COLLECTIONS

25th Infantry Division Association Collection

The 25th Infantry Division was created from the Hawaiian Division of the United States Army.  Its history includes participation in World War II, the occupation of Japan, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Gulf War.  The Division is often referred to as “Tropic Lightning.”

This collection contains personal donations from 25th Infantry Division veterans from World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam, and more recent conflicts.  Materials include official military reports, personal recollections, maps, photographs, letters, newspapers and clippings, oral histories, and various personal memorabilia.  Donations from the Association are ongoing and the collection continues to grow.


Collection Formats:

Photograph of a young Vietnamese Boy, 1968
Collection:

Sometime in 1968, C. W. Bowman took care of a young Vietnamese boy. He picked him up off the streets in Saigon during the Tet offensive (January-September of 1968). The boy’s family had been killed and he was living on the street. Charles Bowman bought him a uniform and fed him at the Company area.

FRA-00996, Tourism
Call Number: FRA-00996 Collection:

Scene along country road in northern France.

Photographs

FRA-00998, Wheat
Call Number: FRA-00998 Collection:

A wheat field in France.

Photographs

FRA-00997, Manufacturing in northern France., October 2, 1948
Call Number: FRA-00997 Collection:

Factory under construction in northern France.

Photographs

FRA-00995, Wheat
Call Number: FRA-00995 Collection:

Wheat field in France.

Photographs

FRA-00993, Agriculture/Wheat
Call Number: FRA-00993 Collection:

Wheat field in northern France. In the background, coal mine and huge slag heap.

Photographs

FRA-00994, Coal
Call Number: FRA-00994 Collection:

Full coal cars in northern French coal mine.

Photographs

FRA-00991, Mobile Caravan Exhibit
Call Number: FRA-00991 Collection:

Construction of exhibit barges and trailers for the mobile caravan exhibit prepared by the Visual Information Unit of the Information Division, ECA/OSR, Paris.

Photographs

FRA-00992, Tourism
Call Number: FRA-00992 Collection:

Scene along the road in northern France.

Photographs

FRA-00987, Mobile Caravan Exhibit
Call Number: FRA-00987 Collection:

Construction of exhibit barges and trailers for the mobile caravan exhibit prepared by the Visual Information Unit of the Information Division, ECA/OSR, Paris.

Photographs

Collection Number: 150, 150-B, 150-C, 150-D, 150-E, 150-F, 150-G LL
Date: 1940 - present
Collection Size: 36 lf
 
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