Palmer family papers, 1865-1948.

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Palmer family papers, 1865-1948.

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This collection consists primarily of documents, military records and publications for Roy M. Palmer. These include squadron orders, flight records, and his individual combat record listing his bombing missions, 1944-1945. Additional Roy M. Palmer items include his diary, March-April 1945; flight school and related Army Air Corps training manuals, 1941-1944; and a scrapbook of articles written by Ernie Pyle while he was a correspondent in the Pacific Theater, 1945. The collection also contains a significant number of his artifacts including military buttons, insignias and patches as well as Japanese and Chinese currency. Other items in the collection include Carl Klinefeldt's Civil War discharge, 26 June 1865, and Roy W. Palmer's honorable discharge, November, 1918, and his partial disability pension claim, 1939.

1 manuscript box, 2 oversize folders.

Indiana Historical Society Library

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Indiana Historical Society Library

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Pyle, Ernie, 1900-1945

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Ernest "Ernie" Taylor Pyle (August 3, 1900 – April 18, 1945) was a Pulitzer Prize—winning American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II. Pyle is also notable for the columns he wrote as a roving human-interest reporter from 1935 through 1941 for the Scripps-Howard newspaper syndicate that earned him wide acclaim for his simple accounts of ordinary people across North America. When the United States entered World W...

United States. Army. Army Corps.

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Klinefelt, Carl.

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Palmer family.

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Palmer, Roy W.

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Palmer, Roy M.

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