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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: T. A. (Theodore Alfred) Strang diary
Creator:
Strang, T. A. (Theodore Alfred)
source:
The Book Shop
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0706
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(1 diary)
Date (inclusive): 1943-1946
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from The Book Shop, LLC, 2017.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
8276795
[Identification of item], T. A. (Theodore Alfred) Strang diary (Collection 706). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History
and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.
T.A. (Theodore Alfred) Strang was commissioned as Surgeon with the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the medical corps of the
Naval Reserve of the United States, 27 September 1943; his commission paperwork begins the body of this photographically-illustrated,
handwritten diary about his war service. He served at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Long Beach, California, 22 November 1943 to
3 August 1944. He spent time in San Francisco and a week in Oahu, Hawaii, then embarked in October on the SS Meteor, arriving
at Eniwetok for a month, when he learned his assignment changed from Yap to Leyte, Philippine Islands. Strang includes many
photographs documenting his arrival in San Pedro in December, 1944 and transfer to and work at the U.S. Naval Station Dispensary
in Guiuan, Eastern Samar. In late 1945 he toured Corregidor and Manila, then apparently concluded service at Fleet Hospital
#114 in Guiuan from 13 December 1945 to 6 February 1946. The album concludes with photographs of one man reading and one smoking
a pipe in lounge chairs in front of a fake fireplace at the base, with one photo inscribed, "To Happy Days, Good Breakfasts".
A handwritten annotation explains that one item from the album was removed in 1959 and sent to a colleague. the diary is kept
on a standard bound ledger with alphabetical tabs and lined pages, titled "Record", issued as "U.S. Government Printing Office
property no. 50187".
Strang begins his album with a typescript foreword on the upper paste-down, dated 23 November 1945 in Manila, P.I.: "This
book is intended as a photographic and mental memoirs [sic] of myself covering at least that portion of my life while in the
Medical Corps of the United States Navy Reserve. I hope it will be of interest to myself and family in the years to come;
otherwise, I expect of it, nothing. Like most good ideas, if it is a good one, I am about two years late in starting it but
it will help to occupy some of my time while separated from my loved ones and awaiting that longed-for day when I shall start
the long journey back across the Pacific Ocean to those I love and now miss so much."
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