Author, military historian, and U.S. Naval Reserve lieutenant commander Gerald V. (Vic) Hurley was born in Springfield, Missouri, in 1898 and attended the University of Washington, where he set records as a member of the track team. He served in France during WWI and as a gunnery officer in the Aleutians, an intelligence officer on Admiral Halsey's Joint Planning Board, and a specialist on enemy bases in the Philippines during WWII. He also worked as a coconut planter and an executive for a Goodyear rubber plantation in Zamboanga on Mindanao Island in the Philippines. Hurley was the author of "The Parthian" (which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize), "Southeast of Zamboanga," "Men in Sun Helmets," "Swish of the Kris," "Jungle Patrol," and "Arrows Against Steel." He lived for many years in Yakima, WA, and died in Lacey in 1978.
Edited typescript of "The Parthian" by Vic Hurley, as well as correspondence and book review clippings
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Special Collections, WWU Libraries Transferred by Marian Alexander, Head of Special Collections, WWU Libraries; accepted by Michelle Light. WWU received the manuscript in the 1960s with no deed of gift., 2005-05-23