A graduate in liberal arts at Olivet College, Michigan, Lieutenant Commander Meredith worked in the Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, before becoming a special investigator in the Treasury Department in 1941. He was commissioned in the Naval Reserve shortly after Pearl Harbor, participated in operations of Task Forces 38 and 58, and transferred to the Regular Navy in 1946. Until recently he was commanding officer of the U.S.S. Chicot, which conducted “Operation Bovine.”
