Finding Aid for the Jeffrey W. Russell Post-Persian Gulf War correspondence 2017.250.w.r

John Encarnacion

Center for American War Letters Archives

8/26/2017

Leatherby Libraries

Chapman University

Orange, CA 92866

speccoll@chapman.edu

URL: http://www1.chapman.edu/library/archives/

Contributing Institution: Center for American War Letters Archives

Title: Jeffrey W. Russell Post-Gulf War correspondence

Creator: Russell, Jeffrey Warren

source: Russell, Nancy R.

Identifier/Call Number: 2017.250.w.r

Physical Description: .08 Linear Feet (1 folder)

Date (inclusive): 1991 August 17 - 1992 March 5

Abstract: This collection contains correspondence and photographs from LtCol. Jeffrey Warren Russell, USA to his wife Nancy R. Russell after the Persian Gulf War.

Language of Material: English .

Container: Gulf War 1

Container: 5-6

Container: 1-2

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Nancy R. Russell

Arrangement

This collection is arranged chronologically by material type:

Series 1, Correspondence to Nancy R. Russell
Series 2, Photographs

Biographical / Historical

Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Warren Russell was born in Winchester, Massachusetts in October 1946. He received a bachelor's degree from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont in 1968. Russell also received two Master of Educations degress from Elmira College in Elimra, New York in 1977 and from the University of South Carolina in 2004. Russell lived in Winchester, MA until he started college. He did graduate work in biology at Middlebury and then entered active duty in the U.S. Army in January 1972 as a 1st Lieutenant. Served in West Germany; Seneca Army Depot, Seneca, NY; Japan; Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama; several assignments in the Washington D.C. area; Korea; and Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant in Karnack, Texas. After his ammunition plant assignment, he managed the ammunition retrograde activity in Kuwait after the Persian Gulf War. He retired from a Washington D.C. assignment as a colonel in 1996, then graduated from Armed Services Staff College and Army War College. In retirement, he served as Senior JROTC Instructor and then as a high school vice principal and principal in schools in Columbus County, North Carolina until his death in 2010.

Preferred Citation

[Item title, Box number, Folder number], Jeffrey W. Russell Post-Persian Gulf War correspondence (2017.250.w.r), Center for American War Letters Archives, Chapman University, CA.

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Scope and Contents

This collection contains 35 correspondence and 15 photographs from Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Warren Russell, United States Army to his wife Nancy R. Russell after the Persian Gulf War.

Conditions Governing Use

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Subjects and Indexing Terms

Persian Gulf War (1991) -- Correspondence

Persian Gulf War (1991)

Photographs

War recovery

Persian Gulf War (1991) -- Kuwait

Russell, Nancy R.

box Gulf War 1, folder 5

Series 1, Correspondence to Nancy R. Russell 1991 August 17 - 1992 March 5

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents

This series contains 35 correspondence written by Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Warren Russell to his wife Nancy R. Russell, after the Persian Gulf War. Subjects of letters consist of Russell's daily routines, involvement with the ammunition retrogade activity in Kuwait, descriptions about Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, difficulties with sending and receiving letters, and the difficulty of having to work overseas and being away from Nancy.

box Gulf War 1, folder 6

Series 2, Photographs 1991-1992

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents

This series contains 15 photographs of various subjects taken by Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Warren Russell in Kuwait, post-Persian Gulf War. Subjects of photographs show an oil well fire off the coast of Kuwait, fellow servicemen and officers, and the ammunition retrograde activity after the war.