Scope and Contents note Materials contain pages 67-131 of Willard DeLoy Smith's personal history regarding his service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Details his stateside military training, service in England as a chaplain's assistant, touring Dachau Concentration Camp, attending an LDS servicemen's conference in Paris with Hugh B. Brown, trips through the United Kingdom and Ireland, and comments about his voyage aboard the Queen Mary. Also includes writings by Smith's wife, Olga Smith, about her...

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Materials contain the Latter-day Saints in the Military information sheet of Julian W. Rasmussen, regarding his service as a Flight Officer and volunteer Chaplain in U.S. Army during World War II. Very brief mention of his service from 1942-1946 as a chaplain and using Latter-Day Saint scriptures to teach non-Latter-Day Saint servicemen. Dated approximately 2000.

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Materials contain a memoir of Howard Lee Holt regarding his service from 1943-1945 in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. Discusses his pilot training, bombing flight assignments and his overseas journal of bombing missions. Also contains a description of Holt's flight home from the war. Includes photocopied and original photographs of Holt, his wife, his crew, B-17's and bombing missions. Dated 1943-1945, 2000-2001.

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Materials contain Donald H. Smith's answers to the Saints at War questionnaire. Mentions his service as a copilot of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber. Discusses flying 35 missions and provides a few details of his most dangerous one. Includes two photographs of Smith during the war. Dated 1944-1945, April 4, 2001.

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Materials contain an article written by Ralph K. Mortensen in the Mormon Journal section of the July 1988 Ensign Magazine titled "The Chaplain Changed His Mind". Describes a special experience where he and other Latter-day Saint servicemen were able to impact an Army Chaplain. Also contains his hand written answers to the Latter-day Saints in the Military Information Sheet. Dated July 1988 and 2001.

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Materials contain a brief memoir of Richard S. Mills's experience as an engineer in the U.S. Army during World War II. Includes two transcribed letters from 1945 in which Mills discusses the experiences of his brother, Alma Leroy "Bud" Mills, who was a guerilla in the Philippines during the war. Also includes a transcribed newspaper clipping titled "Report Rock Springs Flier Missing After Corregidor," talking about how Bud was missing in action. Dated 1945, 2000.

Scope and Contents note Materials contain papers relating to Dean Floyd Mansfield regarding his service in the U.S. Army during World War II as a Radio Intercept Operator. Includes an memoir written by Mansfield discussing his history and participation of the war effort in the China/India/Burma Theater. Also includes biographical information of Mansfield written by his wife, Marion Mansfield. Also contains a photocopied military document. A copy of a letter written to Elder L. Tom Perry by Mansfield's wife. Dated...

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Contains materials relating to Oscar S. Lind's service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Includes a brief memoir in which Lind describes his experiences in the occupation of Japan (2001). Includes one photograph of Lind and his comrades in Japan (1945). Dated 1945, 2001.

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Materials contain Jacob Kapp's memoir discussing his duties as a military policeman in the U.S. Army during World War II and the carnage of war he witnessed in the Philippines. He also mentions participating in the occupation of Japan and his return to the U.S. Dated before 2008.

Scope and Contents note Materials contain a memoir of Rolland Herman Rose regarding his service in the U.S. Army during World War II from 1942-1945. Contains brief mention of service in England of building airstrips, German booby-traps, and spiritual experiences including a meeting with German Latter-day Saints after the war. Includes poem by Roy T. Burridge about Eleanor Roosevelt giving away the servicemen's turkey while in England in 1942. Contains his answers to the Saints at War questionnaire. A photocopied...