World War, 1939-1945-Naval operations.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
George W. Myer correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0212
Summary
Letters to Myer from Carroll Perry, Jr., Committee on Launchings, United States Maritime Commission, and from Hal Babbitt, Director of Public Relations, Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, Portland, Oregon, concerning naming a liberty ship for George L. Shoup, first governor of the State of Idaho.
Dates:
1943
U.S.S. Boise collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0518
Summary
Correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, menus, newsletters, memorabilia and miscellany relating to the construction and service activity of the U.S.S. Boise during World War II. Includes material from several reunions of the ship's crew and from a subsequent U.S.S. Boise, launched in 1990.
Dates:
1936 - 1990