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Charles Alden Haug manuscript, 1944-1945, Date acquired: 06/08/2000

 

Summary

Creator:
Haug, Charles Alden
Extent:
1.00 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Charles Alden Haug manuscript, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_00_0273.

Background

Scope and content:

This manuscript relates to Sergeant Charles Alden Haug who served with Company B, 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division during World War II in the European Theater of Operations. He was awarded the Combat Infantry Badge and Bronze Star Medal. This collection contains an unpublished manuscript memoir.

Biographical / historical:

Charles Alden Haug was born in Madelia, MN, on December 2, 1922, to parents Martin and Alice (Johnson) Haug. He was schooled in Watonwan County where he graduated from Madelia High Schol in 1941. The following year, Charles attended and graduated from the Minnesota School of Business, and began work at the First Security Bank of Sleepy Eye. In February 1943, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he served as a sergeant in Europe during World War II with Company B, 112th Regiment, 28th Infantry Division from November 1944 to August 1945. Charles served in Germany, France, the Rhineland, and Belgium. He experienced combat at the Battles of Hürtgen Forest and St. Vith and served as a platoon runner and infantryman at Lutzkampen, Sigolsheim, and Trois Epis during the Battle of the Bulge. He also served in the same capacities at the Battle of Ardennes. While he was neither injured nor captured during his months of service, he did spend six weeks in a hospital in Paris due to an infection near the end of the war, after which he received day passes to Paris and Reims, France. While in service, Charles received several accolades and completed two years of higher education at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

Acquisition information:

Charles Alden Haug

Donation

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], Charles Alden Haug manuscript, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_00_0273.

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