Box 20
Container
Contains 28 Results:
Ned R. Veater papers, approximately 2004
File — Box: 20, Folder: 20
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 File 519
Scope and Contents note
Materials contain an excerpt of the autobiography (circa 2004) of Ned R. Veater discussing his service as an aviation machinist in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Begins by discussing his decision to join the Navy, training, his time on the Marshall Islands. Shares some experiences he had with the natives, recalls the death of President Roosevelt, meeting with his brother in an intersection, and describes the damage he saw in the Philippines. Talks about being bombed by Japanese fighters...
Dates:
approximately 2004
Ovid Glenn "Tug" Bennett interview and account, 2004 March 25
File — Box: 20, Folder: 26
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 File 525
Scope and Contents note
Materials contain papers relating to Ovid Glenn Bennett's service in the U.S. Navy during World War II on the U.S.S. Sheldon. Contains a 2004 interview that describes his military experiences repairing radio and electronic equipment for several ships, abandoning his torpedoed ship, and sunsequent rescue. Talks about other voyages in the Navy after the war, and how everywhere people were fond of American military. Also contains a handwritten account (circa 1969) of Bennett’s service in the...
Dates:
2004 March 25
Sterling L. Mason memoir, approximately 2001
File — Box: 20, Folder: 9
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 5 File 508
Scope and Contents note
Materials contain a memoir written by Sterling L. Mason regarding his service in the U.S. Coast Guard on the U.S.C.G.C. Roger B. Taney during World War II. Describes his involvement in the Battle of North Africa, the invasion of Okinawa, and in patrolling the South Pacific. Lists all the friends and relatives that were also in the war and the different branches they served, including his brother who was killed on the U.S.S. Arizona in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Finally talks about how...
Dates:
approximately 2001
Marvin Stewart Perry papers, approximately 2001
File — Box: 20, Folder: 17
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 5 File 516
Scope and Contents note
Materials contain a letter written by Cloetta Perry about her husband Marvin Stewart Perry's military service in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II from April-December 1942. Handwritten account by his wife talks about marrying him on the day he received his induction notice into the Coast Guard and talks about his duties along the coast near Seattle, Washington. Also talks about the wonderful example of his mother and his mission president. Talks about his various career experiences...
Dates:
approximately 2001
John Hortt Adams memoir, approximately 2000
File — Box: 20, Folder: 28
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 8 File 527
Scope and Contents note
Materials contain a World War II memoir of John Hortt Adams regarding his service as a Cadet Midshipman and engineer on the Flying Yankee and U.S.S. Herald of the Morning in the U.S. Merchant Marines from 1944- 1946. Describes how he grew up in Kanab, Utah, and was hired by Lockheed while a sophomore at Brigham Young University in 1941, to work on the P-38 planes in Los Angeles, California. Discusses his marriage to Betty Adams before being drafted as a Merchant Marine and his training in...
Dates:
approximately 2000
Dale B. Miles papers, approximately 1946, approximately 2001
File — Box: 20, Folder: 11
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 1 File 510
Scope and Contents note
Materials contain papers relating to the military service of Dale B. Miles in the U.S. Army Medical Corp during World War II from 1945-1946. Describes training, the end of the war, the journey across the United States and then the Atlantic to France and then to Germany. Talks about the other medics, meeting with church members in Firth, Germany, meeting Ezra Taft Benson, president of the European mission, and includes excerpts from Elder Benson’s journal. Describes the conditions in Germany,...
Dates:
approximately 1946; approximately 2001
Myron Glen Jones memoir, approximately 1992
File — Box: 20, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 2 File 501
Scope and Contents note
Materials contain the memoir of Myron Glen Jones regarding his service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Discusses training camp in Texas and his experiences fighting against the German army in France. Tells several stories about his mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints after the war, in Colorado and South Dakota. Describes a mission his brother, Denton, served for the Church in the Philippine Islands. Dated approximately 1992.
Dates:
approximately 1992
Carl E. Panhorst papers, 1994, 2001
File — Box: 20, Folder: 15
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 2 File 514
Scope and Contents note
Materials contain papers relating to Carl E. Panhorst's service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Includes a handwritten account summarizes his training and service in various areas of Europe. Writes about his injuries and awards and his contact with his family and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Typed letter (2001) tells of his service in the Coast Guard from 1936 to 1939 as a seaman on the "Itasca". Relates his experiences trying to help guide Amelia Earhart and...
Dates:
Publication: 1994; 2001