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Robert S. McClelland collection, 1939-1945, Date acquired: 2005-05-06, Date accessioned: 2020-05-27, bulk 1945

 

Summary

Creator:
McClelland, Robert S.
Extent:
1 folders
2 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Robert S. McClelland collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_05_0077.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection relates to Robert S. McClelland who served as U.S. Navy liaison with the 7th U.S. Army during World War II. The materials in the Robert S. McClelland collection consist of eleven original photographs covering the liberation of a German concentration camp, a crematorium, photographs of the German town of Gmünd, and a photocopy of Robert S. McClelland's U.S. Naval record. The items in the collection include badges, buttons, an armband, a silver spoon, and haberdashery all relating to different Nazi party groups such as the Deutscher Volkssturm Wehrmacht, the National Socialist People's Welfare, the Women's Reicharbeitdienst and the Nazi party in general.

Biographical / historical:

Robert S. McClelland (May 19, 1915-April 4, 1996) was a Deck Officer in the U.S. Navy from March 1943 to December 1945. He served in Landing Craft Infantry 490 and the U.S. 7th Army both stateside at the Amphibious Base in Little Creek, Virginia as well as in the European theater on Normandy Beach for D-Day. The U.S. 7th Army was the lead in Operation Undertone. He received the American Theater Ribbon, European Theater Ribbon (2 stars), and the Victory Ribbon. He was discharged from the Navy on December 15, 1945.

Custodial history:

This collection was donated by Michael "Mac" McClelland, son of Robert S. McClelland. The collection was acquired by the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience on May 6, 2005.

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], Robert S. McClelland collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_05_0077.

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