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- Mosquito PR (Photographic Reconnaissance Aircraft) 34 British Reconnaisance, September 1, 1952.
- Date Created:
- 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
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- F7U Cutlass US fighter, March 1, 1954.
- Date Created:
- 1954-03-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
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- B-36 USAF bomber, January 1, 1951.
- Date Created:
- 1951-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
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- Northampton, US CLC (command light cruiser), September 1, 1953.
- Date Created:
- 1953-09-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Raymond Corrigan was born in Newaygo, Michigan on June 15, 1924. He enlisted in the Navy when he was 17 years old (sometime in 1942). He received basic training at Great Lakes Naval Station, Illinois and was assigned to the USS Cincinnati (CL-6), a light cruiser. During his time aboard the Cincinnati he received training on the ship and stateside on how to aim and operate the ship's guns as well as went on patrols around the Caribbean Sea and near South America. In 1944 they escorted convoys to Belfast, Ireland in preparation for the Normandy Invasion. In late 1944 he was reassigned to a ship in the Pacific Theater, and in January 1945 they set sail. He was aboard that ship and participated in the pre-invasion bombardment of an island and assembled at Okinawa in preparation for the invasion of Japan. After the atomic bombing and subsequent surrender of Japan the ship pulled into Nagasaki where Raymond saw firsthand the destructive capability of the atom bomb. In late September 1945 he returned to Okinawa and by late October 1945 was back at Great Lakes Naval Station where he was discharged from the Navy.
- Date Created:
- 2015-09-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Collection:
- Veterans History Project (U.S.)
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- Ben Peters was born in 1941. He grew up on a farm in Holmes County, Florida and enlisted in the Navy in 1958. He served for four years on the carrier USS Bennington. After leaving the Navy, he enlisted in the Army in 1962. He served with the 82nd Airborne Division, then at the Infantry School in Fort Benning, Georgia, then as a helicopter mechanic with the 101st Airborne Division. In mid-1966 he was sent to Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne Brigade and served as a helicopter mechanic for the 166th Transportation Detachment at Bien Hoa Air Base. After six months he returned to the United States to go into Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia. After completing Officer Candidate School he was sent to West Germany to serve with the 1st Battalion 36th Infantry Regiment 3rd Armored Division for two years. Returning to the U.S. in 1969, he trained to be an adviser to Vietnamese force, but when he redeployed to Vietnam in January 1970 he was sent to the 2nd Battalion of the 506th Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division as their public relations officer and worked with civilians in the area around Camp Evans. During the siege of Firebase Ripcord in July, he went to the base to take over the battalion's B Company, and was in charge of security as the base was evacuated on July 23. He continued to command B Company until he left Vietnam in December 1970. After the Vietnam War he served at Fort Bragg with the 82nd Airborne Division, at Fort Rucker, Alabama as a flight operations officer, in Athens, Greece as noncommissioned officer in charge of a nuclear weapons storage site, and then at Cairns Army Airfield, Alabama as a flight operations chief until he left the Army in 1975.
- Date Created:
- 2014-09-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Collection:
- Veterans History Project (U.S.)
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- Lincoln British B (bomber), October 1, 1947.
- Date Created:
- 1947-10-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
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- Weapons class British DD (destroyer), April 1, 1953.
- Date Created:
- 1953-04-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
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- MIG-9 Russian fighter, December 1, 1949.
- Date Created:
- 1949-12-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Alaska class, US CB (battle cruiser), October 1, 1947.
- Date Created:
- 1947-10-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
