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Henry J. Cronin Collection
Prisoner-of-war diary of Major Henry (Hank) J. Cronin. Cronin participated in the Battle of the Bulge with the 811th Tank Destroyer Battalion in World War II. The collection consists on one hardbound diary (19 pages) plus xerox copies of the same.
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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.
Scene along country road in northern France.
Factory under construction in northern France.
Wheat field in northern France. In the background, coal mine and huge slag heap.
Full coal cars in northern French coal mine.
Construction of exhibit barges and trailers for the mobile caravan exhibit prepared by the Visual Information Unit of the Information Division, ECA/OSR, Paris.
Scene along the road in northern France.
Construction of exhibit barges and trailers for the mobile caravan exhibit prepared by the Visual Information Unit of the Information Division, ECA/OSR, Paris.
Collection Number: 131 SC
Date: Dec 1944 - Apr 1945
Collection Size: 1 ff/ 1 vol.
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