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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>O.B645Archon Finding Aid Title O.B645UIS Archives/Special CollectionsArchives/Special Collections LIB 144One University Plaza, MS BRK 140Springfield, IL 62703-5407twood1@uis.eduURL: This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2018-06-06 16:53:14 -0400.undother_unmapped
  
    
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      UIS Archives/Special Collections
    
    Borop, James (Reverend) b. 1919: Interview and memoir
    
      Borop, Rev. James
    
    
      Vanzant, Don
    
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    Scope and Contents
Borop, a retired captain in the United States Navy, discusses family and childhood in rural Illinois, Depression years, education at Eureka College, and his Naval Acade-my training. He discusses service during WWII maintaining the blockade at Panama; service on the U.S.S. Milwaukee and the U.S.S. Marblehead; his eyewitness experience of the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests, and the effects of the explosion on the men, ships, and animals present. He also discusses his experiences working at a ship repair facility in Yokosuka, Japan; Japanese culture; changes in Japan following the war and American occupation. He also describes post-WWII military conditions and the development of nuclear submarines. He also talks about his retirement and work as a pastor of two Disciples of Christ churches in central Illinois. 6 tapes, 344 mins., 99 pp.
Interview by Don Vanzant, 1983 
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See collateral file: interviewer's notes and photocopied photos.  
  
    Related Materials
Interview and Memoir in Illinois Digital Archives.http://www.idaillinois.org/u?/uis,1068