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Oscar J. Armstrong papers, 1944-1945, Date acquired: 02/09/2016

 

Summary

Creator:
Armstrong, Oscar J.
Tapper, Theodore Edward, 1912-1983
Extent:
1 folders
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Oscar J. Armstrong papers, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_16_0001.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection includes a United States Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas IntelligenceInformation Bulletin on Okinawa, dated 15 November 1944. It also includes a U.S. Naval Training School (Hollywood Beach Hotel, Hollywood, Florida) graduation class 4-44 yearbook entitled "The Quarterdeck," dated 21 July 1944.  Other content includes Thanksgiving and Christmas 1945 dinner menus for U.S. troops in Samar, Philippines. Class photographs included int he collection are from Landing Craft School, A.T.B. Coronado, CA, as well as, Naval training class photographs. The collection also contains photograph album pages of U.S. Navy Catalina PBY aircraft.

Biographical / historical:

USNR officer Lt. JG Oscar J. Armstrong attended U.S. Naval Officer Indoctrination at Hollywood Beach Hotel, Hollywood, FL and graduated in July 1944. He then trained at Landing Craft School, Amphibious Training Base, Coronado, CA. He subsequently served aboard the L.S.T. USS Neshoba in the Philippine Islands Campaign (1944-1945) and piloted a landing craft during the initial stages of the Invasion of Okinawa in April 1945.

Acquisition information:

Gene L. Armstrong

Donation

Custodial history:

Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to researchers.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Oscar J. Armstrong papers, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_16_0001.

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA