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Campi, Louis A. World War II photograph album and scrapbook, 1941-1952 1941-1945.

Title: World War II photograph album and scrapbook, 1941-1952 1941-1945.

The collection consists of papers, service patches, and photographs taken from Louis A. Campi's World War II era photograph album and scrapbook. The collection is divided into two series: papers and service patches, and photographs. The papers include a xerographic copy of Campi's original photograph album, service records, cards from military service, menus, an Organization Day booklet for the fourth anniversary of the reactivation of the 53rd Infantry Regiment, newspaper clippings on U.S. Army forces in the Aleutians, a Kiska Task Force soldier's manual, a copy of The Battle of the Aleutians written by Dashiell Hammett and Robert Colodny, a clipping of a Life Magazine article on the Aleutians, and a copy of a Catholic parish's announcements. The service patches include shoulder patches from the Alaska Department, the Fourth Army, Replacement and School Command, Army Ground Forces, and the Kiska Task Force, as well as overseas service bars, a service stripe, and staff sergeant rank insignia. The photographs consist of 235 black and white prints from the original album, and 21 copy negatives. Subjects of the images include training at Camp Walters, Texas (1942), service at Adak Army Airfield in the Aleutians (1943-1944), service at Camp Swift and Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and Camp Beale, California (1944-1945), U.S. Army soldier Richard P. Campi at Fort Ord, California and Kumhwa, Korea (1951-1952), and unidentified friends.

ArchivalResource: .5 cu. ft.

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