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Herman C. Gauch Collection
Shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack, Herman Gauch was drafted and elected to serve in the Navy. This collection contains a 54 page text that narrates in detail his experiences from boot camp to his term as petty officer in charge of the main engine room aboard LST 506 to his separation from service in 1946.
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: 96-34 LL
Date: April 17, 1943 - February 19, 1946
Collection Size: 1 file folder
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