United States. Army
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Edgar Isaacs Papers
Collection
Identifier: NEAD 032
Abstract
Ora Edgar Isaacs was a rural mail carrier and farmer from Bay, Arkansas who served in the United States Army during the World War One. This collection contains letters written by Isaacs during the war.
Dates:
1918-1922; Majority of material found within 1918-1919
Colonel George Peek Collection
Collection
Identifier: NEAD 018
Abstract
Colonel George Peek was a prominent U.S. Army officer who served for 30 years in various capacities. This collection contains documents related to his period of active duty.
Dates:
1873-1960
Second World War Prisoner of War Collection
Collection
Identifier: NEAD 033
Abstract
When the United States entered the Second World War, the British government requested the United States house prisoners of war to help alleviate their housing problems. While hesitant at first, the United States built hundreds of camps and transported nearly half a million German and Italian prisoners of war to its soil. Organizations and communities in Arkansas appealed to the War Department and their representatives to establish branch camps and use prisoners in agricultural and timber...
Dates:
1942-1949; Majority of material found within 1944-1946
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- Correspondence 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- Agricultural laborers 1
- Agriculture 1
- Agriculture -- Labor productivity 1
- Artillery, Coast 1
- Camp Merritt (N.J.) 1
- Camp Pike (Ark.) 1
- Convict labor 1
- Cotton 1
- Cross County (Ark.) 1
- Ex-prisoners of war 1
- Fort Sill (Okla.) 1
- France 1
- Horse racing 1
- Horse shows 1
- Koblenz (Germany) 1
- Military administration 1
- Military bases -- United States 1
- Military orders 1
- Photographs 1
- Prisoner-of-war camps 1
- Prisoners of War 1
- Prisoners of war -- Germany 1
- Prisoners of war -- Italy 1
- Prisoners of war -- Labor 1
- Prisoners of war -- United States 1
- Show jumping 1
- Telegraph 1
- United States. Army -- History 1
- United States. Army -- History -- World War, 1939-1945 1
- United States. Army -- Mine companies 1
- United States. Army -- Officers 1
- United States. Continental Army -- History 1
- War Correspondence 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German 1
- Wynne (Ark.) 1 + ∧ less
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