Prange, Gordon W. (Gordon William), 1910-1980

found: His Miracle at Midway, 1983:t.p. (Gordon W. Prange) prelim. p. i (b. July 16, 1910, d. May 1980)

found: SSDI, Oct. 12, 2006(Prange, Gordon; b. July 16, 1910, d. May 1980, Hyattsville, Md.)

found: Catalogue of Kanagawa Prefecture magazines, 1945-1949, 1991:title page (The Gordon W. Prange Collection, University of Maryland at College Park Libraries) preliminary pages (Dr. Gordon W. Prange, Professor of History at the University of Maryland at College Park, served with the Allied Occupation Forces in Japan, first as a member of the GHQ's Statistics and Reports Section, then as Chief Historian of the Historical Division of the Military Intelligence Section of the Far East Command. During his years in Japan, he arranged for the University to acquire the press and publications filed in the Civil Censorship Detachment of the Allied Powers, which had received copies of everything published from 1945 through 1949. The collection was named in his honor prior to his death in 1980)