Contains the following types of materials: correspondence / letters, memoirs, personnel documents, awards / certificates, unit histories, clippings, reports / studies, books / manuals, diaries / journals, oral histories, ephemera, division association papers, several bound reminiscences. Contains information pertaining to the following war and time period: World War II (WWII). Contains information pertaining to the following military units and organizations: 70th Infantry Division, 274th Infantry Regiment, 275th Infantry Regiment, and 276th Infantry Regiment. General description of the collection: The 70th Infantry Division papers consists of material prepresenting the history of the Division and the experiences of its members in World War II and also material pertaining to the 70th Infantry Division Association. Included are: personal accounts, memoirs, letters to buddies, mostly from the following units: 274th Infantry Regiment, 275th Infantry Regiment, 276th Infantry Regiment, and Headquarters Company and Medical Detachment of the 275th Infantry Regiment. Association newsletters; bound copy of "The Experiences of a GI in World War II" by Tom S. Higley (not for publication), 435 pages. There are papers pertaining to Germany Army units that the 70th Division faced and to other U.S. Army units. There; typescript copy of day by day operation of the last German offensive written by Wolf Zoopf, 6th German Mountain Division - "Nord" ; copy of L'operaton Nordwind et Winger-sur-Moder by Wallace Robert Cheeves.
