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Humphrey’s wartime service and postwar career in radar sales
The interview recounts Humphrey’s path from Newark College of Engineering to DuPont and Raytheon, then Navy officer on an LSM in World War II. He describes seasickness avoidance, duties supplying Marines, the Okinawa plan halted by the atomic bomb, and postwar work with Taylor Instrument Co in Philadelphia.
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Newark College of Engineering
Humphrey
DuPont
Buffalo
Ruth
Raytheon
Boston
U.S
Navy
South Pacific
Wilmington
Philadelphia
Panama Canal
Oakland
Calif
Hawaii
Okinawa
North China
Manchuria
Yangtze River
Taylor Instrument Co
Taylor
Pennsylvania
New Jersey