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Donna Loring, Interviewed By Kellie Pelletier, Part 1, Donna Loring
Donna Loring, Interviewed By Kellie Pelletier, Part 1, Donna Loring
MF087 Vietnam Veterans Oral History
Donna Loring, interviewed by Kellie Pelletier at the Muskie Archives, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, June 15, 1999. Loring discusses her early schooling, her family history serving in the military, her MOS (72B-20) as a communications specialist, and working with early computers. She talks about being stationed at Fort McClellan, Alabama, and Fort MacArthur, in San Pedro, California. She tells about putting in for Vietnam, being told women were not allowed in combat, receiving orders to go a few months later, knowing it was a mistake but no one caught it until she was in Vietnam, being assigned to the 44th …
Donna Loring, Interviewed By Kellie Pelletier, Part 2, Donna Loring
Donna Loring, Interviewed By Kellie Pelletier, Part 2, Donna Loring
MF087 Vietnam Veterans Oral History
Donna Loring, interviewed by Kellie Pelletier at the Muskie Archives, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, June 15, 1999. Loring discusses her early schooling, her family history serving in the military, her MOS (72B-20) as a communications specialist, and working with early computers. She talks about being stationed at Fort McClellan, Alabama, and Fort MacArthur, in San Pedro, California. She tells about putting in for Vietnam, being told women were not allowed in combat, receiving orders to go a few months later, knowing it was a mistake but no one caught it until she was in Vietnam, being assigned to the 44th …
Donna Loring, Interviewed By Kellie Pelletier, Part 3, Donna Loring
Donna Loring, Interviewed By Kellie Pelletier, Part 3, Donna Loring
MF087 Vietnam Veterans Oral History
Donna Loring, interviewed by Kellie Pelletier at the Muskie Archives, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, June 15, 1999. Loring discusses her early schooling, her family history serving in the military, her MOS (72B-20) as a communications specialist, and working with early computers. She talks about being stationed at Fort McClellan, Alabama, and Fort MacArthur, in San Pedro, California. She tells about putting in for Vietnam, being told women were not allowed in combat, receiving orders to go a few months later, knowing it was a mistake but no one caught it until she was in Vietnam, being assigned to the 44th …
Donna Loring, Interviewed By Mazie Hough And Carol Toner, Donna Loring
Donna Loring, Interviewed By Mazie Hough And Carol Toner, Donna Loring
MF144 Women in the Military
Donna Loring, interviewed by Mazie Hough and Carol Toner, June 19, 2001, in Augusta, Maine. Loring, age 53, talks about enlisting in the Army in the Vietnam War; her experiences of discrimination as a Native American in Maine; boarding school; taking an aptitude test after enlisting; basic training; her role as a member of the Signal Corps; the dangers of the job; rising through the ranks; the detachment of the Women’s Army Corps from the rest of the Army; women soldiers and weapons; leaving the base against orders; racism in the military; diversity within the W.A.C.; the psychological effects; leisure …
Donna Loring, Interviewed By Mazie Hough And Carol Toner, Part 1, Donna Loring
Donna Loring, Interviewed By Mazie Hough And Carol Toner, Part 1, Donna Loring
MF144 Women in the Military
Donna Loring, interviewed by Mazie Hough and Carol Toner, June 19, 2001, at the CATS Library in Augusta, Maine. Donna talks about enlisting in 1966; training in California and going to Vietnam; serving in the Military Occupational Specialty Signals Corps and as a soldier of the Women’s Army Corps. Text: 9 pp. transcript. Time: 01:20:59. Restrictions: None. Approval to release provided by James Francis of the Penobscot Historic Preservation Committee, 2024-02-23.
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Donna Loring, Interviewed By Mazie Hough And Carol Toner, Part 2, Donna Loring
Donna Loring, Interviewed By Mazie Hough And Carol Toner, Part 2, Donna Loring
MF144 Women in the Military
Donna Loring, interviewed by Mazie Hough and Carol Toner, June 19, 2001, at the CATS Library in Augusta, Maine. Donna talks about enlisting in 1966; training in California and going to Vietnam; serving in the Military Occupational Specialty Signals Corps and as a soldier of the Women’s Army Corps. Text: 9 pp. transcript. Time: 01:20:59. Restrictions: None. Approval to release provided by James Francis of the Penobscot Historic Preservation Committee, 2024-02-23.
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Robert L. “Bob” Towle, Interviewed By John J. Springer, Part 1, Robert L. Towle
Robert L. “Bob” Towle, Interviewed By John J. Springer, Part 1, Robert L. Towle
MF087 Vietnam Veterans Oral History
NA4503 Robert L. “Bob” Towle, interviewed by John J. Springer in Lewiston, Maine on July 7, 1999. Towle talks about entering the military before finishing high school at the suggestion of a judge who offering one of two options; going into basic training, advanced training, then jump school to prove himself; serving 20 months in the 82 Airborne stateside before being sent to the 509th 82nd Airborne Germany, then to the 25th Infantry in Vietnam. Towle speaks at length about his training experiences; being rendered “a non-person” within 90 minutes of reporting for basic training; compares enlistment with a jail …
Robert L. “Bob” Towle, Interviewed By John J. Springer, Part 2, Robert L. Towle
Robert L. “Bob” Towle, Interviewed By John J. Springer, Part 2, Robert L. Towle
MF087 Vietnam Veterans Oral History
NA4503 Robert L. “Bob” Towle, interviewed by John J. Springer in Lewiston, Maine on July 7, 1999. Towle talks about entering the military before finishing high school at the suggestion of a judge who offering one of two options; going into basic training, advanced training, then jump school to prove himself; serving 20 months in the 82 Airborne stateside before being sent to the 509th 82nd Airborne Germany, then to the 25th Infantry in Vietnam. Towle speaks at length about his training experiences; being rendered “a non-person” within 90 minutes of reporting for basic training; compares enlistment with a jail …
Robert L. “Bob” Towle, Interviewed By John J. Springer, Part 3, Robert L. Towle
Robert L. “Bob” Towle, Interviewed By John J. Springer, Part 3, Robert L. Towle
MF087 Vietnam Veterans Oral History
NA4503 Robert L. “Bob” Towle, interviewed by John J. Springer in Lewiston, Maine on July 7, 1999. Towle talks about entering the military before finishing high school at the suggestion of a judge who offering one of two options; going into basic training, advanced training, then jump school to prove himself; serving 20 months in the 82 Airborne stateside before being sent to the 509th 82nd Airborne Germany, then to the 25th Infantry in Vietnam. Towle speaks at length about his training experiences; being rendered “a non-person” within 90 minutes of reporting for basic training; compares enlistment with a jail …
Pastor Donald Bing
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
No abstract provided.
Guide To The Davidson Family Papers, Mary Davidson Wagner
Guide To The Davidson Family Papers, Mary Davidson Wagner
Special Collections
The Davidson Family papers include photographs taken and correspondence written during Ethel Helena Davidson's time as an American Expeditionary Force nurse in France during World War I and Frederick Arthur Davidson's time in the United States Army between the 1920s and 1950s. Also includes a scrapbook of Ethel's war experience and army records for each of them.
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Harry Burns
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
No abstract provided.
William A. Hagins Papers, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
William A. Hagins Papers, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
Finding Aids
This collection contains the papers of William Archer Hagins, Sr. from 1919-2005. Included within the collection are written letters, V-Mail, military documents, and legal documents concerning Hagins’ service in the United States Army during World War I and World War II. Additional materials related to the Hagins Family including William Archer Hagins, Jr., prominent American medical researcher, are included and consist of family photographs and genealogical research materials
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Franklin Carson
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
No abstract provided.
Reverend Joe Frank Brown
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
No abstract provided.
Melvin Bragg
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
No abstract provided.
George Booker Sr.
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
No abstract provided.
Homer L. Burgess
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
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Flunking A Test & Hiroshima, Lydia Franz
Flunking A Test & Hiroshima, Lydia Franz
Maine Song and Story Sampler
The stories recounted here by Lydia Franz concern her experience in the United States Army as a cryptanalyst during World War II.
John Byrd
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
No abstract provided.
Joseph Tobe Byrd
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
No abstract provided.
Otto Boyd
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
No abstract provided.
Nathaniel W. Branch
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
No abstract provided.
Wesley Ashley
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
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Joseph Brawley
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
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Telegram From Alfred N. Phillips To Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson, August 11, 1941, Alfred N. Phillips Jr.
Telegram From Alfred N. Phillips To Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson, August 11, 1941, Alfred N. Phillips Jr.
World War II Era Documents, 1939-1945
A typed telegram from Alfred N. Phillips Jr. addressed to Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson, dated August 11, 1941. Within, Phillips expresses the present concern from the National Headquarters of the Fight for Freedom committee regarding military service.
1918-07-01, Robert To Mother, Robert Lindstadt
1918-07-01, Robert To Mother, Robert Lindstadt
Lindstadt Brothers First World War correspondence
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Letter From Jay L. Benedict To Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson, December 7, 1918, Jay L. Benedict
Letter From Jay L. Benedict To Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson, December 7, 1918, Jay L. Benedict
World War I Era Documents, 1914-1918
A typed letter from Jay L. Benedict to Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson, dated December 7, 1918. Within, Benedict apologizes for the sudden cessation of Wilson's application for a commission in the United States Army and offers a return of personal documents Wilson enclosed.
Letter From Edward H. Williams To Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson, November 19, 1918, Edward H. Williams
Letter From Edward H. Williams To Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson, November 19, 1918, Edward H. Williams
World War I Era Documents, 1914-1918
A typed letter from Edward H. Williams to Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson, dated November 19, 1918. Within, Williams informs Wilson that due to the ending of conflict in Europe, the War Department has no need for his service.
Letter From Walter F. Martin And Marlborough Churchill To Draft Board, September 19, 1918, Walter F. Martin, Marlborough Churchill
Letter From Walter F. Martin And Marlborough Churchill To Draft Board, September 19, 1918, Walter F. Martin, Marlborough Churchill
World War I Era Documents, 1914-1918
A typed letter from Marlborough Churchill and Walter F. Martin to the local Draft Board of Philadelphia, dated September 19, 1918. Within, they write to request the Board issue Huntington-Wilson his classification and status.