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Bernard Silverblatt transcript, May 8, 2004, bulk 1941-1945

 

Summary

Creator:
Gregory, David
Silverblatt, Bernard , 1923-2020
Extent:
1 folders
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Bernard Silverblatt transcript, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-06-0126

Background

Scope and content:

Bernard Silverblatt served as a co-pilot on B-24s with the 492nd Bomb Group from 1943 to 1945, serving in the European Theater of War. He flew diversionary missions for the Royal Air Force and supply missions to Denmark and Norway. All 12 missions were at night. This collection contains an oral history interview transcript of Silverblatt.

Biographical / historical:

Bernard Silverblatt was born on May 19, 1923 in Ambridge, PA. In 1940, while studying at Carnegie Institute of Technology, he enlisted in the ROTC and in 1942 he enlisted into the Army Air Corps. He served as a pilot on World War II from 1943 to 1945. He passed away on February 29, 2020 at the age of 96 in Peabody, MA.

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], Bernard Silverblatt transcript, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-06-0126

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