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C. Michael Ramsdell Camp Ruston Sound Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Six 78 rpm records from Camp Ruston Library.

Camp Ruston Former P.O.W. Correspondence, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Primarily correspondence between Camp Ruston Foundation President Vince Spione and former prisoners from U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp Camp Ruston, including letters from Otto Fernholz and Hans Stollenwerk, and records and photographs of Franz Stich.

Camp Ruston U-505 Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Booklet and tape about World War II German submarine U-505 housed since 1954 in Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois.

Camp Ruston Symposium Records, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Materials concerning Camp Ruston Symposium, programs correspondence, publicity and records.

Cesare Puelli Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Artifacts, journal, correspondence, and drawings of Cesare Puelli, Italian prisoner of war at Camp Ruston, including drawings of scenes of camps Como, Monticello, and Ruston, the tennis racket he used at Camp Ruston, and the journal he kept during his return voyage home.

Charles H. Lyles Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

NDSP (Nazi) flag and collection of foreign and domestic coins.

W.T. Block Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

“The Diary of 1st Sergeant H. N. Connor” edited and annotated by W.T. Block. 1861-1863. 36 pgs.

Eulis L. "Joe" Carroll Camp Ruston Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Material concerning donor who was a guard in hospital stationed at Camp Ruston (1943-46).

Felix Pierre Poche Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Diary of a young Confederate Army officer kept 1863-1865, including eyewitness account of two 1864 battles in North Louisiana; after the War, Poche an attorney from St. James Parish, Louisiana, was elected a state senator and later an associate judge of the Louisiana Supreme Court.

Franco Montecchi Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Materials concerning Franco Montecchi, Italian prisoner of war at Camp Ruston.

Charles L. Tannehill Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

The Rosinbelly, a mimeographed publication created and printed in Urania, Louisiana, for distribution to servicemen from the area.

Camp Ruston National Register Of Historic Places, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Materials concerning application for nomination of U.S. World War II prisoner of war Camp Ruston to the National Register of Historic Places.

James L. Hogan Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Afrika Korps pattern eagle and swastika. This artifact was given to American civilian camp employee, James L. Hogan by German POW Robert Kopriwa. Also, includes a book entitled The Brothers Karamazov written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Random House in 1943.

Joseph J. Corneille Record Book, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Confederate Army soldier and businessman from New Orleans. Most of his military service was spent in St. Tammany and Tangipahoa Parishes and later in Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he spent several months ill in a hospital. He rejoined his unit, was captured near Jackson, Mississippi, in July 1863, and was released May 18, 1865.

Thirty Two Days In The Argonne Offensive, Grover C. Maus

Adams County History

It is manifestly impossible for one man, without access to official records, to write anything like a comprehensive history of the great Meuse-Argonne conflict. So no attempt will be made to write a history, but simply to describe some events, experiences, feelings, and hardships from the standpoint of a personal observer in the hope that they will provide to be typical of the experiences of the average Adams County boy who book part in that battle. [excerpt]

Bringing To Life The Grandfather I Never Knew, Valerie J. Young

Adams County History

My grandfather, Chester Allen Bower, was born in New Oxford, Pennsylvania on August 30, 1894 and died near there in Hanover on December 30, 1939. He was my mother's father, and she was just 12 years old when he died. I never had the chance to meet him.

Chester served in the Great War in the U.S. Army's 79th Division, which took part in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive from September to November 1918. This Offensive was the largest military operation ever undertaken by the U.S. Army at that time and its success led, in part, to the end of the war. …

Ua12/2/59 Class Of 1946, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the Class of 1946.

Ua1c2/19 Veterans Village Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of Veterans Village and individual trailers.

Ua1c4/8 Military Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of student military organizations.

Ua37/30/2 Faculty Personal Papers Lowell Harrison Wku Research, Wku Archives, Sam Bruer, Bess Mchone

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by Lowell Harrison while serving as University Historian and writing the 75th anniversary history "Western Kentucky University" as well as numerous articles about the university.