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Harold E. Bergman papers, 1939-1953, Date acquired: 12/12/2005, Date accessioned: 2020-05-19, bulk 1945

 

Summary

Creator:
Bergman, Harold E.
Bergman, Harold E.
Extent:
1 folders
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Harold E. Bergman papers, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_05_0173.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection relates to Harold E. Bergman's (Army Counter Intelligence Corps). The collection contains a memoir of his service. He volunteered in December 1939, spent two years in ROTC, and was later assigned as a clerk for Medical Replacement Training Center (MRTC), within the 54th Training Battalion.

Biographical / historical:

Harold E. Bergman was born in 1919 in Milwaukee, WI. In 1943 Harold E. Bergman reported to the 8th Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC), a position which reduced his rank from S/Sgt. Medical to corporal. He was transferred to the 5th Army CIC later that year and was stationed in Italy. He participated in the occupation of Austria and was assigned to form a sub-detachment in Badgastein, Austria. He was discharged on December 7, 1945, but recalled to active duty effective August 16, 1951. He was assigned training Group B-117, ordered to 430th CIC in Salzburg, Austria. He was relieved from active duty on March 21, 1953, and his commission expired on April 1, 1953. Most of Bergman's time overseas was noncombat. He gives much detail to his surroundings, food, and his multiple tours in Bari, Italy.

After the war, Bergman held a BS from the University of Illinois, and MS from Florida State University, and a law degree from the University of Florida. He had a career as a stock broker in south Florida. He also pursued acting and was active in The Players (State) Theater, regional acting groups, held a national office with the Screen Actors Guild, and held film and TV roles later in life. Bergman had three daughters and five grandchildren. He passed away on February 1, 2019.

Custodial history:

This collection was donated by Harold E. Bergman. The collection was acquired by the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience on December 12, 2005.

Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.

Arrangement:

Creator

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], Harold E. Bergman papers, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_05_0173.

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