Colombo collection
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
Minnesota Military and Veterans Museum
Camp Ripley
15000 Highway 115
Little Falls MN 56345 United States
connect@mnmilitarymuseum.org