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Album - 2017.066.0231
This album from the 359th Infantry, 90th Division, contains B/W photographs in a year-book style layout and binding. Photographs of soldiers, military movements, and places in Europe are all included in the album, with short captions at the bottom of some of the pages. There is also a three-page introduction containing short descriptions of various victories following the D-Day invasion of Normandy. The emblem of the 359th Infantry is located on ...
Record Type: Archive
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Booklet - 2017.066.0032
This book contains the locations of temporary military cemeteries in Europe, including Blosville in France where Allen J. Sutherland was buried, marker 37154751. There are B/W photographs and map drawings for each of the cemeteries.
Record Type: Archive
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Brochure - 2019.001.0121
Brochure that unfolds into a map of the 37 temporary U.S. military cemeteries created during WWII in the European Theater. On the opposite side of the unfolded map is a smaller transportation map of Versailles and Paris, photographs with short descriptions of each military cemetery (including the number of soldiers interred at each cemetery), and a description of the war in the European Theater following D-Day (June 6, 1944).
Record Type: Archive
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Correspondence - 2018.029.0013
V-mail letter from Glenn "Punk" Fitch to Vivian Sutherland in Gillette, Wyoming. The letter was written on V-mail paper, copied, and printed on a small sheet of white paper. It was stamped and signed by the censor in the upper left. It was stamped on May 5, 1944. In the letter Glenn discusses Allen "Bud" Sutherland and how close they were located to each other in Europe without meeting each other.
Record Type: Archive
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Correspondence - 2018.029.0025b
V-mail from Glenn "Punk" Fitch to "Vivian + all." The original letter was dated June 24, 1944, written after he left England. In the letter Glenn writes about his well-being, living in a fox hole, the landscape of his current location, and wanting to buy items to send home to Gillette.
Record Type: Archive
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Envelope - 2018.029.0025a
V-mail envelope. This envelope contained a letter from Glenn "Punk" Fitch to his aunt, Vivian Sutherland in Gillette. The v-mail is dated June 24, 1944, but the envelope was postmarked July 5, 1944.
Record Type: Archive
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Letter - 2017.066.0207
Handwritten letter from Allen J. Sutherland to his family, signed "Bud." This was written on a single sheet of plain paper with a blue outline on one side. The area above the date has been cut away, presumably this would have been where he recorded his location. In the letter Bud mentions that they are now located on the East Coast and are expecting to be sent overseas soon. He also discusses sending his radio home, the Gillette newspaper, the ce...
Record Type: Archive
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Letter - 2019.013.0003a-b
Handwritten letter from Glenn "Punk" Fitch in Belgium, addressed "Dear Vivian + all." The letter is written on two sheets of lined paper. In the letter, Punk mentions the mud where he is located, his lack of news, being tired of Europe and wanting to return to the United States, his belief that he will be home soon to help with the shipping and branding of their cattle, his wife considering buying sheep, and wanting Vivian Sutherland to ask Opal ...
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Newspaper - 2018.029.0205
Newspaper announcing peace in Europe. It is Volume LIX, Number 125, Extra The Daily Times from Davenport, Iowa, May 7, 1945. The top of the paper has a headline that states formal V-E Announcements would be made the following day. A photograph of people celebrating in Times Square in New York is in the center of the front page. There are 12 pages. This newspaper was found in a trunk that belonged to Staff Sergeant Allen J. "Bud" Sutherland, bu...
Record Type: Archive
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Pamphlet - 2019.001.0122
Pamphlet of American cemeteries that were established under the jurisdiction of the War Department in both Europe and the United States after WWI and WWII. Descriptions of six out of eight cemeteries in Europe that were created after WWI are included with photographs. The pamphlet describes that these European cemeteries were created under the jurisdiction of the War Department, but jurisdiction changed to the American Battle Monuments Commission...
Record Type: Archive
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Photograph, Digital - 2018.030.0013
B/W photograph of Jack Nisselius in uniform standing in front of a statue and stone structure.
Record Type: Photo
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Photograph, Digital - 2018.030.0017
B/W photograph of Jack Nisselius in uniform during World War II. Large buildings are located in the back of the photo behind a line of trees.
Record Type: Photo
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Print, Photographic - 2019.001.0097
B/W photograph of soldiers on a street in France or a French-speaking region during WWII. There is a "PHARMACIE" in the background. The front window is advertising a market special. The text on the upper right of the store window begins with the word "FOURNISSEUR" which means "provider," but the rest of the text is illegible.
Record Type: Photo
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Serial - EC1152
Every Week paper (Volume XI, Number 6), printed for the week of October 16-20, 1944. It is paginated 41-48. The articles range in topic from the Presidential election between F. D. Roosevelt and Thomas E. Dewey, the importance of the Ruhr Valley in Germany (mass industrial production of war equipment for Germany; prime target for bombing by the allies), problems in Italy, and the creation of the United Nations. There is a monthly current events t...
Record Type: Archive
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Serial - EC1153
Every Week paper (Volume XI, Number 7), printed for the week of October 23-27, 1944. It is paginated 49-56. The articles discuss plans for the future of Germany after the war ends and how previous attempts to keep Germany from going to war had failed, disagreement among the Justices of the Supreme Court, cost and growth of the U.S. Navy, how the naval fleet was scrapped after WWI and questions about the future of the fleet after WWII, naval suppl...
Record Type: Archive
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Serial - EC1154
Every Week paper (Volume XI, Number 8), printed for the week of October 30-November 3, 1944. It is paginated 57-64. The paper includes articles about overcrowding in cities focused on the war effort, the Unites States' plan to bomb Formosa in the Pacific Ocean (to stop its aid to Japan and its use as an air and naval base for Japan; also to make a path for U.S. forces to the coast of China and to the Philippines), problems in Greece, the importan...
Record Type: Archive
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Serial - EC1156
Every Week paper (Volume XI, Number 10), printed for the week of November 13-17, 1944. It is paginated 73-80. The articles discuss Roosevelt winning the election for the fourth term, switching focus from the election to the war effort, planning for the transition from wartime to peacetime, United States' dissatisfaction with political and military organization in China, dividing the China-India-Burma command, development of a War Production Board...
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Serial - EC1157
Every Week paper (Volume X--appears to be a typo that should be "XI"; Number 11), printed for the week of November 27-December 1, 1944. It is paginated 81-88. The articles discuss postwar air transporation and who will be in control of the airways, oil production in Iran and Soviet interest, reconstruction and freedom in Belgium after liberation by British and Canadian forces, short descriptions and photographs of the leaders of the advance on th...
Record Type: Archive
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Serial - EC1158
Every Week paper (Volume XI, Number 12), printed for the week of December 4-8, 1944. It is paginated 89-96. The articles discuss the phases of the Allied invasion of Europe, Congress considering peacetime conscription, questions and answers about Social Security, Nazis bombing England with the V-2 Bomb (a.k.a Vergeltungswaffe No. 2) and Allies trying to win the war before the bomb's accuracy is improved, university students fighting on battlefron...
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Serial - EC1160
Every Week paper (Volume XI, Number 14), printed for the week of January 1-5, 1945. It is paginated 105-108. The articles discuss the ten biggest events of the previous year 1944, as well as the current events of the war (including reorganization of the State Department by the new Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, General MacArthur's invasion of Mindoro Island in the Philippines, air attacks on Japan by China and Saipan, disagreement on go...
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