Guide to the Rutgers University Veterans History Collection, 1942-1995; bulk 1942-1946

Rutgers University

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From July 12 to July 17, 1967, the city of Newark, New Jersey, was wrecked by racial violence. In six days of rioting, 23 people were killed, 725 were injured and nearly 1,500 were arrested. Property damage was estimated at over $10 million. While the riots were still in progress, sixty community leaders formed a Committee of Concern with the following aims: to help restore calm to the city, to study the causes of racial unrest, and to formulate goals for social and economic improve...

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

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Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president in early 1945. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain communist expansion. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the Conservative Coalition that dominated Congres...

Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976

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Born in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 9, 1898, Paul Robeson was a multitalented man whose artistic and political career spanned over four decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s. Known worldwide during the 1930s and 1940s, he fell from prominence in the 1960s because of the political controversy that surrounded him during the McCarthy era. Robeson was a talented dramatic actor whose performance of Othello in this country in 1943-44 once held the record for the ...

Frusciano, Thomas J., 1950-

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Moon, Calvin

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Gardner, Ernest T.

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United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 102nd

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Janoff, Russell J.

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United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Barrett, Charles H.

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Rutgers University Oral History Archives of World War II

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On July 1, 1994, the Department of History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, established the Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II with an initial gift of $100,000 from the Rutgers College Class of 1942. Under the direction of Professor G. Kurt Piehler (1994-1999) and Sandra Stewart Holyoak (1999-present), this project has recorded the personal experiences of over 500 men and women, primarily Rutgers University alumni, who served on the home front and overseas....

Gombos, W.

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Latouche, John, 1914-1956

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Kinney, William A.

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List, Howard M., 1910-

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Kneller, Franklin J.

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Agnew, Donald H.

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United States. Army Air Forces. Bomb Group (Heavy), 305th.

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Sarraiocco, Peter M.

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United States. Army. Replacement Depot, 13th.

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United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

Terry, Lea E.

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Robinson, Theodore K.

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Rommel, Erwin, 1891-1944

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Zubia, Eduardo

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Kurowski, Whitey

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Klion, Stanley R.

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Musial, Stan, 1920-2013

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United States. Army Air Forces. Reconnaissance Group, 6th

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Piehler, G. Kurt

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Gross, Mason Welch, 1911-1977

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Kalugin, Lloyd

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Allied Forces. Army Group, 15th.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Saks, Harold L.

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Klion, Barton H.

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Clark, Crandon F.

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Crandon Clark entered Rutgers College, Rutgers University, as a freshman in 1940. In June 1943, his Advanced ROTC class was ordered to active duty and sent to Fort McClellan, Alabama, for basic training. When Clark and fifty-two of his classmates arrived in Alabama, they were covered in soot from the train ride; they were greeted by a Sgt. Greenway from Georgia who declared, "I've never seen a blacker bunch of white men arrive at this camp than you fellows." Thus, this group became ...

Rutgers University. Libraries. Special Collections and Archives

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United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 353rd

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Clothier, Robert C. (Robert Clarkson), 1885-1970

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Leddy, Gerard J.

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Robinson, Mary Elizabeth, approximately 1775-1818

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United States. Army. Air Corps

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Atkinson, George J.

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United States. Army. Infantry Division, 28th

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United States. Army Air Forces. Bomb Group, 34th.

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United States. Army. Infantry Division, 100th

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United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th

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Robinson, Earl, 1910-1991

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Burns, Robert C.

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Bloom, Lewis

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Williams, A. B.

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United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st

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Historical note: The First Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division was sent to Vietnam in 1965. It was the third United States Army unit to arrive. In December of 1967, the remainder of the division was deployed to Bien Hoa, South Vietnam in Operation Eagle Thrust. The 101st was the only army division ever airlifted directly into combat. C-141 aircraft carried 10,356 paratroopers and 5,118 tons of equipment directly into the war zone. From the description of Deployment record, 1967. (...

United States. Marine Corps

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The U.S. Marine Corps was established on November 10, 1775. From the description of Papers, 1933-1945. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 754107146 The history of the Marine Corps Navajo Code Talkers dates from 1942-1945. In 1942, a white man by the name of Phillip Johnston, who had lived on a Navajo reservation for many years of his life, conceived an idea that he thought might help the war. He believed that the Navajo language, a verbal, rarely-written language, coul...

Clark, Mark Wayne, 1896-1984

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Mark Wayne Clark (1896-1984) was born in Madison Barracks, New York. After he graduated from West Point in 1917, he commissioned in the infantry. During World War I, he became wounded in combat while commanding a battalion in France. He served with the War Department General Staff from 1921 to 1924. He graduated from the Command and General Staff School in 1935 and the Army War College two years later. Between 1940 and 1942, he served at General Headquarters and then Army Ground Forces. He rose ...