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- Name:
- Benjamin Franklin Brenner
- State of Birth:
- NJ
- Home State:
- NJ
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- Unspecified
- War or Conflict
- Cold War
- Military Status
- Veteran
- Dates of Service
- 1956-1989
- Entrance into Service
- Enlisted
- Branch of Service
- Navy
- Unit of Service
- Naval Communications Station (NAVCOMMSTA) Adak; Commander, 6th Fleet (COMSIXTHFLT); USS Des Moines (CL 134); USS Saratoga (CVA 60); USS Forrestal (CVA 59); USS Roosevelt (CVA 42); Navy Reserve
- Location of Service
- Bainbridge, Maryland; Imperial Beach, California; Adak Island (Aleutian Islands); Atlantic City, New Jersey; Cheltenham, Maryland; Homestead, Florida; Norfolk, Virginia; Pensacola, Florida; Fort Meade, Maryland; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Rota, Spain; Japan; Mediterranean Sea
- Battles/Campaigns
- 1958 Lebanon Crisis
- Highest Rank
- Senior Chief Petty Officer
- Prisoner of War
- No
- Service History Note
- The veteran served as a communications technician (collection branch) and in the Navy Reserve Security Group (NR SECGRU). He served active duty from 05/1956 to 12/1959 and in Reserve from 09/1965 to 12/1989.
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- Type of Resource:
- Audio: CD [1 item] -- Oral history interview
- Manuscript: Biographical information [3 items] -- Typewritten document
- Manuscript: Military papers (orders, personnel/201 files, etc) [9 items] -- Typewritten document
- Photograph: Original photographic print [1 item] -- Photographs
- Photograph: Photocopy of photographic print [3 items] -- Portrait
- Interviewer:
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Sheryl Collins
- Contributor:
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Richlyn Goddard
- Contributor Affiliation/Organization:
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Atlantic County Historical Society
- Collection #:
- AFC/2001/001/94666
- Subjects:
- Brenner, Benjamin Franklin
- Cold War--Personal Narratives
- United States. Navy.
- Cite as:
- Benjamin Franklin Brenner Collection
(AFC/2001/001/94666), Veterans History Project,
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
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