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Materials include history detailing Marshall Knight Brinton's military experiences and personal history. Also includes photographs showing Brinton in full military dress and together with the medical department personnel at headquarters. Also included is a photograph of the Italian building where the 15th Air Force was headquartered. Dated 1991, March 30, 2001.

Scope and Contents note Materials contain a response to the Saints at War questionnaire providing details regarding Reed E. Nilsen's health, correspondence with his family, and the role religion played in his military service in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Also includes a hand-written account of his training and assignment to command a landing craft scheduled to be in the first assault wave at Omaha Beach, Normandy, France. Provides details of the horrific carnage present on the beaches during D-Day. Also...

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Materials contain papers regarding the service of Glen C. Olsen in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Includes a handwritten letter commenting on the relationship Glen C. Olsen maintained with his family and church throughout the war. Also contains a memoir entitled "My Adventure/Parting The Tules" which outlines Olsen's life, with twenty-five pages devoted to his military service. One photograph in the appendix shows Olsen in full military dress. Dated approximately 2000.

Scope and Contents note Materials contain a two-part newspaper series providing information regarding R. Donald Livingstone's military service, including his training and work building bridges in England, France, Belgium, and Germany. Also discusses the difficulties encountered while landing at Normandy and the hardships endured living under constant mortar fire. Also contains a speech that relates Livingstone's promotion to field engineer. Includes a detailed narrative giving additional biographical information,...

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Materials contain a short history in which William Hill Haslam answers the Latter-day Saints in the military questionnaire concerning his military experiences from World War II. Also includes a letter from Haslam's commanding officer thanking him for his wartime service. Photograph shows Haslam in full military dress with his wife and three of his children. Dated 1945-1946 and approximately 2001.

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Materials contain a listing of all enlisted men, divided by battery, within the 739th Field Artillery Battalion. Also includes a photocopied photograph of the headquarters battery, of which Bill T. Brooke was a member, and a short biography of each soldier therein. Dated 1943.

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Materials contain papers of Sherman S. Brinton regarding his service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Contains two original newsletters issued by the Latter-Day Saint servicemen's group in Paris during the war. Each newsletter contains church news, instruction from church leaders, locations of church offices and servicemen's groups, and a spiritual message. Dated approximately 1945.

Scope and Contents note Materials contain a detailed memoir outlining Leland G. Larsen's military experiences in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1943-1945 during World War II. Contains a detailed description of pre-flight operations undertaken by his B-24 crew. Also contains a specific account of his first bombing mission. Includes a particular account of the "Red-Tailed" P-51 African American fighter pilots. Also includes three accounts of close landings and near mid-air collisions in which Larsen attributes his...

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File contains materials relating to the service of Ralph T. Kimball for the U.S. Army Infantry during World War II. Materials include a chapter from Kimball’s personal history detailing his military and combat experiences with scanned photographs of Kimball and his unit. There is also correspondence between Kimball and Prof. Robert Freeman regarding the Saints at War project. Dated 1943-1953 and approximately 1995-2000.

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File includes materials relating to the service of Walter Lyman Haws in the U.S. Army during World War II. Materials contain the Latter-day Saints in the Military Survey completely filled out. Haws also included a short summary of his military experiences in the Philippines. Also contains a photocopied photo of Haws and two of his brothers in uniform; all three served at the same time in World War II. Dated 1946 and 2000.