Navy V-12
A history of the Navy V-12 Program during World War II. The Program provided opportunities for young men whose families had suffered during the difficult times of the Great Depression. These high school graduates were offered the golden opportunity to attend colleges and universities. At the end of the program, more than 60,000 U.S. Navy and USMC officers had entered the armed forces for the war. Many, also entered the U.S. Naval Reserve in the post-ear period, and served in Korea and Vietnam. With photos — 80+ pages of biographies of individual members of the program. Many include photos then and now.
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Book details
- Author
- Henry Herge
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback
- Subjects
- History › Wars & Conflicts › World War II
History › Military › Naval - Topics
- Navy V-12 Program · World War II · U.S. Navy history · military officer training · Great Depression · naval education · U.S. Marine Corps
- ISBN-13
- 9781563111891 (Hardcover)9781681621562 (Paperback)
About the author
HENRY CURTIS HERGE was an American educator and academic administrator who served as Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University from 1953 to 1965. His published works include Navy V-12 and Wartime College Training Programs of the Armed Services.
Herge directed higher education and teacher certification for the Connecticut Department of Education from 1946 to 1953 and remained a faculty member at Rutgers until his retirement in 1975.
During World War II, Herge served as an education officer for the Bureau of Naval Personnel and as professor of Military Science and Tactics at Wesleyan University, where he was Commanding Officer of the Navy V-12 program.