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Nicholas and Jeanne Baldino transcript, Date accessioned: 2005-04-13, bulk 1943-1946

 

Summary

Creator:
Baldino, Nicholas, 1924-2015
Baldino, Jeanne, 1925-2014
Extent:
1 folders 1 folder
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Nicholas and Jeanne Baldino transcript, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-06-0106

Background

Scope and content:

This collection relates to Nicholas Baldino who served in the U.S. Army Air Corps with the 5th and 11th Bomb Groups in the Pacific Theatre and his wife Jeanne Baldino. This collection contains an oral history transcript detailing Nicholas Baldino's military service and how Jeanne met Nicholas Baldino.

Biographical / historical:

Nicholas Baldino was born October 26, 1924 and grew up in Ocean Township, New Jersey. He was called to service in January of 1943 for the Army Air corps. He completed trainings in Biloxi, Mississippi, in Lynchburg Virginia, Scott Field, Illinois, Harlingen, Texas, and Ellington Field, Texas. He was sent to the Pacific Theater at Henderson Field in Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. He served with both the 5th and the 11th heavy bombardment group. He flew missions as a replacement for a radioman, bombardier or gunner. N. Baldino also served in the Philippine campaigns. In 1946, he married Jeanne Baldino at St. Rose Catholic Church in Belmar, NJ. Upon his return to the U.S. he received an economics degree at Fordham with the assistance of a baseball scholarship and the GI Bill and law degree at Rutgers. He was the senior vice president of Chemical Bank, N.Y., now J. P. Morgan Chase. He passed away on January 11, 2015. N. Baldino is buried at St. James R.C. Church, Red Bank, New Jersey.

Acquisition information:
The Reichelt Program for Oral History.
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], Nicholas and Jeanne Baldino transcript, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-06-0106

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