Box 2
Container
Contains 81 Results:
Veterans Remember D-Day, 1994
File — Box: 2, Folder: 35
Identifier: Folder 35
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From the Sub-Series:
In 1994, Kevin Bonham of the Grand Forks Herald solicited letters from readers who had been present at the allied invasion of Normandy fifty years earlier on June 6, 1944. This one folder accession (# 94-1959) contains the original correspondence that Bonham received in reply.
Dates:
created: 1862-
Memoirs: 1993
File — Box: 2, Folder: 48
Identifier: Folder 48
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Robert George Bjoring was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota on August 26, 1920. In 1938, he entered the University of North Dakota with the intention of becoming a lawyer. While at UND, he participated in the Civilian Pilot Training Program and earned a private pilot's license. In 1940, he entered the United States Army Air Corps pilot training program. Upon graduation, he was stationed in the Philippines. He arrived there on Thanksgiving Day, 1941. He participated in battles on Luzon in the...
Dates:
created: 1862-
Edna M. Boardman
Sub-Series — Box: 2
Identifier: Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents
Edna M. Boardman donated one folder of materials in which she describes her experiences during World War II. This includes a photocopy of her article, "Winning World War II: How a North Dakota Farm Child Did Her Part for the War Effort," which appeared in the March 1992 issue of Heritage Review. Boardman was six when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. She and her family were Mennonite Germans from Russia. Boardman provides a view of...
Dates:
created: 1862-
Memoirs: 1992, 1993
File — Box: 2, Folder: 42
Identifier: Folder 42
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Edna M. Boardman donated one folder of materials in which she describes her experiences during World War II. This includes a photocopy of her article, "Winning World War II: How a North Dakota Farm Child Did Her Part for the War Effort," which appeared in the March 1992 issue of Heritage Review. Boardman was six when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. She and her family were Mennonite Germans from Russia. Boardman provides a view of...
Dates:
created: 1862-
Nancy Harvey/ Thompson Public Schools
Sub-Series — Box: 2
Identifier: Sub-Series 2
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During the Persian Gulf War, teacher Nancy Harvey's fifth grade class in the Thompson Public School (Thompson, North Dakota) regularly corresponded with Second Lieutenant Davina French, a soldier from Tacoma, Washington stationed in the Persian Gulf. Following the war's conclusion, French came to Thompson and visited her pen pals.
This one folder of material, donated by Nancy Harvey, contains photocopied correspondence between Lt. French and the students in Ms. Harvey's class in 1990-1991....
Dates:
created: 1862-
Nancy Harvey/ Thompson Public Schools, 1991
File — Box: 2, Folder: 60
Identifier: Folder 60
Scope and Contents
Correspondence
Dates:
created: 1991
Fran Kryszko
Sub-Series — Box: 2
Identifier: Sub-Series 3
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Fran Kryszko works in the Transportation Department of the University of North Dakota. His son Tom served in Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War. Materials donated by Fran Kryszko include a letter to him from his son Tom written in Saudi Arabia on February 26, 1996. In the letter, Tom describes his experiences in Saudi Arabia, commenting on the climate, interactions with Saudi Arabians, planes flying overhead on bombing runs to Iraq and on the fact that no television and few radio...
Dates:
created: 1862-
Fran Kryszko, 1991
File — Box: 2, Folder: 61
Identifier: Folder 61
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Fran Kryszko works in the Transportation Department of the University of North Dakota. His son Tom served in Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War. Materials donated by Fran Kryszko include a letter to him from his son Tom written in Saudi Arabia on February 26, 1996. In the letter, Tom describes his experiences in Saudi Arabia, commenting on the climate, interactions with Saudi Arabians, planes flying overhead on bombing runs to Iraq and on the fact that no television and few radio...
Dates:
created: 1991
Delcie D. Light
Sub-Series — Box: 2
Identifier: Sub-Series 7
Scope and Contents
Delcie D. Light graduated from North Dakota State University in 1961 and earned a master's degree from the University of North Dakota in 1983. She currently teaches English at Devil's Lake High School. Light donated one folder of material consisting of her essay, "Red Sky at Morning, Sailor Take Warning," which won an Honorable Mention at the 1991 North Dakota State Fair. She has won other prizes at the North Dakota State Fair and awards at the national level from the National Education...
Dates:
created: 1862-
Memoirs: 1993
File — Box: 2, Folder: 51
Identifier: Folder 51
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Delcie D. Light graduated from North Dakota State University in 1961 and earned a master's degree from the University of North Dakota in 1983. She currently teaches English at Devil's Lake High School. Light donated one folder of material consisting of her essay, "Red Sky at Morning, Sailor Take Warning," which won an Honorable Mention at the 1991 North Dakota State Fair. She has won other prizes at the North Dakota State Fair and awards at the national level from the National Education...
Dates:
created: 1862-