USN recruit memorandum

front of 2025.1002.3

front of 2025.1002.3

Name/Title

USN recruit memorandum

Entry/Object ID

2025.1002.3

Scope and Content

U.S. Naval Training Station from Great Lakes, Illinois detailing the required items recruits must bring. On pink paper. Signed at the bottom of the slip by Flood.

Context

Howard F. Flood Jr. enlisted in the Naval Reserves with parent permission on February 14, 1941, and went through basic training from July 5 to August 3. He went to additional schooling through September 3, 1941. His first assignment was on Battleship Texas.

Collection

Collection (Howard F. Flood Jr.), Historical Collections

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Orders, Military

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Record, Military

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Record, Executive

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Government Records

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Archive Items Details

Date(s) of Creation

1940 - 1941