Interview with Charles Theriault, by Steve Showers for the Voices from the Second World War: An Oral History, Center for Oral History, University of Connecticut, 30 March 2000.
Interview with Albert O. Montambault by Joseph J. Masi for the WWII Oral History Project, Center for Oral History, University of Connecticut, 1 December 1999.
Interview with Edward LaPointe by Steve Showers for the WWII Oral History Project, Center for Oral History, University of Connecticut, 23 February 2000.
Interview with Art Frechette, by Steve Showers for the Voices from the Second World War: An Oral History, Center for Oral History, University of Connecticut, 22 March 2000.
This collection consists of 58 slides numbered from 42 to 99 of Camp Hale in Colorado where Lorenzo Voisine, only known person from Fort Kent, Maine, to be accepted in Company A of the 86th Mountain Regiment in the 10th Mountain Division in 1943 during World War II. The slides are of soldiers in training, area views of the surrounding Rocky Mountains and forests, ski slopes, and Camp Hale barracks.
This collection consists of handwritten correspondence from 1975-1997 between Mr. Merle Rainey and Mr. René Ducroquet who was Mr. Rainey's French resistance host while he was hiding from the Germans in France, during World War II. Also included are a few newspaper articles on Colonel Thomas Christian whose plane was shot down on August 12, 1944 during the same mission over France with Mr. Rainey.
Extracts from the orders issued by General James Wolfe during the Quebec campaign, dated April 30-September 12, 1759, and by Generals George Townshend and James Murray at Quebec, dated September 14, 1759 through April 28, 1760. These extracts appear to be in a contemporary hand. They include orders not found in John Knox's Journal (London, 1769) and the text often differs from that given by Knox. At the end of the volume is a short account of Wolfe's death, and of the landing of his body at Portsmouth
Diary kept by Exes H. Minet, who enlisted from Mount Tabor, Vermont, in Company E, of the 2nd Sharpshooter Regiment. The entries are short and concern the weather, his duties as corporal, and brief descriptions of battles and troop movements. Of note, in his entry dated 22 February, Minott mentions that a woman dressed in men's clothing was found in one of the barracks. The diary entries stop on 3 July and resume on 22 August. Included are two photographs of Exes H. Minet, one in uniform and one as a civilian. As well, there is a color photograph of his gravestone. Finally, there is also included a small Catholic prayer book in French. Note that Exes' surname was spelled three different ways, Minet, Minett, and Minette.
Consists of papers, mostly correspondence with the Veterans Administration, accumulated by Lillian Dussault of Philadelphia regarding pension benefits through her common-law husband Joseph Thomas Dussault (1890-1944), a veteran of World War I born at St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Joseph Dussault died in Spring of 1944 and these papers extend from his death to 1946. Although most correspondence is addressed to Lillian Dussault in Philadelphia some records are also from Camden, New Jersey, where Joseph Dussault was located as late as 1942.
Journal kept by Robert R. Lahue while he served on the U. S. S. Ringgold. The front half of the journal contains technical information relating to the boiler system fo the U.S.S. Ringgold. The journal also includes ten pages of Lahue's "Personal Diary" covering the dates January 1, 1943 through August 25, 1945, containing terse entries describing the movements of the ship. A souvenir pamphlet dated October 27, 1945, listing the personnel and giving details of the history of the ship in the Pacific.
