Oral History transcript about part of ASTP program under Secretary of War Simpson; Battle of the Bulge; Patton's Third Army; Bastogne. Wilfred V Daly was an infantryman serving in the 819th Tank Destroyer Battalion. He trained at Camp Roborts(?), CA, Camp Chaffee, AK, Camps Hood and Bowie, TX, and Camp Ibis, CA. He served as a guard(?) unit at Hawaii, and then at Peleliu. The collection consists of photos and photo descriptions, handwritten letters from Daly to his mother (c. 1942-1945), H�, annotated and bound versions of these letters assembled into manuscripts with extensive details of everyday Army life, the transcript from a Reichelt Oral History interview, several newspaper clippings, notes from Daly describing items in the collection, and several pamphlets from Army chapels. Also included is the Unit Insignia patch for a Tank Destroyer Unit.
