Princeton class of 1942 World war ii profiles (foundationAL)

My service during World War II was rather prosaic. I reported on September 1, 1942 to 90 Church Street, in New York and was sent to Notre Dame as an Apprentice Seaman

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I was ordered to proceed to Portsmouth, Virigina to help put into commission a new Iowa-class battleship named USS Alabama. [read more]

 Like countless others, I was listening to the New York Philhar­monic on December 7, 1941, when the broadcast was interrupted by the shattering news that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor.  [read more]

Bob was commissioned through ROTC and initially assigned at Fort Sill, OK.  He then served for two and one-half years in China, serving as an American officer in a Chinese commando battalion ...         [read more]

Midway through my senior year at Princeton, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and America entered World War II.  Although much of the senior year still lay ahead       [read more]

  In June 1942, I received a commission in the Naval Reserve. After three months training at Fort Schuyler and Anacostia in Photo­graphic Intelligence, I traveled via Liberty ship to Sydney, Australia.          [read more]

Post graduation in 1942, I was a chemical engineer in a synthetic rubber plant in Naugatuck, CT. The war seemed to be dragging on, and it needed my direct involvement.         [read more]

  My wartime experience is of marginal interest, except as it may reveal some of the odd ways in whichg the Army handled a recruit marked for limited service. 

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