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Title: Lorenzo Sherwood Sabin, Jr. Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1909-1978
Collection number: 80120
Creator:
Sabin, Lorenzo Sherwood, Jr., 1899-
Extent:
5 manuscript boxes, 2 envelopes
2.2 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Memoirs and other writings, correspondence, orders, and memoranda, relating to American naval operations in the Atlantic during
World War II, the evacuation of North Vietnamese refugees to South Vietnam in 1954, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Language:
English.
Collection open for research.
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[Identification of item], Lorenzo Sherwood Sabin, Jr. Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1980.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
United States. Navy--Officers
Indochinese War, 1946-1954
Refugees
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations
United States--Armed Forces
United States--Defenses
Vietnam
| 1899, May 23 | Born, Dallas, Texas |
| 1921 | B.S., U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis |
| 1930 | Naval engineer, U.S. Navy Postgraduate School, ordnance engineering |
| 1941 | Staff gunnery officer, U.S.S. Maryland, Pearl Harbor |
| 1942 | Commander, LCI (L) Flotilla Two |
| 1943 | Commander, Landing Craft Groups, Tunisian, Sicilian, and Solarno campaigns |
| 1944 | Commander, assault convoy, Force 0, assault on Normandy |
| 1948 | Promoted, Rear Admiral |
| 1954 | Commander, sea lift, Operation Passage to Freedom |
| 1955 | Awarded, Distinguished Service Medal |
| Awarded, Legion D'Honneur | |
| 1956 | Promoted, Vice Admiral |
| 1957-1961 | Chief of Staff, Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic, NATO |
| 1961 | Retired |