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Materials contain the memoir of John A. Lindquist regarding his service as a navigator in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. Talks about his service in the Air Force, contact with his family back home, and contact with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints during service and training. Talks about celebrating Christmas in England, flying with other bombers, and concludes with a brief mention of his personal belief. Includes a photograph. Dated approximately 2001.

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Materials contain Clifton Morris Pyne's account of his military service as a flight navigator in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. Details his life before the war, training, missions, return home, and life after the war. Dated April 16, 2002.

Scope and Contents note Materials include written histories and account of Ray E. Johnson regarding his service in the U.S. Air Force during World War II from 1941. Describes how four brothers entered military service in 1941, followed by a fifth brother within a year. Talks about training for the Air Force and the difficult classes he had to take. Also talks about traveling to Europe and describes fighting the German forces in France. Talks about his 30-day furlough and finding friends from home along the way....

Scope and Contents note Materials contain a military history of John E. Olson regarding his service in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II from 1943-1946. Recalls the good Mormon friends that he made and talks about avoiding the Battle of the Bulge because of his furlough. Also talks about his assignment near Worms, Germany, celebrations at the end of the war, preparing to leave for the Pacific Theater, and placement and activities in Vienna. Also includes several photocopied photographs of John in...

Scope and Contents note Materials contain Richard Junius Pettit's memoir of his World War II experiences in the U.S. Army from 1942-1945. Bound memoir contains three main sections: Combat; Internment, Prison, and Escape; and German Occupied France, France, Stateside, arranged chronologically and geographically. Describes his training and missions. Tells of anxieties of initial bombing missions, which had a 10% fatality rate. Discusses hardships, dilemmas and orders to escape from an internment camp at...

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Materials contain a 2004 interview with Robert Ernest Parsons regarding his service as Chaplain in the Navy's V-12 Program during the Korean War. Describe his training and service aboard the S.S. Springfield during World War II and 2d ln F Div. in Korean War. Describes his life after the war. Dated May 20, 2004.

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Materials contain a transcription of an interview with D. Reed Jordan regarding his service in the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force in the Communique sections of the Public Relations Department. Also contains two copies of Special Communique No. 8 which announced Germany’s surrender, which was written by Jordan. Dated 1945 and August 16, 2000.

Scope and Contents Materials contain the memoir of Albert Lamoin Olsen regarding his service as a surgeon and camp physician in the U.S. Army for the Civilian Conservation Corps during World War II, beginning in 1933. Talks about receiving his commission as First Lieutenant and being assigned to the Army as a surgeon in the Civilian Conservation Corps, moving to Orderville, Utah, and treating patients from his home. Recalls removing a birthmark from the face of a very grateful young man, making friends with...

Scope and Contents Materials contain a transcribed interview of Clara Pyne regarding her work, who worked for the Orem Utah Ration Board (the Office of Price Administration Local War and Price Ration Office) as the Chief Clerk during World War II from 1943 to 1944. She talks about growing up in Orem, Utah, and having a difficult senior year because Pearl Harbor had been bombed and they had few school supplies. Recalls working to earn spending money, working on a farm, and working with German POWs from the...

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Materials contain an account of Max T. Madson's military service in the U.S. Army during World War II taken from notes from a 2002 interview. Talks about the effects of the World War I on his family and the world as well as the beginnings of World War II. Talks about his induction into the Army, service in New York City, and then being sent to Europe to serve with General Patton’s Army in Germany. Discusses his return home and after the war. Dated 2002.