Smith, Albert D.
survey sheet - handwritten

 

 

Date of Enlistment: June 6, 1917
Military Camps to which went:
* Bensonhurst training station U.S.N.
Units to which belonged:
* Navy Base Hospital # 1
Date of trip overseas: Sept. 25, 1917
Service there:
* Gen[era]'l laboratory work
* Special ordnance work developing a new shell to be used in submarine warfare.
Date of return: Sept. 29, 1918
Date of demobilization: March 4th, 1919
Honors received: --

 

 

NOTES
Section Bases of District Three. In Besch, Michael D. A Navy Second to Non: The History of U.S. Naval Training in World War I. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002: p. 128. (Google Books) -- See Section Base 6
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