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World War, 1939-1945

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

C. L. Marquette World War II Correspondence, 1944-1945

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 264
Summary Correspondence addressed to Professor C. L. (Clare Leslie) Marquette by five friends and former students serving in World War II - Bill Dormady, George Easen, Philip Fuller, Merlin Matthews, and Roy Oppegard. Marquette taught history at various Wisconsin high schools from 1928-1936. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1937 and 1940 respectively. He served as Professor of American History at the University of Mississippi from 1946-1972. In the late 1940s through...
Dates: 1944-1945

Chippewa River Valley (Wis.) World War II Collection, 1943-1945

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 223
Summary

World War II era ration books, programs, brochures, and ephemera collected by residents of the Eau Claire area, 1943-1945.

Dates: 1943-1945

Eleanor Jones Papers, 1921-2023

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 378
Summary

Materials collected by Eleanor Jones in her time as a musician in the Marine Corps Women Reserve Band in World War II, in the group known as the “Hormel Girls,” and her life afterwards. Collection consists of photographs, correspondence, documents, scrapbooks, and ephemera collected primarily between 1943-1952, but which also extend as late as 2017.

Dates: 1921-2023

Mahoney Family Papers, 1919-2021

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 384
Summary

Letters, photographs, diaries, oral histories, and ephemera associated with the Mahoney, Parker, and Peterson families from the Chippewa Valley in Wisconsin. The bulk of the materials are associated with Alexander Robert Mahoney. The materials of this collection date from approximately 1919-2021, with the majority from the 1940s.

Dates: 1919-2021

Norman “Kee” Hahn Papers, 1940-1968, 2011 (bulk 1940-1944)

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 349
Summary

Letters, news articles, photographs and artifacts relating to Norman Kee Hahn, a World War II veteran. Hahn was born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, in 1916. Hahn served in the Canadian Royal Air Force from 1940-1942, and then fought for the United States as a pilot for the U.S. Navy from 1942-1945.

Dates: 1940-1968, 2011 (bulk 1940-1944)

World War II Interviews, 1983

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 258
Summary This collection contains interview materials of Wisconsin World War II Veterans from a UW-Eau Claire History 187 class from spring 1983. Bret Showers interviewed Elroy Huwe, who was in the 501st regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, about Operation Market Garden in Holland. Dan Johnson interviewed Orrin Grilley about jungle combat in the South Pacific. Peter L. Starke interviewed Harry R. Starke, a Captain in the CBI Theater and a hump pilot. Contains three cassette tapes of recorded...
Dates: 1983

World War II Materials, 1941-1947

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BO
Summary

Lists of veterans and casualties; civil defense membership cards; material pertaining to the Wisconsin and the Eau Claire County Councils of Defense; and lists of local church members serving in the war, as well as the newsletters which some of these churches published. Probably compiled by staff at the Eau Claire Public Library.

Dates: 1941-1947