Woodrow Lenax Palmer collection, 1931-1944.

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Woodrow Lenax Palmer collection, 1931-1944.

University of Maine documents and other papers reflecting Palmer's education; military photographs; Army service records; and Army books and manuals, reflecting Palmer's service during World War II.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7079921

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United States. Army. Coast Artillery Regiment, 240th

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Palmer, Woodrow Lenax, 1913-1981

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Resident of Fryeburg, Me.; b. in Berlin, N.H.; B.S. in forestry at University of Maine, 1935; forester; after graduation from University of Maine, enlisted in U.S. Army Enlisted Reserve Corps in which he served from 1936-1941; in Aug. 1941 went on active duty serving with 240th Coast Artillery Regiment, Fort Williams, Me., 8th Coast Artillery Regiment, Fort Levett, Me., 281st Quartermaster Battalion, Camp Ellis, Ill., and 216th Quartermaster Battalion, Fort Devens, Mass., between 1942 and 1944. ...

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University of Maine

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The University of Maine saw approximately 1,000 students and alumni serve in World War I and 3,900 serve in World War II. Both wars had a strong effect on the university and its students; the desire to honor those who had served and to memorialize those who had died led to various activities on campus. After the end of World War I, funds were raised to erect the Memorial Gymnasium and Armory and after World War II, those who had died were honored in a volume titled "University of Maine, World Wa...

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