He was born in Annapolis , Maryland . After graduating from Harvard College in 1940 he was commissioned in the United States Navy in 1941 , serving throughout World War II at sea in the Atlantic and Pacific skirmishes aboard the Idaho , and later aboard the cruiser , Augusta , when it brought President Truman back from the Potsdam Conference in August 1945 . He also had shore duty at Guadalcanal and Annapolis , Maryland
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Dwight Dickinson