grandmother's birthday, a crowd on the deck, and an injury to his toe.
Date: August 26, 1936
Creator: Bishop, Grover Barron
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter from Grover Barron Bishop to Jane Bishop, June 3, 1941]

Description: Letter from Grover Barron Bishop to his eldest sister, Jane Bishop, discussing life aboard the USS Arizona (BB-39) stationed in Pearl Harbor. He discusses the uncertainty of his and other sailors' fates, his thoughts on his sister getting married, ways to help his mother, and going into aviation.
Date: June 3, 1941
Creator: Bishop, Grover Barron
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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