James W. Butzow papers, 1943-1973.

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James W. Butzow papers, 1943-1973.

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Correspondence written by Butzow during his military career to his parents and younger sister Gladys in Aberdeen, S.D.; three drafts of his unpublished memoir, I'm 1-A in the Army, one version of which he illustrated; a Feb. 10, 1946 edition of Thunderbolt, the 83rd Division newspaper ; miscellaneous photographs and newspaper clippings of Butzow and photographs taken by him of the 1959 hop harvest in Yakima; and the diary of Lance Keiji Miyao, the former boyfriend of Sandra Rabang, whom Butzow married in 1986. The detailed letters provide insight into the daily life of a serviceman at the end of World War II. Boredom and recreation figure prominently in Butzow's communications. He served as a guard at a prison camp in Germany and there is also some discussion of this.

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Butzow, Gladys

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Butzow family

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United States. Army. Infantry Division, 83rd

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Miyao, Lance Keiji

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Butzow, Sandra Rabang

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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...

Butzow, James W., 1926-1992

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Resident of Yakima, Wash.; b. in Aberdeen, S.D.; enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1944; after completing basic training in Texas in 1945, shipped overseas aboard the Queen Mary, but was on the front lines for less than a month before he was injured during fighting near Staitz, Germany; served with 83rd Infantry Division, providing support for occupation forces in France and Austria until his discharge in July 1946. Attended University of Nebraska and settled in Yakima, Wash., where he worked as an a...