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Title: Dale O. Hall papers
Dates: 1908-1946
Collection Number: 96048
Creator: Hall, Dale O.
Collection Size:
12 manuscript boxes
(4.8 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: The collection relates to American military training in the United States during World War II, military mapping in the Pacific
Theater, and the postwar occupation of Japan. It consists of correspondence, diary, printed matter, photographs, and miscellany.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages: In
English
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Dale O. Hall papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1996.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Dale O. Hall was a Technician 5 in the United States Army and member of the 64th Engineer Topographic Battalion from 1944
to 1946.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection relates to American military training in the United States during World War II, military mapping in the Pacific
Theater, and the postwar occupation of Japan. The majority of the collection is correspondence between Dale O. Hall and his
family and friends during his assignments to different Engineer Topographic Battalions in World War II.
The collection also includes a variety of printed material that illustrates Hall's daily life in the service (magazines, performance
brochures, movie tickets, official memos). Much of this printed material was mailed by Dale to his family with his letters,
to be saved as souvenirs, and is mainly arranged separately from his letters.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
United States. Army. Engineer Base Topographic Battalion, 64th.
World War, 1939-1945--Cartography.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean.
Military government.
Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952.