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A brief chronology
on the life of
L. Ron Hubbard

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INTRODUCTION
HUMANITARIAN
WAR YEARS
AUTHOR
UNIVERSITY
ADVENTURER
FAR EAST
EARLY YEARS
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TIMELINE
EARLY YEARS
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UNIVERSITY YEARS
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WAR YEARS
1943A Splendid Ship’s CrewIn the opening months of the Second World War, then US Navy Lieutenant L. Ron Hubbard assumed command of a patrol corvette on the Atlantic Seaboard—a converted trawler designated the YP-422. Placing her in commission was a process he described as "guided by the God of Despair," but it also provided an enduring lesson in the intrinsic goodness within every human being.

There are only two tests of a life well lived, L. Ron Hubbard once remarked: Did one do as one intended? And were people glad one lived? In testament to the first stands the full body of his life’s work, including the more than ten thousand authored works and three thousand tape-recorded lectures of Dianetics and Scientology. In evidence of the second are the hundreds of millions whose lives have been demonstrably bettered because he lived. They are the generations of students now reading superlatively, owing to L. Ron Hubbard’s educational discoveries; they are the millions more freed from the lure of substance abuse through L. Ron Hubbard’s breakthroughs in drug rehabilitation; still more touched by his common sense moral code; and many millions more again who hold his work as the spiritual cornerstone of their lives.