Contains the following types of materials: letters, memoirs, personnel documents, clippings, reports / studies, diary / journal, photographs. Contains information pertaining to the following war: World War II (WWII). Contains information pertaining to the following military units and organizations: The American Red Cross-Harvard Field Hospital Unit; Headquarters (HQ), European Theather of Operations (ETO), U.S. Army, Services of Supply; HQ, Allied Forces, Liasion Division; HQ, Allied Forces, Civil Affairs Section; 1st Infantry Division, 1st Medical Battalion, D Company; 8th General Dispensary, Algiers; HQ, 4th Service Command, Hospital 1, Fort Bragg, Venereal Disease Control Branch; 20th Armored Infantry Division, 9th Tank Battalion. General description of the collection: The Dean S. Fleming papers consists of 6 booklets comprising THE LAST "GOOD" WAR, a memoir including personnel papers; transcribed and edited letters to family; journal entries (unedited); clippings; an article, "On the State of Public Health During Six Years of War"; and "The State of Public Health During Six Years of War" (British). Also included are photos encompassing Captian (CPT) Fleming's service from 1940-1946 as an epidemiologist first with the Harvard Field Hospital in Salisbury, England; and then as an officer of the Medical Corps stationed in England followed by tours in Algiers, North Africa, Sicily, back to Algiers, and returning to the U.S. The journal entries end in October 1944 although CPT Fleming went to Germany with the 20th Armored Division for the Battle of the Bulge, on into Germany, and occupation duties in Bavaria. He describes in great detail his travels to England via ship, leisure activities, fellow soldiers, bombings, drills, food shortages in England and abundance in North Africa, positive comments about French governance in Algeria and Tunis, his work in epidemiology tracking sources of infection, particularly intestinal infections and Paratyphoid B, and his service life as a 'real' soldier. He includes a set of floppy disks with the same material and an outline of the memoir.
