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Everett Melvin O'Brien collection, 1940-1945, Date accessioned: 2000-01-04

 

Summary

Creator:
O'Brien, Everett Melvin, 1915-1990
Extent:
1 Linear Feet flat box, photo album
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Everett Melvin O'Brien collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-98-0011

Background

Scope and content:

This collection relates to Everett Melvin O'Brien who served as a 1st Lieutenant with the 603rd Quartermaster Graves Registration Company in the European Theater during World War II. The collection contains photographs from O'Brien's service in Graves Registration in the U.S., France, Belgium, and Germany which include killed in action U.S. soldiers and graves. Photographs of the concentration camp at Dachau are also included.

Biographical / historical:

Everett Melvin O'Brien was born on June 10, 1915 in California. He attended the University of California and married Margaret S. O'Brien. He attended Basic Training at Camp Croft, South Carolina for the 32nd Infantry, Company A. O'Brien began his service on July 14, 1941 and worked with grave registration. Following the war, he worked in Counter intelligence. O'Brien passed away August 19, 1990 at the age of 75. He is buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas.

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 all 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], Everett Melvin O'Brien collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-98-0011

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