| Collection Processed by: | Originally processed by Randy Williams, Steve Sturgeon, and Ann Buttars. |
| Register Prepared by: | Randy Williams |
| Date Last Updated: | March 2005 |
| Restrictions: | Any restrictions are noted on the release form that accompany tape recorded interview and memoir collections. |
Historical Note
Utah State University's Veterans History Project Collection began in 2003 as a means of documenting the personal histories of Northern Utah war veterans and those who served in support of them in order to more fully understand and acknowledge the local, state, and national U.S. military heritage. This project is part of the larger Library of Congress Veterans History Project, an impressive nationwide effort created with unanimous support by the United States Congress and signed into law by President Clinton on 27 October 2000. Public Law 106-380 calls upon the American Folklife Center at the LOC (and partner institutions, like Utah State University Libraries Special Collections and Archives) to collect and preserve audio- and video-taped oral histories, along with documentary materials such as letters, diaries, maps, photographs, and home movies, of America's war veterans and those who served in support of them. The Veterans History Project covers World War I, World War II, and the Korean, Vietnam, and Persian Gulf wars. It includes all participants in those wars--men and women, civilian and military. It documents the contributions of civilian volunteers, support staff, and war industry workers as well as the experiences of military personnel from all ranks and all branches of service--the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, and Navy, as well as the U.S. Coast Guard and Merchant Marine.
All participants in USU's Veterans History Project are included in the Library of Congress Veterans History Project's National Registry of Service. The collection continues to grow.
Provenance
The USU Veterans History Project began on 14 June 2003 when Utah State University Libraries Special Collections and Archives, with support from the Utah Humanities Council, hosted a one day Veterans Oral History Workshop to train interested northern Utah residents to collect oral histories of local U.S. veterans and those who served in support of them. Fifty individuals participated in the workshop. After the workshop, fieldworkers conducted tape-recorded oral interviews with local veterans concerning their wartime experiences. The tapes and transcripts from these interviews were donated to USU Libraries Special Collections and Archives. In addition, interested veterans contacted USU Libraries Special Collections and Archives in order to donate memoirs, letters, photographs, and other wartime documents. Thus, the items in the USU Veterans History Project Collection grew out of a community effort to record and preserve local U.S. wartime histories for present and future generations.
On 7 November 2003, a free public presentation of USU's Veterans Oral History Project was hosted by The Friends of USU Libraries, Concert and The Lecture Series at the [Logan] Tabernacle, Special Collections & Archives, USU Air Force ROTC, the Utah Humanities Council, and the Logan Herald Journal. The presentation "Voices of Cache Valley Veterans" honored five veterans who participated in the project: Rex Thompson, Blair Hale, R. Dell Tripp, Paul E. Huber, and fieldworker, Lt. Colonel Jeffrey Bateman.
Scope and Nature of Project
Utah State University’s Special Collections and Archives will collect and preserve audio- and video-taped oral histories and transcriptions, along with documentary materials such as original letters, original diaries, maps, identified photographs, and home movies, of U.S. war veterans and those who served in support of them. The target groups are northern Utah and southeastern Idaho veterans and support persons and, on a limited basis, USU alumni and USU affiliate veterans and support persons. For more information on this collection, subject search "Veterans History Project" on USU's online catalog.
The materials do NOT circulate and are not available through interlibrary loan.
Register
| Adams, Shirley M. | |
| War: | Korean War |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Air Force |
| Service Dates: | 1950-1971 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 181 |
| Adamson, Loyd Thomas | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army Air Corps |
| Service Dates: | 1941-1945 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript; Manuscript |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 158 |
| Allred, Parley Elwin | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army 104 Infantry Division |
| Service Dates: | 1942-1945 |
| Type of Material: | Memoir |
| CALL #: | File Mss 660 |
| Baird, Bruce L. | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army, U.S. Army Air Corps |
| Service Dates: | 1941-1945 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 159 |
| Barnes, Richard P. | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army Air Corps |
| Service Dates: | 1943-1945 |
| Type of Material: | Memoir |
| CALL #: | Book Coll 58, No. 45 |
| Bergstrom, Airus E. | |
| War: | WW II, Korean War, Vietnam War |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Air Force |
| Service Dates: | 1943-1972 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 180 |
| Blanthorn, Bryan. | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Navy (USS Indianapolis) |
| Service Dates: | 23 May 1944-September 1945 |
| Type of Material: | Memoir (with Tamera Newman) |
| CALL #: | BOOK COLL 58 no. 119 |
| Bosick, James F. | |
| War: | Korean War, Vietnam War |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Air Force |
| Service Dates: | 1952-1972 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 160 |
| Buttars, Chester J. | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army |
| Service Dates: | 1943-1946 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 182 |
| Christensen, Allen C. | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Air Force |
| Service Dates: | 1940-1946 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 161 |
| Christensen, Allen C. "Ace" A. C. | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | Army Air Corps (POW) |
| Service Dates: | 1940-1945 |
| Type of Material: | Memoir (with Tamera Newman) |
| CALL #: | BOOK COLL 58 no. 120 |
| Emert, George | |
| War: | Vietnam War |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army |
| Service Dates: | 1963-1966 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 162 |
| Engebretson, Charles L. | |
| War: | WW II, Korean War |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Marine Corps |
| Service Dates: | 1945-1956 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript & VCR Tape |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 216 |
| Ferguson, Edward A. | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army |
| Service Dates: | 1943-1946 |
| Type of Material: | Memoir |
| CALL #: | Book Coll 58 No. 91 |
| Fife, Austin Edwin. | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army Air Corps |
| Service Dates: | 1942-1945 |
| Type of Material: | Letters to daughter Carolyn Fife |
| CALL #: | Coll Mss 281, Box 5, Folders 26-27 |
| Flanders, Hyrum Edward | |
| War: | WW I |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army |
| Service Dates: | 1918-1919 |
| Type of Material: | Ed and Della: A Transcript of the Letters of Hyrum Edward Flanders to Della Mae Woolston by Marcia Flanders Stornetta, granddaughter |
| CALL #: | 920 F613-St |
| Gabourie, James Walter | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Navy |
| Service Dates: | 1942-1946 |
| Type of Material: | Memoir |
| CALL #: | File Mss 703 |
| Gardner, Walter Hale | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | Army Air Corps |
| Service Dates: | 1941-1946 |
| Type of Material: | Unpublished memior: Some World War II Memories Associated with the U.S. Air Proving Ground Command, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, 1941-1945 |
| CALL #: | File Mss 658/Book Coll 58 No. 103 |
| Gardner, Wilford Robert | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army |
| Service Dates: | 1943-1946 |
| Type of Material: | Unpublished Memoir: My War, Original letters written home to mother and sister, October 1943-27 March 1946 |
| CALL #: | Coll Mss 269, Box 1, Folder 16 |
| Goodliffe, Charles "Charlie" LaFount | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | Army (POW) |
| Service Dates: | 1941-1945 |
| Type of Material: | Memoir (with Tamera Newman) |
| CALL #: | BOOK COLL 58 no. 120 |
| Griffin, Richard Earl | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army Air Corps |
| Service Dates: | 1943 -1945 |
| Type of Material: | Memoir |
| CALL #: | 920 G875ms/920 G875s |
| Guymon, Wayne | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Marines Corps |
| Service Dates: | 1942-1945 |
| Type of Material: | Memoir |
| CALL #: | 920 G992 |
| Hale, Blair | |
| War: | WW II, Korean War, Vietnam War |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Army Air Forces, U.S. Air Force |
| Service Dates: | 1941-1965 |
| Type of Material: | Memoir |
| CALL #: | Book Coll 58 No. 92 |
| Hansen, Glen R. | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army Air Force |
| Service Dates: | 1941-1944 |
| Type of Material: | Memoir |
| CALL #: | File Mss 661 |
| Hess, Wendell | |
| War: | WW II, Korean War |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army |
| Service Dates: | 1946-48, 1950-1952 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 163 |
| Hiner, Carmen | |
| War: | WW II |
| Activity: | Home front |
| Dates: | 1941-1946 |
| Type of Material: | Letters to Sparky: A Memoir of WW II by Carmen Hiner, includes transcripts of letters from Harold Hiner to Carmen (sweetheart) during WW II |
| CALL #: | Book Coll 58 no. 39 |
| Hiner, Harold Lyle | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Marine Corps |
| Service Dates: | 1941-1946 |
| Type of Material: | Letters to Sparky: A Memoir of WW II by Carmen Hiner, includes transcripts of letters from Harold Hiner to Carmen (sweetheart) during WW II |
| CALL #: | Book Coll 58 no. 39 |
| Huber, Paul | |
| War: | Vietnam War |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Air Force |
| Service Dates: | 1965-1988 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 164 |
| Humphrey, William P. | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Navy |
| Service Dates: | 1944-1946 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript; Copy "History of U.S.S. LSM 228" |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 165 |
| Hunsaker, Collin Iverson | |
| War: | Vietnam |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army |
| Service Dates: | 1955-1981 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 166 |
| Larsen, Grant H. | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army |
| Service Dates: | 1942-1945 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 167 |
| Lewis, Loyd | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Marines |
| Service Dates: | 1942-1945 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 168 |
| Martindale, Loye | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Navy |
| Service Dates: | 1944-1946 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 169 |
| Munns, Eldon | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army |
| Service Dates: | 1940-1945 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 183 |
| Murphy, Melvin F. | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Air Force |
| Service Dates: | 1942-1945 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 170 |
| Nicholas, Grant Brunker | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army |
| Service Dates: | 1941-1947 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 171 |
| Nield, Galand | |
| War: | Vietnam War |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army |
| Service Dates: | 1970-1971 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript; Original and Transcript of Daily Letters written from Vietnam to wife; Slides; Photographs |
| CALL #: | Coll Mss 280, Box 1, Folders 1-2 |
| Parkinson, Grant P. | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Marine Corps |
| Service Dates: | 1942-1945 |
| Type of Material: | Unpublished Memoir |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 217 |
| Pavich, Michael D. | |
| War: | Vietnam War |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Air Force |
| Service Dates: | 1964-1993 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 172 |
| Rawlings, G. Barney | |
| War: | WW II, Korean War |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Air Force |
| Service Dates: | 1942-1974 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript; Copy of Military Biography |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 173 |
| Rogers, Dean | |
| War: | WW II, Korean War |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army |
| Service Dates: | 1942-1952 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript; Memoir; Copy of The Battle of the Aleutians: A Graphic History, 1942-1943; Yank: The Army Weekly, 10 September 1943; two War Ration Book Four; one War Ration Book Three; and a Ration Book Holder (Household): V. |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 174 |
| Sartor, Frank Willard | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army |
| Service Dates: | 1942-1946 |
| Type of Material: | Memoir |
| CALL #: | File Mss 704 |
| Smith, Doyle George | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Navy |
| Service Dates: | 1944-1946 |
| Type of Material: | Memoir |
| CALL #: | File Mss 705 |
| Stockton, Norman E.. | |
| War: | Vietnam War |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army |
| Service Dates: | 1952-1972 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript & VCR Tape |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 215 |
| Tazoi, Jim Yoshio | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army |
| Service Dates: | 1941-1944 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 175 |
| Thatcher, Theodore O. | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U. S. Army |
| Service Dates: | 1941-1945 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 176 |
| Thompson, Rex K. | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Marine Corps |
| Service Dates: | 1944-1946 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript; Memoir: including, "Iwo Jima: Guilt Trip Delux,” “Military Cemetery,” “Combat Via the Movies,” “Special Program,” “Code Talkers,” “One Little Boat,” “Saints at War;” and the chapter from life history: “Military” |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 177 |
| Tripp, R. Dell | |
| War: | WW II, Korean War, Vietnam War |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army |
| Service Dates: | 1946-1968 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 178 |
| Watterson, Alma E. | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army |
| Service Dates: | 1942-1946 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript; Memoir; Photocopies of Two Bronze Star Citations and Brief History of Mr. Watterson by his granddaughter Sara Smith |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 179 |
| Wheatley, Lester C. | |
| War: | WW II |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army, U.S. Army Air Corps |
| Service Dates: | 1943-1945 |
| Type of Material: | Taped interview & Transcript |
| CALL #: | Item Mss 195 |
| Whitesides, Joe Edward | |
| War: | WW II, Korean War |
| Branch of Service: | U.S. Army |
| Service Dates: | 1941-1946, 1950-1952 |
| Type of Material: | 204th Field Artillery Battalion In Korea; Typescript of Article “Brief History of the 204th F.A. BN.; resume, Copy of Obituary and Article about Mr. Whitesides from the Davis County Clipper; 2 photographs, 2 letters (Christmas letter by Lt. Col. Whitesides to his men on 25 December 1951 and the condolence letter to you at the passing of Mr. Whitesides from the LDS First Presidency), and the fun cartoon about Mr. Whitesides by Thorpe. |
| CALL #: | File Mss 648/Book Coll 58 No. 102 |
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