A 30 page booklet printed on heavy paper stock intended to introduce the 1st Marines to northern China, where they were posted immediately after the war. It was the 1st Marines the Effingham carried for most of its time as an amphibious…
Fifteen pictures taken at Yosemite while Mom and Dad drove from San Francisco to Milwaukee two months before Jim was born. For a little more information on this trip, see ‘World War II: Miscellany‘.
A number of pictures placed in an envelope labeled “Spokane” in Mom’s handwriting. They must have been taken when Mom and Dad moved to the west coast just after being married. What is most striking about them is how lighthearted…
Mom and Dad as newlyweds in Seattle, waiting for Dad to be shipped out. Several pictures of the apartment they lived in from September to October, 1944. See, as well, the Seattle photobook Mom sent back to her parents where…
A 1944 photobook showing scenes of Seattle, postmarked September 1, 1944. Sent by Mom to her parents three days after she and Dad arrived from the Farragut Naval Training Station in Idaho. Mom’s note inside mentions the difficulty of finding…
Life On the USS Effingham Dad was fortunate as a wartime sailor in that his life was not jeopardized on a ship that endured repeated battles. A Haskell-class attack troop transport, the USS Effingham was completed late in the war…
Naval Paperwork Mostly routine Navy paperwork. The first transfer order (August 29, 1944) moves Dad from the Farragut Naval Training Station to Seattle, where the Effingham was going to be commissioned on November 1, 1944. It lists two transportation authorizations,…
Those Effingham people planned a lot of reunions. Really. A lot of them. They even succeeded a couple of times. Dad kept a file folder of paperwork relating to planning for reunions of the USS Effingham men and their attempts to…
Introduction Twenty one pictures Dad took and annotated between November 1944, when the USS Effingham was commissioned, and September 1945. For somewhat fuller accounts of Dad’s ship, see ‘WWII: Life Aboard the Ship’ and ‘WWII: Ship Assignment/Operations.’ Effingham’s Launch and…
Basic Training After induction Dad was sent to the Farragut Naval Training Station in, of all unlikely places, landlocked northern Idaho sometime in late October 1943. The copy of the “Farragut News” he kept is dated October 27, 1943, telling…
A 16-page base newspaper dated October 27, 1943, telling us that Dad was undergoing boot camp at the Farragut Naval Training Station on that date. The newspaper is a predictably bland cut and paste collection of PR releases, morale boosting…
A collection of 40 photos, objects, and text documents from Dad’s time in the Navy not falling into any of the other categories covering the war years. Includes pictures of Dad in his uniform, his photo ID for the US…