Harold B. Lee Library

Archive for 2009

• Geneva Steel Photographs and Negatives
  Posted September 21, 2009 by John Murphy

  The L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce that all Geneva Steel photographs and negatives in the Geneva Steel Holdings Corporation records (MSS 3122) will soon be available for public use and access. The collection includes over 16,000 gelatin silver, black-and-white, and color photographs, as well as 33,000 negatives, slides, and transparencies. These [...]

• Bombing in Posen
  Posted September 16, 2009 by Kristi Young

  Our 15th flight was April 9, Easter Sunday, to Posen, Poland.  When we went into briefing we were told this was a must hit the target raid!  We were going into Poland to bomb the first jet aircraft factory in the world!  The Intelligence Officer informed us that the first operational jet airplane was on [...]

• Victory–A Remarkable Coincidence
  Posted July 30, 2009 by Kristi Young

  Some people have all the luck.  Jennie Gwilliam Austin told the following story about her husband, Ray Gwilliam: Ray “had finished his training and was just waiting for assignment overseas.  He came home one night and said ‘I have orders to go to [the] Europe[an] theater tomorrow.’”So we packed up and  got me a train [...]

• A Soldier in New Guinea
  Posted June 26, 2009 by Kristi Young

  Sgt. Charles W. Eastwood was in the army during World War II.  His following experiences are part of the Veterans History Project at L. Tom Perry Special Collections: “I had the privilege of attending Church services in a tent set up on the beach.  We were few in number, coming from different units around the tent [...]

• Nun’s Flag
  Posted May 26, 2009 by Kristi Young

    Army Chaplain Charles “Harry” Washburn wanted a United States flag to display over a cemetery in Hamlein, Germany on the first Memorial Day following the surrender in Europe in 1945. However, there were no regimental sized flags readily available. So, Washburn commissioned a group of nuns to create an American flag. The flag was [...]