Box 39
Container
Contains 2 Results:
R. Lynn Nielson papers, 1944-2012
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 8 File 877
Scope and Contents
Materials contain a history of R. Lynn Nielson regarding his service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Discusses training and radio school, serving in Hawaii, and fighting the Japanese in Kwajalein, Saipan, Tinian, the Philippines, and Okinawa. Includes maps, poems, and journal entries written by Nielson in 1987 and 1991, Army certificates, copied photographs, and copied newspaper articles. There is also a Saints at War Participant Information Sheet with background and consent...
Dates:
1944-2012
Melvin R. Murray papers, 1998-2002, 1945
File — Box: 39, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 File 869
Scope and Contents note
Materials contain papers of Melvin R. Murray regarding his service in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Contains typed and handwritten copies of a memoir that describe his ship's operations in New Guinea, the Philippines, Bougainville, and Okinawa. Contains a copy of a report describing the kamikaze attack on Murray's ship in 1945. Contains a letter written to Murray by a friend in 1998. Includes copied photographs of Murray and his family. Dated 1945, 1998-2002.
Dates:
1998-2002; 1945