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Ua94/2 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Ogden College, Wku Archives
Ua94/2 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Ogden College, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Small collections of items donated by or about Ogden alumni.
Ua64/25/4/1 College Of Education & Behavioral Sciences Military Science Student Organizations Pershing Rifles, Wku Archives
Ua64/25/4/1 College Of Education & Behavioral Sciences Military Science Student Organizations Pershing Rifles, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records by and about the Pershing Rifles.
Ua3/2/2 President's Office-Garrett Awards, Wku Archives
Ua3/2/2 President's Office-Garrett Awards, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Awards given to Paul Garrett during his administration.
Ua1c11/12 Pershing Rifles Photo Collection, Wku Archives
Ua1c11/12 Pershing Rifles Photo Collection, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Digitized Images and newspaper clippings belonging to various members of the Pershing Rifles.
Elrod, Cecil Murray, 1923-2002 (Mss 352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Elrod, Cecil Murray, 1923-2002 (Mss 352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 352. Material related to Cecil Murray Elrod, chiefly about his service in the U.S. Navy during World War II in the Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-21. Includes notes on planes and guns discussed during training, aviators flight log books, and other military papers. Also includes information about reunions of the Valley High School (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Class of 1943.
Rich, Louis Arnold, 1921-1944 (Sc 2402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rich, Louis Arnold, 1921-1944 (Sc 2402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2402. Letters of Louis Arnold Rich, a U. S. Army private from Tompkinsville, Kentucky, written to his wife and in-laws during his military training and while hospitalized for a long illness that resulted in his death on 3 August 1944. He writes of his medical condition and mentions other soldiers from home. Includes letters from his wife, Martha, to her parents and grandmother discussing his medical treatment. Also includes an unidentified soldier’s letter and a child’s letter to her father.
Robertson, J. Lee, B. 1922 (Fa 535), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Robertson, J. Lee, B. 1922 (Fa 535), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 535. Interview with J. Lee Robertson conducted by Kenneth Hines and Gil Calhoun in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Robertson reminisces about the U.S. Army during World war II and his long association with Western Kentucky University.
The Israeli Armored Paradigm In The Yom Kippur War: An Evaluation, Joseph C. Leonhardt
The Israeli Armored Paradigm In The Yom Kippur War: An Evaluation, Joseph C. Leonhardt
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
The Yom Kippur War of 1973 saw Israel suffer nearly twice the casualties and triple the duration of the previous war. This is in contradiction to the fact that Israel, following its spectacular success in the Six-Day War of 1967, was in a far better position than it had been in 1967. This work will analyze the problem of Armor preeminence in the Israeli Defense Force first to prove the existence of preeminence, then to qualify its effect in the war and then to qualify its importance in the differing factors between the 1967 and 1973 Wars. This will be …
Muncy, William Mckinley, 1894-1963 (Sc 2400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Muncy, William Mckinley, 1894-1963 (Sc 2400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2400. Two letters from William M. "Mack" Muncy to Eliza Ranson, written from Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky while serving with the 159th Depot Brigade. He writes of drills, vaccinations and social activities. He also refers to desertion and suicide among his comrades and to the treatment of conscientious objectors by the military.
The U2 Spy Plane Crisis: Turning Point In The Cold War, William Weiss
The U2 Spy Plane Crisis: Turning Point In The Cold War, William Weiss
ERAU Prescott Aviation History Program
When the Soviets shot down Francis Gary Powers’ U2 spy plane in 1960, it caused an international crisis. Thanks to recently declassified US and former Soviet archives, we can now hear the inside story of what really happened as told by an American History writer & lecturer.
Pace, Stanley Carter, B. 1921 (Fa 532), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pace, Stanley Carter, B. 1921 (Fa 532), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 532. Presentation made by Stanley Carter Pace, a Kentucky native, to an unidentified group at the Eldorado Country Club, Indian Wells, California, on 25 March 1998 about his experiences in World War II. Pace served in the U.S. Army Air Corps. In August 1944 he was shot down in Austria and placed in a hospital and then transferred to a German prisoner of war camp. He was liberated in April 1945. Videotaped by Dreamweaver Video of Palm Desert, California, 1998.
Wise Family Papers (Mss 341), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wise Family Papers (Mss 341), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 341. Correspondence of the Wise family of Ohio County, Kentucky, and related families. Includes letters of Levi Franklin Wise, serving with Union forces in Bowling Green, Kentucky 1864. A few letters have been typescripted. Click on "Additional Files" to see several of the typescripts.
Nunn, Louie Broady, 1924-2004 (Sc 2396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Nunn, Louie Broady, 1924-2004 (Sc 2396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2396. Letter, 12 January 1968, from Kentucky Governor Louie B. Nunn to Dr. Thomas H. Baird in Bowling Green, Kentucky, nominating him for appointment as Medical Advisor, Local Selective Service Board No. 95, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes envelope with postage due stamp.
Coffman, Edward Mckenzie (Sc 2391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coffman, Edward Mckenzie (Sc 2391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2391. "The Civil War Career of Thomas Henry Hines," a thesis presented by Edward M. Coffman in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1955.
Allen, Mary Bernard (Sc 2369), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Allen, Mary Bernard (Sc 2369), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2369. "Joseph Holt, Judge Advocate General (1862-1875): A Study in the Treatment of Politcal Prisoners by the United States Government During the Civil War," by Mary Bernard Allen, a dissertation submitted for the Doctor of Philosophy degree, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1927.
Sanders, Robert Lee, B. 1912 (Sc 2368), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sanders, Robert Lee, B. 1912 (Sc 2368), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2368. "The Military Career of Don Carlos Buell During the Civil War," by Robert Lee Sanders, a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1937. Includes a biographical sketch of the author.
Faught Family Papers (Sc 2382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Faught Family Papers (Sc 2382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2382. Correspondence, deeds, and sundry other items of the Faught family of Ohio County, Kentucky, chiefly Marion F. and Alice M. Faught. Includes Civil War military discharge for Bagges M. Faught, 17th Regiment of Kentucky Infantry Volunteers. Also includes a baby diary for Juanita Chloris Faught.
Dickerson-Venable Family Papers (Mss 334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dickerson-Venable Family Papers (Mss 334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 334. Correspondence, clippings and genealogical data relating to the Dickerson and Venable families of Warren County, Kentucky, and related families. Includes military papers from the War of 1812 and the Civil War.
Bowker, Lewis Gray, 1840-1863 (Sc 2349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowker, Lewis Gray, 1840-1863 (Sc 2349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2349. Letters (5) of Lewis Gray Bowker, written from Ohio and Bowling Green, Kentucky while serving in Company F of the 111th Infantry Regiment Ohio Volunteers during the Civil War. Includes biographical data, an image of Bowker, service records, and a letter sent to a family friend reporting on Bowker's death.
Forgy, James Monroe, 1820-1895 (Sc 2354), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Forgy, James Monroe, 1820-1895 (Sc 2354), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2354. Partial account book of James Monroe Forgy, Morgantown, Kentucky, recording his work as pension agent for Civil War veterans. Includes some miscellaneous personal accounts. Also includes biographical data.
The Octofoil, October/November/December 2010, Ninth Infantry Division Association
The Octofoil, October/November/December 2010, Ninth Infantry Division Association
The Octofoil
The Octofoil is the offical publication of the Ninth Infantry Division Association, Inc., an organization formed by the officers and men of the 9th Infantry Division in order to perpetuate the memory of fallen comrades, preserve the esprit de corps of the Division, promote peace and serve as an information bureau about the 9th Infantry Division. The Association is made up of 9th Infantry veterans from WWII and Vietnam, spouses, widows and lineal descendants.
Stanley, William, 1832-1921 (Sc 2353), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stanley, William, 1832-1921 (Sc 2353), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2353. Morning report of Captain William Stanley's Company G, 6th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry, a Confederate regiment. The report shows numbers present, absent, and sick, but does not name individual members.
Rigsby, James Edward, 1845-1930 (Sc 2351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rigsby, James Edward, 1845-1930 (Sc 2351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2351. Certificate appointing James E. Rigsby as Corporal, Company C, 52nd Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry, 1 November 1863; and Rigsby's certificate of discharge from military service, 17 January 1865.
Tolle, Donald James, 1918-1993 (Sc 2344), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tolle, Donald James, 1918-1993 (Sc 2344), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Typescripted World War II diary of Donald James Tolle, kept 1942-1945 while serving in England, Italy and North Africa with the Army Air Corps, 47th Bombardment Group (Light). Includes diary annotations made in 1988, materials from a 1979 reunion of the Bombardment Group, biographical data on Tolle, his obituary, and a colleague's remarks at his memorial service.
Gatliff, Charles, 1745-1838 (Sc 2336), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gatliff, Charles, 1745-1838 (Sc 2336), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2336. Materials relating to the pension applications of Charles Gatliff and, later, his widow. Includes his descriptions of his Revolutionary War military experiences.
Stevens Family Papers (Sc 2310), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stevens Family Papers (Sc 2310), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2310. Sundry papers, including letters written by Albert L. Stevens from a military hospital in Russellville, Kentucky, to his brother William J. Stevens during the Civil War (Click on "Additional Files" below for scans and typescripts). The bulk of the collection consists of deeds and indentures of various Stevens family members, particularly William J., Robert W., and William W. Stevens of Hopkins County, Kentucky. Also includes fifty Bowling Green, Kentucky city operational licenses for the Broadway Roller Mills, 1923-1974.
World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Mss 330), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Mss 330), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 330. Letters written to parents, friends, faculty and staff of Western Kentucky University by students during their service in Word War II. Includes some press releases, newspaper articles and photos. Also includes a history and travel log of the USS Stevens.
Smith, Furman A., 1834-1918 - Collector (Sc 2299), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Furman A., 1834-1918 - Collector (Sc 2299), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2299. Chiefly incoming letters which concern an estate settlement for Abraham Smith and family news. Civil War-era letters written by William Riley Smith (Click on "Additional Files" below) contain comments about the war and contain expressions of his attitudes toward African Americans. Also includes a church letter of transfer for Furman Smith and his wife and a small amount of genealogical information about the Smith family.
Smith Family Papers (Sc 2302), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith Family Papers (Sc 2302), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2302. Chiefly letters from Barnett Smith, Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory and Camp Wheeler, Huntsville, Alabama to his mother in Hadley, Warren County, Kentucky, 1898. He describes his military training and ponders being shipped to Cuba. Also includes (Click on "Additional Files" below for scans) an 1865 letter from Union soldier James W. Howard of Butler County, Kentucky, Howard’s discharge certificate, an 1863 slavery bill of sale, and an 1873 receipt for a coffin.
Sprowl, Wilson (Sc 2308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sprowl, Wilson (Sc 2308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2308. Brief World War I letters from Wilson Sprowl to family members in Monroe County, Kentucky while he was stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky and Camp Custer in Battle Creek, Michigan. Also, a welcoming letter from King George V to American troops, and a billet for a bunk on the U.S.S. Florida that includes instructions for troop conduct.