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Letter from Navy Department Bureau of Naval Personnel to Isidore B. Dockweiler, June 5, 1943

 
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Title
Letter from Navy Department Bureau of Naval Personnel to Isidore B. Dockweiler, June 5, 1943
Creator
United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel; Jacobs, Randall; Jacobs, A. C.
Date
06 May 1943
Description
Correspondence (reference no. Pers-2224b-RLD) from Commander A. C. Jacobs, Head of the Casualties and Allotments Section by direction of Randall Jacobs, the Chief of Naval Personnel in the Navy Department, to Isidore B. Dockweiler informing that Edward Vincent Dockweiler is listed as a prisoner of war in a report "US/716" by the Prisoner of War Information Bureau. Information regarding prisoners of war is enclosed with the letter.
Format Extent
1 page
Subject
Dockweiler, Edward Vincent, 1901-1961; United States--Navy; Prisoners of war; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese; American Red Cross; Dockweiler, Isidore B. (Isidore Bernard), 1867-1947
Note
Edward Vincent Dockweiler (1901-1961) was the son of Isidore B. Dockweiler and Gertrude Reeve Dockweiler. Edward Dockweiler had a distinguished career in the United States Navy. Eleventh in his graduating class at the Naval Academy in 1924, he was a naval engineer, and later he earned a master's degree in engineering at MIT. In 1941, he was posted to the Philippines before the U.S. entry into World War II. After the Japanese conquest of the Philippines, he led a guerilla band on the island of Negros, but eventually surrendered to the Japanese, resulting in his imprisonment in POW camps in the Philippines and Japan. Edward Dockweiler held the rank of senior POW officer in the camps in Japan. He was later awarded the Bronze Star and Distinguished Service Medal for his heroic conduct as a prisoner of war. Edward Dockweiler gained the rank of rear admiral, and at the time of his death, he was chief engineer of the Los Angeles Harbor.
Collection
Dockweiler Family Papers, CSLA-12, Series 1. Subseries C. Edward Vincent Dockweiler; Box No. 2; Folder No. 3
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Geographic Location
Washington (D.C.)
Language
eng
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