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Dahlin, Leroy collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2025.036

Scope and Contents

Box 1:

Brown scrapbook. Northern Ireland and North Africa. Foreign coins and paper money. 3-135 Infantry reunion Ortonville 1963 program.

Black scrapbook. Homefront, family vacations, Camp Claiborne, postcards, pressed plants, matchbooks, photos aboard ship, ship sinking, North Africa.

Newspapers in unopened rolls mailed home from Europe. Stars and Stripes etc.



Box 2:

Correspondence. Letters, V-mail, greeting cards. 1942-1944. Ireland and North Africa.

Pocket notebooks.

Pocket field manuals.



Box 3:

The First Four Years booklet. British

Final Report on the Vesuvious Emergency Operation. 1944.

Photo scrapbook pages, Roy Dahlin. 1920-1940

Correspondence, misc print collateral. incl Stillwater State Prison letters

Letters, 1942. Incl. transcribed meterial.

Photosand holiday cards.

Newspaper clippings.

Italian maps and post cards.

Stationary portfolio and stationary. blank.

The Ordnance Officer's Guide. Owned by Joseph Putis. Illustrated. Aberdeen Proving Ground. 120 pages.

Newspaper. 34th Division has Enviable Record headline. Stillwater Gazette.

Military documents. 135th Infantry.

Operation Terminal documents.

Protractors and other map/survey tools.

Rinker file. unit photo,Spanish American War?

Newspapers in unopened rolls mailed home from Europe. Stars and Stripes etc. pencils rolled in paper.



Oversize materials:

Algiers/Algeria Africa coastline map with hand-written approach markings. Ilot de la Marine.

Illinois National Guard promotion to 2nd and 1st Lieutenant certificates. Company M, 3rd Infantry. 1902.





Artifacts in Collections Dept:

2 bags of insignia

French Foreign Legion kepi hat

Footlocker

Uniform components

Dates

  • 1942-1943
  • Event: Donated by Steve Zoller on 16 April 2025. Accession 2025.036

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

Capt Leroy Dahlin, Company I, 135th Infantry Regiment, 34th Infantry Division. Bayport MN.

Cpl Charles F. Rinker, 3rd Minnesota Regiment. Spanish American War. Home Guards.

Extent

5 Linear Feet (Three gray standard banker's boxes. At 4-A endcap.)

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