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Stewart J. Pomeroy WWII Coast Guard Papers

2 folders ( linear feet)

(1922 – 1965)

Edward H. Nabb Center for Delmarva History and Culture, Salisbury, University, Salisbury, Maryland

Identifier 2013.023
Creator(s) Pomeroy, Stewart J.
Acquisition

Donated by Dorothy Pinto, March 2013.
Language(s) English
Use Records are open for research. Copyright, including literary rights, belongs to the author(s) or their legal heirs. Permission to publish or reproduce must be obtained from the Nabb Research Center which extends beyond "fair use."
Preferred Citation "Item, collection title and identifier, box # and folder # (if applicable), Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland."
Attribution Finding aid written by David Ranzan, August 2013.
Related Materials None
Separated Materials See Nabb Center Staff
Abstract

This collection contains materials pertaining to Stewart Pomeroy of New Jersey, who served in WWII. Items include discharge papers, photographs, correspondence written to his family from 1942 to 1944, and a journal of the USS Sea Cloud from June 11 to June 28, 1942 and March 21 to 29, 1943, which contains an account of the rescue of eight survivors of the Portuguese schooner Maria da Gloria, which was torpedoed by the U-94. Also included are newspapers from the New Jersey-New York area describing the disaster of the Normandie. In addition, there are several Icelandic ephemera, a 1944 issue of the Icelandic newspaper Visir, currency and scenic photographs.

Biographical History

Stewart Julius Pomeroy (1922-2004) served in the U.S. Coast Guard  in WWII, rising to the rank of coxswain. He was stationed at the New York and Boston Receiving Stations and served aboard the USS Sea Cloud (1942 & 1944) and Algonquin (1943-1944). He was discharged in October 1945. When he was five years old, Stewart was struck by an automobile. In 1963, he worked for the Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Wayne, NJ.  He was the son of John Daniel Pomeroy and Clara Marie Muller. In 1961, he thought about being a Benedictine monk at Saint Paul's Abbey in Newton, NJ. In 1965, he was an employee of Sika Chemical Corporation.

Arrangement Statement See Nabb Center Staff

Subject Terms

  • Topical Terms
    • Currency
    • World War, 1939-1945
  • Corporate Names
    • Sika Chemical Corporation
    • United States Coast Guard
    • USS Sea Cloud
  • Personal Names
    • Muller, Clara Marie
  • Location Terms
    • Iceland
    • New Jersey

Inventory List

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Box 1

1.      NY Receiving Station USCG Weekly Log, 1941.

2.      USS Sea Cloud Journal, 1942-1943.

3.      Letters (photocopies), 1942.

4.      Letters (photocopies), 1943.

5.      Letters (photocopies), 1944.

6.      Letters, 1944-1945.

7.      Coast Guard Material, 1943-1946.

8.      Ship Information, undated.

9.      Normandie, 1940s.

10.  Military Papers, 1941-1945.

11.  Iwo Jima: Springboard to Final Victory, 1945.

12.  High School Publications, 1940-1941.

13.  Non-war Related Documents, 1922-1965.

14.  New York World's Fair, 1939.

15.  Icelandic Photographs and Currency, 1940s.

16.  Photographs, circa 1942-1945.

17.  Postcards and Pictures (photocopies), 1943-1945.

 

 

Box 2.

1.      Articles on Normandie

2.      Paterson Evening News (October 20, 1945) History of World War II, compiled by the Associated Press

3.      Icelandic newspaper - Visir, September 20, 1944

 

 

Books

1.      The United States Navy from the Revolution to Date by Francis J. Reynolds (1917) - poor condition

2.      USCG Patrol (August 1943-June 1945)

U. S. Coast Guard Magazine (March 1941 - February 194

Artifacts

See Nabb Center Staff

Attachments

None