Physical Description: Folder 1 -- Military and Personal Documents 1. Trades and Skilled Occupations Application, 4/27/36. 2. Standard Transfer Order, 2/17/44. 3. Hospital Ticket, 8/31/45. 4. Request for Report on Loyalty Data. 5. Notice of Separation from the U.S. Naval Service, 11/9/45. 6. Four letters of recommendation from prior military supervisors. 7. Letter from Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, 12/4/45. 3 8. Letter from U.S. Naval Hospital advising Mrs. Arisog Torigian of the death of her husband, February 5, 1964. 9. Personal documents: letter from Archie D. Giragossian, February 8, 1932, why he cannot repay loan on liberty bonds (handwritten, 8 pages); Order for parents headstones, March 7, 1944; Property tax receipt, 1947; Release of Inheritance Tax Lien, January 31, 1964; two award ribbons from Coronado Floral Association, 1939.

Physical Description: Folder 2 -- Photographs, including 1. Panama, personnel and places, WWI era. 2. Alaska, aerial landscapes, candid photos of aircraft, vessels and personnel, bear cub mascot. 3. U.S. Army Douglas World Cruiser. 4. Seated portrait of Torigian in Navy uniform with wife and father-in-law, circa 1920s. 5. Naval air operations, formal group personnel portraits, and places in which Torigian served. 6. USS Langley (CV-1) and Lexington (CV-2). 7. Shipboard aviation operations, including miscellaneous images of 1930s Navy aircraft. 8. Torigian's Armenian-born countryman, Arteen "Harry" Ekizian (1901-1981), with whom Torigian served aboard ship in the 1920s or early 1930s. He was a champion wrestler of the U.S. Navy. The powerfully-built Ekizian defeated all comers of the world's navies and was acknowledged as the world champion Navy wrestler. As a four-time world heavyweight wrestling champion in the late 1930s, Ekizian enjoyed a successful civilian wrestling career as the Fez-adorned "Ali Baba." Two images of Ekizian during his Navy service show him (1) in cook's working uniform standing in a formation of men on the deck of an aircraft carrier, and (2) an 8" x 10" candid photo of the shirtless Ekizian bedecked with numerous medals for his wrestling achievements.