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Pasquale Di Giovanni personal documents

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0832
Abstract

This small collection contains documents related to the military service and travels of Italian-American immigrant Pasquale Di Giovanni between 1883 and 1903.

Dates: 1883-1903
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Thomas F. Jones, Sr., papers regarding the Civilian Conservation Corps and Pearl Harbor

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0651
Abstract

This collection consists of photograph albums, training manuals, documents, and artifacts related to Thomas F. Jones, Sr.'s service in the Civilian Conservation Corps and later as a solider in the United States Army Coast Artillery stationed in Hawaii during and after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Dates: 1937-1946
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Robert Kirkwood documents from the collection of Helen and Paul Elm

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0777
Abstract

This collection features a letter, dated June 23, 1777, from Captain Robert Kirkwood of Newark, Delaware, to his father (Robert Kirkwood, Sr.) during the Continental Army’s New Jersey Campaign of the American Revolutionary War. The collection also contains military records related to officer appointments, muster rolls, subsistence rolls, and clothing supplies.

Dates: 1777, 1779-1780
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Samuel C. T. and Julia Dudkewitz McDowell World War II correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0748
Abstract Samuel C. T. McDowell (1920-2007) was an American Army Air Force lieutenant in World War II. His wife, Julia Dudkewitz McDowell (1923-2001), was a tracing clerk in the Reproduction Department, Design Division at E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company in the 1940s. This collection comprises letters exchanged by the serviceman and his spouse on the homefront in Delaware, on a nearly daily basis, during the period 1943-1945. During this time, Samuel was stationed domestically and deployed in...
Dates: 1937-1945, 2002; Majority of material found within 1943-1945
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Nineteenth-century American military collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0541
Abstract The Nineteenth-century American military collection is an artificial collection that contains 1.6 linear feet of American military records spanning the period 1846-1903. The bulk of the collection dates from the American Civil War (1861-1865). Additional records are from the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) and the remainder of the nineteenth century. There are also five items pertaining to the Mexican War (1846-1848) and two documents from the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers...
Dates: 1846-1903; Majority of material found within 1861-1865
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Henry J. Southmayd, Jr., World War II letters to the Southmayd family

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0666
Abstract

This collection consists of 58 letters written by Henry J. Southmayd, Jr., to his family between 1940 and 1945 while serving in the 65th Fighter Squadron, 57th Fighter Group of the 12th Army Air Force. The letters detail his recruitment into the Army Air Corps and subsequent training as well as the events and conditions experienced while participating in the North African and Italian campaigns of the European Theater during World War II.

Dates: 1940-1967; Majority of material found within 1940-1945
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
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Kirkwood, Robert, 1756-1791 1
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McDowell, Julia Dudkewitz, 1923-2001 1
McDowell, Samuel C. T., 1920-2007 1
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 1
Southmayd, Henry J., Jr., 1915-1967 1
Southmayd, Henry J., Jr., 1915-1967--Correspondence 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 12th 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Group, 57th 1
United States. Army. Coast Artillery, 15th 1
United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers 1
United States. Colored Troops 1
United States. Continental Army. Delaware Regiment 1
United States. War Department 1
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