Box 1
Contains 24 Results:
Adjustment to navy life / Importance of mail / Description of training drills / Reflections on women joining the military services (July 8) / Reaction to gas chamber drills, rifle drills and fire fighting drills. (7 Letters).
Reminiscences of time spent with Louise / Lack of entertainment in Newport / admittance to the Naval Hospital (Dec. 22) / Worrying about mother / Christmas in the hospital. (6 Letters).
New Years at the hospital / Effect of mail on morale / Homesickness / Weekend leave in Bound Brook / Barracks burns down, killing 5. (9 Letters).
Transfer to USS Albany / Assignment to Division "E" for electrical / Anticipation of Junior Prom / Electrical classes and their challenges / Jealousy of other men seeing Louise. (9 Letters).
Trip to Bermuda / Adjustments to life at sea / Preparation for the Prom / Plane crash at sea / Return to Newport. (8 Letters).
Transfer from USS Albany / Disgust with Navy life (Mar. 10) / Reluctance to fight / Views on possible war with Russia (Mar. 10) / Homesickness and camaraderie as cure. (4 Letters).
Transfer to USS Huntington / Orders to proceed to South America / Reflections on the value of Navy experiences / Norfolk Naval Base / Gun drills on the 40 mm / Lack of religiosity aboard [folder includes 1 photocopy of a news clipping from the ship's paper]. (5 Letters).
General Quarters and gun drills / Homesickness / Reflections on Guantanamo Bay / Liberties and entertainment in Cuba / Lack of money / Importance of mail / Palm Sunday aboard USS Consolation [folder includes 1 photocopy of a news clipping from the ship's paper]. (11 Letters).
Importance of mail / Routine drills / Easter at sea / Lack of freedom in the Navy (Apr. 26) / Refusal to throw away old letters (Apr. 27) / Reflections on the filth of Cuba (Apr. 29). (12 Letters).
Party on Windmill Beach (May 2) / Ship's maneuvers and gag order no to talk about said maneuvers (May 3) / Louise's appendicitis / Natives rowing out to sell goods to the ship (May 10) / Apathy regarding duty / Reflections on the impact of Navy life / Beauty and poverty of San Juan, Puerto Rico. (10 Letters).