Paper, 5 ½" x 8"
From 12:30 PM Saturday to evening study hours on Sunday, Navy students were allowed the liberty to travel within a 40 mile radius of Tufts. Travel beyond that limit required a request for special liberty.
Cotton, 26" x 19"
This shirt is representative of the daily dress of the majority of Tufts students during the war. Each Navy student's name was stenciled across the front, the only personal aspect of the uniform.
Paper, 6" x 9"
THE RULES OF THE NAUTICAL ROAD was a required text for all NROTC and V-12 students in Midshipman's School. Although one of the drier subjects, knowledge of the rules was crucial for life at sea.
Paper and string, 4" x 3"
Dance cards served as a small souvenir of formal dances, including the details of the dance and space to record dance partners.
In 1945, an all Navy basketball team led Tufts to the Eastern NCAA playoffs at Madison Square Garden. Despite taking fourth place, the Weekly heralded the event as "the biggest sports news at Tufts in many years."
1944
Certifies that Curtis Eaton Drury is appointed Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve Officers Training corps at Tufts College for the academic year 1944-1945
Photographic print, 9 7/8" x 4 3/8"
The keel for the Indiana, second ship of the class, was laid at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, Virginia, on November 1939. The ship was launched on 21 November 1941 and commissioned on 30 April 1942. The Indiana began combat operations on November 9, 1942. She replaced the South Dakota at Guadalcanal after topside damage sent that ship to the U.S. for repairs. Operations in the Guadalcanal area were confined to gunfire support missions. During the bombardment of Tarawa in November 1943, she destroyed her first enemy aircraft. In 1947, the Indiana was put on reserve at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. She was stricken from the Navy List on 1 June 1962, sold for $418,387 on 6 September 1963, and scrapped in 1964.
American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with two battle stars, Victory Medal in World War II, Naval Reserve Medal, and the Philippine Liberation Medal were awarded to personnel who served on active duty in the prescribed areas or aboard ships of the Navy or Coast Guard from 1941 to 1946
Paper, 6 1/2" x 10"
Jason Samuels was Executive Officer aboard this vessel. The Submarine Chaser 1298 was one of 400 or more ordered since 1940, duplicates of the experimental 128-footers built under the 1938 program. They had two diesel engines, dual screws