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Jones, Edgar Cheetham, WX7453
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/396033Surname: JONES. Given Name(s) or Initials: EDGAR CHEETHAM. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: WX7453. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 22098.231275
Item: [2016.0049.28326] "Jones, Edgar Cheetham, WX7453
Edgar Jones Collection
No full textDiary entry by Edgar Jones about his experience onboard the USS Monitor (LSV-5). He discusses his feelings of visiting historic sites, Guadalcanal and Savo Island, the beautiful view in the Iron Bottom Bay Officers' Club restroom, having marines onboard, sailing through a typhoon, and what servicemen do before big battles
Edgar Jones Collection
No full textDiary entry by Edgar Jones about his experience onboard the USS Monitor (LSV-5). He discusses confusion surrounding the sinking of a Japanese ship, a problem with a stewards mate's life belt, an attack by a Japanese plane on an American ship, and events during the Battle of Okinawa
Edgar Jones Collection
No full textBook containing arrival and departure dates of Edgar Jones' Naval service from July 22, 1944 to November 8, 1945
Edgar Jones Collection
No full textDiary entry by Edgar Jones about his experience aboard the USS Monitor LSV-5. He discusses the end of the war in the European theater and how the news of Victory in Europe Day was received by the servicemen in the Pacific, types of people one might encounter at the Officer's Club, and his feelings towards his country during the colors ceremony
Edgar Jones Collection
No full textDiary entry by Edgar Jones about his experience aboard the USS Monitor (LSV-5). He discusses preparations to receive released prisoners of war, meeting with officers who helped develop the atomic bomb, transferring men between an LCVP and the USS Wisconsin BB-64 and USS Iowa (BB-61), landing at various places in Japan to receive the prisoners, and stories of the prisoners' treatment in Japan
Edgar Jones Collection
No full textDiary entry by Edgar Jones about his experience onboard the USS Monitor (LSV-5). He discusses his first time on shore in the Philippines in order to get some film from aircraft guns developed and the things he saw along the way
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