The Frederick Rust Papers, [ca. 1897, 1935-1946] (bulk dates 1941-1945)

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The Frederick Rust Papers, [ca. 1897, 1935-1946] (bulk dates 1941-1945)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/527853207

The collection mainly contains WWII era correspondence, as well as histories of units in the 18th Engineers, detailing their efforts to construct the Alaskan Highway under very difficult wartime and physical conditions, 1942-1943. Also includes general files which contain various Army and court documents, poems and short stories written by Rust, and a handful of black/white photographs, mostly of fellow soldiers.

2.0 linear ft. (5 document boxes)

University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7658861

University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library

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Rust, Frederick.

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Frederick [Fred] E. Rust was born in Michigan ca. 1906 and moved to California in 1918, settlig in Los Angeles. During World War II he served with the 18th Engineers Regiment (Combat) and worked on the Alaskan Highway where, as regimental historian, he wrote the histories of the units of the Regiment during the time, April 1942 to January 1943, that they were constructing the highway. Rust married Celia Adams in December 1944 and, after the war, they moved to Santa Barbara. He died in Santa Barb...