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Aachen, Battle of, Aachen, Germany, 1944

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Jack Appel transcript

 Collection — Box Single Folder Collections-2003 Box, Folder: 03.0103 - Folder 1
Identifier: 02.03.0103
Scope and Contents Private First Class Jack Appel's oral history transcript details his life before and during World War II where he served with the 17th Signal Operations Battalion in the United States Army in the European Theater of Operations. His oral history elaborates on his early life, contracting Spinal Meningitis, completing basic training, trying to apply to Officer Candidate School, becoming a driver/messenger, arriving in Europe, landing at Normandy, traveling through France Belgium, and...
Dates: 1943-1945; Date acquired: 06/10/2003

Jack Appel transcript

 Collection — Box Single Folder Collections-2003 Box, Folder: 03.0103 - Folder 1
Identifier: 02.03.0103
Scope and Contents Private First Class Jack Appel's oral history transcript details his life before and during World War II where he served with the 17th Signal Operations Battalion in the United States Army in the European Theater of Operations. His oral history elaborates on his early life, contracting Spinal Meningitis, completing basic training, trying to apply to Officer Candidate School, becoming a driver/messenger, arriving in Europe, landing at Normandy, traveling through France Belgium, and...
Dates: 1943-1945; Date acquired: 06/10/2003

Francis Montague Wells papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 02.09.0040
Scope and Contents

The Francis Montague Wells collection, consisting of seventy-one letters, offers the insight and perspective of an enlisted Private First Class with the 119th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, in the European campaign during World War II.  The collection also contains two photographs of Francis Wells and a letter from his daughter Peggy Wells Hughes.

Dates: 1944-1945; Majority of material found in 1945; Date acquired: 04/28/2009

Francis Montague Wells papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 02.09.0040
Scope and Contents

The Francis Montague Wells collection, consisting of seventy-one letters, offers the insight and perspective of an enlisted Private First Class with the 119th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, in the European campaign during World War II.  The collection also contains two photographs of Francis Wells and a letter from his daughter Peggy Wells Hughes.

Dates: 1944-1945; Majority of material found in 1945; Date acquired: 04/28/2009

James Lockett papers

 Collection — Box Single Folder Collections - 2000 Box, Folder: 00.0889-Folder 1
Identifier: 02.00.0889
Scope and Contents James William Lockett served in the U.S. Army 28th Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division, 1st Army, in the European (ETO), North African, and Mediterranean Theaters. Colonel Lockett was a 1928 West Point graduate. The collection includes a ten-page manuscript entitled "The March," which is about Lockett's serving with the Army in the European Theater and being a POW. Lockett was made to march by German guards with approaching Russians in January 1945. He discusses his encounters with the...
Dates: 1943-1945; Majority of material found in 1944; Date acquired: 12/08/2000

James Lockett papers

 Collection — Box Single Folder Collections - 2000 Box, Folder: 00.0889-Folder 1
Identifier: 02.00.0889
Scope and Contents James William Lockett served in the U.S. Army 28th Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division, 1st Army, in the European (ETO), North African, and Mediterranean Theaters. Colonel Lockett was a 1928 West Point graduate. The collection includes a ten-page manuscript entitled "The March," which is about Lockett's serving with the Army in the European Theater and being a POW. Lockett was made to march by German guards with approaching Russians in January 1945. He discusses his encounters with the...
Dates: 1943-1945; Majority of material found in 1944; Date acquired: 12/08/2000