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Vernon Gurnsey Liston autobiography, scrapbook, and other materials

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6096
Scope and Contents

Materials include an autobiography, scrapbook, photocopy of the scrapbook, and a photograph of Liston in military uniform. Dated approximately 1943-2001.

Dates: approximately 1943-2001
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vernon Gurnsey Liston autobiography, scrapbook, and other materials

Vernon Gurnsey Liston autobiography, approximately 1945

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 6096
Scope and Contents

Materials include a forty-page holograph autobiography in which Vernon Gurnsey Liston documents his experiences in Western Europe during the Second World War, including a detailed account of the Normandy landing, fighting in the hedgerows, subsequent combat operations, wounds received, and hospitalization. Dated approximately 1945.

Dates: approximately 1945
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 6096, Vernon Gurnsey Liston autobiography, scrapbook, and other materials

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