Whit Criswell Bryan, Hospital Apprentice 2nd Class, 1940

Photo of Dad taken sometime during WWII

On June 7, 1940, Hospital Apprentice 2nd Class Whit Criswell Bryan departed San Diego after completing his training at the Naval Hospital Corps School. He journeyed on the USS Macdonough, bound for the Territory of Hawaii, and was accompanied by many fellow Hospital Apprentices.

This assignment to the US Naval Hospital, Pearl Harbor, was the first of many duty stations for Dad. He served until his retirement in 1969. 

Whit C. Bryan on line #4

USS Macdonough

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"19-N-39996 USS Macdonough (DD-351)," Naval History and Heritage Command (https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/19-n/19-N-30000/19-N-39996.html : accessed 11 November 2023). 

"U.S., World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949," Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/22350854:1143?_phsrc=Shp425&_phstart=successSource&gsfn=Whit+&gsln=Bryan&ml_rpos=3&queryId=78ef4e3c7ccd3c1a87cda7c64bf10f29 : accessed 11 November 2023). 

Whit C. Bryan during WWII, photograph, no date or place, scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of Diana Bryan Quinn, Virginia Beach, VA, 2021.