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Naples (Italy)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Anthony Catalino papers

 Collection — Single Folder Collections - 2002 Box 1 (02.0001-02.0029), Folder: 02.0025 - Folder 1
Identifier: 02.0025
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a manuscript memoir of Anthony Catalino's WWII service in the U.S. Army Field Artillery and staff work at Army hospitals and supply depots in North Africa and Italy.

Dates: Created: 1941-1945; Other: Majority of material found in 1943; Other: Date acquired: 02/11/2002

Daniel Dean Becker collection

 Collection — Single Folder Collections - 2002 Box 4 (02.0093-02.0113), Folder: 02.0098 , Folder: 01
Identifier: 02.0098
Content Description

This collection relates to Daniel Dean Becker who served in the 110th Signal Company, 10th Mountain Division in Italy during World War II. This collection contains a veterans questionnaire and memoir entitled "Memoirs of a Signalman: 110 Signal Company, 10th Mountain Division, Italy World War II."

Dates: September 9, 1999; Event: Majority of material found within 1943-1946; Other: Date accessioned: 2020-12-02

Arthur Card papers

 Collection — Single Folder Collections - 2003 Box 6 (03.0176-03.203), Folder: 03.0189 - Folder 1
Identifier: 03.0189
Scope and Contents

The collection of Arthur W. Card contains an oral history transcript of an interview conducted by or for the Institute on World War II. He discusses bringing US troops to and from Europe, as well as returning German POWs to Germany at the end of the war. He also discusses his work in the engine room (where he felt proud to be "more important" to the soldiers on the ship because they relied on his work to keep them safe) and his time ashore in Naples, Italy.

Dates: Created: 1943-1947; Other: Majority of material found in 1945; Other: Date acquired: 11/17/2003

Wilson Malcom Clayton papers

 Collection — Single Folder Collections - 2003 Box 1 (03.0001-03.0029), Folder: 03.0015-Folder 1
Identifier: 03.0015
Content Description

This collection relates to Captain Wilson Malcom Clayton who served as a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps and was assigned as liaison pilot for the 909th Field Artillery Battalion of the 84th Infantry Division in Europe during World War II. He flew L-4 Piper Cubs. The collection contains a handwritten diary that documents his activities during the war.

Dates: December 12, 1944-May 30, 1946; Other: Date accessioned: 2020-05-06

George Mills Harper collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 18.0009
Scope and Contents

This collection relates to Lt. Commander and later Commander George Mills Harper who served in the U.S. Navy during World War II as commander of the U.S. Naval Detachment in Naples, Italy. He also continued to serve in the U.S. Naval Reserves until his retirement at the rank of Commander in 1974. He served as a distinguished professor of English at Florida State University. The collection contains U.S. Navy official documents, uniforms, badges, and pins.

Dates: Created: 1943-1990; Other: Date acquired: 03/28/2018

Joseph K. Pettengill collection

 Collection — 05.0030 - Box 1
Identifier: 05.0030
Abstract

The Joseph K. Pettengill Collection was donated to Florida State University by Robert Sherman Pettengill in 2005, having discovered his father’s letters after retiring in 1999.  The centerpiece of the Pettengill Collection is a series of letters from Joseph Pettengill, an army clerk with the G-3 Section of the 6th Army Group, Hq Special Troops in the ETO, to his mother and wife throughout his time serving in the United States Army in World War II.

Dates: Created: 1944-1945; Other: Date acquired: 02/11/2005

James E. McDaniel collection

 Collection — Single Folder Collections - 2006 Box 2 (06.0075-06.0150), Folder: 06.0145 - Folder 1
Identifier: 06.0145
Content Description

This collection relates to James E. McDaniel who served as a colonel in the United States Army Air Corps in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. He served in the 48th Bomb Group at Will Rogers Field and 15th Bomb Squadron Light 1st All American Unit. This collection contains flight notes, french paper money, a war department identification card, immunization papers, pay record, 32 black and white postcards from Italy, a photography book of Cambridge England, and a Paris transit park ticket.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1942-1944; Other: Date accessioned: 2006-07-17

Antonio Francis Morrow Jr. transcript

 Collection — Single Folder Collections - 2004 Box 8 (04.0264-04.0310), Folder: 04.0300 - Folder 1
Identifier: 04.0300
Scope and Contents

This collection relates to Private 1st Class Antonio Francis Morrow who served with the 82nd Airborne Division in North Africa and the European Theater of Operations during World War II. This collection contains an interview transcript of Morrow.

Dates: October 8, 2004; Event: Majority of material found within 1942-1945

Reserve Officers Association collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14.0016
Content Description

This collection relates to the Reserve Officers Association and the experience of its members during World War Two.

Dates: 1939-2007; Other: Date accessioned: 2021-04-16