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- Name:
- Jonathan Leff
- State of Birth:
- NY
- Home State:
- AL
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
- War or Conflict
- World War, 1939-1945
- Military Status
- Veteran
- Dates of Service
- 1939-1946
- Entrance into Service
- Commissioned
- Branch of Service
- Navy
- Unit of Service
- USS Maryland (BB 46); USS West Virginia (BB 48); USS Oregon City (CA 122); USS Washington
- Location of Service
- Tarawa Atoll (Gilbert Islands); Kwajalein Island (Marshall Islands); Saipan (Northern Mariana Islands); Peleliu Island (Palau); Annapolis, Maryland; San Diego, California; Monterey, California; Florida; Iowa; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Pacific Theater
- Highest Rank
- Lieutenant Senior Grade
- Prisoner of War
- No
- Service History Note
- The veteran served as a foreign volunteer in 1948-1949 with the Israeli naval service and served under Paul Nahman Shulman. The veteran was involved in the sinking of the Emir Farouk during Operation Yoav.
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- Type of Resource:
- Video: DVD [1 item] --Oral history interview
- Interviewer:
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Greg Dorriety
- Contributor:
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Cheryl Bradley
- Contributor Affiliation/Organization:
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U.S. House of Representatives/Bradley Byrne
- Collection #:
- AFC/2001/001/96841
- Subjects:
- Leff, Jonathan
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal Narratives
- United States. Navy.
- Cite as:
- Jonathan Leff Collection
(AFC/2001/001/96841), Veterans History Project,
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
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