Contains the following types of materials: correspondence, memoirs, organizational documents, unit histories, clippings, magazines, reports / studies, books / manuals, maps / charts, oral histories, briefings, photos, tapes (audio), computer disks, microfilms, unit rosters (70th Tank Battalion), operational files. Contains information pertaining to the following war: World War II (WWII). Contains information pertaining to the following military units: First (1st) Army; V (5th) Corps; VII (7th) Corps; 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 29th Infantry Divisions; 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division; 16th Infantry (RCT), 1st Division; 18th Infantry (RCT), 1st Division; 115th Infantry (RCT), 29th Division; 116th Infantry (RCT), 29th Division; 175th Infantry, 29th Division; 5th Engineer Special Brigade; 6th Engineer Special Brigade; 2nd Infantry Battalion; 87th Chemical Battlation; 146th Engineer Combat Battalion; 299th Engineer Combat Battalion; 70th, 741st, 743rd, and 745th Tank Battalions; 111th Field Artillery Battalion, 29th Division; USS Anne Arundel; USS Barnet; USS Charles Carroll; USS Samuel lChase; USS Joseph T. Dickman; USS Dorothea L. Dix; USS Henrico; USS Thomas Jefferson; USS Thurston; USN CT 124; USN CT 125; USS PC 552; USS PC 553; USS PC 568; USS PC 1225; USS LC 50; USS SC 1291; 11th Amphibious Force; HMS Prince Baudouin; HMS Prince Charles; HMS Prince Leopold; 1st Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment; 22nd Cheshire Regiment; 50th (Northumbrian) Division; Queen's Own Rifles of Canada; 1746th Artillery Battalion (German Army). General description of the collection: The Rowe papers consist primarily of material relating to D-Day (June 6, 1944) in the form of research papers and files for his unpublished book, NEPTUNE'S FIRST WAVE. Rowe wrote from the perspective of the officers and men who were in the first wave of the beach assault and the naval personnel who put them ashore. He intended to submit the book to a publisher in September 1991, but died before the work was complete. The heart of the collection is the approximately 100 interviews that Rowe conducted with D-Day veterans between 1986 and 1991. Ninety-two audio recordings of interviews are present in the collection. Additionally, Rowe collected published and unpublished material including forty contemporary combat interviews by military historian Forrest C. Pogue, and later interviews by 2nd Ranger Battalion historian Louis Lisko. Rowe also collected military documents of all types; unit rosters, after action reports, war diaries, message files and logs, strategic and tactical analyses, maps, and unit histories. Also present are numerous newspaper and magazine articles and book excerpts dealing with D-Day. There are approximately forty photographs and copies of images in the collection.
