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Korea | Cold War | Vietnam | Gulf War

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)

10945 Leroy Landom
1925-1970
Includes Landom’s personnel file, newspaper clippings, certificates, and photographs. (1.5ft.)

11231 John "Jack" M. Bangerter
ca. 1948-1960
Consists of printed material, photographs and slides from Bangerter's service in the Navy and his career working for the Western Electric Defense Project Division of Bell Telephone Company installing and testing radar and communication systems on the DEWline (Distant Early Warning) in Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. (4ft. and oversize)

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)

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)

21103 ND Vietnam Servicemen Killed in Action
ca 1960s-1975
Images of of ND servicemen killed in action in Vietnam. Images are from newspapers, publications, and photographs. Images are organized alphabetically by last name. (1 CD/224 digital images) For Reference Use Only

21176 Maury Cameron Thompson
1963
Maury Thompson’s "Selective Service System Registration Certificate," dated December 30, 1963. Museum Transfer. Related to SHSND 2008.00066 (1 item).

21398 Philip S. Sharpe
4/2018
Consists of Sharpe's manuscript "Twenty Below: My Sixteen Months on a RADAR Site in North Dakota," which documents his service with the 785th AC&W Squadron in Finley (N.D.) from February 1954 to June 1955. He describes life in North Dakota, living conditions on the base, including food, accommodations, entertainment, the town of Finley, the winters, weather, and memories of working at the RADAR site. Sharpe was discharged from the United States Air Force June 25, 1955. The collection also includes a Google Earth photo showing what remains of the 785th AC&W Squadron with a key created by Sharpe, and a brief history of the Finley Air Force Station (0.05 ft.).

Vietnam

10602 North Dakota Veterans of Vietnam
Records, 1992
Oral history interviews with North Dakota soldiers who reflect on their service to the United States during and after the Vietnam War. Interviews were conducted by State Archives intern Steven Motis. (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)

11258 David L. Johnson
1964-2013
Consists of correspondence written by David L. Johnson to his parents Dorothy and Perlin Johnson while training and serving in the U.S. Navy Corps in California and in Vietnam. The correspondence mostly covers Johnson's training and military duties in Vietnam, and also includes personal matters such as money, recreational activities, friends, music and cars. The collection also includes photographic slides, prints and negatives. The bulk of the images document Johnson's time in Vietnam. Digital scans of the slides are available, and a VHS of a slide show is also located with the collection. (1.5 ft. and digital scans)

11322 Prairie Memories: the Vietnam Years
1965-2017
Consists of audio recordings of interviews with North Dakota veterans of the Vietnam War, as well as digital scans and photocopies of photographs, moving image, newspaper clippings, publications, and printed material, supplied by the interviewees at the time of interview. Items were scanned/photocopied and returned to the donors. (.25ft and digital)

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)

21103 North Dakota Vietnam Servicemen Killed in Action
1960-1975
Consists of one disc of 224 digital images of ND servicemen killed in action in Vietnam. Images are from newspapers, publications, and photographs. Images are organized alphabetically by last name. (.5ft.)

21160 Claire Eide Vietnam Poetry
1970s
Consists of poems with chords for guitar accompaniment written by Eide after he returned from service in Vietnam. The collection has been digitized and is available in PDF format. (.05ft)

21182 Vietnam letter
1966?
Consists of a letter written to Jo Bolke, a Dickinson State College Student, from Barry (last name unknown), who was serving in the Vietnam War, likely in the Seventh Fleets Special Landing Force of the Marines. The letter discusses recreational activities and military action, drinking, venereal disease, and his fellow enlisted men. The letter was sent from San Francisco (CA). Donor unknown (1 item).

21297 They Served With Honor
2015
Feature articles on individual Vietnam Veterans from North Dakota published in the Bismarck Tribune from September to November 2015. (.05ft)

21300 Glenn Merton Thoreson
ca. 1960s-2015
Consists of an oral history interview conducted by Sarah Walker on November 12, 2015 (digital), WDAY footage of Thoreson (digital and DVD with collection), photographs of Thoreson with his F4-C Phantom airplane "Rosie DEE," and scans from a scrapbook documenting Thoreson's life (digital). The scrapbook was returned to the donor. (.05 ft plus digital files (documents, photographs, oral history and moving image))

21358 Leona Hauge
October 3, 2017
Consists of an interview with Leona Hauge about her late husband Byron Kulland about his service in Vietnam and scans of images of Kulland (1 digital file).

21396 William Russell Gietzen
2014
Consists of newspaper clippings about Vietnam veteran William Russell Gietzen (Glen Ullin, N.D.). Articles include the series "Back to Vietnam after 43 Years" which discusses Russell's first trip back to Vietnam, with his wife Anh, since serving in the Vietnam war. Other articles detail Anh's family in Vietnam, Anh's first visit to her family under communist rule in 1975, and Russell's reminiscences of his experiences in Vietnam. The articles were originally published in the Glen Ullin Times (0.05 ft.).

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)

11169 Colonel William Franklin Hook
1989-2012
Consists of two of Colonel Hook's 311th Evacuation Hospital binders, an after action report by Hook, three Desert Storm scrapbooks, a story of the 311th in Operation Desert Shield/Storm by Col. Jacobson, a copy of Col. Hook's 2012 book Desert Storm Diary: Including the Ten Commandments of Muslim Diplomacy, Hook’s original diary, and a 311th TSOP (Tactical Standing Operating Procedures) manual. (1.25ft)

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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