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Contact Info
Home Town Brookline, MA
Last Address Boston MA
Date of Passing Jun 06, 1968
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
Other Memories Six weeks before his eighteenth birthday, Kennedy enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve as an apprentice seaman, released from active duty until March 1944 when he left Milton Academy early to report to the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His V-12 training was at Harvard (March?November 1944); Bates College in Lewiston, Maine (November 1944 ? June 1945); and Harvard (June 1945 ? January 1946). On December 15, 1945, the U.S. Navy commissioned the destroyer USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., and shortly thereafter granted Kennedy's request to be released from naval-officer training to serve starting on February 1, 1946, as an apprentice seaman on the ship's shakedown cruise in the Caribbean. On May 30, 1946, he received his honorable discharge from the Navy. In September 1946, Kennedy entered Harvard as a junior, having received credit for his two and a half years in the V-12 program.[
