Friday, January 15, 2010

Ordered to Italy for war duty


In 1943, the Vice chief of Naval Operations ordered Coast Guard lieutenant Claiborne Pell to Italy, where Pell, a recent graduate of a military-administration course at Columbia University, would help in rebuilding the war-torn Italian fishing fleet. This is the confidential memo that sent him on his way.
Image courtesy of Special Collections, University of Rhode Island Library.

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