UH Veteran's Office Records 1944-1958

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UH Veteran's Office Records 1944-1958

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uhua/00015/00015-P.html

This collection contains material pertaining to the university and government-sponsored office for the support and advising of veteran students during the 1940s and 1950s. The office provided assistance in application for admission to the university and obtaining compensation through the GI Bill. A special housing bureau helped veterans and their families locate places to live. Materials include budgets, correspondence, and UH Veteran's registration packets dating from 1944-1958.

Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6641508

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The University of Houston played an important part in the United States' efforts during the Second World War. Among its many contributions, the institution housed the first Naval School established in a college, training more than five thousand Navy personnel and several hundred Army and Navy pilots. Following the war, many of the nation's servicemen and women returned to colleges and universities to take advantage of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 - better known as the G...