Korea
10723 Vernon L. Olson
Papers, 1954-1956
Carrington, ND; Sheyenne, ND
Letters Olson wrote during the Korean War to his mother, photographs, family history. (.5ft)
10873 North Dakota Veterans' History Project
Records, 2000-2006
Interviews of North Dakota veterans who served in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf War, War of Iraq, and other military conflicts. Files include audio and some video recordings, manuscripts, photographs, scrapbooks, and project coordinator’s files. A complete table of all participants is available. Sponsors of the project include AARP-North Dakota, Dickinson State University, Senator Byron L. Dorgan, Minot State University, North Dakota Humanities Council, North Dakota State University, Williston State College, and numerous students and citizens of North Dakota. (32ft)
21082 Shirley (Lee) Moe
Papers. 1906-1976
Letters, biographical sketches, and computer prints of photographs written by Mrs. Moe, from her brother Donald M. Lee and friend Francis (Fritz) Herzberg, who served in the Korean War. (.1ft)
Cold War
10903 United States Air Force Safeguard Missile Base
Records, 1970-1975
Housing and building plans, shop drawings, and specifications, reports, plans for security and sanitary facilities, and aerial photographs for the missile base near Cavalier, ND. (2.5ft)
10975 Oscar Zero [O-0] Missile Alert Facility (Cooperstown, ND)
Records, 1965
Color photographs taken by the United States Air Force of site conditions at the facility in February 1965. Oscar Zero's alpha numeric identifier is alpha letter O and the numeral zero (0) i.e. O as in Oscar and Zero as in the number zero. (.25ft)
11050 Oscar Zero [O-0] Missile Alert Facility
Records, 1964-2008
Manuals, a technical order (TO) manual, Missile Alert Kitchen menu, news clipping, print of the poem "Missileer" by Captain Robert A. Wyckoff, and photographs. (13.5ft)
20774 Ray B. Nordyke
Papers, 1962
Correspondence, negotiations, reports, maps, and architectural drawings relating to land acquisition by the U.S. Air Force of missile sites in North Dakota. (49 items)
Vietnam
10602 North Dakota Veterans of Vietnam
Records, 1992
Oral history interviews of North Dakota soldiers reflecting on their service in Vietnam. (20 cassettes)
10824 Rodney S. Hermanson
Papers, 1967
Photographs, field notebooks, maps of Vietnam, and publications. Hermanson served in Vietnam with the Third Reconnaissance Battalion, as a member of Bravo company in the United States Marine Corps, 1965-1967. (2ft)
10873 North Dakota Veterans' History Project
Records, 2000-2006
Interviews of North Dakota veterans who served in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf War, War of Iraq, and other military conflicts. Files include audio and some video recordings, manuscripts, photographs, scrapbooks, and project coordinator’s files. A complete table of all participants is available. Sponsors of the project include AARP-North Dakota, Dickinson State University, Senator Byron L. Dorgan, Minot State University, North Dakota Humanities Council, North Dakota State University, Williston State College, and numerous students and citizens of North Dakota. (32ft)
20114 Terry Baker
Papers, 1967
Letters from Baker, a Major in the U.S. Marine Corps, to Ruth Cordner, Bismarck, ND concerning the distribution of clothing to children in Chu Lai, South Vietnam; photographs of Vietnamese children; printed material; and a map. (55 items)
20344 Sadie McDonald Jenks
Papers, 1908-1967
Inkster, ND
Family letters, photographs, and postcards from relatives who served in the Vietnam War and in the American Expeditionary Force army of occupation in Germany in WWI. (38 items)
Gulf War
10573 North Dakota National Guard Desert Storm
Records, 1990
Handbooks and manuals, written in the Arabic language, photographs, an Iraqi military map, Islamic religious pamphlets, an English translation of the Koran, a U.S. Department of Defense map and a U.S. road map of the Persian Gulf area. (1.75ft)
10873 North Dakota Veterans' History Project
Records, 2000-2006
Interviews of North Dakota veterans who served in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf War, War of Iraq, and other military conflicts. Files include audio and some video recordings, manuscripts, photographs, scrapbooks, and project coordinator’s files. A complete table of all participants is available. Sponsors of the project include AARP-North Dakota, Dickinson State University, Senator Byron L. Dorgan, Minot State University, North Dakota Humanities Council, North Dakota State University, Williston State College, and numerous students and citizens of North Dakota. (32ft)
21072 John D. Czapiewski Operation Desert Shield
Reminiscence, 2010
One page reminiscence and a 1951 issue of National Geographic featuring an article on North Dakota. Czapiewski found the issue in a pile of rubble while serving in the North Dakota National Guard in Saudi Arabia in 1990. (.05ft)
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