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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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Transcription of Radio Message, December 7, 1941]

Description: Transcription of a radio message received from Pearl Harbor by Ples Harmon Finley, Jr., and an Ensign informing San Diego Naval Base of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The note was intended to be destroyed, but Finley put it in his pocket as a souvenir.
Date: December 7, 1941
Creator: Finley, Ples Harmon, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[US Navy Aviation Radio School Completion Certificate, May 23, 1940]

Description: Xeroxed copy of a certificate issued to Seaman Second Class Ples Harmon Finley, Jr., by the Bureau of Navigation and Commander H. M. Mullinnix, commanding officer of the Naval Air Station in San Diego, California, for completing his course of study at the Aviation Radio School. Also in the scan is an envelope addressed to Ples Harmon Finley, Sr., with a return address from Ples, Jr., now a Radioman First Class aboard the USS Wyandot (AKA-92).
Date: 1940-05-23/1945-03-19
Creator: Bureau of Navigation
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Telegram from Randall Jacobs to Eleanor McFadden Young, November 1942]

Description: Copy of a telegram from the Chief of Naval Personnel Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs to Eleanor McFadden Young informing him that her husband, Captain Cassin Young, was lost in action during the Battle of Guadalcanal. Admiral Jacobs asks that Mrs. Young does not divulge any information regarding her husband's ship or station to prevent aiding their enemies.
Date: 1942-11~
Creator: Jacobs, Randall
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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