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Box 3

 Container

Contains 29 Results:

John Reed Jackson papers, approximately 1990-2000, 1943

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 29
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 11 File 63
Scope and Contents note

Materials contain a memoir of John Reed Jackson regarding his service in the U.S. Army during World War II from 1943-1944. Contains brief description of military service in Ireland. Includes photocopied photograph of Jackson. Dated 1943, approximately 1990- 2000.

Dates: approximately 1990-2000; 1943

Grant Badger Higgs poetry and correspondence, 1943-1944

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 11
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 1 File 47
Scope and Contents note

Materials contain papers relating to Grant Badger Higgs's service as a pilot in the U.S. Army during World War II. Includes photocopies of poetry and correspondence to Higg's mother regarding Higgs's decorations and death during the war. Dated 1943-1944.

Dates: 1943-1944

Robert D. Hemingway papers, 1942-1945, approximately 2000

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7-8
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 1 File 44
Scope and Contents note Materials contain papers relating to the military service of Robert D. Hemingway as apilot in the U.S. Army Air Corp during World War II. Contains information concerning his flight training and his overseas base at Mendelsham, England. Provides a detailed account of 35 combat missions. Also includes information about London, where he spent his time off. Hemingway also discusses his non-combat assignment at the 5th Strategic Air Depot in Merville, France, as an assistant operations manger....
Dates: 1942-1945; approximately 2000

Winston W. Hickman papers, approximately 2000, 1942-1945

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 10
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 1 File 46
Scope and Contents note

Materials contain papers about Winston W. Hickman's military service and experiences in the U.S. Army Air Corp during World War II. Discusses his voyage by ship to Europe and the purpose, destinations, and dangers of his combat bombing missions. Hickman flew missions to Austria and Northern Italy. Includes photocopied photographs of himself, his wife and crew. Also contains photocopied newspaper clippings concerning LDS servicemen. Dated 1942-1945, approximately 2000.

Dates: approximately 2000; 1942-1945

Clyde LeGrand Fairbourn papers, approximately 2001, 1945

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 27
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 6 File 61
Scope and Contents

Materials contain a memoir of Clyde LeGrand Fairbourn's experiences as a mortar-man in the U.S. Army from 1944-1946 on Luzon and Mindanao in the Philippines. Includes photocopied certificates, a photograph of Fairbourn with his mortar, and brief biography of Fairbourn, written by his wife, Elizabeth Wight Fairbourne. Dated 1945 and approximately 2001.

Dates: approximately 2001; 1945

Hyrum Duane Jones papers, 2001 July 17, 1940-1949

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 19
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 6 File 54
Scope and Contents Materials contain papers regarding the service of Hyrum Duane Jones in the U.S. Army during World War II. Includes brief history of New Guinea military operations, including the invasion of Wake Island. Also includes 41st "Jungleers" Division biography written by Nielson. Contains photocopied photographs and published materials relating to the U.S. Army and New Guinea; a photocopied letter; newspaper clippings; and transcribed citation for Jones's Distinguished Service Cross. Dated 1940-1949...
Dates: 2001 July 17; 1940-1949

Russell Jensen account and photographs, before 2006, 1944-1946

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 17-18
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 5 File 53
Scope and Contents

Materials contain accounts of Russell Jensen's war experience serving in the U.S. Army during World War II as an ammunition carrier for a machine gun squad. He discusses combat conditions and his wounds during the Battle of Catmon Hill on Leyte Island in the Philippines and the Battle of Conical Hill on Okinawa. Includes photographs of military documents, Okinawa, and a ship. Dated 1944-1946, before 2006.

Dates: before 2006; 1944-1946

Carl Fredrick Hellstrom account and photograph, before 2000, 1942-1945

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 6
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 2 File 43
Scope and Contents

File contains materials related to the service of Carl Frederick Hellstrom in the 206th Anti-Aircraft Battalion of the U.S. Army during World War II as an electrician in charge of fire control. Materials contain brief account of Carl Fredrick Hellstrom's military service from 1942-1945. Hellstrom discusses his training at Ft. Bliss, Texas. Also includes his experiences on Iwo Jima while the battle was still being fought. Photograph of Hellstrom included. Dated 1942-1945 and before 2001.

Dates: before 2000; 1942-1945

Ralph J. Henderson photographs and memoirs, 2001, 1943

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 3 File 45
Scope and Contents note

Materials includes two photocopied photographs from Ralph J. Henderson of the first chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints built in the Mediterranean off the island of Sardinia in 1943 and brief description of how it was built. Also included is an accoun of the combat experience of Henderson's brother in Monte Cassino, Italy. Dated 1943 and 2001.

Dates: 2001; 1943

Myron Hatch history and photographs, 2000, approximately 1940-1945

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 5 File 41
Scope and Contents note

Materials contain his history "I am not a Hero--I am an American" related to Myron Hatch's experiences in the U.S. Army in World War II from 1943-1946. Talks about his unit's arrival in France and participation in the battles/operations of the Northern Appenines, the Rhineland, and Central Europe. Includes photocopied photographs of Hatch's unit and Dachau, as well as the destruction of Hitler's home after bombings. Dated approximately 1940-1945, 2000.

Dates: 2000; approximately 1940-1945