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Roger Field collection, May 21, 2001, Date accessioned: 2003-01-30, bulk 1939-1948

 

Summary

Creator:
Field, Roger, November 30, 1927 - April 4, 2021
McCranie, Kevin
Extent:
1 folders 1 folder
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Roger Field collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-03-1938

Background

Scope and content:

This collection relates to Roger Field, who spent most World War II assisting as a civilian in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Field then attended Officer Candidate School in the summer of 1945 and worked for the Post-Hostilities Mapping Program in the Philippines after Japan's surrender. This collection contains an oral history transcript and short memoir where Field explains how his family military history in the military shaped his perceptions of the war and details the various opportunities for civilian engagement on the home front.

Biographical / historical:

Roger Field was born on November 30, 1927, in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The son of a WWI veteran, Field was only 14 years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed and spent the next four years assisting the war effort as a civilian. In April 1945, Field officially enlisted in the Army Specialized Training Program in Northfield, Vermont. Upon reporting for duty in Norwich, Vermont in July 1945, Field held the rank of Cadet Captain. Field worked in the 29th Engineer Topographic Battalion in the Philippines for a post-war hostilities remapping program. He returned to the U.S. in December 1947 to be relieved from active duty. Field served in both the Korean and Vietnam wars. Roger Field passed away on April 4, 2021.

Custodial history:

This collection was gifted by the Reichelt Program for Oral 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], Roger Field collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-03-1938

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