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Materials include collection of diary entries, letters, and memories of crew members. He wrote about preparing for missions and raids, many missions as a pilot over France, Sicily, Italy, Romania and other places. Includes several first hand accounts, including some from his own crew, about what happened the night of his death. Dated 1943, 2003.

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Material contains a book entitled "Impressions and Experiences of an Air Corps GI in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II" From the diary of Barnard H. Seegmiller. All text is taken directly from Seegmiller's journal, pictures and other documents inserted with captions. He tells of many of the people he met and experiences he had. Dated 2003.

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Material contains a biographical sketch of career highlights as a Naval officer during World War II of William T. O'Bryant. Describes his assignment to the gunnery department on the U.S.S. Tuscaloosa. Describes meeting General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Also describes his participation in D-day and tells of the difficulty with the fog. Also included were certificates, pictures and articles from magazines and newspapers. Dated 1938-1944, approximately 2004.

Scope and Contents note Materials include many copies of various newspaper clippings relating to Dave W. Herbert while he was in the U.S. Army. Describes how Herbert was wounded in the head by single handedly taking out a machine gun nest in Vienam and was "lost" to his parents for several months, until they found him recovering in a hospital in Denver. Also contains three accounts of Herbert and his injury, one taken from news articles and various other sources, one by Sa Won Chang, who was responsible for saving...

Scope and Contents note Material contains papers relating to the military service of Cordell Vail during the Vietnam War. Contains correspondence, Vail's memoir entitled "Coming of Age at War," and many photographs, including two contained on a CD-ROM. Describes how he decided to make his military experience a second mission as he felt as though he had not been very succesful in Finland on his real mission. Tells how he gave all of the men in his platoon a Book of Mormon and they referred to him as their...

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Material contains Philip Winkler's response to the Saints at War Questionnaire. He describes conditions he found in Vietnam serving in the U.S. Army, namely hot and wet. He also describes how he gained strength as time went by, particularly about carrying his pack. One experience he describes is when he felt he was pushed in order to be saved from enemy fire. Dated 2002.

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Material contains an account of an aerial rescue in Vietnam called "Courage in the Sky with Pardo's Push", of which Bob Houghton participated. Includes a photocopied photograph of the two planes, a photocopied photograph of Bob Pardo and Stephen Wayne, and a letter written by William Seegmiller, the author of the account, to Kimberly Lovejoy about the account. Dated 1998.

Scope and Contents note Material includes personal papers regarding Farrell Smith's time as a chaplain in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War. Includes copies of an interview transcription, briefly telling of his time as a chaplain, as well as a newspaper article and film about when his chapel was hit and burned to the ground and he was wounded. Many photocopied photographs are also included, as well as a CD-ROM with footage oringinally shot on 8mm film of the chapel burning and the aftermath. Also included...

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Material contains Reed K. Richens' response to the Saints at War questionnaire. Relates the experience of the first enemy in Vietnam that he had to kill and the feelings associated with it. Recalls several times the Lord protected them in near-death situations. Dated 2002.

Scope and Contents note Materials contain papers relating to the military service of Paul Ahlstrom in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. Included in the file are a floppy disk, Ahlstrom's obituary, photocopied photographs, various accounts of experiences Ahlstrom had, letters written to David O. McKay requesting endorsement to an appointment to chaplain, excerpts from Ahlstrom's World War II journal, and two copies of an oral history. Describes being stationed in Russia. He talks of his impressions of the...