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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Jack Appel transcript

 Collection — Single Folder Collections - 2003 Box 4 (03.0078-03.0124), Folder: 03.0103 - Folder 1
Identifier: 03.0103
Scope and Contents Private First Class Jack Appel's oral history transcript details his life before and during World War II where he served with the 17th Signal Operations Battalion in the United States Army in the European Theater of Operations. His oral history elaborates on his early life, contracting Spinal Meningitis, completing basic training, trying to apply to Officer Candidate School, becoming a driver/messenger, arriving in Europe, landing at Normandy, traveling through France Belgium, and Germany, witnessing Battle of the Bulge, visiting the concentration camp Buchenwald, interacting with civilians, gambling on leave, the discharge point system, returning home, and his experiences with...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1943-1945; Other: Date acquired: 06/10/2003

Zeddie P. Barron, Jr. papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 07.0077
Scope and Contents

This collection pertains to Technician Fifth Grade Zeddie P. Barron, Jr., who was stationed in Virginia, Kentucky, Ireland, Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, and Germany between 1943 and 1945. As a clerk in the 552nd Railhead Company, Barron was attached to the First Engineer Special Brigade. The collection contains personal letters sent from Barron to his wife throughout his period of service, military documents including a ration book, Barron's military record and entrance physical, as well as newspaper clippings, envelopes, and an unpublished poem by Eugene S. Masters reacting to the use of the atomic bomb.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1943-1945; 1939-1945; Other: Date acquired: 2007-06-12; Other: Date accessioned: 2020-04-22

Robert Berry Interview Transcript

 Collection — Single Folder Collections - 2002 Box 5 (02.0114-02.0148), Folder: 02.0124 - Folder 1
Identifier: 02.0124
Content Description

This collection contains Colonel Robert Berry's oral history transcript wherein he describes his involvement in the Normandy invasion and its aftermath as a graves registration officer in the 6th Engineers Special Brigade. The interview also includes accounts of American soldiers being executed for war crimes. This collection contains a transcript Robert Berry's interview from the Reichelt Program for Oral History.

Dates: Event: Date of interview-July 11, 2000; Majority of material found within 1942-1945; Other: Date accessioned: 2019-11-06

Garretson Family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 18.0031
Content Description

These papers include two boxes of World War II correspondence, largely between Albert H. Garretson and Agnes P. Garretson while Albert was involved with the Foreign Economic Division and the G-2 division of SHAEF. Garretson shares his views on the bureacratic side of the war and his insights from working on the economic board and SHAEF. He also served on an "Anglo-American Brain Trust" meant to foster good relations between Americans and the British. Agnes also shares her views on the war and American politics.

Dates: 1918-1959; Other: Date accessioned: 2019-06-19

Richard Lewis transcript

 Collection — Single Folder Collections - 2006 Box 2 (06.0075-06.0150), Folder: 06.0119 - Folder 1
Identifier: 06.0119
Content Description

This collection relates to Richard Lewis who served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1945 in the European Theatre. This collection contains an oral history transcript where Lewis details his missions on a B-24 Bomber and B-17 Bomber during World War II and briefly describes his service in the Korean War.

Dates: Event: 1942-1945; Other: Date accessioned: 2005-01-18

Geoffrey Styles papers

 Collection — Single Folder Collections - 2017 Box 1 (17.0003-17.0027), Folder: 17.0020-Folder 1
Identifier: 17.0020
Scope and Contents

This collection relates to Geoffrey Styles who was eleven years old and lived in Romford, 14 miles Northeast of London when World War II began for Great Britain. The papers include an oral interview transcript and audiotape recording. The collection also includes a letter written from Normandy during World War II by Jesse Davis Binns.

Dates: 1914-1945; Other: Majority of material found within 1939-1945; Other: Date acquired: 09/25/2017