Notes for: Richard Caswell MCCRUM

In November 1940, he joined the U.S. Navy, receiving training at Navy Ordinance and Electrical School, San Diego, after basic training. For some 18 months, he was assigned to the USS Conyingham and was aboard when the ship was attacked by Japan, Dec. 7, 1941, in Pearl Harbor. After a period of service with ACORN 15 and ACORN 8, (Aviation, Construction, Ordnance, Repair) he returned to the USA in November 1944 and was stationed at several airfields in Florida until discharged as a chief aviation electrician's mate, Dec. 1, 1947.

Botany and plant pathology, professor emeritus at the University of Maine, Orono