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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Randy Christiansen interview with Albert Aiken Smith

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3001
Scope and Contents Typescript of an interview taken from the included audiocassette. The interview was conducted by Randy Christiansen for Hillam's War Project on an unspecifiied date. Smith talks about joining the Utah National Guard in 1928, his training as an officer of artillery, and his experiences in the European theater during World War II. He first saw combat in Normandy, France. He later participated in the Battle of the Bulge and in the invasion of Germany. He also tells about his experiences in...
Dates: approximately 1985

Lynn Rufty-Mooney papers on D-Day

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230343961]
Identifier: MSS 2942
Scope and Contents Letters received, 1 diary, 2 photographs, and 1 leaflet. Lynn Marie Stranger was a young woman living in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1963 and gathered materials for a term paper on the D-Day invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944. She wrote to American veterans and this collection is what they sent to her. All the materials relate to the invasion. The diary is from June 8 to July 15 1944. The photographs came from a camera taken from a German prisoner of war. They are pictures of two German...
Dates: 1944-1963