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Chronicle Of The 39th Infantry Regiment From Normandy To The Elbe: June 1943 - May 1945, Richard B. Kann Jr. Dec 2009

Chronicle Of The 39th Infantry Regiment From Normandy To The Elbe: June 1943 - May 1945, Richard B. Kann Jr.

9th Infantry Division Association Documents

The 39th Infantry Regiment fought as part of the 9th Infantry Division during World War II. This chonicle is a diary of the Regiment's daily operations and actions as it progressed across Europe during 1944 and 1945. The chronicle is portrayed from the vantage point of Richard B. Kann (father of the author) and Dale E. Smith, who served as medics in the 39th Infantry Regiment during that time.

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Hall, Dorthie A. (Mss 295), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Hall, Dorthie A. (Mss 295), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 295. Letters written to Dorthie A. Hall, student and editor of the "College Heights Herald" at Western Kentucky Teachers College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, during World War II. The male correspondents are all former students from Western, and they describe military life in their specific locations around the world. They all express devotion to Western and ask for details and comment about the school, sports teams, and the Bowling Green community.

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Mckee, John, 1829-1882 (Sc 2101), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Mckee, John, 1829-1882 (Sc 2101), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescripts of letters (attached as additional files) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2101. Two letters from John McKee, serving with the 37th Indiana Infantry, to his wife Sarah McKee in Hamilton, Ohio. He writes of his encampments near Nashville and Murfreesboro, Tennessee, his reading, nearby guerrilla activity involving John Hunt Morgan, difficulties with mail, and the general condition of the countryside.

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Hamlett, Barksdale, 1908-1979 (Mss 292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Hamlett, Barksdale, 1908-1979 (Mss 292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 292. Transcriptions of five interviews conducted with retired four-star general Barksdale Hamlett in which he reflects on his 34-year military career, including service in World War II, the Korean War, and on the Army's General Staff in Washington, D.C.

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Stephens, Everett James, B. 1971 (Sc 2075), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Stephens, Everett James, B. 1971 (Sc 2075), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Fidning aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2075. Journal kept by Everett James Stephens, a U.S. Marine and Western Kentucky University student, during his service in the Persian Gulf War. He records his experiences of the war, as well as his training and leisure activities while at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

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Simmons, James Madison, 1842-1905 & Josephus Simmons, 1844-1911 (Sc 2080), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Simmons, James Madison, 1842-1905 & Josephus Simmons, 1844-1911 (Sc 2080), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2080. Order granting a ten-day furlough to James Madison Simmons and his cousin Josephus Simmons, serving in the First Tennessee Cavalry, in order to return home to Sumner County, Tennessee, to obtain horses.

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Pope, Jo Reba (Sc 2071), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Pope, Jo Reba (Sc 2071), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2071. Photocopies of items from scrapbook kept by Pope, chiefly pertaining to the World War II service of Robert Fred Cope. Includes photos, birthday cards, Valentines, and information related to the light cruiser "U.S.S. Richmond."

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Persian Gulf War, 1991 (Sc 2074), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Persian Gulf War, 1991 (Sc 2074), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2074. Book found on battleground during Operation Desert Storm; written in Arabic and bearing the emblem of Iraq.

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Persian Gulf War, 1991 (Sc 2073), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Persian Gulf War, 1991 (Sc 2073), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2073. Book taken from Iraqi soldier during Operation Desert Storm; written in Arabic with some photos attached.

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Redmon, Chester C. (Sc 2070), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Redmon, Chester C. (Sc 2070), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2070. Brief World War II V-mail messges from Redmon, serving in the India-Burma Theater to family in Louisville, Ketnucky. Includes Christmas and Mother's Day greetings as well as two photos.

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Taylor Family Papers (Sc 1929), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Taylor Family Papers (Sc 1929), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1929. Correspondence, poems, song lyrics, recipes, accounts, clippings, and miscellaneous records relating to the Taylor family of Warren County, Kentucky. Includes letters of a Kentucky soldier writing of battle in east Tennessee during the Civil War, 1864 (Click on "Additional Files" for scans).

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Schiess, Nancy (Sc 2062), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Schiess, Nancy (Sc 2062), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2062. Paper: "Influences On and Decision Factors of Women Entering World War II from Western Kentucky State Teachers College" written by Nancy Schiess for a Kentucky history course at Western Kentucky University.

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Military Doctrine: A Reference Handbook, Bert Chapman Nov 2009

Military Doctrine: A Reference Handbook, Bert Chapman

Libraries Research Publications

This is a 2009 Purdue Libraries brownbag presentation on my book Military Doctrine: A Reference Handbook. It describes how the U.S. and other countries formulate and implement strategies for conducting military operations and publishing literature describing how they conduct military operations. Additional contents include highlighting military strategy objectives of various countries and key military doctrine documents produced by these countries.

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Williams, Freeman (Sc 2053), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2009

Williams, Freeman (Sc 2053), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2053. Letter, 10 January 1862, written from Bowling Green, Kentucky by Freeman Williams, a Confederate soldier, to his brother Thomas in Pontotoc, Mississippi. He briefly sends his regards to family and asks to be sent letters.

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Every Wreck Tells A Story, David Trojan Oct 2009

Every Wreck Tells A Story, David Trojan

ERAU Prescott Aviation History Program

The Army Air Corps lost more than 7,100 aircraft in the United States to accidents during World War II. David Trojan is an aviation archeologist who has visited more than 100 such sites and seeks to educate the public by telling the unique story that each one has to tell.

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Presbyterian Church (Bowling Green) - Veteran's History Project (Mss 277), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2009

Presbyterian Church (Bowling Green) - Veteran's History Project (Mss 277), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 277. Personal histories of members of the Presbyterian Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky who were veterans of World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, Bosnia, the Persian Gulf War, or the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Includes biographical information and a narrative of the subject's military experiences. Audio interviews are also included on DVD.

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Fishburn, Myra Jane, B. 1970 (Mss 280), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2009

Fishburn, Myra Jane, B. 1970 (Mss 280), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 280. Correspondence of Myra Jane Fishburn during her service in the Iraq War with the 76th U.S. Army Band. Includes photographs, Arabic language instruction materials, Arabic music CDs, and miscellaneous training and informational materials.

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Phelps, Frank M. (Sc 2048), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2009

Phelps, Frank M. (Sc 2048), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript for Manuscripts Small Collection 2048. Letter from Frank M. Phelps, serving in the 10th Wisconsin Infantry, to his uncle in Wisconsin. He describes his company's march to Bowling Green, Kentucky, the sight of dead horses, the shelling of Bowling Green, the destruction he found there, and the supplies the Confederates left behind.

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Pitek, Michael Joseph, 1918-1945 (Sc 2047), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2009

Pitek, Michael Joseph, 1918-1945 (Sc 2047), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2047. Certificates, forms and correspondence related to the military service of Michael J. Pitek in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. Also correspondence related to Pitek's death on 3 January 1945 and the burial of his remains in 1950.

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Jordan, Robert (Sc 2045), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2009

Jordan, Robert (Sc 2045), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2045. Letters (2) written by Robert Jordan, Vietnam, to his sisters Gail Jordan and Susan Jordan, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Mentions that he is in drill instructor training and likely to be stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky after his Vietnam service.

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The Octofoil, October/November/December 2009, Ninth Infantry Division Association Oct 2009

The Octofoil, October/November/December 2009, 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.

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Buckner, Howard Chandler, 1896-1960 (Sc 2040), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2009

Buckner, Howard Chandler, 1896-1960 (Sc 2040), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Correspondence related to Howard Chandler Buckner's military service in the U.S. Army during World War I. Includes his identification card with photo and a notebook of information he recorded during training.

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Hanson, Albert C., 1895-1976 (Sc 2038), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2009

Hanson, Albert C., 1895-1976 (Sc 2038), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2038. Letter, 20 January 1918, from Albert C. Hanson, serving as a private with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, to Edith Otting, Newport, Kentucky, He relays news of his family and writes of his eagerness to return home. The letterhead displays the logo of the American Y.M.C.A. and the phrase "On Active Service with the American Expeditionary Force.

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Harlow, William Ross, B. 1946 (Sc 2023), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2009

Harlow, William Ross, B. 1946 (Sc 2023), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2023. Notes taken by Barren County native William Ross Harlow during basic training at Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio, Texas. He eventually served in the Vietnamese Conflict.

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"Sie Kommen" (They're Coming), David Hamilton Sep 2009

"Sie Kommen" (They're Coming), David Hamilton

ERAU Prescott Aviation History Program

The exciting story of the training, mission briefings and overall planning that lead to the success and failure of major troop carrier operations in World War II. Told by a C-47 pilot who flew ‘pathfinder’ missions on D-Day; supply missions for Bastogne; and for ‘Market Garden’, the invasion of Holland.

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Hardcastle Family Papers (Sc 2026), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2009

Hardcastle Family Papers (Sc 2026), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2026. Papers of the Hardcastle family of Warren County, Kentucky: World War I discharge certificate for Robert F. Hardcastle; minister's return for the wedding of James Hardcastle and Ethel McPherson; tobacco allotment notice.

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Burchfield, Evelyn (Day), 1896-1990 (Sc 1973), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2009

Burchfield, Evelyn (Day), 1896-1990 (Sc 1973), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1973. Several letters written by Evelyn D. Burchfield, Davao, Philippines and a 190-page memoir of her life in the Philippines, chiefly during the World War II Japanese occupation; also includes an introduction (17 p.) to the memoir by friend Viola Crump.

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Lincoln's America 2.0, Edward L. Ayers Sep 2009

Lincoln's America 2.0, Edward L. Ayers

History Faculty Publications

For most people at the time, far from battles or capitals, the Civil War arrived in long gray columns of text. A new system of telegraph stations, railroads, and press organizations spread words with unprecedented speed and in enormous quantity. Reports form the battlefield poured out in brief messages and long torrents, editorials commenting on every event and utterance. Even generals and presidents understood the shape and meaning of the Civil War through print.

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Bratcher, John W., 1834-1920 (Sc 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2009

Bratcher, John W., 1834-1920 (Sc 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2012. Discharge and pension papers for John W. Bratcher, who served in Company H, 35th Regiment of Kentucky Mounted Infantry during the Civil War.

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Field, Robert Willis, B. 1841? (Sc 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2009

Field, Robert Willis, B. 1841? (Sc 2016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2016. Discharge and pension papers of Robert Willis Field, a native of Shelby County, Kentucky who served in several units during the Civil War and was wounded at the Battle of Perryville. Includes correspondence to and from his attorneys.

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