Philip K. Lundeberg with Other Officer Survivors of U.S.S. "Frederick C. Davis"
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ID: SIA2007-0165
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Date: 1945
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Assession 08-003, Box 1, Philip K. Lundeberg Papers
Officer survivors of the U.S.S. "Frederick C. Davis" (DE-136): L to R. Robert E. Minerd, Assistant Communications Officer; Philip K. B. Lundeberg, Assistant First Lieutenant and Damage Control Officer; and Ruloff Kip, Division Radar Officer. Photograph was taken in Washington, D.C., in May of 1945 while preparing the final "Davis" action report and letters to families of some 115 lost shipmates, including eleven officers (Philip K. Lundeberg, 10/04/2006).
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A naval historian Lundeberg came to the Smithsonian in January 1959 as a Consultant in the Department of Armed Forces History in the Museum of History and Technology, now known as the National Museum of American History, and in June of that year was appointed Associate Curator in the Division of Naval History. From 1962 to 1984 Lundeberg was Curator of Naval History and in 1984, when the Divisions of Naval and Military History were merged to form the Division of Armed Forces History, he was named Curator of Armed Forces History. Following his retirement in 1986, he was named Curator Emeritus of Armed Forces History in 1987.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Assession 08-003, Box 1, Philip K. Lundeberg Papers
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1945
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SIA2007-0165
Number of Images: 1; Color: Sepia; Size: 4 w x 6h; Type of Image: Group; Medium: Photographic print