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Godby, Coye Perkins, 1918-2004 (Mss 453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Godby, Coye Perkins, 1918-2004 (Mss 453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 453. Chiefly World War II correspondence between Coye Perkins Godby, Elihu, Pulaski County, Kentucky, and his mother, Pearl Godby. Also, letters that his mother wrote to him. Godby was stationed in Orlando, Florida before being sent to England, France, the Rhineland, etc. in 1944. Topics include family news, relationships, and military life.


Confederates In The Dorm: Hidden In Plain Sight, John M. Rudy Mar 2012

Confederates In The Dorm: Hidden In Plain Sight, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

You can imagine the terror in the young 21-year-old's eyes as he realized who was charging down the Cashtown Pike into Gettysburg on the 26th of June. You can feel the chill that might have run down his spine as he realized that the rebel army he had deserted, the one he had escaped by running to the Federal lines, was crashing down upon him again. And the deserter's fate during this war was simple: execution. [excerpt]


Airpower Prophets: Giulio Douhet, Billy Mitchell And Hugh Trenchard, Bob Berlin Mar 2012

Airpower Prophets: Giulio Douhet, Billy Mitchell And Hugh Trenchard, Bob Berlin

ERAU Prescott Aviation History Program

Three airpower prophets from three nations created the concept of strategic bombing and advocated independent air forces. Their theories shaped military aviation for all time. Hear about their lives, controversies, courts martial and lasting influence.


Session A-1: The Cuban Missile Crisis: Understanding The Impact Of Personality On Leadership, Lee Eysturlid Mar 2012

Session A-1: The Cuban Missile Crisis: Understanding The Impact Of Personality On Leadership, Lee Eysturlid

Professional Learning Day

This session will explore the impact of the various types of personalities that were involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis. These differences had a direct impact on the way each leader reacted to the stresses and demands of the crisis as well as their own political objectives. Attendees will come away with an immediately teachable topic on world leadership and the Cuban Crisis as an event.


164th Infantry News: March 2012, 164th Infantry Association Mar 2012

164th Infantry News: March 2012, 164th Infantry Association

164th Infantry Regiment Publications

March 2012 edition of the 164th Infantry News. A total of 56 pages, containing news articles, event notices, photographs, and personal memories from the veterans of the 164th Infantry Regiment.


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table (Bylaws Revised), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table (Bylaws Revised), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (March 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (March 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


The Avenger - March-May 2012, Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum Mar 2012

The Avenger - March-May 2012, Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum

The Avenger

No abstract provided.


“No Man’S Land”: Fairy Tales, Gender, Socialization, Satire, And Trauma During The First And Second World Wars, Dawn Heerspink Feb 2012

“No Man’S Land”: Fairy Tales, Gender, Socialization, Satire, And Trauma During The First And Second World Wars, Dawn Heerspink

Grand Valley Journal of History

No abstract provided.


Fulkerson, Edwin Pierce, 1922-2015 (Sc 2509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Fulkerson, Edwin Pierce, 1922-2015 (Sc 2509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2509. Letters from Edwin Pierce Fulkerson, Germany, to his parents, Elmer M. and Nora Fulkerson, and uncle, Jesse Fulkerson, Sonora, Kentucky, in which he details his life in the military during World War II. Includes wartime log and other memorabilia documenting Fulkerson’s imprisonment in a German stalag during World War II, as well as Ben H. Phelper’s published and illustrated reminiscences from the same prison.


Civil War, 1861-1865 - Papers (Sc 371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Civil War, 1861-1865 - Papers (Sc 371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid, scans and typescripts (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 371. Correspondence, 1862-1863 (8), and pardon, 1864, of Union soldiers from the Kentucky counties of Hopkins and McLean; official program for Soldiers’ Reunion in Evansville, Indiana, 1887; and words of a Union song.


Trust, But Verify: Reagan, Gorbachev, And The Inf Treaty, William D. Watson Feb 2012

Trust, But Verify: Reagan, Gorbachev, And The Inf Treaty, William D. Watson

The Hilltop Review

This paper is a discussion of the relationship between the deployment of two types of intermediate (medium) range missile systems in Europe, how leaders on both sides viewed the situation, and how the potential use of such weapons affected superpower relations during the last decade of the Cold War.


Kelly, Walter Mynatt, 1931-1994 (Sc 2506), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Kelly, Walter Mynatt, 1931-1994 (Sc 2506), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2506. Letters from Walter M. Kelly, serving in the Korean War, to his girlfriend Lois Bushman, Fort Worth, Texas, in which he talks about his family and interactions on the military base in Korea.


Brown, Archie Lee, 1897-1989 (Sc 2504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Brown, Archie Lee, 1897-1989 (Sc 2504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2504. Letter, 10 February 1919, from Archie L. Brown, serving in France during World War I, to his father J. L. Brown, Rockport, Kentucky, in which he inquires about home.


Parnell, Willard Shelby, 1918-1984 (Sc 2507), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Parnell, Willard Shelby, 1918-1984 (Sc 2507), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2507. World War II service records for Willard Shelby Parnell, Perry County, Tennessee, and Jean Walker Sr., Wayne County, Tennessee. Includes discharge papers for both and several flight records for Walker.


Davenport, Bowman, Jr., 1927-2003 (Sc 2508), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Davenport, Bowman, Jr., 1927-2003 (Sc 2508), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2508. Letters from Bowman Davenport, Jr., while serving in the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to his mother Margaret L. Davenport , Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which he inquires about home and mentions his interactions on the military base.


York, John Thomas, 1926-1961 (Sc 2505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

York, John Thomas, 1926-1961 (Sc 2505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2505. Letter from John T. York, serving in the Korean War, to his sister Virginia York, Murl, Kentucky, in which he inquires about his family and briefly mentions a shelling at his camp.


Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letters (Sc 364), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letters (Sc 364), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 364. Photocopies of Civil War letters (3), 1862, 1864, n.d. The letters were written from camps in Tennessee and Georgia by soldiers from Illinois. Includes letter relative to above letters, 1971.


Boutcher, Robert M., 1912-1975 (Sc 250), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Boutcher, Robert M., 1912-1975 (Sc 250), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 250. V-mail letter to Mr. and Mrs. William Kelly, Maceo, Kentucky, from Robert Boutcher, written during his military service in Italy. Boutcher thanks them for a Christmas gift and comments briefly on his unit’s aerial combat activities.


Mitchell, Eleonore Beck (Fa 70), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Mitchell, Eleonore Beck (Fa 70), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 70. “History of ROTC.” Collection contains interviews, field notes indexes and cassettes of project completed with Frank Allen Minner by Eleonore Beck Mitchell. Collection was completed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Interview covers topics such as the history of ROTC, the ROTC program at Western Kentucky University, recruitment, and differences in training between ROTC and military academies.


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Feb. 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Feb. 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Hay, Vincent Smiley, 1808-1863 (Sc 352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Hay, Vincent Smiley, 1808-1863 (Sc 352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 352. Agreement to teach school, 1829; Civil War letter written from camp near Corinth, Mississippi, 1862; manuscript book which contains record of John F. Hines’ estate of which Hay was administrator, 1859 – noted is commissioner’s fee for selling slave, 1861, and writings of Rebecca Hay Gray on various subjects—spiritualism, religion, friendship, etc., and recipes, 1876-1881.


Recollections Concerning Canadian War Crimes Investigations And Prosecutions, Wady Lehmann Jan 2012

Recollections Concerning Canadian War Crimes Investigations And Prosecutions, Wady Lehmann

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.


Pursuit: The Letters Of Captain Harold Macdonald, North Shore Regiment, From Normandy To The Scheldt, Harold Macdonald, M.A. Macdonald Jan 2012

Pursuit: The Letters Of Captain Harold Macdonald, North Shore Regiment, From Normandy To The Scheldt, Harold Macdonald, M.A. Macdonald

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.


“It Made Them Forget About The War For A Minute”: Canadian Army, Navy And Air Force Entertainment Units During The Second World War, Laurel Halladay Jan 2012

“It Made Them Forget About The War For A Minute”: Canadian Army, Navy And Air Force Entertainment Units During The Second World War, Laurel Halladay

Canadian Military History

On 3 February 1944, wounded Canadian service personnel recuperating in a British hospital were delighted to hear that a concert party, part of the Canadian Army Show, was in the area and would be performing for patients that evening. The variety was extremely well-received; singing, dancing and comedy routines seemed to be exactly was the injured needed to raise their spirits. After the show was over, a man in a wheelchair approached performer James Cameron and exclaimed “it was so good to see that—please come back again.” The Captain in charge of this satisfied patient wrung Cameron’s hand and enthusiastically …


“Always Ready For Any Sticky Job”: The Canadian Corps Of (Civilian) Firefighters In The Second World War, Keith Hart Jan 2012

“Always Ready For Any Sticky Job”: The Canadian Corps Of (Civilian) Firefighters In The Second World War, Keith Hart

Canadian Military History

The Canadian Corps of (Civilian) Firefighters was created. In 1942 to assist the British National Fire Service (NFS) in fighting fires caused by German bombings. Some 400 specially-recruited Corps members served in Britain from 1942 to 1944 under often very hazardous conditions. Its story remains one of the forgotten and more unique Canadian contributions to the war effort.


The Road To The Cobourg Court Room: New Material From The Archives Of The Canadian War Museum On The Sir Arthur Currie-Sir Sam Hughes Dispute, 1918-1919, Barbara M. Wilson Jan 2012

The Road To The Cobourg Court Room: New Material From The Archives Of The Canadian War Museum On The Sir Arthur Currie-Sir Sam Hughes Dispute, 1918-1919, Barbara M. Wilson

Canadian Military History

The post-First World War dispute between Sir Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia and Defence from October 1911 to November 1916 and Sir Arthur Currie, General Officer Commanding the Canadian Corps from 9 June 1917 to the end of the war, must be one of the least dignified episodes in Canadian military history. Hughes, although very energetic, was erratic and arbitrary and was fired by Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden for his inefficient administration of the Canadian military forces overseas. Currie, on the other hand, led the Canadian Corps in a stunning series of successes: Hill 70, Passchendaele, Amiens, the Drocourt-Queant …


The Generation Of Memory: Reflections On The “Memory Boom” In Contemporary Historical Studies, Jay Winter Jan 2012

The Generation Of Memory: Reflections On The “Memory Boom” In Contemporary Historical Studies, Jay Winter

Canadian Military History

Jay Winter delivered the following in the form of a lecture at the Canadian War Museum on 31 October 2000. A distinguished academic, Winter has been writing about the cultural history of the First World War for nearly three decades. He has taught at the University of Cambridge in England and is presently at Yale University. Since 1988, he has been a director of the Historial de la grande guerre in Peronne, an important war museum in northern France. In this capacity, he has become familiar with a great many institutions of war and military history around the world and …


Combat Motivation And The Roots Of Fanaticism: The 12th Ss Panzer Division In Normandy, Michael E. Sullivan Jan 2012

Combat Motivation And The Roots Of Fanaticism: The 12th Ss Panzer Division In Normandy, Michael E. Sullivan

Canadian Military History

The post-First World War dispute between Sir Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia and Defence from October 1911 to November 1916 and Sir Arthur Currie, General Officer Commanding the Canadian Corps from 9 June 1917 to the end of the war, must be one of the least dignified episodes in Canadian military history. Hughes, although very energetic, was also erratic and arbitrary and was fired by Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden for his inefficient administration of the Canadian military forces overseas. Currie, on the other hand, led the Canadian Corps in a stunning series of successes: Hill 70, Passchendaele, Amiens, the …


French Canadian Participation In The War Of 1812: A Social Study Of The Voltiguers Canadians, Martin F. Auger Jan 2012

French Canadian Participation In The War Of 1812: A Social Study Of The Voltiguers Canadians, Martin F. Auger

Canadian Military History

During the War of 1812, the participation of French Canadians in colonial militia units such as the Voltigeurs Canadiens was of great importance for the defence of Lower Canada. The colony’s lack of regular British toops combined with threats of American invasion rendered crucial to the mobilization of the local populace, most of which was of French descent. Although lacking the discipline and structure of British regular soldiers. Lower-Canadian militiamen were able to neutralize numerous American invasion attempts. Altogether, this impressive participation in the war effort helped redefine the military character of French Canadians. It also dissipated the British authorities’ …