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Daniel Dean Becker collection, September 9, 1999, Date accessioned: 2020-12-02, bulk 1943-1946

 

Summary

Creator:
Becker, Daniel Dean, 1925-2008
Extent:
1 folders 1 folder
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Daniel Dean Becker collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-02-1998

Background

Scope and content:

This collection relates to Daniel Dean Becker who served in the 110th Signal Company, 10th Mountain Division in Italy during World War II. This collection contains a veterans questionnaire and memoir entitled "Memoirs of a Signalman: 110 Signal Company, 10th Mountain Division, Italy World War II."

Biographical / historical:

Daniel Dean Becker was born on July 30, 1925 in Southbend, Indiana. In December 1943, shortly after his 18th birthday, Becker was inducted at Camp Atteberry in Southern Indiana. From there, he was assigned to the Signal Corps and send to Camp Crowder for basic training. Becker then went to Chicago where he learned the automatic dial central office repair. He was then sent to Camp Carson, Colorado. He served in the 10th Mountain Division as a "mule skinner." Becker then transferred to Italy where he fixed switchboards. Becker was discharged on April 23, 1946. Following his service, Becker worked as an electrical engineer starting with the Navy missile program before joining NASA in Houston. Daniel Dean Becker passed away in 2008 at the age of 83.

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], Daniel Dean Becker collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-02-1998

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