Box AR00037
Container
Contains 39 Results:
Illustrations, Correspondence, and a Photograph, 1943 - 1944
File — Box: AR00037, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents
This folder contains a black-and-white photograph, a blue-tinted photograph of two amphibious vehicles docked with the USS Napa, two letters from Floyd Kelly Jr to his parents, pencil illustrations created by Floyd Kelly Jr, and a church program from the US Naval Amphibious Training Base in Coronado, California.
Dates:
1943 - 1944
USS Los Angeles and USS Napa Documents, 1945 - 1947
File — Box: AR00037, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents
This folder contains documents from the USS Napa and the USS Los Angeles gathered during Floyd Kelly Jr’s service with the United States Navy and the United States Naval Reserve. Materials featured within this folder include a document from the USS Los Angeles (CA-135) with Floyd Kelly Jr’s assigned information during a United States Naval Reserve training cruise, a memo for all Naval Personnel regarding training on board the USS Los Angeles, two schedules from the USS Los Angeles during...
Dates:
1945 - 1947
US Navy Separation Papers, 1946 - 1947
File — Box: AR00037, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents
This folder contains materials related to Floyd Kelly Jr’s honorable discharge from the United States Navy. Materials within this folder were housed initially within an official records envelope from the War Navy Department to Floyd Kelly Jr. Materials feature a letter to “Fellow Veterans” from US Army General Omar N. Bradley, a United States Naval Personnel Separation Center referral sheet, a certificate of recognition to Floyd Kelly Jr, and an application for servicemen readjustment...
Dates:
1946 - 1947
Booklets from Military Service, 1938 - 1945
File — Box: AR00037, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents
This folder contains two booklets, The Green Harbour Tsingtao 1945 and United States Naval Training Station Farragut, Idaho, Floyd Kelly Jr collected during his military service with the United States Navy. This folder also contes a scholarship contest certificate awarded to Floyd Kelly Jr in grade school for earning 4th place in a spelling bee. This certificate was originally placed between the pages of the The Green Harbour...
Dates:
1938 - 1945
Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin, April 1945
File — Box: AR00037, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents
This folder contains one issue of the monthly magazine Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin, issue number 337 from April 1945. Articles included within this monthly magazine include Mission to Arabia, Battle for Iwo, Inside Japan, Secretary’s Report, Amphibious Medicine, Bottled Blood, It Could Be a Trap, Cradles for Ships, Along the Road to Tokyo, Dialing U.S.A., Fleet Admiral King Reports, They Never Gave Up, Prisoners Freed in Philippines, Magazine...
Dates:
April 1945
Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin, May 1945
File — Box: AR00037, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents
This folder contains one issue of the monthly magazine Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin, issue number 338 from May 1945. Articles included within this monthly magazine include The Sailor President, On Japan’s Doorstep, Here’s Your Enemy, The ‘Temporary’ War of LST 460, Fantail Forum, Right into the Lion’s Mouth, Navy Sails the Rhine, Along the Road to Tokyo, Turk, End of a Bogey, Maritime Day, Magazine Digest, New Books in Ships’ Libraries, The Month's...
Dates:
May 1945
Flying Fish Greeting Card and The Bluejacket's Manual, 1944 - 1947
File — Box: AR00037, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents
This folder contains a twelfth edition of the Bluejackets Manual of the United States Navy in 1940 and one greeting card from Catalina, California. The greeting card included in this folder was initially housed within the Bluejackets Manual. The outside of the greeting card depicts a sizeable yellow creature in red overalls sitting on an island while fishing a sign that reads, “Greetings from Catalina, California Here’s a Souvenir and a Sincere Wish from the Lovely Land of the –”. The inside...
Dates:
1944 - 1947
Illustrations, Undated
File — Box: AR00037, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents
This folder contains pencil illustrations, a small rectangular twelve-month calendar, and a folder from the US Navy Store with stationery featuring the US Navy's logo. The pencil illustrations within this folder include simple sketches of figures in motion, cartoon navy soldiers, sailor headshots, landscape illustrations, military servicemen in uniform, sketches of nude models in artistic poses, naval vessels in the Asiatic-Pacific theatre, a fishing boat poem with an ocean sketch,...
Dates:
Undated
Floyd Kelly Jr. Service Scrapbook, 1944 - 1946
Item — Box: AR00037
Scope and Contents
A black cloth scrapbook with two red and blue embroidered dragons moving in a circle on the front cover. This scrapbook is bound together with black string, with the ends of the string heavily frayed. Five pieces of transparent tape have been applied to the spine. A large split has formed between the front cover and the spine. This scrapbook contains 40 pages of material collected, curated, and compiled by Kelly Floyd Jr. S 1/C United States Navy. Material within this scrapbook includes...
Dates:
1944 - 1946
Floyd Kelly Jr. Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 000036
Abstract
The Floyd Kelly Jr. Collection, 1938 – 2008, consists of illustrations drawn by Mr. Kelly Jr., a book, letters, pamphlets, color photographs, black-and-white photographs, postcards, poems, certificates, newspapers, and a scrapbook. This collection contains materials related to Floyd Kelly Jr.’s personal life and military service with the United States Navy and the USS Napa (APA-157).
Dates:
1938 - 2008