Navy Boot Camp Bainbridge The Compass Yearbooks
RTC Graduation Yearbooks from The US Naval Training Center in Bainbridge, MD from the USNTC Collection of the Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives.
The U. S. Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, Maryland, first came into being when the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, approved the site and the purchase of the land and buildings from the Jacob Tome Institute in early 1942.
This property, consisting of about 330 acres with buildings of the Tome School for boys located thereon, was enlarged by the purchase of adjacent parcels of land, and the construction of over 500 additional buildings, which brought the total area of Bainbridge to 1,132 acres.
Bainbridge is located on high rolling land beginning at the top of an escarpment overlooking the small river town of Port Deposit, Maryland, on the northeast bank of the Susquehanna River. The reservation is 35 miles northeast of Baltimore, between U. S. Routes I and 40, and approximately 75 miles from Washington and Philadelphia.
The activity, being located near the center of the Atlantic Seaboard, is under the military command and coordination control of the Commandant, FIFTH Naval District, whose headquarters are in Norfolk, Virginia.
Read more about the USNTC at Bainbridge following the listing of Boot Camp Graduation books.
1951 Bainbridge Company 373 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: R.F. Caroll, BMGC
- Men Graduating: 61
- Date Graduated: Not Reported
1951 Bainbridge Company 374 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: J. B. Greeley, MMLC
- Men Graduating: 59
- Date Graduated: Not Reported
1951 Bainbridge Company 403 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: F. Gullotti, MMLC
- Men Graduating: 60
- Date Graduated: Not Reported
1951 Bainbridge Company 404 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: R. M. FORD, MMLC
- Men Graduating: 62
- Date Graduated: Not Stated
1951 Bainbridge Company 419 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: L. B. Ritenour, MMLC
- Men Graduated: 58
- Graduation Date: Not Stated
- Supplemental Content: Boot Camp Life Photos
1951 Bainbridge Company 420 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: W. H. Haywood, BMGC
- Men Graduated: 63
- Graduation Date: Not Stated
- Supplemental Content: Boot Camp Life Photos
1952 Bainbridge Company 11 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: W. H. Clark, BMGC
- Men Graduated: 60
- Graduation Date: 26 September 1952
- Supplemental Content: Graduation Review Program (Transcribed)
1952 Bainbridge Company 12 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: E. W. White, BTC
- Men Graduated: 62
- Graduation Date: 26 September 1952
- Supplemental Content: Graduation Review Program (Transcribed)
1952 Bainbridge Company 13 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: A. BUEREAU, QMSC
- Men Graduating: 51
- Date Graduated: Not Reported
1952 Bainbridge Company 14 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: J. TRESSLER, ENC
- Men Graduating: 47
- Date Graduated: Not Reported
1952 Bainbridge Company 039 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: B. M. Smith, BMGC
- Men Graduated: 61
- Graduation Date: 6 October 1952
1952 Bainbridge Company 040 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: B. J. Johnson, BTGC
- Men Graduated: 48
- Graduation Date: 6 October 1952
1952 Bainbridge Company 041 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: R. E. Clark BMGC
- Men Graduated: 56
- Graduation Date: April 1952
- Supplemental Content: Assorted Photographs with Captions On Life During Training.
1952 Bainbridge Company 043 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: M. C. Vickers, BTGC
- Men Graduated: 59
- Graduation Date: April 1952
- Supplemental Content: Assorted Photographs with Captions On Life During Training.
1952 Bainbridge Company 439 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: W. H. Haywood, BMC
- Men Graduated: 65
- Graduation Date: 29 August 1952
- Supplemental Content: N/A
1952 Bainbridge Company 440 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: S. Bacsik. BMGC
- Men Graduated: 65
- Graduation Date: 30 August 1952
- Supplemental Content: N/A
1953 Bainbridge Company 044 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: H. A. MURPHY, QM1
- Men Graduating: 55
- Date Graduated: 23 March 1953
1953 Bainbridge Company 047 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: T. GACKI, GM1
- Men Graduating: 72
- Date Graduated: 25 March 1953
1953 Bainbridge WAVES Company 125 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: A. M. Deleo, YNC
- Women Graduated: 46
- Graduation Date: 3 August 1953
- Supplemental Content: WAVES Command Leadership
1953 Bainbridge WAVES Company 126 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: P. Muenchow, TE1
- Women Graduated: 52
- Graduation Date: 10 August 1953
- Supplemental Content: WAVES Command Leadership
1953 Bainbridge Company 208 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: E. T. WALKER, QMC
- Men Graduating: 74
- Date Graduated: 26 August 1953
1953 Bainbridge Company 212 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: H. E. SYBRANT, AOC
- Men Graduating: 69
- Date Graduated: 1 September 1953
1954 Bainbridge WAVES Company 23 Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: M. Carver, RM1
- Women Graduating: 38
- Date Graduated: 27 September 1954
- Supplemental Content: Listing and Photographs of WAVE Instructors at Bainbridge NTC.
1954 Bainbridge Company 54 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: F. S. HASKINS, GMI
- Men Graduating: 59
- Date Graduated: 29 May 1954
1954 Bainbridge Company 286 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: C. W. Cooper, GM1
- Men Graduated: 95
- Graduation Date: 30 November 1954
- Supplemental Content: Military Drill, Mock Ship
1955 Bainbridge Company 018 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: G. L. Elliot, BMC
- Men Graduated: 65
- Graduation Date: 24 March 1955
- Supplemental Content: Barracks Life, Bag Inspection, and Graduation Photos.
1955 Bainbridge WAVES Company 18 Navy Boot Camp Book
Company Commander: E H. Walther, DKCA
Women Graduating: 71
Date Graduated: 3 October 1955
Extras: Photos of Boot Camp Life for the WAVES Company 18(W); Newspaper Clipping of Honor Medal Winners Listing Honormen for Companies 332-361 and 18(W); Photo of Capitolie A. Sutton, SR, Co. 1955-18(W) Receiving Honor Certificate; and Photo of Presentation of American Spirit Honor Medal to SR C. A. Sutton, USN.
1955 Bainbridge Company 066 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: J. R. Steckman, BMI
- Men Graduated: 66
- Graduation Date: 8 April 1955
1955 Bainbridge Company 81 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: J. U. Hughes, BMC
- Men Graduated: 81
- Graduation Date: 9 February 1956
- NOTE: Company 55--081 commenced training on 23 November 1955 while Company 55-291 commenced training 11 July 1955. Sequentially outside the date order norms for numbering companies.
1955 Bainbridge Company 291 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: B. C. Greenquist, EN1
- Men Graduating: 60
- Date Graduated: 13 September 1955.
1956 Bainbridge Company 069 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: W. H. Parks, GMC
- Men Graduated: 87
- Graduation Date: 26 October 1956
- Supplemental Content: Photographs of Graduation Day and Company Honorman - G. R. McKay, SR.
1956 Bainbridge Company 100 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commanders: J. R. Eckmark, ME1 and J. W. Carson, BT1
- Men Graduated: 93
- Graduation Date: 21 November 1956
- Supplemental Content: Photographs: Recruit Graduation/Passing in Review; and Honorman, M. J. Bryant, SR.
1956 Bainbridge Company 193 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commanders: J. A. Barchus, QMC and F. J. Twiss, QMC
- Men Graduated: 72
- Graduation Date: 8 February 1957
- Supplemental Content: Open Letter from Captain W. Catlett Jr. - Proud Possessor of The Compass
1956 Bainbridge Company 221 Navy Boot Camp Book
- Company Commander: L. W. PERDUE, BTC
- Men Graduating: 64
- Date Graduated: 13 August 1956
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