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Hancock, Lester collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2025.025

Scope and Contents

Box 1:

1861- School of the Soldier booklet reprint

1917- WWI tract V.D. Prevention booklet

1917- 351st Infantry

1918- WWI Camp Dodge booklet

1918- .45 caliber pistol booklet

1918-1942- Oran H. Classen

1919- France map

1919- WWI France ticket

1919- WWI France magazine

1919- rosters and official documents incl. 88th Division; 350th Infantry; etc.

1922- 135th Infantry

1922-1926- National Guard papers

1926- Roster booklet, misc.

1927- Roster booklet, misc.

1928- Roster booklet, misc.

1929- Roster booklet, misc.

1929-1943- Army Bulletins

1930- Colville Memorial flyer

1930- National Guard stationing plan

1931- Roster booklet, misc.

1932- Roster booklet, misc.

1933- Roster booklet, misc.

1934- Roster booklet, misc.

1935- Roster booklet, misc.

1936- Big Stone Lake map; R.P. Miller game violation

1937- Roster; 135th Infantry

1938- Roster; orders

1939- Parks and highway projects

1939- orders, rosters, 135th Infantry

1940- Roster, 135th Infantry, medical records

1941- 217 Coast Artillery, 135th Infantry roster and papers

1941-1942- Two Army Officer Notebooks, blank

1941-1945- Hancock's payroll

1942- Gen Ryder photo; 135th Infantry

1943- Training Aids/Equipment, Inspection Outlines, Lessons Learned-Personal Experiences, Inspection Trips-Reports (sic); pocket notebook, photo: Bizerte N Africa, Cols Hancock, Ellman, Johnson, Fitzgerald, Beatty; orders; rosters

1943- M1903-M1 scorebook

1943- 135th Infantry historical account Sept-Oct 1943, photos

1943-1945- Courts Martial

1944- Italy, WWII, commentary

1944- orders, rosters, etc.

1944- WWII Cassino booklet- Infantry Combat Part Eleven: Small-Unit Actions at Cassino

1944- LIFE magazine photo prints, 8x10

1945- Bill Mauldin and clippings

1945, Aug- The Listening Post newsletter- Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company

1945- WWII serial numbers article

1946- Infantry Division WWII Organization

1946- NGAUS "The American Samurai"

1946- National Guard of the United States (NGAUS)

1946- Ft Benning GA

1947-1961- American Legion Post 72, Russel Johnson

1947- The Next Hill by Everest, 168th Infantry

1947- 168th Infantry, Hill 609

1947- Hancock promotion to Colonel certificate

Box 2:

Map pocket guide, Naples and Pompei

Community Sing Session pocket lyric book

1939, 1- Soldier Without Arms, 2- Soldier With Arms, 3- Drill for Foot Troops The Squad

1945- Hancock papers

1947- Hancock papers

1947-48- Hancock papers, Hill 609

1947-48- Hancock papers, Volturno River

1948- Hancock papers

1949- Hancock papers

1950- Hancock papers, Hill 609

1951- Hancock papers

1952- Hancock papers, 135th Infantry history booklets

1952- Hancock papers

1953, June- Report to the Army booklet

1953, National Guard Assoc., It's Purposes and Accomplishments booklet

1953- Armed Forces Tank magazines: 440 Report on World Affairs Jan-March 1953; 441 The US Northeast Command; 446 You and I USA

1954- Hancock papers

1955- North Africa map

1956- Hancock papers

1957- US Army Installations manual, PAM 210-1

1957- Hancock papers

1959- Wilson Company strike

1959- Dedication of the National Guard Memorial

Print collateral

Photographs

1960- Leader biographies. Philip C Bettenburg, Robert P Miller, Joseph E Nelson

1960- North Africa Cemetery and Memorial

1962- Sioux Uprising article

1964- 34ID history etc.

1966- Lineage of 747 Maintenance Bn

1971- Retired Officer Association

1977- HMS Broke, 3-135th Infantry

1977- Twin City Garrison Club

1977- correspondence

Undated papers

136th Infantry History

WWII North Africa

Misc. notes

Newspaper articles

135th Infantry etc. song lyrics

Hancock funeral

Obituaries. Hendrickson, Torney, Miller

Civil War officers, Organizations, and Units

Company M, 135th Infantry Regt

136th Infantry Regt

Hancock orders etc.

3rd Bn-135th Infantry Regt Association

Correspondence

Newsletters. The Doughboy Dud and The Weekly Star (WWII 34ID); Muzzle Blast Camp Ripley 1943; The Bearcat 1950, 1952; 2nd Repl Depot North Africa New Depot Dots 1943; Atlantic War Bulletin Antrim Ireland July 8 Vol 1 Serial 6; The Gossips Weekly, 135th Infantry 17 Oct 1942

Magazine articles. WWII-era.

Newspaper clippings. 1938-1968.

Orders and official documents. 1928-1946.

Misc.

Dates

  • 1861-1977
  • Event: Donated by Lester Hancock prior to 2020. Accession 2025.025

Conditions Governing Use

MMVM may, or may not, hold copyrights to materials in this collection. Donors who own copyrights to their donated materials, i.e., photos taken by their grandfather, typically donate their copyrights to MMVM as indicated on the Donation Gift Form. We recognize it is incumbent upon the researcher to procure permission to copy or publish information from this collection from the owner of the copyright.

Biographical / Historical

Gen. Lester A. Hancock, 228 E. Rooney, Appleton MN. 1894-1981. 135th Infantry.

Extent

3 Linear Feet (Two white standard banker's boxes.)

Language of Materials

English

Status
In Progress
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