Army Specialized Training Program - Kansas State University [papers], ca. 1941-ca. 1945.

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Army Specialized Training Program - Kansas State University [papers], ca. 1941-ca. 1945.

Contains the following types of materials: organizational documents, personnel documents, reports / studies. Contains information pertaining to the following war: World War II (WWII). Contains information pertaining to the following military organization: Kansas State University Army Specialized Training Program. General description of the collection: The Kansas State University Army Specialized Training Program papers include official papers relating to the organization.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7588228

U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center

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Kansas state university

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The Kansas Agriculture and Applied Science College had its start in the Bluemont Central College, chartered in 1858 and opened in 1860. In 1863, after the Morill Act was signed by President Lincoln establishing land-grant colleges in each state for the study of agriculture and industry, Bluemont Central College was transferred to the state of Kansas and reopened as the Kansas State Agricultural College. Located in Manhattan in Riley County, the college again changed its name to the Kansas State ...

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 ...