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Foss, James collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2025.026

Scope and Contents

Collier's Photographic History of WWII, forwarded to Library.

Photo album- Europe. Boxing match. candid soldier photos. R and R. 15 Lansburg Concentration Camp photos, incl. corpses, German civilians removing bodies and digging, prisoner barracks.

Scrap book:

Fallout Protection For Homes with Basements, booklet, 1966

C Company locations, 1944-1945

Operations of the 12th Armored Division map and memo.

Company roster, Thanksgiving, 1943

Hellcat newsletter, V-mails, foreign currency, orders, pressed orchid for Mother's Day, rank and unit patches, Christmas V-mail, valentines (non-military), newspaper clippings, clippings regarding triplet birth (James' aunt)

12th Armored Division Hellcats yearbook. Albert Love Enterprises publisher. ca. 1941. autographs on last page.

Dates

  • 1941-1945
  • Event: Donated by Nancy (Kaiser) Klecker on 27 March, 2025. Accession 2025.026

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

James Melgaard Foss. Minneapolis MN. C Company, 134th Ordnance Maintenance BN, 12th Armored Division. First wife Gertrude Foss.

Extent

2 Linear Feet (One scrapbook box. #149-150.)

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