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Materials include original photograph of Irving A. Eardley in Class "A" Dress uniform while serving in the U.S. Army during World War II from 1943-1946. Dated approximately 1944.

Scope and Contents note Materials include papers regarding Albert H. Doman's service in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. Includes photocopied photographs, photocopied handwritten letters, photocopied government documents, photocopied telegrams, original letter, original government document, photocopied V-mail, and a photocopied newspaper article. Also includes numerous photocopied military memorandums and certificates pertaining to the units which Doman was a part of, or for Doman personally. Includes a...

Scope and Contents note Materials contain Parley William Despain's World War II memoir. Describes his work building a telephone line from the continental United States up to Alaska, and then being sent to the European Theater to construct and repair telecommunications along the front lines of World War Two, for part of the time very close to the Battle of the Bulge, and shortly after the landings at Omaha Beach, Normandy. Explains his day-to-day life as well as some of the more prominent events of his military...

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Materials contain a short account in which Niles W. Drage shares one experience from his service the U.S. Army in World War II, describing how all but one of the soldiers in his unit were killed by friendly artillery fire falling short of its target. Attributes his survival to God, and ends his story. Also contains three copies of a photograph of Drage. Dated approximately 1943, approximately 2001.

Scope and Contents note Materials contain papers regarding Ward Spencer Mace's U.S. Army during World War II. Includes photocopied photographs, a photocopied newspaper article, photocopied bridge plans. Recounts his induction and training as an artilleryman, continues to relate how he changed units several times, eventually to a combat engineer unit that went with the 28th Infantry and cleared land mines ahead of the other soldiers. Describes his participation fighting in the Battle of the Bulge, and in the...

Scope and Contents note Materials include history and articles regarding Clarence Jefferson Jack's service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Tells how he was one of eight men who parachuted into occupied France to set up communications before the invasion at Normandy on D-Day, and was taken as a prisoner of war on D-Day (June 6, 1944) and held for ten months. Relates his experiences during his time in a prisoner of war camp in Germany during the final year of World War II. A newspaper article included also...

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File contains materials relating to the service of Alma R. Dunford in the U.S. Army’s 99th Ordnance Bomb Disposal Squadron during World War II. Materials include a memoir, photocopies of military documents, and a typewritten letter. Materials include accounts of Alma R. Dunford's service in Okinawa, Japan. Dunford relates his experience disposing of a truckload of munitions when several tons of ordnance exploded, killing over twenty-five soldiers and civilians. Dated 1945.

Scope and Contents Materials contain an account in which Claude Joseph Salisbury shares his experiences, first as an engineer soldier with the Utah Army National Guard in California preparing for invasion after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and later as a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps. He speaks of his Air Corps training, especially about the use of the "link trainer," and then of his deployment in the Pacific Theater flying supply and transport missions out of Australia through the end of the War. Dated...

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File contains materials relating to the service of Calvin M. Millyard in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. Include photocopied military documents and certificates, a letter from Millyard's wife outlining some of the highlights of his service in the military and as a federal civilian employee for the U.S. Air Force, as well as several certificates and documents from his enlisted time in the Army Air Corps. Dated 1941-1976, 1999.

Scope and Contents Materials include a memoir detailing the service of Rulon Parnell Draper in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. In his memoir, simply titled "Military Service: 1941-1945", Draper shares experiences from his enlistment through his service in the Pacific Theater of World War II to his discharging and marriage shortly thereafter. Describes his participation in many of the major battles of the Marines in the Pacific, including Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, Saipan, and Okinawa as a field cook and...