Mervin Hall, Sr., collection, 1942-1945.

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Mervin Hall, Sr., collection, 1942-1945.

Chiefly photograph album (41 p.) containing black and white prints and post card images, with more than two dozen identified images of Hall's comrades, views of Scott Air Field and other installations, camp area in Foggia, Italy, Roman antiquities, Casablanca, Tunisia, Algeria, and Shrewsbury, England; together with diploma reflecting Hall's completion of radio mechanics school, orders, certificates, programs, pamphlet issued for U.S. Expeditionary Forces entering North Africa, pictorial and historical review of Scott Field (later Scott Air Force Base), and other memorabilia.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8061505

University of Oslo Medical Library

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United States. Army Air Forces

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The Army Air Forces War Adjustment Course was established in 1944 at several locations in the U.S., one of which was Harvard Business School. The HBS program involved eight weeks of training in the business of contract terminations, cutbacks, and property disposal necessitated by changes in Army Air Forces tactical requirements. Approximately 4,200 officers received instruction throughout the country, about one sixth of them at HBS. The goal of the program was to train men for participation in t...

Hall, Mervin, 1920-1974

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Resident of Clyde and later Gibsonburg, Ohio; served with 49th Fighter Squadron, 14th Fighter Group, U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. From the description of Mervin Hall, Sr., collection, 1942-1945. (Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Center). WorldCat record id: 70972367 From the description of Mervin Hall, Sr., collection, 1942-1945. (Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Center). WorldCat record id: 54425899 ...

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