| Scope and content |
Papers (1943-1946) including correspondence, war diaries, photographs, newspaper, and a poem. In his diary, Jack Burgeman gives details of action he saw aboard ship when the USS Alabama and other ships conducted bombing raids. Mentioned throughout the memoir are various U.S. Navy vessels that were attached to the same task forces as the Alabama, fought with the ship, or were engaged nearby. Further memoir entries mention a visit of Admiral Richard Byrd, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the peace talks, Japan's surrender, capitulation proceedings aboard the USS Missouri, the American occupation of Japan, and treatment of U.S. soldiers in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps. |
| Access restriction | No access restrictions. |
| Cite as |
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation Collection: Jack Burgeman Papers (#677-002), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of Mr. Jack Burgeman. |
| Biographical note | Jack Burgeman was a crew member aboard the battleship USS ALABAMA (BB-60) during its Pacific campaigns in World War II. He also served as a PNA-3 during the Korean War. |
