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World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Broadcasting Services records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-3.3.5
Scope and Contents This collection consists of materials from Broadcasting Services, WKAR-TV, WMSB, and WKAR AM/FM. Included are programming guides, meeting minutes, Federal Communications Commission channel hearings, and photographic materials. The Electronic Resources include digitized University Distinguished Professor videos from 2005 and 2007; a video of oral history interviews titled "Out of the Fields"; audio recordings of interviews of survivors and veterans of World War II living in...
Dates: 1920 - 2008
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Carl Wilbur Saldeen collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.296
Scope and Contents

The Carl Wilbur Saldeen collection contains a student receipt from 1946. The receipt lists the fees Saldeen paid. The receipt is stamped with "Vet Admin GI" indicating that Saldeen was a veteran attending Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) on the GI bill. Also included is his student identification card from 1939.

Dates: 1939, 1946
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Doris A. Paul collection

 Collection
Identifier: 00250
Scope and Content The collection contains taped interviews by Doris Paul of Navajo Marines who served as code talkers during World War II. Also interviewed were members of the Navajo Nation government and cultural institutions, a U.S. Marine 4th Division Reunion Chairman, and Philip Johnston, the initiator of the code talker program. The interviews were used for writing her book "The Navajo Code Talkers" (1973). Also included is a taped recording of a banquet in 1975 honoring the code talkers following the...
Dates: 1971 - 2015
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Francis "Fran" Dittrich Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.463
Scope and Contents

The Francis “Fran” Dittrich collection consists of three scrapbooks created by Fran Dittrich, during his time as Michigan State’s Track & Field and Cross Country Head Coach. Two of the scrapbooks contain newspaper articles discussing the teams, while the third consists of photographs, articles, certificates, correspondence regarding Dittrich’s career and those of the head coaches before him, and Dittrich's MSU identification card.

Dates: 1963 - 1983
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Rehabilitation of Discharged Military Personnel Committee records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-2.1.12.4
Scope and Content

The collection contains two reports of the Committee on Rehabilitation of Discharged Military Personnel entitled Instructional and Services Facilties of Michigan State College.

Dates: 1943 - 1944
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections