UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER

UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER

GUIDE TO Military History Resources

Soldiers on patrol in Vietnam, 1962. Photograph by Richard Tregaskis, Richard Tregaskis Papers,

American Heritage Center.

Compiled and Edited by Ryan E. Frost 2009

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Introduction

American Heritage Center Guide to Military History Resources

The American Heritage Center (AHC) is the University of Wyoming's (UW) repository for historical manuscripts, rare books, and university archives. Internationally known for its historical collections, the AHC first and foremost serves the students and citizens of Wyoming. The AHC sponsors a wide range of scholarly and popular programs including lectures, symposia, and exhibits. A place where both experts and novices engage with the original sources of history, access to the AHC is free and open to all.

Collections at the AHC go beyond both the borders of Wyoming and the region, and support a wide range of research and teachings activities in the humanities, sciences, arts, business, and education. Major areas of collecting include Wyoming and the American West, the mining and petroleum industries, environment and natural resources, journalism, military history, transportation, the history of books, and 20th century entertainment such as popular music, radio, television, and film. The total archival holdings of the AHC are roughly 75,000 cubic feet (the equivalent of 18 miles) of material. The Toppan Rare Books Library holds more than 60,000 items from medieval illuminated manuscripts to the 21st century. Subject strengths include the American West, British and American literature, early exploration of North America, religion, hunting and fishing, natural history, women authors, and the book arts.

Organization of the Guide

Entries are arranged alphabetically and include the title, dates, collection number, collection size, and a brief description of the collection's creator and contents. Many of these collections have more in-depth finding aids available online through the Rocky Mountain Online Archive (). Catalog records for all collections may be found at (for best results, limit search scope to "American Heritage Center").

Visitor and Contact Information

Current contact information and visitor information including location and hours of operation for the AHC Reading Room and the Toppan Rare Books Library can be found at .

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Guide To Military History Resources:

Ackerman, Jerome Otto Papers, 1930-1970 37.35 cubic ft. (83 boxes) Acc. # 06048

Jerome Otto Ackerman (1910-1971), an engineer, served with the Army Corps of Engineers from 1928-1970. He joined the Corps after graduating from the University of Minnesota and worked as a construction engineer on the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and later on the construction of the Missouri River Basin dams and the Strategic Air Command Headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska.

Collection contains correspondence; maps of the United States; newspaper clippings; photographs of projects; reports, contracts and plans on engineering projects on the Missouri River and Oak Ridge, Tennessee; and subject files on river control and water conservation.

Adams, Gerald M. Papers, 1867-1992 6.38 cubic feet (7 boxes) Acc. # 11428

Gerald M. Adams (1920-2006) was born in Nebraska. He graduated from the Naval War College in 1961, received a B.A. in History from the University of Maryland in 1971, and an M.A. in History from the University of Wyoming in 1981. He served in the Air Force during World War II, the Korean Conflict, and the Vietnam War. His last posting was to F. E. Warren Air Force Base. After retiring from the Air Force, Adams wrote articles about military history and early aviation in Wyoming.

Collection contains files of his written interviews and audio cassettes containing interviews of Wyoming veterans of World War II that were in the Air Force and stationed at either Casper Army Air Base or F.E. Warren Air Force Base. There are also files of material relating to his books and articles about Wyoming aviation history, and Wyoming during World War II, and microfilm of 1930s Casper Air Force Base monthly histories.

Agen, Myer Papers, 1908-1979 7.85 cubic ft. (15 boxes) Acc. # 05469

Myer Agen served in the U.S. Army in World War I and was a reporter for several

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newspapers in France from 1919-1940 before he fled World War II and moved to the U.S. He worked for several public relations firms before serving as senior editor of the Armed Forces Press Services from 1954-1969. Agen was married to Helene Siegel in 1919.

Collection contains personal and professional correspondence; 15 scrapbooks; photographs of Myer and Helene Agen and Paris; and miscellaneous memorabilia and artifacts relating to his service in World War I.

Albany County (Wyoming) ? Selective Service Board Records, 1968-1976 0.25 cubic ft. (1 box) Acc. # 06121

Norman E. Roberts, who donated this collection, was a local board member of the Albany County, Wyoming, Selective Service Board.

Records include correspondence and instructions from the Selective Service Board in Washington D.C. to the local board regarding the operation of the military draft between 1968 and 1976.

Albright, Joseph Papers, 1963-1982 25.90 cubic ft. (38 boxes) Acc. # 08028

Joseph Medill Patterson Albright was a journalist who began his career with the Chicago Sun Tribune, 1958-1961; later moved to Newsday 1961-1971 where he was chief of the Washington Bureau and served as a legislative aide to Senator Ed Muskie. In 1972-1975 he was the Washington correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle. He wrote What Makes Spiro Run: Life and Times of Spiro Agnew and co-authored several books with his wife, Marcia Kunstel, also a news correspondent. These include, Their Promised Land: Arab versus Jew in History's Caldron: One Valley in the Jerusalem Hills" and "Bombshell: Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy".

Collection contains copies of Albright's articles and other clippings, subject files on Spiro Agnew, Jackson Amendment, Northrop Corporation, Pan American Airlines, and Penn Central Railroad among others. There are extensive files by topic that contain Albright's hand written notes, correspondence and telegrams, related printed material and clippings on such issues as Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan, weapons, oil, energy, gold, and many other political issues. The notebooks that he used during his career with San Francisco Chronicle and Cox Newspapers are included.

Allende, Carlos Papers, 1943-1994 2.28 cubic ft. (4 boxes)

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Acc. # 09056

Carlos Allende served in the Marines from July of 1942 to May of 1943. He claimed to have witnessed the disappearance of the U.S. destroyer escort USS Eldridge while serving aboard the USS Andrew Furuseth in what became known as the "Philadelphia Experiment." The story of the supposed event emerged through Morris K. Jessup, author of The Case for the UFO. Allende researched interstellar space travel, UFOs, and Einstein's Unified Field Theory. He was described as an eccentric and intelligent individual. He died in March of 1994 at the age of 68.

Collection contains documents and materials used by Carlos Allende for his research on the "Philadelphia Experiment," Unified Field Theory, interstellar space travel, and UFOs. Documentation includes letters to and from Allende and various authors and professors in the scientific community, newspaper clippings, and his military history with discharge forms, a letter of presidential commendation from Harry Truman, his personal writings, government documents, and other printed material. Much of the collection is photocopied.

App, Austin J. Papers, 1923-1981 71.5 cubic ft. (73 boxes) Acc. # 08817

Austin Joseph App (1902-1984) taught English language and literature at Catholic University of America and the University of Scranton between 1929-1942. After serving in the Army in World War II, he continued to teach literature at Incarnate Word College and LaSalle College between 1944-1968, but became increasingly involved in revisionist history, antiSemitism, anti-communism, anti-integration and anti-pornography interests. He was director of Boniface Press beginning in 1948, president of the Federation of American Citizens of German Descent from 1960-1966, and chair of the Captive Nations Committee of Greater Philadelphia beginning in 1965.

Collection includes business and personal correspondence including correspondence with revisionist historian Harry Elmer Barnes; research files chiefly related to political, historical and social issues including correspondence, notes, manuscripts, newspaper clippings and printed materials; manuscript; speeches; financial records; biographical information; scrapbooks; photographs; and books and other printed materials, many in German, on topics related to his historical, racial and social interests.

Arthur, Robert Papers, 1940-1986 9.92 cubic ft. (10 boxes) Acc. # 09763

Robert Arthur was a film producer during the twentieth century. Born Robert Arthur Feder in 1909, he started working in the motion picture industry in 1937 and produced training films for the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II. After the war, Arthur produced numerous popular films between the late 1940s and 1970s. Robert Arthur passed away in 1986.

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