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Special Collections and University Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng 1980s https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/f7fc2df550a341d3d6db8fb275039615.mp4 3ebbf5d53f408315da53f21f5bc3bdcf https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/2ad1d59ec00543af33f4d8d685b2a19c.pdf f9eaf97e586797fbf0b3496a3bf74f7e PDF Text Text Ryman, Donald Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Name of War: Korean War Interviewee’s Name: Donald Ryman Length of Interview: 1:18:00 Interviewed by: James Smither Transcribed by: Hokulani Buhlman INTERVIEWER: We’re talking today with Don Ryman of Buchanan, Michigan and the interviewer is James Smither of the Grand Valley Veterans History Project. Okay Don, start us off with some background on yourself, and to begin with: where and when you were born? Well I was born at Brady Lake, Ohio, April 1st 1928. My father at that time was going to Kent State University and he was given a life certificate as a teacher in Ohio, so they had rented this cottage at Brady Lake. Well my father had a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Carnage Tech but he liked to teach school. INTERVIEWER: Okay. Well, he changed jobs all the time. We moved 11 times until finally we were able to buy a home in East Canton, Ohio and we landed there, well, August 9th 1939. Well just a few weeks later World War II started and it wasn’t too long after that that we had Pearl Harbor and I lived through all those things. INTERVIEWER: Just kinda back up a little bit and fill some of this in. So did your father have teaching jobs all this time? Well, he… No, he didn’t, because the Depression. But he did have teaching jobs—he taught manual training and other stuff at Lewisville High School, but the Depression came along and one of the school board members said “Well I’m a carpenter, I can do manual training.” so my father lost his job, and my father during the 30s was in and out of employment. And that was a pretty rough time for us. Well, when World War II started the demand for engineers increased and so he was able to have a job. INTERVIEWER: Right. During World War II. (2:14) �Ryman, Donald INTERVIEWER: Right. Now you were kind of young at the time but do you remember how you heard about Pearl Harbor? Oh, oh yes. (Ryman laughs) We had some friends from the First Christian Church in Canton and they came out to our house after church and they said “Oh, there’s been this attack at Dutch Harbor!” So we looked on the map and that’s in Alaska, they got it wrong! Well then later we found it was Pearl Harbor. INTERVIEWER: You know that Dutch Harbor got attacked too? Yes, and I didn’t know Pearl harbor any better than I knew Dutch Harbor to tell the truth. But then well the war started and I was thinking, while I was 13 years old, well I wasn’t that brave a guy I thought “Well maybe this will all be over” because by the time I’m old enough to go into the service. And that’s with Hiroshima, that’s what happened. INTERVIEWER: Alright, now during the war years how did the war kind of affect daily life? I mean, did you notice rationing or things like that? (Ryman laughs) We didn’t have gasoline, we couldn’t drive our car very much! Yeah well, they rationed shoes and food and everything—my mother had problems getting money, food for the table, and I’d only get maybe one new pair of shoes a year. Yeah we knew that. Well, there were these boys I knew in high school who were a little older who got in the service, and some of them died in the service. And that made an impression upon me. And I was pretty mad at the Germans because—you know people use the term ‘collaborate’. That irritates me. A collaborator is somebody who cooperates with the enemy and I never use that, and I don’t like it. There’s all other kind of synonyms are used for collaboration so that’s just one of the things I got out of the war. Well, the war kept going on and on and I was in high school and it just happened and I had skipped a grade, so my classmates were a year older. And in 1945 they turned 18 and they were going into the service. Well for one reason or another most of them joined the Navy; I did have one classmate who was involved, he was a couple years older, and they picked him up in December of 1944 and he got into some of the last combat in France and Germany. So there I was, well, I was 17 years old I was gonna turn 18 April 1st 1945, so what should I do? Well my parents they didn’t like war very well, they were pacifist, but their parents had been involved in the Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley and I guess both sides forged and took their food and things like that, they didn’t have much for war but their attitude was “Okay, when the draft war comes and gets ya, you will go.” In the meantime though I figured I’d get a year of college. (6:01) INTERVIEWER: Right. �Ryman, Donald So I started Ohio State University in June of 1945. INTERVIEWER: Okay, now how were you able to afford college at that point? Well, my father was employed. I worked and I did get a job in the summer in the factory in Canton, Union Metal, and I saved that money. My mother cleaned houses and my father worked and so we managed to scrape by although it was a near thing, but there was only $15 a month, $15 a quarter for tuition, $45 a month room and board, so I was able to scrape by. INTERVIEWER: Oh yeah. You had more state support for universities in those days, a little bit cheaper. Well I think maybe so. Well, then I got there and these fellows from Cleveland said “Well, you know, if you took 15 hours, 20 hours a quarter you could graduate earlier.” And you don’t wanna go to Ohio State University law school. That’s at the bottom of the lake tech. You wanna go to one of the big (sounds like “bee-sir”) law schools like Columbia or Harvard or whatever. So I set my cap to go to Harvard Law School and I did; I would take 20 hours a quarter and graduated in 10 quarters, which was from Ohio State, which was just it, you know, that was at the end the 48th, in June of ‘48 I got admitted to Harvard Law School, I had a full tuition. I did well in school, I’m Phi Betta Kappa and so I was going well and with full tuition I had to have my room and board at Harvard Law School. Well we able to keep up with it for our first year but then I just had a 69, if I had a 70 I could have kept my scholarship, but I didn’t have it and so in the last two years I think I ended up owing Harvard $2300. Which in 1951 was quite a bit of money. I was driving used cars for quite a while then to pay off that debt. Well also the Korean War started in June of 1950 and I was just getting ready to go to my last year of Harvard Law School. Well immediately I had a physical exam notice and I passed it and then I had a draft notice. Well what do you do when you get a draft notice? You take your mother down the draft board. Well fortunately they had a policy of giving you a stay of induction to the end of the academic year if you were going to be back in school before the date of induction. Well I qualified on that so I managed to get through the year but I thought they would insist on going the infantry—well they liberalized that because the Navy and the Air Force and the Marines were complaining they were getting all these college boys out of stays of induction, so I got another draft notice! And I’ll tell ya that really impresses you, getting your draft notice from the President of the United States greeting. It’s just one greeting! So I was able to enlist in the Navy, so I went to San Diego and. (9:55) INTERVIEWER: Now, when you were in college back in Ohio State did they have ROTC there? �Ryman, Donald Oh yeah. I had to take two years of ROTC. INTERVIEWER: Okay. That didn’t give me that good an impression of the army either, to tell the truth. INTERVIEWER: Well what did you actually do in the ROTC training there? Well, we were, as I recall, we were taking classes, we were reading manuals, knowing things about that. In the Summer of ‘45 while the war was still going on we were doing a lot of marching. It seems to me we didn’t do so much marching from there, but I thought the quality of teaching in the quality of rating wasn’t up to as good as Ohio State University. I hadn’t been pulled down by pain [but] by point average, which kind of irritated me because the girls didn’t have something like that pulling down their point average but I didn’t think it mattered for me getting into Harvard Law School or getting the scholarship As a matter of fact that was the first year they had the Law School Admission Test and at that point they said “Well, we won’t pay any attention to it except if you’re on that—on the edge.” The school said “Okay well we’ll look at that, maybe look at that and decide [if] we’ll admit you.” But yeah, that, probably I learned some good stuff in the ROTC but I wasn’t that impressed with it. (11:30) INTERVIEWER: Right, okay. But now you’ve chosen the Navy, and then where and when do you report now for training? Well, I had enlisted in Canton, Ohio and they sent me over to Pittsburgh and a bunch of us they put us all in planes and flew us out to San Diego to the Naval Training Center there, and that’s where I spent about 16 weeks in boot training. INTERVIEWER: Okay. Now that was, I thought “Oh gee, the Navy’s kinda mediocre.” but really they had this thing set up, they were training us as enlisted men to do what we would be doing and they were thinking we’d be on the Destroyer. All their training at that time was set up [as] what you would do if you were on a Destroyer and you were dealing with 5 inch, 38 caliber guns. So I got that. I also had a deal that I could go to a service school and learn one of the ratings. So mine was I picked, for some reason, Personnel Man. A Personnel Man was a yeoman who worked for a personal records. In those days I thought “Oh Personnel things, that’s pretty good. Working in Personnel.” I changed my mind later but I did get my rating, but then I was sent to Newport, Rhode Island, I went to Naval OCS. Well it was called Naval School Officer Candidate, now during World War II they had midshipman school but this is a whole new thing in the Korean War and I was in the 6th class that generated from that. Well they did give us an absence commission and a regular �Ryman, Donald commission and we were eligible to succeed command, we could go all the way up to Chief of Naval Operations this was a regular line commitment and we have a star on our cuff. And you know over the years I’ve been kinda proud of going through that. (13:55) INTERVIEWER: So basically this is a regular commission as opposed to a Reserve Officer commission? Basically? Yeah that’s right. Well I was in the regular Navy as a matter of fact but enlisted. INTERVIEWER: Yeah. When you originally enlisted was there an expectation that you would train as an officer? In the academy? I didn’t know. INTERVIEWER: Okay. I didn’t know. INTERVIEWER: So the boot camp really just was the standard enlisted man’s bootcamp? Yes that’s right. And I did the Personnelmen School and on board the Destroyer I would be typing up personnel records. One of the things I did learn from it though was how to type. (Ryman laughs) And that was useful, that’s been useful ever since you know I still type on Microsoft Word or whatever it is. It’s useful. (14:47) INTERVIEWER: Okay, and in the boot camp was there a lot of spit and polish stuff and emphasis on discipline? Well, to an extent. As a matter of fact the fella—the officer in charge at San Diego at that time kinda was, he was known as a Martinet but oh okay to an extent we would get inspections where we’d have to have our shoes shined and stuff like that. I managed to get through that okay but the thing was I was right out of Harvard Law School and I really got good grades on the exam. I did the best in my whole , you know we know the kind of whole outfit of many companies and I got elected honorman of Company 705! (Ryman laughs) I saw somebody’s obituary recently that they put that down that they have an honorman. Well that had some significance but the reason I got it was because I think I’d done so well on the test. INTERVIEWER: Okay. And was it hard to adjust to the life in the Navy? �Ryman, Donald Oh yeah! Well, being in boot training was like being in a concentration camp, to walk any place away from the barracks you had to get a walking chip. Oh yeah that adjustment was hard but there I was, I had signed up for it. INTERVIEWER: Yeah, okay. So basically you just kind of went with it and did what they told you? Oh yes, yeah, yes. I was smart enough to know that I didn’t have any alternative. (16:35) INTERVIEWER: Now were you one of the old guys there? Or were there a lot of other college boys? Yeah I guess I was! Well there were a couple guys from Pittsburgh who maybe were 20 years old but I was 23 and it was interesting a lot of these guys were 17 years old. And I just observed how they adjusted to the Navy because when they got out at 21 they would be younger than I was at 23. It was an interesting experience being in bootcamp, yeah. INTERVIEWER: Okay, alright, and then the officer training then in Newport, what did you actually do in that training? Well, we had mostly academic studies. We did a little bit of—we did a lot of marching in bootcamp but we had paved roads and the Marine Corps Recruit Depot was just a little way away from us and we’d see the dust coming up from those guys marching. They were marching on dusty roads. (Ryman laughs) Yeah we did a lot of marching but, well in OCS we did some marching. I was never a big guy for marching to tell the truth, but we were taking courses: Navigation, Operation, things we needed to do as Junior Officers on the Destroyer, as an officer of the deck. Or if we were assigned below we were an engineering officer what we would do. But that’s what we had, those courses, so we could become a good officer of the deck. Well one of the things I always had against McCain was that Indianapolis and I was paying his education and he was trying to be the last guy in his class so the President would give him his diploma. Now he’s wasting my money. I was trying to be the best I could, well I thought I’d better know this stuff if I went out there some place and I’m officer of the deck and I have to make quick decisions as to what to do to navigate the ship! Now this is not too long after the Missouri ran aground and I think there was an ensign on that and he didn’t follow the rule as to buoys: Red, Right, Returning. If you’re going into port you keep the red buoys to the right, well he didn’t pay attention to that and he ran the ship aground and the Navy was terribly embarrassed about all that. Well in those days we were getting books like Mr. Roberts and The Caine Mutiny, well you know they made Junior Officers look good and not bad but they didn’t encourage us to be very spit and polish as Junior Officers and I wasn’t, I probably should have been—you know I was trying to dumb, not to be more spit and polished but I did what I had to do. I know the smart �Ryman, Donald salute and all of that and keeping my uniform nice and those things I did, but one of the things I would get in trouble for was I wouldn’t, when I went to a new post, I wouldn’t go and introduce myself to the officer in command. That’s something I got I think from Mr. Roberts or The Caine Mutiny. Well that was kind of dumb they didn’t like that when I didn’t do that but you know generally I was trying to be a good officer like I was going to make a career of it, I really was. I did make statements like “Well I don’t care what’s in my fitness report.” you know I was going how long, I was gonna be there for 3 years and that was the end of it which was pretty stupid. But you know when I got my commission I was just 24 years old and I was supposed to be able with that commission to guide people who had been in the Navy almost their whole life. Quartermasters and all these enlisted men who had made a career after it and really, but I thought I saw better than others, that I had a certain position but I didn’t know as much as all these Petty Officers aboard the ship and we would work it out together. I think the Petty Officers respected me. I had a good relationship with them. (21:44) INTERVIEWER: Alright. So when do you finish training at Newport? Well in July, around July 30th. INTERVIEWER: What year? 1952. We got our commissions, now that was an interesting thing they hadn’t figured out if they had to discharge us from the regular Navy and we could have walked, and they told us we could walk. Well, if we walked, you know I had 1 year, the draft board #110 would have picked me up again you see. So and the next day we got sworn into the Navy Reserve as ensigns and went to our next post which for me for some reason was the Eighth Naval District. Those really surprised a lot of people because they were turning out these ensigns to go on board destroyers and larger ships. INTERVIEWER: Crew. Okay but you got—so where was the 8th Naval Headquarters? The district headquarters? It was in New Orleans. And they though “Gee, that’s great you’re gonna go to New Orleans they got jazz!” Well I didn’t like jazz I liked classical music and when I got to New Orleans and I found it was this very badly managed city, and I had grown up in the north Canton, Ohio, Cleveland, they originated the city manager I was used to well-managed communities, or Boston where I had been in Harvard Law School so I was disdainful I probably didn’t think “Well, okay, just enjoy New Orleans for what it is.” but I was judgmental. And I was right, when Katrina came along it finally caught up with them and they didn’t fix that levee and they got flooded! INTERVIEWER: Okay and so that’s something you’re looking at in 1952— �Ryman, Donald Yeah that’s right! INTERVIEWER: And then, you know, 57 years later it happens in New Orleans. Yeah. INTERVIEWER: Okay now what was your actual job in New Orleans? Well I, they first had me in another job or some statistical… well as a security officer one of the things that I had was the Commander of the Headquarters of the Naval Guard. We had the guard and I was put in charge of that, that was my experience being a policeman it was very useful. All of a sudden I found out “Oh this isn’t such a good job, having to tell people they have to follow the rules.” and ever since I’ve had a better relation, I think, with policemen on account of that. Well we would make security inspections in the East Naval District and I would go along with them through Corpus Christi or other places, I remember making an inspection into the consolidated western steel at Orange, Texas. Well they had their fences and other stuff left from World War II. Well, I was supposed to make a report as to what they should do, well I could have said “Oh, well you gotta fix up those fences there and all of those things in case the North Koreans come invading Orange, Texas.” Not very likely. Well we had adopted the Navy fortunately, common sensically adopted the idea of perimeter security. Having security where you really needed it: where you had your classified information in safes and things like that. So on my report covered that and sometimes I would go with some of the more senior officers, I remember we went over to Corpus Christi and we went over to Kingsville, Texas which was right on the edge of the King Ranch which was very interesting. Well I remembered one day, and they have there at Kingsville, they have a place where they were training pilots. Well one of the them landed on the King Ranch, or crashed on the King Ranch, so we got to go on the King Ranch and see that so we were saying “What do you have to have in the way of security at Kingsville, Texas?” Well you didn’t have perimeter security, you had to protect any registered publications you had and you had to protect classified matter, and you had to be very careful about it and it’s set too with Hillary Clinton, I was really shocked at some of that but you know, she’d never been in the military. (27:03) INTERVIEWER: That’s okay the government servers were out of date and not very useful so they were cutting corners. Well, yeah. They perhaps, I can’t imagine treating classified matter in that way but that’s just my thing. I was very very much school in handling classified material, realizing that a lot of us overclassified. Whoever had it would make him look better if he classified it secretly than to be declassified and confidential. But nevertheless when it was classified secrets you handled it �Ryman, Donald accordingly. So really no excuse for not properly handling it, but that’s another subject. Well, I apparently did well at that, well after I got out of service I didn’t have quite enough promotion points for Lieutenant–for Senior Lieutenant so I took a Correspondence course. Well I took it in Naval Security and I got a 400 perfect score. So apparently I learned something about Naval security. INTERVIEWER: So about how long did you do the naval security thing? About two years. INTERVIEWER: Okay so that pretty much was your time in New Orleans, then. That’s right, that’s right. Well, New Orleans, at the Unitarian Church at coffee hour I met Martha, my wife. Around 65 years ago and we got married, so that’s one of the great things I got from New Orleans. (28:48) INTERVIEWER: Alright, now did you, doing the security stuff, deal with kind of criminal issues or people stealing things or what was that? Nope, no, no. I was. I was irritated that I wasn’t put in the legal department and I knew those lawyers who are in the legal department, well I wasn’t and they had me as Assistant Counsel but that didn’t go over very well with the general court-martial. And they did, I was on a general court-martial for a month, so I got that kind of experience but no, I wasn’t getting any legal experience while I was there. INTERVIEWER: Okay. Well then, but the deal was if you had shore duty you could get sea duty so they ordered me to the USS Coral Sea, which at that time was the newest carrier in the fleet and one of the three largest. And I was just ordered that well, in those days they didn’t have a Naval JAG, and court martials, the junior officers handled his trial and defense counsels, but the senior who had been senior captains who would be commanding officers of a carrier like the Coral Sea said to the Bureau of Naval Personnel “You’re gonna order somebody here who is a law school graduate and he’s a member of the bar and he will be a legal officer.” Well I didn’t realize that was the situation but when I got there I was legal officer. Well I had no experience navigating your ship but I was an unrestricted line officer so I had to stand those watches. So I stood watch as the Junior Officer of the deck, that’s private experience. INTERVIEWER: Okay back up here a little bit again. Okay, you… to go back to New Orleans about just, just life down there at the time, I mean it was a segregated society. �Ryman, Donald Oh yeah, yeah… that of course bothered me a lot. But we didn’t have a Civil Rights Act, in those days I was a political liberal and the Unitarian Church was integrated in New Orleans, and the Unitarians are working in the south or working to do what they could to get rid of, well they call it South Valley segregation but it was quite an experience riding on the bus to go to work and you had to sit cause the bus was segregated. There was a, actually there was a thing you’d put in the back of the seat because we’d go through black neighborhoods and then white neighborhoods so we’ve had a lot of black and a lot of white. And so we would switch that wooden… INTERVIEWER: Partition or bar or something? Partition! INTERVIEWER: Yeah. And you know I felt bad about putting that in the face of these blacks and saying well, well in effect saying, well you have to stay back there. No, I wasn’t, it didn’t make me love segregation. And I was there when Brown v. Board of Education was decided and oh boy there was, a lot of those people didn’t like it very well. People whom I thought should know better really. I mean, Ulysses S. Grant tried to enforced the 14th and 15th amendment and it’s unfortunate the Hays election where they, well as a Republican, they backed off their position and you know you had them until Lyndon Johnson put through a civil rights for blacks. You know, you could say stuff about Lyndon Johnson but that was a tremendous thing he did and maybe his motives were to right things but so what? INTERVIEWER: Okay now the military was in the process of desegregating when you were interviewing, Truman had started that back in ‘47. Yes, that’s right. Well in the Navy they weren’t going very fast, the blacks were stewards. They had black stewards and they had a lot of Filipino stewards. In my OCS class there were some blacks, there were some black officers but as I recall that was few and far between. INTERVIEWER: Now on the Coral Sea did they have black seamen or were the seamen all white? Yes they did. INTERVIEWER: Okay. �Ryman, Donald They had black seamen, matter of fact, in my boot company. They were gradually but I’m not sure what the Navy was doing then some of the rest of them on that. Well I had two captains on the Coral Sea, in those days those captains immediately became your admirals. The second one I got to know quite well, David McDonald, but he was from the south he was from Winder, Georgia and he had the usual southern view of it. He had… he didn’t like the black stewards he had two Filipino stewards, well but that ended up with some of my experience: we were in Gibraltar around Easter of 1955 and his two stewards got charged with beating up on the merchant. When they were coming back to the ship these merchants were lined up trying to sell ‘em stuff. Somebody did beat up on one of them and work ‘em over with a broken bottle and they were held there. Well, what were we gonna do? Well, I got word back I was supposed to stay ashore and try to do what I could for ‘em. In those days, you know, I was a young guy. Really I was supposed to cope with it, spring him loose and get him back to the ship. Well I hired two solicitors who were his little brothers there in Gibraltar. Now as a matter of fact they did say, with the Navy relief thing for enlisted men was to pay my expenses there. Now that was kind of interesting. The enlisted people wanted me to stay there. Anyway I got the word out I was supposed to stay there, it wasn’t direct from Captain McDonald and thinking back I should have said “Well, what does Captain McDonald, the CEO think?” Well I didn’t. Well they started— they did their research very well and they had something that went back to World War II and still goes on: the Status of Forces Act. Well under that act the Gibraltar authorities had no jurisdiction over these stewards. They were to be returned to their unit, the unit would do any kind of discipline that was taking place. Now this came up in the Iraqi thing when Obama said “Well, I can’t leave these people here cause we can’t get a Status of Forces agreement.” Well, you know, that’s political. I doubt that that’s true. (37:14) INTERVIEWER: But you knew what a Status of Forces Agreement was. But I can see how you need that because otherwise these US forces will be there and wanna get the justice of the peace or somebody want to get some business they’ll start accusing him of crimes and things like that. That went back to World War II in England. So we did get him loose, brought them back to the ship and I was a hero. And that started a good relationship with Captain McDonald; prior to that he had me and the repair officer for lunch. When he came aboard he was having some of the department heads for lunch and he was talking to me he said “You know, Ryman, I wanted to be a lawyer but there wasn’t that money in the family, but in those days they called a lawyer Colonel and he was respected in the community.” he said “Today I don’t know the lawyers, they're not as good, you know, when you applied to be a lawyer you had to be dishonest.” I said, “Captain” I said “If I can’t make an honest living as a lawyer I’ll do something else.” Well I think that cemented our relationship when I said that. And I had, you know I had other things with him I’m just trying to think… Well I was you know I had the legal officer and he was the convening authority and he was the one who was in charge of discipline, but that work I did, you know, he had captain’s mast that was written, and these guys well in the states �Ryman, Donald they’d all go—well a lot of ‘em would go AWOL—these dumb guys they go AWOL. What they wanted to get was a bad conduct discharge and kicked. They weren’t thinking about how that would affect them getting jobs or stuff later but overseas they’re getting, always, drunk and disorderly charges. So I was working with him on that. Oh, and of course I was standing these deck watches on the bridge too. Well I remember one night one of my classmates in class 6 were there and he was Officer of the deck and I was Junior Officer of the deck and that. You know the doctors and dentists they would immediately get a commission as lieutenant junior grade, we had to sweat through OCS and we might end up not getting any commission at all and we’d be ensigns, well, and we’d have to stay on as ensigns for a year and then we’d probably move to Lieutenant Junior grade. Well those guys would come up on the bridge because that was interesting: watching me, you know, being there going up and down the Mediterranean. Well one night the officer of the deck, my friend, I’m not gonna mention his name, he said “Well, you know, let’s have a mail buoy.” and he said to the dentist, “They’re gonna drop a mail buoy in the Mediterranean and we need somebody out, we need a lookout on the end of the flight deck to see where this landed.” Well of course mail buoys are like—there wasn’t any such thing. INTERVIEWER: Snipe hunting. Skyhook’s another thing. You know, I wasn’t entirely sure I was kinda a naive, young guy so I helped officer deck we fitted him up with a .45 pistol and he went out on the end of the flight deck to look for it. Well the lookouts and other people on the bridge knew all about it and they were kind of buzzing about it, Captain was in his at sea cabin and he heard the buzzing, so he got up and got on the rigs and somebody pointed to the dentist on the end of the flight deck. Well, he wasn’t a profane man, but he said “Well I’ll be a god damned son of a bitch, get that guy back up here before he kills himself!” which we did. That was quite an incident, but you know of course he could’ve put both of us back but I was a legal officer, maybe that helped me. But that was quite an incident. But Captain McDonald was a very skilled officer, we would refuel destroyers that came up against the ship and then you have to fuel them. Well that was kind of a tricky thing, you had the hose and you could separate that hose if you didn’t navigate well. Well with Captain McDonald on the bridge, well one of my friends who was a Supply Officer talked to him about it. He said “Well, when I was in Indianapolis I got the floor for navigation.” He was very good at navigating ships. Well that was interesting. Well he showed us one morning while I was there, with the same—it just happened—I was Junior Officer of the deck with the same guy from the other time and the Admiral changed the screen. On the screen determined your location but you had to give orders to the helm and so that you would be in the right position. Well, Lieutenant Junior—the guy that was officer of deck—had gotten the props. He was trying to use something we had and the maneuvering board to figure it out and the Captain came on the bridge and it was just chaos. Ships bow to stern and they were all over the place, Destroyers, aircraft carriers, we usually had another aircraft carrier with us. Well, McDonald said, he said, “Throw away that maneuvering board! Tell me where you wanna go and I’ll get you there.” and so the �Ryman, Donald Lieutenant Junior gave him what position we had and in, it seemed to me like about a minute, he had everybody on our station. I was really impressed. Well, see we had a maneuvering board thing we learned in OCS and we’d figure it out on that, well that’d take a little time particularly for us inexperienced guys. But I was very impressed with that and he was a great guy, when I came to Park Equipment Company I had two years of practice with Smith & Schnacke in Dayton plus the time I had on the Coral Sea. Well I wanted to be getting a minute in Michigan on motion—I had three years though, so I had to count the time on the Coral Sea. Well I wrote the then Admiral, John, and I wrote down well I said “Admiral, I have this letter here. I’ve written it describing what I did on the Coral Sea and really with the law practice I was the only lawyer on there, and I was doing it for better or for worse, including the guys who’d come up with their own personal problems and that was part of my job.” So I sent it to him and he signed a letter, he said “Well, that’s accurate enough.” I signed it and sent it to the Board of Law of Examiners and they didn’t accept it. I had to take the Michigan BAR exam, I was 8 years out of law school on account of that. Well I passed but he did that for me. He was just super person, you know some of the retrained officers from World War II they weren’t that great but he was, in all respects he was very good. He didn’t put on a lot of airs, you know, “I am the 4 striper Captain vs. Lieutenant Junior” you know. So I kept in touch with him for quite awhile after that and eventually he became Chief of Naval Operations. The top guy in the Navy. (46:53) INTERVIEWER: Now I want to wind your story back a ways cause you started getting into things on the Coral Sea and one of the things we didn’t talk about was how you actually got from New Orleans to the ship, cause you told me it took about three months. Well, oh, of course. Well we drove. I had some leave so we visited with my mother in Canton, my father had just died a couple years earlier, then we went to Culver, Indiana, she was from Culver and we were there for awhile. Then I took the train to Norfolk. Well, the Coral Sea, it was in the Mediterranean so they had to give me or arrange for some way. Well they put me on the Shewauken, which was a gasoline—it was a tanker. INTERVIEWER: An oiler. Gasoline and equivalent, they had aviation gasoline on it. So I got on that, well, I worked up a good relationship with the Captain on there. He was a good guy, I think he was a teacher, he got recalled he was a Lieutenant Commander. And turned out I was the oldest of the Junior Officers aboard—he liked to play Scrabble and I did too so we’d play Scrabble at night. Well, he had a guy, John Shilling Kanavan, a guy, an Irishman from Boston and he had these guys when we got into Norfolk they’d just leave. Well, unfortunately Kanavan came back so he had to tried him for AWOL. So he asked me if I would help him do that. Well, of course I’ve been in New Orleans and unknown General Court Martial so I did that, I served the President of the Court Martial and took care of all that for him and he really did appreciate that, and I didn’t have anything to do so �Ryman, Donald that was a great thing to do. So we, yeah we cross the Atlantic, I remember Hurricane Carol was coming up the east coast at that time and the communications officer was worrying we were gonna get caught in that. Fortunately we didn’t. Well I remember one night we were crossing the Atlantic and, oh god I suppose we were going 20 knots—at 22 miles per house and this ship came up over the horizon. It was an ocean liner; it was the Independence and here it was, we watched it go by and we thought of all of those people on that ship having drinks and all that stuff and we’re on this great vessel. (Ryman laughs) And of course from Josephus Daniels in World War I there was no liquor on naval vessels. (Laughs again.) So then there it went, speeding past us, they were probably doing about 20 knots or 25 knots, 30 knots. 30 knots is probably not the top that the Coral Sea could do; 30-31 and it’s 35 miles an hour for a thousand foot vessel in the Mediterranean, that was quite a lot. So I ended up at Cannes and switched over to the Coral Sea. (50:24) INTERVIEWER: Okay and now describe the Coral Sea a little bit for people not familiar with aircraft carriers, just size or what it's like to live on it. Well it was roughly a thousand feet long, on an aircraft carrier of course on top of it is a flight deck and underneath it is the hanger deck where you have the planes, where you have the planes when usually you’re not operating. You might have some of them on the hanger that you’ve tied down and I remember the legal office was on the port side up under the flight deck. So that was okay but it was, you know we had to go up and down some ladders to get where we wanted to go and if we wanted to get to the bridge of course, you see on the starboard side was the island with the bridge at the top. The navigating bridge was at the top, underneath it was the Admiral's bridge, we carried an Admiral on the bridge. His name was Crruise, Admiral Cruise, he was Commander of Carrier Division 6 and he had his bridge lost but we were up there on the top and navigating and, you know, arranging for the dentist to go down and lookout for the mailbuoys so. And that was about 13 flights to get up there. Well I remember the sad story there was one officer, he was a Lieutenant and he was what you called a Mustang, he had enlisted and he got promoted and became an officer. He was racing up those stairs one day after I left and he had a heart attack and died. You gotta be in good physical shape to do that. And I guess it’s still true. I don’t think they have elevators up to those things; they did have an elevator for the pilots for one flight up into the ready room as I recall, so yeah well, okay. Then we would be there on the bridge and the flight deck was filled with these planes, these guys in different colored uniforms were playing pushers, I mean we’d be watching them take off and landing, very interesting. Well at night time they’d get those things on the bridge and they’d be running up the engines, those things are screaming, and with that I got 20% hearing loss (chuckles) which I’m being paid for finally, now that I’m DA. Oh! It was, you know it was really good to be an unrestricted line officer, these days the legal officers and the jag, well they’re below deck all the time. They’re kinda like the dentist, they wanna get above deck on the flight deck and on the bridge and watch what’s going on! Ah man, I suppose when they go in there Lieutenant Junior grade they’re staff �Ryman, Donald officers. Well, perhaps that’s the best way to run it but I got the chance to be a line officer and actually I’d be in a position where I was helping in navigation of the ship. If I’d been there long enough you see I would have qualified for Officer of the Deck and here you have these guys, 25 years old, in charge of this thousand feet long ship going up and down the Mediterranean. The Navy set it up that way and it worked then, I’m remembering they were having some trouble with collisions out in the Pacific and I never could understand that but it could. Well they said the Officers of the Deck that hit that weren’t properly trained; well we just had 16 weeks of OCS so it weren’t ours. INTERVIEWER: So you were talking about that incident with your captain coming in and correcting everything that was kind of a mess. (55:23) Yeah, right! INTERVIEWER: And so if that goes on a little bit longer maybe somebody hit somebody. Well yeah, right right, yeah. But John… yeah. Could’ve been bad, well everybody had turned off their engines when and they were just they weren’t moving. INTERVIEWER: Okay. But still… yeah that’s kinda tricky. Well those submarines, the destroyer commander is usually Lieutenant Commander or Commander. They prided themselves on their ability to control those ships, so did everybody down to the ensigns on the bridge, so that was fortunate but you know some other Annapolis graduate who hadn’t got the sword might have gotten into trouble in that situation. INTERVIEWER: Alright, now during the year when you’re with the Coral Sea was the whole time spent in the Mediterranean or did you come back to the states at some point? Oh no we came back to the states, we came after December. And Martha had rented a house in Oceanside and so I was out trying to 9-to-5 because they took the Coral Sea into the Naval Shipyard at Portsmouth and they had it in there, and they were working on it, so I drive to work every day in my 1947 Studebaker Commander. Oh god that was a nice car. And so we were there until March and our first daughter was born February 2nd, which was about two days after the government declared the Korean War over based on an armistice which still holds today. No, I was stateside and then we left in April—March? You know, March of ‘55 and I was slated to get out I think July and I did. I asked to go back by ship. Well the captain thought, you know, he was a pilot himself. I think he thought a little less of me that I wasn’t flying. Well… I left Martha and the baby in the US and there was a consolation flight from Norfolk to Portland, Oregon that was �Ryman, Donald lost and this one Chief Petty Officer lost his whole family on that. So I’m just figuring realized I didn’t wanna try flying on the consolation across the Atlantic. So they put me on a ship that was the Everglades that was a Destroyer tender. Well most people don’t know what that is—well they had all kinds of stuff aboard there. They come up alongside the destroyer and they fix up their motors and I know one guy who was a Destroyer tender, all he did was work on the night covers, things like that. Well I was on that and we traveled and that was interesting in one respect, we got down by Cape Cod—now this was in July of ‘55—and we had fog all around us. It blotted out the radar. That was the early radar days, one of the things of Junior Officer of the Deck is to watch that radar and see who is close to us so we wouldn’t run into them. It is important. Well it blocked out! It just got all white so they stopped the ship and put on the foghorns there. That’s the best they could do. Does that interest you? Well about a year later a pastor vessel called the Andrea Dorea going through the same place and I thought he’s gonna make it into New York regardless; well unfortunately the Stockholm was there too, I think how that crash happened. Kinda interesting. INTERVIEWER: Now when you were in the Mediterranean what ports did you stop at? Well that was the nice thing about it. Barcelona once here, Lisbon, Athens, oh… God. INTERVIEWER: Well you went to Gibraltar. Oh there’s real good duty in that respect. I had good duty with the Navy, they have to say, well Beirut and Lebanon! Beirut at that time was kind of the Paris of the mid-east, nice place. And something else I had: I was appointed in each port as a foreign claims commission. That was an officer who had the authority to to pay up to two hundred and fifty dollars in damage to somebody that sailors had damaged their property, I remember that these guys would get drunk and break up a taximeter and I remember one case these guys were skylarking around and one guy threw the other guy’s sailor cap up on awning. Well the other guy climbed up on the awning to get it and broke the awning. So we paid for a new awning, that sort of thing. Well, everybody envied that duty because I could get a hotel room like in Lisbon or other places and, you know I would have to hang around the shortage role headquarters but I did that, yeah. I did that several times in various ports. I kinda got to like Lisbon, well there were just wonderful restaurants there and you could get the local cuisine. Well I remember this guy, I think he had been in my class he was…I don’t know, he was a Bosun, he did the Bosun’s mate training but I was standing watches with him and he says “Geeze, I don’t like it here I can’t get a hamburger” and you know “I can’t get a hamburger and a malted milk” and I thought “My god you’re gonna spend the rest of your life in Pittsburgh! You have a chance to go into all of these restaurants.” Well I guess he missed out on that, I didn’t. (1:02:16) INTERVIEWER: Okay, well this tape is about up. (Screen fades to black as tape changes) �Ryman, Donald I suppose sooner or later I’ll have to get into the thing. INTERVIEWER: Alright, okay so let’s see we were kind of closing out your stories about service time on the Coral Sea, we had been talking some—I guess the last thing we had been talking about was how one of your fellow officers wasn’t interested in actually the local cuisines (Ryman agrees) in the port, so you know they didn’t quite get that. Now you were talking a little bit about Beirut. Beirut was an area that in certain periods of the 50’s had a lot of political trouble, I think ‘58 or so. But when you were there in ‘55 things were quiet? Well, yeah. Of course we didn’t get into local politics but not too much, I do remember an incident in Beirut. We came in there November 11th, 1954. Well, the Coral S… they didn’t have a slip or place where we could—they didn’t have a port we could get into with our big ship, so we had to anchor out. But the destroyers came in and right into the slips. Well, one of the destroyers, the guys got off and they went immediately to the various houses of ill-repute. Well we already had a foreign claim when I got on shore—what the story was, there was a sailor— yeah it was a sailor in one of ‘em—and they set the shore patrol. The houses of ill-repute were off limits. Well, the shore patrol guy was knocking on the front door so this sailor went running out the back door, but one of the pimps was standing there and he stepped on his leg and broke it. Well so, there was a claim for the broken leg. Well… I went out to the hospital to visit this man who had a broken leg; well, he was a Palestinian. I didn’t know much about Palestinians and Israel and everything but he claimed to be displaced by Israelis. Now, I don’t wanna get into that kind of politics, well there was this woman sitting there in this beautiful, nice red satin dress, well she was a man. So we had this thing “Well, what are you gonna do for this guy, he’s got a broken leg.” Well, they were gonna check and see if he had rickets. Maybe they could have operated and fused the leg but it turned out he had rickets and so they sent him off some place and I guess the US caused it, the US paid for it—well, to have the bone knit but he had a stiff leg. It didn’t end up very nicely. By that time I was long gone but that was one of my foreign claims, Beirut. Well I remember Lieutenant Junior Grade Jack Drabkin, he was a Harvard graduate. He had gotten a supply commission and he was limited in what he could do, he had the wardroom. He had the officer’s mess in those days but he got hold of a guy, a driver at the embassy, and we drive around in his truck and he had a limo, well he had a Chevy Suburban as a matter of fact! And we’d go around to these places where they had belly dancing in Beirut and that was quite a skilled thing, belly dancing, it was kind of interesting. You know I majored in a little history in the last thing, I was trying get in as much of the local culture as I could and so was Murray, I think he majored in history too before I went to law school. But that was an interesting thing in Beirut. And that was all peaceful, if there was some kind of problem or some kind of bad thing in the government of Lebanon at that time, we didn’t know about it. (1:07:07) �Ryman, Donald INTERVIEWER: Yeah, it was a major crisis in ‘58, but that was well after you were gone. Yeah, right, yeah yeah. That’s four years later. INTERVIEWER: Now when you think about the time that you spent on board the carrier, are there other particular incidents that stand out in your memory that you haven’t talked about yet? Lemme think… Oh I remember, the engineering officer on the Coral Sea, Commander Carlton, he was a senior shore patrol officer of the Mediterranean, a very interesting guy and I worked with him all the time as a legal officer on the biggest or one of the biggest ships. I remember him quite well. I remember one afternoon at Genoa and I was talking to him and he said “I was over here on the Italian lines, I was looking at some of their ships.” he said they ran a real interesting one, the Andrea Dora. (Ryman laughs) so that was kinda interesting. Well I remember at Athens he and I went over to, well to the port of Athens and I’m trying to remember the name— INTERVIEWER: It’s Piraeus. What? INTERVIEWER: The Piraeus? Yeah, the Piraeus! And we had breakfast well that wasn’t too good in the long run I got a greek thing from that, but he bought my lunch. And I was the foreign claims commission in Athens and we, I don’t recall that we have any there. Maybe the pimps got out of our way. INTERVIEWER: Yup. (Ryman laughs) Well, at Athens I’m trying to think… we were anchored pretty close in to Piraeus so it wasn’t quite the same situation as in Lebanon. INTERVIEWER: Well, you’ll think of things after we’re done because that’s how it works. Yeah, I know! I know. INTERVIEWER: So basically you have, so what you had done was you had gone originally to join the Coral Sea and come back to the states, stayed there, and then you’d gone back with them again and then you sailed back the second time and that was the fog off Cape Cod and on the way home. �Ryman, Donald Yeah, well then that was on the Everglades. INTERVIEWER: Yeah, yeah, and that was sort of on the way home, so then you basically were turned back to Norfolk at that point and do you get discharged from there? Well, yeah. They spent—I spent a couple weeks doing physical exams to be sure I didn’t have any service related disability. INTERVIEWER: Right. (1:10:24) And then yeah they released me to inactive duty. INTERVIEWER: Okay, and then once you’re out, then what did you do? Well, I had to get back to Culver, Indiana where Martha was with our baby. And I went to the railroad and then to the Greyhound, and that was quite interesting. Greyhound had these buses that ran overnight and they ran from Norfolk to Chicago and they ran right through Culver, Indiana. Now the trains even in those days you had to change several times from Norfolk. The problem was getting to the train running east and west and well, you know, what’d they have? The Broadway Limited but that went through South Bend, you get the PennC trains but to get to those was kinda involved as I recall. Well so I just bought a bus ticket to Plymouth, Indiana, got off there, took off my uniform and that was the end of my service. I never put it on again. INTERVIEWER: Alright, and then how long before you got a job? Well, it didn’t take me too long. I had written to Harvard Law School about it. Well I had, what I was talking about being was they had a thing where they had recent graduates who advised the new students about things and I thought “Well maybe I’d like to do that.” Well, and I had worked for Professor McGuire and he gave me a good recommendation, and I wrote part of his case book as a matter of fact and he put in for me but I didn’t get that job. They supplied people and I hooked up with Smith & Schnacke in Dayton and that took just about a month, and then we moved to Dayton. Stayed there for two years and then we came here. INTERVIEWER: Okay. Alright and then how did you wind up leaving Dayton and coming up here? Were you looking for something better or what happened? Well… it wasn’t working out in Dayton for various reasons and so they said “Well, you probably oughta go some place else.” So one of the things I noticed was our big client was Mead Corporation and if Mead Corporation had a problem the President would go to the Senior Partner and tell him what the problem was and then he’d come to be, and he didn’t like to be cross- �Ryman, Donald examined. So I wouldn’t be quite sure of it, I didn’t think that maybe the traffic manager had the problem, a legal problem. So it would go up through the president of the company, the CEO of the company, through the Senior Partner and back down to me. I thought it made more sense if there was a lawyer working in Mead who could talk to the traffic manager. So I wrote to all kinds of Fortune 500 corporations and other people and said I was available and said I’d like to be a lawyer on their legal staff. Well one was Clark Equipment Company. Well I knew Clark, I’d worked in a factory in World War II and all these Clark forklifts were there. It was in Buchanan, Michigan. Well, gee, I thought, Buchanan, Michigan… Gee, I didn’t realize that. The truck said Battle Creek but actually this is where Clark, for all practical purposes, started. And until about 1990 it was a nerve center of Clark. So I wrote here and heard back from the General Counsel who wrote and said he’d like to meet me, and so I came and met him in Niles and he drove me over to Buchanan. That’s one of the funniest things. I just got in this town and it seemed to have magic, and going up the front street here was kinda like the garden district in New Orleans. So, you know, I’ve got the Buchanan disease and stayed here the rest of my legal career. (1:15:16) INTERVIEWER: Alright. And now to think back to the time that you spent in the Navy what do you think you took out of that or how did that affect you? Well… I think I learned leadership, although as a lawyer in park I wasn’t really leading, but on the other hand that’s, someone on the general counsel said “Legal and business decisions are inextricably co-mingled.” So I was able to understand what a businessman was trying to achieve, but one of the things I was very careful not to get involved in was business decisions, because you don’t want to. You won’t be objective about it. It’s like the old saying a man that serves as his own lawyer is a fool for a crime, so I did that. I had a great time, I had a lot of fun, I at one time had said there’s been an amusement tax and it’s taking up my whole pension. Yeah, I had a great time being—well here we have Fortune 500 corporations and later up to 154 in a Fortune 500 list at one time, Clark Equipment Company was. But I could walk to work and those I didn’t want much more. I had a 51 Chevrolet so I don’t know, but I didn’t have to tie up the car and I could walk to work and all the time I was here as a lawyer. Well we got a guy out at General Motors who didn’t like it, he wanted to be on that 10th floor or something, he could only be on the 3rd floor in Buchanan because the zoning code doesn’t allow you to have higher than 3 floors, so he took us to South Bend and actually what happened then was the takeover guys noticed this. They’d look at us, but they’d say “Oh, well they’re in Buchanan, Michigan. Little town, if we come try to take them over the people will come at us with pitch forks.” and we would have! But, so the company got taken over but that’s after I’d retired, I’d hit retirement age. It was a very interesting company. INTERVIEWER: Alright. Okay. well you’ve got a pretty good story and certainly an unusual one. �Ryman, Donald Oh yeah, well, thank you. INTERVIEWER: So I’d just like to thank you very much for sharing it with me. Oh yeah, yeah yeah, I’m happy to do it. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. 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Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RymanD2307V Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ryman, Donald F. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-05 Title A name given to the resource Ryman, Donald (Interview transcript and video), 2019 Description An account of the resource Donald Ryman was born on April 1, 1928 in Brady Lake, Ohio, into a very mobile family, moving eleven times before settling into East Canton in 1939. Ryman’s father pursued a degree in education in addition to his degree in mechanical engineering, and with the outbreak of the Second World War, his father was finally able to get a job as a mechanical engineer. His mother struggled to acquire food for the family and there was little fuel to use for their car due to stringent wartime rationing. After graduating high school, he attended Ohio State University in June of 1945 with the expectation that he might be drafted into the war. He briefly joined the university’s Army Reserve Officer Training Corps and Ryman graduated from Ohio State in 1948, moving on to Harvard Law School where he encountered financial difficulty and accumulated some debt with the university. In June of 1950, he received several draft notices before enlisting in the Navy. Ryman was then flown to San Francisco, California, for Navy Boot Camp and was later transferred to Newport, Rhode Island, for Navy Officer Candidate School. Ryman finished his training at Newport in July of 1952, was sworn into the Navy Reserves, and was transferred to the Eighth Naval District, headquartered in New Orleans. He was frustrated that New Orleans seemed to be so poorly managed, and by the persistent racial segregation of the South as well as lingering racism in the Navy. Ryman was then assigned to a gasoline tanker vessel out of Norfolk, Virginia, on which he participated in routine deck watches on the bridge and helped refuel destroyers. He was then transferred to the USS Coral Sea, operating primarily in the Mediterranean. After serving aboard the Coral Sea twice in the Mediterranean, Ryman was shipped home on the USS Everglades to Norfolk where he was officially discharged. He then returned to Culver, Indiana, where his wife and baby were living. He eventually moved his family to Dayton, Ohio, and later up to Buchanan, Michigan, where he acquired a job on the legal team of Clark Equipment Company. Reflecting upon his service in the Navy, Ryman held his later experiences with Clark’s legal team in high regard since he appreciated the fact that he could walk to work as well as the success of the business during his tenure. 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Source <a href="http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/477">Naval recognition slides, RHC-50</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-50_X207 Title A name given to the resource S2F A/S attack Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Navy Description An account of the resource S2F A/S US attack, September 1, 1953. Subject The topic of the resource United States. 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Source <a href="http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/477">Naval recognition slides, RHC-50</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-50_1386 Title A name given to the resource SAAB 210 experimental fighter Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Navy Description An account of the resource SAAB 210 Swedish experimental fighter, September 1, 1952. Subject The topic of the resource United States. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/a8b3c2e61158242832b58680f8201abf.jpg 70d1a143d06c1177dea83ec5a378c11b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Naval Recognition Training Slides Subject The topic of the resource Slides Military education Airplanes, Military--Recognition Warships--Recognition World War, 1939-1945 Description An account of the resource Slides developed during World War II as a training tool, for top-side battle-station personnel on board ship and for all aircraft personnel, by the US Navy. In 1942 a Recognition School was established by the Navy at Ohio State University where the method of identification was developed. In 1943 the school was taken over by the US Navy. The importance of training in visual recognition of ships and aircraft became even more evident during World War II. Mistakes resulting in costly errors and loss of life led to an increased emphasis on recognition as a vital skill. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Navy Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/477">Naval recognition slides (RHC-50)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-04-04 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-50 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1943-1953 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Source <a href="http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/477">Naval recognition slides, RHC-50</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-50_1375 Title A name given to the resource SAAB A-32 Lansen fighter Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Navy Description An account of the resource SAAB A-32 Lansen Swedish fighter, September 1, 1953. Subject The topic of the resource United States. Navy Military education Airplanes, Military--Recognition World War, 1939-1945 Slides Sweden Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Naval recognition slides (RHC-50) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1953-09-01 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/45f9646740093f542860739a1264388d.jpg f6d0074b9a0e382a39871d2d9a281a8b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Naval Recognition Training Slides Subject The topic of the resource Slides Military education Airplanes, Military--Recognition Warships--Recognition World War, 1939-1945 Description An account of the resource Slides developed during World War II as a training tool, for top-side battle-station personnel on board ship and for all aircraft personnel, by the US Navy. In 1942 a Recognition School was established by the Navy at Ohio State University where the method of identification was developed. In 1943 the school was taken over by the US Navy. The importance of training in visual recognition of ships and aircraft became even more evident during World War II. Mistakes resulting in costly errors and loss of life led to an increased emphasis on recognition as a vital skill. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Navy Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/477">Naval recognition slides (RHC-50)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-04-04 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-50 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1943-1953 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Source <a href="http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/477">Naval recognition slides, RHC-50</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-50_1369 Title A name given to the resource SAAB J-29 fighter Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Navy Description An account of the resource SAAB J-29 Swedish fighter, April 1, 1953. Subject The topic of the resource United States. Navy Military education Airplanes, Military--Recognition World War, 1939-1945 Slides Sweden Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Naval recognition slides (RHC-50) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1953-04-01 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/fb0892947373445b3b9dcb810e80dfbf.jpg 494dbe416a9a829882374a98f12f383d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Naval Recognition Training Slides Subject The topic of the resource Slides Military education Airplanes, Military--Recognition Warships--Recognition World War, 1939-1945 Description An account of the resource Slides developed during World War II as a training tool, for top-side battle-station personnel on board ship and for all aircraft personnel, by the US Navy. In 1942 a Recognition School was established by the Navy at Ohio State University where the method of identification was developed. In 1943 the school was taken over by the US Navy. The importance of training in visual recognition of ships and aircraft became even more evident during World War II. Mistakes resulting in costly errors and loss of life led to an increased emphasis on recognition as a vital skill. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Navy Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/477">Naval recognition slides (RHC-50)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-04-04 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-50 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1943-1953 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Source <a href="http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/477">Naval recognition slides, RHC-50</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-50_1380 Title A name given to the resource SAAB J-29 fighter Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Navy Description An account of the resource SAAB J-29 Swedish fighter, April 1, 1952. Subject The topic of the resource United States. Navy Military education Airplanes, Military--Recognition World War, 1939-1945 Slides Sweden Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Naval recognition slides (RHC-50) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1952-04-01 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives