WESTERN HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS
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sl 515 WWII Collection
In 1985 Vice Chancellor Blanche Touhill asked Dr. Jerry Cooper, Professor of Military History at the University of Missouri to preserve the memories of World War II veterans. Dr. Cooper developed a survey of important questions and contacted Harry Levins of the St. Louis Post Dispatch to publicize the project. Mr. Levins wrote a column about the project and the responses started to roll in. Along with the surveys came other material. Books, letters, and other WWII material was donated by the veterans and their families.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The collection contains the administrative records of the project, some items that were donated and the survey forms from 83 veterans.
SERIES DESCRIPTION
Series 1. Administrative Records
This series contains the correspondence, background material and other records that were created during the survey process.
Series 2. Material collected from Veterans and families.
Books, pamphlets, transcripts of WWII correspondence donated during the project.
Series 3. Survey forms
The survey forms. Approximately 90 questions that were returned by 83 veterans. Arranged alphabetically.
FOLDER LIST
PROJECT ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS
1. Administrative records of project
2. Correspondence relating to project, 1987-1989
3. Index cards from project
4. WWII bibliography
MATERIAL COLLECTED FROM VETERANS OR FAMILIES
5. Transcripts of letters from William H. Murphy (Mr. Murphy's wife wrote these
transcriptions. They are not the original letters, but what he said in her words.)
6. 761st Tank Battalion, 1979
7. What is AACS pamphlet (Army Airways Communication System)
8. Notes on your Outfit, 76th Infantry pamphlet, 1945
9. Military Records of Fred Walden, 1938-1989
10. Skinning Cats: The Wartime Letters of Tom Krueger edited by James B. Lane
and Stephen G. McShane., 1985
11. Anyway We Won: Out of the Ozarks and into the Army in World War Two, by John
Brawley, 1988
12. Chasing the Sun, by Richard M. Pfuhl, 1979
13. Passport to Manhood: Adventures of a WWII Front Line Ambulance Driver with
the British and the French Foreign Legion, by Joseph Desloge, 1995
SURVEY FORMS
14. Adragma, John Peter
15. Adrian, Joseph H.
16. Barge, Isadore
17. Biggs, Harold E.
18. Bohbrink, John R.
19. Boos, John H.
20. Bouck, Lyle J. Jr.
21. Boyer, Gregory B.
22. Brawley, John
23. Broadwater, Henry
24. Bronenkamp, Edward P.
25. Bross, Donald Morris
26. Brunette, Harold T.
27. Burns, Roy Gene
28. Butcher, David L.
29. Clark, Roy D.
30. Conn, Jimmie Lee
31. Dale, David E.
32. Dallen, Eugene C.
33. Daniels, Roy R.
34. Decker, Merlin F.
35. Dierker, William C.
36. Duniven, Gordon E.
37. Erlich, Walter
38. Framer, David
39. Gaona, Ralph Raymond
40. Gianino, Sam A.
41. Goffstein, Sol S.
42. Griesbaum, Edgar J.
43. Haller, Manuel E.
44. Halter, Harold B.
45. Hardebeck, Gregory J.
46. Harty, Edmind F.
47. Hibbard, George E.
48. Hicks, Edward J.
49. Holtwick, Jerry
50. Hoppmann, Leonard H.
51. Huckeby, Burton F.
52. Kelch, Eugene B.
53. Kelly, Frank P.
54. Kelly, James V.
55. Klein, Wallace G.
56. Kranzberg, Maurice B.
57. Kraus, Edward J.
58. Lafser, Frederick Arthur
59. Lagermann, Wilbert L.
60. Lauber, Henry F.
61. Lee, William Maddox
62. Lourie, Henry
63. Luckett, Elmer Kurtz
64. Lynn, James D.
65. Maiden, Kenneth L. W.
66. Margreiter, John Lawrence
67. Mcullough, Paul T.
68. Mergler, Oliver W.
69. Micka, Lawrence J.
70. Miller Jack E.
71. Miller, Louis B.
72. Moessmer, W.C. (Bud)
73. Norber, Victor M.
74. Oberdan, Ivan
75. Oberkram, William C.
76. Pepper, Selwyn
77. Primm, Neal
78. Ray, Ralph
79. Rector, Jack L.
80. Reitz, Earl S.
81. Roark, John W.
82. Rollins, Robert B.
83. Ross, Robert M.
84. Schaffer, Martin F.
85. Schuh, Oliver A.
86. Schultheiss, Ralph
87. Schweizer, Bert
88. Sherrard, Robert
89. Smith, Paul C.
90. Starr, Robert R.
91. Stein, Robert D.
92. Thomas, Charles Edwin
93. Thomas, W.H.
94. Tschani, Roland Peter
95. Vincent, Elmer (Frenchy)
96. Walker, Warren C.
97. Wilner, Allen
INDEX
1st Armored Division, f. 60
1st Infantry Division, f. 61, 62
1st Marine Division, f. 27, 94
2nd Infantry Division, f. 78
2nd Marine Division, f. 77
4th Armored Division, f. 2, 29, 95
4th Marines, f. 56
5th Air Force, f. 49, 76, 88
5th Armored Division, f. 73
6th Infantry Division, f. 70
7th Armored Division, f. 66, 74
8th Air Force, f. 38, 83, 90
8th Armored Division, f. 24
9th Air Force, f. 46, 55, 64, 87
9th Armored Division, f. 79
11th Marine Regiment, f. 27
12th Special Service Company, f. 16
22nd Marine Regiment, f. 12
29th Infantry Division, f. 91
37th Station Hospital, f. 37
40th Portable Surgical Hospital, f. 14
70th Infantry Division, f. 57
76th Infantry Division, f. 8, 59
80th Infantry Division, f. 42, 43
83rd Infantry Division, f. 89
90th Infantry Division, f. 41
99th Infantry Division, f. 20
104th Infantry Division, f. 35
106th Infantry Division, f. 47, 52
148th General Hospital, f. 18
236th Signal Battalion
302nd Depot Repair Squadron, f. 5
358th Infantry, f. 41
381st Bomb Group. f. 96
384th Bomb Group, f. 28
385th Bomb Group, f. 38
394th Infantry Regiment, f. 20
431st Ord. MVA Company, f. 15
668th Field Artillery, f. 23
761st Tank Battalion, f. 6
3198th Ordnance Depot, f. 45
5101st Signal Battalion, f. 31
A-Bomb Test, f. 39
African Americans in WWII, f. 2, 6
Army Airways Communication System (AACS), f. 7, 40
Battle of the Bulge, f. 47, 52
Coast Artillery, f. 25, 81
Cooper, Jerry, f. 2
Engineers, f. 68, 69
Levins, Harry, f. 2
Mishow, Fred, f. 2
New Guinea, f. 2, 44, 49
Pearl Harbor, f. 51
Prisoner of War, f. 47, 52
Seabees, f. 10
Stiehl, Jay, f. 2
Submarines, f. 84
U.S.S. California, f. 39
U.S.S. Hornet, f. 30
U.S.S. Lexington, f. 30
U.S.S. Mason, f. 2
U.S.S. Starr, f. 71
U.S.S. Yorktown, f. 58, 92
VII Corp, f. 22
Walden, Fred, f. 9
Williams, Felix, f. 2
WESTERN HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
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