Vernon Torrence Collection

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Vernon Torrence Collection

1940-1942

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Photographs, a Kansas Wesleyan University yearbook (with personal messages and inscriptions), diplomas, correspondence regarding Torrence's disappearance, newspaper clippings, his memorial service booklet or program, and a diary which he kept during a week-long adventure as a "hobo" in Kansas.

0.8 Cubic feet (1 flat box)

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11663336

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

Related Entities

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Torrence, Vernon Keith, 1921-1946

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Donnald, Morrill

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United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation

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The FBI established this classification when it assumed responsibility for ascertaining the protection capabilities and weaknesses of defense plants. Each plant survey was a separate case file, with the survey, supplemental surveys, and all communications dealing with a plant insofar as plant protection was concerned, filed together. On June 1, 1941, and January 5, 1942, the Navy and Army, respectively, assumed responsibility for surveying defense plants in which they had interests. Thereafter, ...

Kansas Wesleyan University

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