Mark Donald Tompkins transcript
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the oral history interview transcript of Mark Donald Tompkins. Tompkins served in the U.S. Army during World War II as a medic assigned to the 471st Quartermaster Trucking Regiment under General Omar Bradley.
Dates
- Created: 1942-1944
- Other: Majority of material found in 1943
- Other: Date acquired: 05/14/2009
Creator
- Tompkins, Mark Donald (Family)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open to all researchers.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
Biographical or Historical Information
Mark Donald Tompkins served as a Medic in the US Army during the Battle of the Bulge and later became a truck driver. Topics covered in the interview include his family and his training at Camp Blanding, FL and Camp Robinson, AK. He was trained as a medic and was assigned to Camp McCoy, WI, and Camp Shanks. He met Joe Lewis at one point. He discusses his time in England, along with landing in Normandy five days after D-Day, and his service near the front lines during the Battle of the Bulge. He recounts dealing with British, Belgian, French, and Austrian civilians. He expressed regret at not having prevented looting but denied taking part in it. He also talked about coming back to the US on the USS Savannah, a battleship. He shipped out to Gloucester, England in 1942. Tompkins participated in the Battle of Saint Lo and the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes forest then continued on to the Rhineland and Nuremberg. During the occupation, Tompkins was posted in Vienna, Austria.
Extent
1.00 folders
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement Note
creator
Custodial History
Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.
Source of Acquisition
Mark Donald Tompkins
Method of Acquisition
Donation
- Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Camp Blanding (Fla.)
- Camp Joseph T. Robinson (Ark.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Camp Shanks (N.Y.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Nuremberg (Germany) Subject Source: Lcnaf
- Pillage Subject Source: Local sources
- Savannah (Light cruiser) Subject Source: Local sources
- United States. Army
- United States. Army Ground Forces Subject Source: Lcnaf
- United States. Army--History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- United States. Army--Military life Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- United States. Army. European Theater of Operations
- United States. Army. Medical Service Corps
- United States. Army. Medical Service Corps--History. Subject Source: Local sources
- Vienna (Austria) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Nuremberg Subject Source: Local sources
- Title
- Mark Donald Tompkins transcript
- Author
- Craig Whittington
- Date
- 01/17/2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the FSU Special Collections & Archives Repository
116 Honors Way
PO Box 3062047
Tallahassee FL 32306-2047 US
850-644-3271
lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu