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Melvin Magidson transcript, September 14, 1999, Date accessioned: 2001-07-26, bulk February 1943 - October 1945

 

Summary

Creator:
Magidson, Melvin C., August 11, 1924 - January 11, 2013
Edmonds, Bill
Extent:
1 folders 1 folder
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Melvin Magidson transcript, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-01-0285

Background

Scope and content:

This oral history interview transcript pertains to Melvin Magidson, who was inducted into the U.S. Army Air Force in February of 1943 and was discharged in October of 1945 with the rank of lieutenant. In the transcript, Magidson mostly recounts various Air Force bases that he trained at throughout Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and the northeast. Magidson never served overseas due to the war in Europe and in the Pacific both ending shortly after the end of his training.

Biographical / historical:

Melvin Magidson was born on August 11, 1924, in upstate New York. After graduating high school at the age of 16, Magidson studied at Cornell University and enlisted for the U.S. Army Air Force shortly after his 18th birthday. Magidson would go on to train in various cities throughout the U.S., including Atlantic City, Montgomery, Bainbridge, Thomasville, and Tallahassee. Two days after Magidson was sent to New Jersey to be deployed to fight in Europe, Germany officially surrendered. After marrying Dorothy Lee Costin the following June, Magidson was sent to California to be deployed to fight in Okinawa with eighty other men - shortly thereafter, Japan surrendered. He was discharged in October of 1945 and went on to be in the first graduating class of men at Florida State University. Melvin Magidson passed away on January 11, 2013, and is buried at Holly Hill Cemetery in Port St. Joe, FL.

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], Melvin Magidson transcript, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-01-0285

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