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Eddie Deerfield Collection
Eddie Deerfield was a member of the 303rd Bomb Group during World War II. Deerfield flew 30 combat missions over Nazi Germany and Occupied Europe. Deerfield was honorably discharged in 1945 as a technical sergeant. he was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters and a Purple Heart.
He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U. S. Army Reserve in 1949 and called back into service in 1951 in the 1st Radio Broadcasting and Leaflet Group, a psychological warfare unit. He was based in Pusan, Korea, as detachment commander.
This small collection contains pamphlets and menus.
Collection Formats:
Henry J. Cronin biography written by Lean Ingle, Liberty University Graduate Student in History, museum intern, summer 2018
Hannah Early Karicofe Biography written by Leah Ingle, Liberty University Graduate Student in History, museum intern, summer 2018.
An unlikely band of information hunters—librarians, archivists, and scholars—came together during World War II, their war effort centered on collecting books and documents. They gathered enemy publications in the spy-ridden cities of Stockholm and Lisbon, searched for records in liberated Paris and the rubble of Berlin, seized Nazi works from bookstores and schools, and unearthed […]
Enlisted men’s barracks, Ft. Howard, MD
Captain Arthur Palfrey Terry Biography
GLEASON AND MARGARET WILSON COLLECTION
An inventory of George C. Marshall’s personal library at Dodona Manor in Leesburg, Va.
Collection Number: 189
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