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Source Collection
Cecil C. Humphreys collection, University Archives, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.ua.po_hump.014_001.004
Description
Platoon 41, 19th Battalion, Naval Training School, Tucson, Arizona, 1944. Cecil Humphreys is in the center of the second row from the top. His fellow trainees signed the verso. Humphreys, later president of Memphis State University, enlisted in the U.S. Navy in early 1944 and, after training in Arizona and at the gunnery school in Norfolk, Virginia, he volunteered for training with the scouts and raiders. After training in Florida, he went to Advanced Naval Intelligence School in New York and then served in the Pacific in Okinawa, the Philippines and New Guinea.
Date Created
4-28-2021
Date
1944
Recommended Citation
"Platoon 41, 19th Battalion, Naval Training School, Tucson, 1944" (2021). Cecil C. Humphreys Collection. 2.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-ua-hump/2
Keywords
United States. Naval Training Station (Tucson, Ariz.)
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