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Colombo collection

 Collection — Box: Assorted Collections 4
Identifier: Mss 081

Scope and Contents

John's discharge document

John's promotion to Sgt document

Leather document jacket stamped My Honorable Discharge from the US Service.

John's diary/notebook

- casette tape, KLKS 104.3, filed in Audio Cassette Tapes collection

Scrapbook pages with news clippings, filed seperately with scrapbooks (scrapbook 102):

- With The Local Guards at Camp newspaper columns by WD Colombo 1941

Donated items forwarded to Collections or unknown location:

- metal shaving kit inscribed J.R. Colombo

- WWI pay record

- WWI insurance papers

- WWI service medals

- "To My Daddy" poem

- 90th Division's Record newspaper article

- "Good luck and safe return" card

- "Trier" folding postcard

- Cloth sergeant stripes

- 90th Division Circus and County Fair paper

Dates

  • 1917 - 1945
  • Event: Donated by Robert J. Colombo on 31 Jan 1995 Accession number unknown.

Conditions Governing Use

MMVM does not hold copyright to this collection. We recognize that it is incumbent upon the researcher to procure permission to publish information from this collection from the owner of the copyright.

Biographical / Historical

2 veterans

Sgt John R. Colombo, Stillwater MN, Company C, 359th Infantry, WWI,

W. D. Colombo, 135th Infantry, 34th Division, WWII,

Extent

1 Files (One file folder.)

Language of Materials

English

Status
Completed
Author
Daniel Ewer, Archivist
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Minnesota Military & Veterans Museum Repository

Contact:
Minnesota Military and Veterans Museum
Camp Ripley
15000 Highway 115
Little Falls MN 56345 United States