Box 14
Container
Contains 32 Results:
Glenn Forsyth papers, 1993
File — Box: 14, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 3 File 348
Scope and Contents note
Materials contain a detailed memoir describing Glenn Forsyth's military years. Covers his training, voyage to Europe and additional training in England, deployment to the North African theater, and an engagement with enemy tanks that resulted in his capture and transfer to a German prisoner-of-war camp. Describes his experience in the prisoner-of-war camp, the liberation of the camp, and his return home. Includes photocopied photographs of Forsyth in full military dress, his prisoner-of-war...
Dates:
1993
Lars Anderson papers, 1986, 1945
File — Box: 14, Folder: 8-9
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 File 354
Scope and Contents note
File contains materials relating to the service of Lars Anderson in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a radarman. Materials include a short narrative describing one of Lars Anderson's combat experiences wherein his ship was sunk at the Battle of Leyte Gulf and he was afloat at sea for nearly two days. Discusses his relations with other seamen, the challenge he had in maintaining his high moral standards (having just completed service as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of...
Dates:
1986; 1945
Floyd A. Davis papers, 1943-1949, approximately 2000
File — Box: 14, Folder: 26
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 1 File 370
Scope and Contents
Materials include short typewritten memoir submitted by Floyd A. Davis's family outlining how he came to be in the service through Army ROTC, some details from his personal life. Also includes short stories from his time in service, five photocopied photographs, and two photocopied newspaper articles about Davis and his four brothers. Materials relate to Davis' service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Dated 1943-1949, approximately 2000.
Dates:
1943-1949; approximately 2000
George Easton Brown papers, 1942-2001
File — Box: 14, Folder: 14
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 2 File 359
Scope and Contents
File contains materials relating to the service of George Easton Brown in one of the first B-29 Super fortress Bomber crews in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. Materials contain the transcript of an oral interview conducted in 1985 wherein George Easton Brown relates his experience of being interred in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Mukden, Manchuria for nearly one hundred days. Includes a letter from Brown to his parents shortly after he arrived in the United States...
Dates:
1942-2001
Sylvan Forsberg papers, approximately 1943, 1989
File — Box: 14, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 File 347
Scope and Contents note
File contains materials relating to the service of Sylvan Forsberg in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a gunner's mate. Materials contain a short letter describing Sylvan Forsberg's military experience. Also contains a newspaper article citing the enlistment of Forsberg and his twin brother in the Navy, with an accompanying photograph. Includes a history of the vessel, the U.S.S. Mullany, that Forsberg served on. The history details the ship's combat record--seeing action at Rabaul, the...
Dates:
approximately 1943; Publication: 1989
William Hatch Davis papers, 1944-2001
File — Box: 14, Folder: 29
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 14 Sub-Series 2 File 373
Scope and Contents note
File contains materials relating to the service of William Hatch Davis in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army. Materials include several handwritten pages outline Davis's experiences as they relate specifically to his religious experiences during the war. Two short histories of the U.S.S. Signet detail its life and service during World War II are included. In "The Saga of the Signet," a longer history of his experiences aboard the Signet, Davis writes of the specific manuevers he and the rest of the...
Dates:
1944-2001
G. Robbin Brown newspaper article, 1945 January 20
File — Box: 14, Folder: 15
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 5 File 360
Scope and Contents note
Materials contain a newspaper article wherein a military officer describes G. Robbin Brown's strength of character and religious convictions while in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during World War II. Describes how Brown was captured while serving in the U.S. Coast Guard, and how he took charge and organized an Latter-Day Saint servicemen's group. Dated January 20, 1945.
Dates:
1945 January 20
David Orin Dance papers, 1997-2001
File — Box: 14, Folder: 23-24
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 2 File 368
Scope and Contents note
Materials include an edited typewritten biography of David Orin Dance, written from an oral interview outlining the experiences Dance had as he served in the U.S. Army during World War II. The biography includes details about his training, combat experiences, wounding, and recovery. Also included are two handwritten letters from Dance, a photocopied magazine page with a picture of the 81mm Mortar System that Dance's platoon operated, and a two page photocopied magazine article about Dance...
Dates:
1997-2001
Earl C. Davis papers, 1942-1945, aprroximately 2000
File — Box: 14, Folder: 25
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 2 File 369
Scope and Contents note
Materials include documents and letters including ten pages typed by Neda Davis, sister of Earl C. Davis, of excerpts from letters she and her mother received from Earl as he served in the U. S. Army during World War II. They speak of different training exercises Davis and his Company attended prior to their deployment in Europe, and of many of his experiences in combat and on leave in Europe. Also included is a short typed history of the 90th Infantry Division, several photocopied articles...
Dates:
1942-1945; aprroximately 2000
Dennis Robert Dalley excerpt from autobiography and photographs, before 2000
File — Box: 14, Folder: 21
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 2 File 366
Scope and Contents note
Materials include "My War," a selection from autobiography of Dennis Robert Dalley regarding his service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Details his injury, treatment, recovery, and eventual discharge after two years of service. Also includes many details of his personal and religious life as they related to his military service. Two photographs are included, one showing him in military "Class A" dress green uniform and another personal portrait in a suit in his later life. Dated...
Dates:
before 2000