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Wilson A. Heefner Collection
Dr. Wilson Heefner’s book, Patton’s Bulldog: The Life and Service of General Walton H. Walker, is a biography of General Walker, who led the XX Corps in the vanguard of Patton’s Third Army through France, Germany, and Austria in World War II, and who commanded the Eighth Army and saved the Pusan Perimeter during the Korean War. The collection contains the research material Dr. Heefner used for his book as well as the bound and fully annotated manuscript.
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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: 266 LL
Date: 1899 - 1950
Collection Size: 5 lf
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