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Box 13

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Emil M. Petterborg letter, 2000

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 File 321
Scope and Contents note

File contains materials relating to the service of Emil M. Petterborg in the U.S. Navy during World War II with Fleet Air Wing 4. Materials contain a short letter detailing some of Petterborg's aerial attacks on Japanese targets while stationed in the Aleutian Islands. Also describes his crew's crash landing in Russia and his internment there until the Russians smuggled him out of the country. Dated 2000.

Dates: 2000
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2350, Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II (Pacific) / Saints at War Project records for the United States Navy

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