sentences:  in the U.S. Navy aboard the Pacific Fleet destroyer USS Murray and participated in the Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns.After the war, he completed his master's degree in history at Harvard in 1946 and his doctorate in American history at Columbia University in 1954.From 1947 to 1965, he was a member of the history faculty at Kent State University where he was initiated into Delta Upsilon Fraternity as an advisor to the Kent State chapter.