World War II photograph album and scrapbook, 1941-1952 1941-1945.

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World War II photograph album and scrapbook, 1941-1952 1941-1945.

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The collection consists of papers, service patches, and photographs taken from Louis A. Campi's World War II era photograph album and scrapbook. The collection is divided into two series: papers and service patches, and photographs. The papers include a xerographic copy of Campi's original photograph album, service records, cards from military service, menus, an Organization Day booklet for the fourth anniversary of the reactivation of the 53rd Infantry Regiment, newspaper clippings on U.S. Army forces in the Aleutians, a Kiska Task Force soldier's manual, a copy of The Battle of the Aleutians written by Dashiell Hammett and Robert Colodny, a clipping of a Life Magazine article on the Aleutians, and a copy of a Catholic parish's announcements. The service patches include shoulder patches from the Alaska Department, the Fourth Army, Replacement and School Command, Army Ground Forces, and the Kiska Task Force, as well as overseas service bars, a service stripe, and staff sergeant rank insignia. The photographs consist of 235 black and white prints from the original album, and 21 copy negatives. Subjects of the images include training at Camp Walters, Texas (1942), service at Adak Army Airfield in the Aleutians (1943-1944), service at Camp Swift and Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and Camp Beale, California (1944-1945), U.S. Army soldier Richard P. Campi at Fort Ord, California and Kumhwa, Korea (1951-1952), and unidentified friends.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7776870

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Campi, Richard P.

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Colodny, Robert Garland

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Robert Colodny (1915-1997) fought with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. He returned to the U.S. in 1938 with a severe head injury. After his recovery Colodny served in the U.S. Army in Alaska during World War II. Colodny received his Ph.D. in history and philosophy in 1950 and joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh in 1959. In 1961, a Pennsylvania State representative accused Colodny of being a Communist sympathizer, jeopardizing his faculty position at the Unive...

Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961

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American novelist and short story writer. From the description of Dashiell Hammett Papers, 1923-1974. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 85058436 Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born in St. Mary's County, Maryland on May 27, 1894 to a family long in the county. After working as a youth to help support his family, he left home in 1914 and worked as a detective before enlisting in the U.S. Army during Wo...

Campi, Louis A.

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Louis Arthur Campi was born in 1920. In February 1942, Campi enlisted in the U.S. Army at Presidio, California, and completed basic training as a member of Company C, 54th Battalion, at Camp Walters in Fort Worth, Texas. He was later assigned as a member of the Service Company, 53rd Infantry Regiment, serving in the Alaska district at Adak Army Airfield from 1943 to 1944. During the war, Campi served as a Clerk Typist, Personnel NCO, and a Classification Specialist. In late 1944, he was statione...

United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 53rd

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