Papers, 1939-1953 1939-1946.

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Papers, 1939-1953 1939-1946.

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The collection consists of the papers and photographs of Arthur O. Trosvik concerning his military service in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II. The papers consist of incoming correspondence to Trosvik from friends and relatives during his training at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, and later in Seattle, Washington in 1942, a letter from Trosvik in Anchorage to his mother in 1945, items from the period of his training at the Signal Corps Replacement Center at Fort Monmouth in 1942, items from the period of his service in Alaska from 1944 to 1945, military publications from 1940 to 1946, other miscellaneous publications and items from his period of military service, military service medals, ribbons, and pins, and photographs. The photographs from Alaska include views of the Alaska Railroad, Seward, Moose Pass, Portage Glacier, Girdwood, Cook Inlet, Eklutna, Palmer and the Matanuska Colony, McKinley National Park, Nenana, Fairbanks, Circle Hot Springs, and Circle City. Many of the photographs concern signal corps crews erecting telephone poles and stringing wires along the Alaska Railroad.

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Trosvik, Arthur O.

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