The Mitchell R. Sharpe papers, 1943-1982, 1943-1952.

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The Mitchell R. Sharpe papers, 1943-1982, 1943-1952.

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Correspondence and V-mail from and to Sharpe (1943-1945, 1952) from places in U.S., France and Great Britain, Korea (including that from Edgar Franklin Tripp Jr.); includes 1st ed. issue of COUNTERSIGN, the 346th Infantry regimental paper; pamphlets issued by Northington General Hospital, Tuscaloosa, Ala.; U.S. psychological warfare pamphlets from Korean War and Sharpe's reminiscenses (1982) about service in ASTP training unit during World War II.

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Northington General Hospital (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)

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Army Specialized Training Program (U.S.)

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Unit 3900 of the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) was established by the War Department at Oregon State College in March 1943. The program provided training for high grade technicians and specialists needed by the Army for the war effort. Most of the instruction was provided by regular Oregon State College faculty; E.B. Lemon, as Dean of Administration, was Coordinator of the ASTP for Oregon State. Enrollment peaked in the summer of 1943 with more than 1300 ASTP students at Oregon State ...

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Sharpe, Mitchell R.

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Private attached to Company B, 12th Training Battalion, 4th Regiment, IRTC (1943); participated in Army Specialized Training Unit (ASTP), Company C, Sec.2 at North Carolina State College (1944). Saw action in France and Luxembourg as part of Company L, 3rd Battalion, 346th Infantry Regiment. Spent time in hospitals in England (1945). After war continued military career, became lieutenant and saw action in Korea as part of Battery C, 424th FA Battalion (1952). Advanced to rank of colonel in the f...

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Tripp, Edgar Franklin.

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United States. Army. Training Battalion, 12th. Company B.

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United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 346th

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