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 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 758 Collections and/or Records:

Saints at War video files on VHS, 1990-2010

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 19 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents

Subseries contains video files on VHS relating to the military of Latter-Day Saint servicemen. Dated approximately 1990-2010.

Dates: 1990-2010
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project documentary and interview media

Saints at War World War II artifacts and literature, 1931-1951

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 9
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains documents from Latter-day Saints that served in the Pacific part of World War II. Records are from the army, air corps, marine corps, navy, coastal guard, civilians, and merchants. Also contains artifacts yearbooks, photographs, currency, and stamps that have been included. Dated 1931-2009.

Dates: 1931-1951
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II (Pacific)

Saints at War World War II interviews on video cassette , 2003-2005

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 19 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

Subseries contains interviews of Latter-Day Saints regarding their military service for the Saints at War Project. Dated 2003-2005.

Dates: 2003-2005
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project documentary and interview media / Saints at War Project video cassettes of interviews and other footage

Norman Wade Sammis interview

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330380]
Identifier: MSS SC 3159
Scope and Contents Transcript of an interview conducted by Alan S. Davies on 25 August 1985 for the Ray Hillam project. Sammis was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, in 1937. He entered the United States Naval Academy in 1956 and graduated in 1960. He was commissioned an officer in the Marine Corps. He went to flight training and was designated a helicopter pilot in 1962. He was later sent to Vietnam with an infantry division and became an air liason officer (forward air controller) and directed close air...
Dates: 1985 August 25
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

The Sand Creek affair : a reappraisal

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230324417]
Identifier: MSS SC 2520
Scope and Contents

Typescript and galley proofs of a book "compiled, edited and analyzed by Lt. Colonel William R. Dunn." The item includes maps and an index. Dunn argues that Colonel Chivington and the Colorado Calvary were justified in killing the Indians at the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864.

Dates: approximately 1985
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

David A. Sawyer papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8474
Dates: 1990-1991
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Schwatlo family letters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197239125328]
Identifier: MSS 9588
Scope and Contents Contains family correspondence in two subsets: 111 letters and postcards written between Joachim Schwatlo-Gesterding and his wife Doris, or from Joachim to a "Peterchen" ("little Peter," possibly Doris's son from her previous marriage) or the odd family member or friend, mostly while he was a prisoner of war in Russia (in Moscow and nearby Lager'), between January 1944 and September 1955; and 58 letters and postcards written to Siegfried Carl Schwatlo (and/or occasionally Pearl before they...
Dates: 1939-1955
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Rena Abigail Kennedy Searles collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8314
Scope and Contents

Contains a photograph, letter of evaluation, and proclamations associated with Kennedy's career in the Air Force. Some of these materials are written or signed by Gail S. Halvorsen, in his role as Kennedy's commanding officer. Materials date from between 1973 and 1977.

Dates: 1973-1977
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Selective service system state of Utah : World War II, 1940-1947

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230317601]
Identifier: MSS SC 1878
Scope and Contents

Typescript history of the draft in Utah during World War II. Rich describes the problems and successes of the draft in Utah.

Dates: 1946
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Leland I. Selvey papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 9239
Scope and Contents

Contains materials pertaining to the life of Leland Ira Selvey, particularly in relation to his time serving in France during World War I. Included are souvenirs from France, such as guidebooks, a single feather, postcards, and printed ephemera. Also includes handwritten letters from family and friends, scrapbooks, notebooks, diaries, and 259 photographs and negatives. Dated 1905-1927, with the bulk dated 1918-1919.

Dates: approximately 1905-1927; Majority of material found within 1918-1919
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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