Mare Island Naval Shipyard Essays

  • Jesse Bethel

    1270 Words  | 3 Pages

    entered World War II. Bethel read on a bulletin board that Mare Island needed chemists. This made Bethel switch his major from pre-law to chemistry. In 1944, one month after his college graduation, Bethel moved to Vallejo with his wife Claudia Nichols, who also was his college sweetheart. He moved to Vallejo in search of the chemist job at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard he learned about while attending college. A chemist vacancy at Mare Island available because another chemist left was given to Bethel

  • Wilson's Neutrality

    1577 Words  | 4 Pages

    Historians argue about whether or not the United States should have been involved in world war one and in particular, whether we should have gone to war against Germany. The entrance of the United States into the war not only helped liberated allied countries like France, and prevent a German takeover over Europe, it ultimately won the war for the allies. The reasons that warranted an entrance by the United States into the war were not only right but they were also very justified. “On April