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Bernath Mss 346
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Title: Hugo Neilson World War II Scrapbook
Dates: 1944-1945
Bulk Dates: 1944
Collection number: Bernath Mss 346
Creator:
Neilson, Hugo
Collection Size:
0.2 linear feet
(1 oversize box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: The collection contains 157 black and white snapshots (captions in English), documents, clippings, and two 1944 issues of
the
Seabees Coverall newspaper, on scrapbook pages and loose, compiled by Hugo Neilson, Seaman First Class with the 51st NCB (Naval Construction
Battalion).
Physical location: Del Norte Oversize.
Languages:
English
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Hugo Neilson World War II Scrapbook. Bernath Mss 346. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Purchase, 2010.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains 157 black and white snapshots (captions in English), documents, clippings, and two 1944 issues of
the
Seabees Coverall newspaper, on scrapbook pages and loose, compiled by Hugo Neilson, Seaman First Class with the 51st NCB (Naval Construction
Battalion). Includes images of Ulithi (Caroline Islands) – fellow seamen, base, chapel, living quarters, 51st shop crew, local
terrain and huts (describes construction), building airstrip in 12 days; on board ship (showing cramped quarters); Saipan
– Japanese women and children, prisoners (men), Suicide Point (where hundreds of Japanese civilians leapt to their deaths),
Japanese fortifications, train, sugar mill, caves, African American Marines, shop crew and shop, building airstrip; and honorable
discharge, Oct. 1945.
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
World War II
Neilson, Hugo