Just over 83 years ago, on December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the U.S. port at Pearl Harbor, Hawai’i, drawing the previously neutral United States into joining the side of the Allies in World War II. Mistrusting the sympathies of its own citizens, the United States also responded by placing approximately 120,000 citizens …

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by Donald M. Bishop, ’67 Although he graduated ahead of me – he was in the Class of 1959 and I was in the Class of 1967 – Jon Reynolds and I both received Air Force commissions through Trinity’s Air Force ROTC unit.  He was shot down over North Vietnam when I was still at …

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by Amy FitzGerald, Processing Archivist In honor of Memorial Day 2024, the Watkinson Library is pleased to announce an expanded and fully processed version of the personal papers of a Trinity College alumnus and decorated U.S. Air Force Brigadier General, Jon A. Reynolds. The Jon A. Reynolds papers consist primarily of correspondence and office files; …

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