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Title: Secretary Forrestal makes last inspection of U.S. Navy Bomb Disposal School : a German glider bomb in foreground
Date: 1945-09-12
Creator: United States. Navy
Description: Inscribed on back: Sec. of Navy Forrestal (right), Vice Admiral Charles M. Cooke, Jr., USN (third left), Chief of Staff to Fleet Admiral King, and Rear Admiral George F. Hussey, Jr., USN (fourth left) Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance. A Nazi glider bomb is examined by Sec. of the Navy James Forrestal (right) during his last inspection of the Washington, D.C. Navy Bomb Disposal School on September 11, 1945. The school is to be decommissioned on September 30. The school is located at American University.
Subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- Washington (D.C.)
Subject -- Personal Name: Forrestal, James, 1892-1949; Cooke, Charles Maynard; Hussey, George F.
Local Identifier: f02-a07-01
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library -- University Archives
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-5538
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Title: Secretary Forrestal receives memento of U.S. Navy Bomb Disposal School
Date: 1945-09-12
Creator: United States. Navy
Description: Inscribed on back: Secretary Forrestal makes last inspection of Bomb Disposal School. As a memento of his inspection of the Washington, D.C. Navy Bomb Disposal School at American University, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal is presented with a humidor and a cigarette lighter made from captured enemy equipment by the Officer-in-Charge of the school, Lieutenant Commander J.P. David, USNR. The humidor was made from a Nazi fuse, and the lighter (which is inside the humidor) from a Japanese hand grenade. The school, scheduled to be decommissioned on September 30, 1945 holds its last graduation on September 15.
Subject: Souvenirs (Keepsakes); World War, 1939-1945 -- Washington (D.C.)
Subject -- Personal Name: Forrestal, James, 1892-1949; David, J. P.
Local Identifier: f02-a08-01
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library -- University Archives
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-5539
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this document is available from the American University Library -- University Archives.

Title: U.S. Navy Bomb Disposal School : temporary buildings near McKinley
Date: 1945-07-30
Creator: United States. Navy
Description: Inscribed on back: These temporary buildings near McKinley were the locale of the Bomb Disposal School, but the crowd in line seems to be miscellaneous.
Subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- Washington (D.C.)
Local Identifier: f02-a06-01
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library -- University Archives
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-5537
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Title: U.S. Navy Bomb Disposal School : troops raising bomb
Date: 1945-07-30
Creator: United States. Navy
Description: Inscribed on back: U.S. Navy Bomb School (WWII) July 1942-September 30, 1945.
Subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- Washington (D.C.); Bombs -- History -- Washington (D.C.)
Local Identifier: f02-a09-01
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library -- University Archives
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-5540
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Title: U.S. Navy Bomb Disposal School : war programs on campus (July 30, 1945)
Date: 1945-07-30
Creator: United States. Navy
Subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- Washington (D.C.)
Local Identifier: f02-a05-01
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library -- University Archives
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-5536
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this document is available from the American University Library -- University Archives.