World War, 1939-1945 – Personal narratives, American
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 6 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
Hoff Family Correspondence, 1917-2002 (bulk 1917, 1941-1945)
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 387
Summary
Correspondence, photographs, and biographical materials from the Hoff family, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and their time in World War I and World War II. The material ranges from 1917-2002, with the bulk of the material from 1917 and 1941-1945, and details the service of Edwin Peterson (WWI), Olaf Hoff (WWI), and Glenn Sauer (WWII).
Dates:
1917-2002 (bulk 1917, 1941-1945)
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)
Florence M. Larkin Papers, circa 1883-1974
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CL
Summary
Extensive correspondence and personal papers of Florence Larkin of Eau Claire, Wis., together with smaller quantities of correspondence and papers of her husband and relatives in the Sullivan and Robertson families. The papers document Larkin's student years at Vassar College, teaching school in Wisconsin, New Jersey, and Michigan, work for the YMCA Women's Service in Europe during World War I, marriage to Edwin Larkin in her late forties, and active membership in the Eau Claire civic and...
Dates:
circa 1883-1974
Register of the Robert W. Dirks Papers, 1942-1945, 1990
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CN
Summary
Letters written by Robert W. Dirks of Jackson County, Wis. to his future wife, Leatrice Sonenberg, during World War II and a reminiscence based on the letters written by Mr. Dirks in 1990. Dirks served from 1942 to 1945 with the 178th Signal Repair Company. He describes his training at Camp Shelby, Miss., the Midland Radio School in Athens, Ga., radio school in Lexington, Ky., and Camp Polk, La. After being shipped overseas, much of his duty time was spent installing radios in vehicles in...
Dates:
1942-1945, 1990
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