The Authors

Stanley J. Morrison, 1945 

Letters Home: My Life Aboard the USS Biscayne During World War II is by Stanley J. Morrison as told to Daniel Paul Morrison.

Stanley J. Morrison, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, served as a radioman aboard the USS Biscayne (AVP-11) during World War II from March 19, 1943 until October 5, 1945. He went to boot camp at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, north of Chicago, Illinois, and to radio school on Pier 92, in New York City.  With the Biscayne, he saw action in North Africa, Italy, France, and the Pacific.  After the war, he settled with his family in Huntingdon Valley, just outside Philadelphia, where he conducted a successful financial planning business.

Daniel Paul Morrison is the nephew of Stanley J. Morrison. He is a graduate of Marlboro College, The New School University, and Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the pastor of Huntingdon Valley Presbyterian Church in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. Before becoming a pastor, he worked for The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Doylestown Intelligencer newspapers.

Other books by Daniel Paul Morrison include Secrets & Sovereigns: The Uncollected Stories of E. Phillips Oppenheim (Stark House Press 2004) and The Amazing Judgment / Mr. Laxworthy’s Adventures (Stark House Press 2009).

Copies of Letters Home, either as a hardcover book or as a pdf download, can be purchased at:  http://lulu.com/spotlight/pastorathvpcdotorg.