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Title: Leroy A. Landom
Dates: 1925-1970
Collection Number: 10945
Quantity: 1.5 feet
Abstract: Includes Landom’s personnel file, newspaper clippings, certificates, and photographs.
Provenance: The State Historical Society of North Dakota acquired the Leroy A. Landom Papers from the David Landom in January 2006.
Property Rights: The State Historical Society of North Dakota owns the property rights to this collection.
Copyrights: Copyrights to materials in this collection remain with the donor, publisher, author, or author's heirs. Researcher should consult the 1976 Copyright Act, Public Law 94-553, Title 17 U.S. Code and an archivist at this repository if clarification of copyright requirements is needed.
Access: This collection is open under the rules and regulations of the State Historical Society of North Dakota. Citation: Researchers are requested to cite the collection title, collection name, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota in all footnote and bibliographic references.
Transfer: Medals were transferred to the Museum Division.
Biographical Sketch
From the Grand Forks Herald, April 20, 1970
Brig. Gen. Leroy A. Landom, 61, Bismarck, retired assistant adjutant general of the North Dakota National Guard, died Sunday at a local hospital. He had been hospitalized since April 3. Gen. Landom was a native of Grand Forks. Funeral services are tentatively set for 2 p.m. Thursday at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church at Bismarck. Burial will be at Fort Snelling National Cemetery at Minneapolis.
Gen. Landom was born Jan. 12, 1909 in Grand Forks. He grew up here and was educated at Grand Forks Central High School and the University of North Dakota. He enlisted in the National Guard in Grand Forks in 1923 as a private. He was commissioned as an officer in 1937.
Gen. Landom left Grand Forks with officers of the 188th Field Artillery in March 1941, after being mobilized for one year’s training. With the United States entry into World War II, Gen. Landom served overseas in the European Theater, including the Battle of the Bulge. Following the end of the war, Gen. Landom returned to Grand Forks after having served for a brief period at the national selective service headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Gen. Landom was then named U.S. Property & Fiscal Officer of the North Dakota National Guard at Bismarck. He was promoted a number of times while at Bismarck and in 1968 retired as assistant adjutant general of the state National Guard. Gov. William L. Guy presented Gen. Landom with the Distinguished Service Medal of North Dakota on his retirement. He had served 42 years with the Army and National Guard.
Gen. Landom married the former Earliss Sands of Alvarado, Minn. On Oct. 9, 1937 at Alvarado. He was a member of the American Legion, Masonic Bodies, the Shrine, and the Elks Lodge.
Surviving are his wife; one son, David Landom, Fargo, and one sister, Mrs. Irene Landom Shirley, Brainerd, Minn.
Photographs Inventory
Box 1:
10945-00001 Gen. L. A. Melhouse awards the 40 year Service Medal to Gen. Leroy A. Landom, Bismarck (N.D.) 02/17/1966
10945-00002 General Leroy A. Landom circa 1966
10945-00003 General Leroy A. Landom circa 1960
10945-00004 General Leroy A. Landom with officers Miller and Thomas circa 1960
10945-00005 General Leroy A. Landom and Mrs. Earliss Landom circa 1960
10945-00006 Leroy A. Landom circa 1945
10945-00007 Brig. Gen. Leroy Landom awards Joseph J. Bride a Certificate of Appreciation 11/15/1967
10945-00008 ND National Guard officers circa 1960
10945-00009 General L. A. Melhouse awards the 40 year Service Medal to Gen. Leroy Landom 02/17/1966
10945-00010 General Leroy A. Landom circa 1960
10945-00011 National Guard officers at their desks circa 1960
10945-00012 North Dakota National Guard officers, Grand Forks (N.D.) circa 1960
10945-00013 Lt. Col. Leroy Landom at his desk circa 1960
10945-00015 ND National Guard officers stand in front of the Minnie H, Omaha (Neb.) 05/15/1966
10945-00016 Governor Bill Guy hangs the Distinguished Service Medal around the neck of Gen. Leroy A. Landom 09/06/1968
10945-00017 Adj. Gen. L. A. Melhouse presents Lt. Col. Leroy A. Landom with the Army Commendation Medal 06/1964
10945-00018 NDNG officers Bastion, Wood and Landom circa 1965
10945-00020 NDNG officers dinner circa 1960
10945-00021 Gen. Leroy Landom and two officers circa 1965
10945-00022 Gen. Landom observes a soldier at work circa 1965
10945-00023 NDNG officers weariing bow ties and jackets with the Governor's shield patches circa 1960
10945-00024 NDNG officers Brocopp, Tharpe and Landom circa 1960
10945-00025 NDNG Group and Battalion Commanders, Camp Grafton (N.D.) 06/15/1966
10945-00026 Annual 5th Army Area Supply Conference, Decatur Signal Depot 04/25/1957
10945-00027 Elevated view of Fraine Barracks and Liberty Memorial Bridge, Bismarck (N.D.) 1950-1960
10945-00028 NDNG officers with flatbed trucks 1950-1960
10945-00029 Leroy Landom and his wife Earliss in front of their home circa 1940
10945-00030 Landom on a motorcycle, England circa 1940
10945-00031 Landom in Brussels, Belgium circa 1945
10945-00032 Landom smoking a cigarette 10/16/1940
10945-00033 Leroy Landom 10/16/1940
10945-00034 Leroy Landom circa 1950
10945-00035 Leroy Landom circa 1950
10945-00036 Leroy Landom circa 1950
10945-00037 Leroy Landom sitting outside with a buddy circa 1950
10945-00038 Leroy Landom circa 1950
10945-00039 Soldiers getting chow in the stone cabin, Camp Grafton (N.D.) circa 1950
10945-00040 Landom getting food from a frying pan circa 1950
10945-00041 Group posed at a party circa 1950
10945-00042 Leroy Landom at his desk circa 1950
10945-00043 Leroy Landom 11/03/1944
10945-00044 Leroy Landom circa 1945
10945-00045 Leroy Landom circa 1935
10945-00046 Leroy Landom seated at a desk 12/27/1942
10945-00047 Leroy Landom seated at a desk circa 1950
10945-00048 Leroy Landom and three officers pose by a pool circa 1950
10945-00049 Leroy Landom circa 1945
10945-00050 NDNG officers having coffee at a table circa 1950
10945-00051 Mrs. Landom, General Landom and Governor Guy look at the Distinguished Service Award presented to Landom 09/06/1968
10945-00052 Landom and officers pose with Governor Guy 09/06/1968
10945-00053 Gen. Leroy Landom at his desk circa 1965
10945-00055 Leroy Landom in the hospital after a slight stroke 1969
10945-00056 Fraine Barrack flag at half staff for General Leroy Landom's funeral 04/24/1970
10945-00057 General Leroy Landom's flag draped casket in Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Bismarck (N.D.) 04/24/1970
10945-00058 Pall bearers moving the casket of Gen. Leroy Landom 04/24/1970
10945-00059 Pall bearers moving the casket of Gen. Leroy Landom 04/24/1970
10945-00060 Casket of Gen. Leroy Landom at the airport 04/24/1970
10945-00061 Gen. Leroy Landom's casket on a trailer pulled by Frontier Airlines 04/24/1970
10945-00062 Tombstone of General Leroy Landom at Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis (Minn.) 1970
Box 2:
1 Certificates 1933-1970
2 Newspaper Clippings 1933-1970
3 Orders and Pay 1941-1945
4 Personnel file 1925-1959
5 History of the stone building at Camp Grafton 1970
Oversize
Certificate of Retirement 07/31/1968
Distinguished Service Medal Citation 1968
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