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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Albert E. Haines correspondence

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1882
Scope and Contents

Handwritten correspondence between Albert Haines and his wife, Thelda Gwilliam Haines. Most of these items were written while Albert was serving with the United States Army at various posts in the United States and Germany. The collection provides excellent documentation for the lives of private persons during the turbulent war era.

Dates: 1942-1975

Frank Whitaker interview with Albert E. Haines

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3029
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an interview conducted by Frank Whitaker on 29 Jan. 1985 for Hillam's War Project at Brigham Young University. Haines talks about his training in the United States Army, his deployment to combat in October 1944 as a platoon leader, and his participation in the battles of the Hurtgen Forest and the Bulge. He was severely wounded by machine gun fire on 13 Jan. 1945.

Dates: 1985 January 29