Richard Hamilton Smith papers.

Scope and content Papers (1939-1988, undated) pertaining to the career of Lt. Commander Richard Hamilton Smith, USNR [b. 1917- d.1989] including a scrapbook, a binder containing orders & official correspondence, photographs, reports, correspondence, muster & crew lists, & newspaper clippings pertaining chiefly to Smith's service aboard the net layer USS TEAK (AN-35), 1942-1943 & as commander of the destroyer escort USS THOMAS J. GARY (DE 326), 1943-1945, & especially to the successful evacuation during 7-9 September 1945 of British, Australian & American prisoners of war held by the Japanese at Kiirun, Formosa [Taiwan]; also materials relating to the later history of the USS THOMAS J. GARY, 1945-1973, etc.
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Cite as Richard Hamilton Smith Papers (#1171), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
Terms of useLiterary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.
Acquisitions source Joyner- Gift of Stephen Smith.

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