Papers, 1942-1974.

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Papers, 1942-1974.

Papers of Harold Boyle, a columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent who covered World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam conflict for the Associated Press. The photographs in the collection include images of a man (possibly Boyle) at a typewriter, and soldiers drinking, eating, and smoking in a cargo plane. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1942-1974, and is described in the register. Additional accessions date 1965 and are described below.

3.2 c.f. (8 archives boxes) and12 photographs; plusadditions of 1 tape recording.

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