Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- A career in the U.S. Coast Artillery Corps
- Creators:
- Ausmus, Delbert, 1887-, University of California, Los Angeles. Oral History Program. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50051003, and Dixon, Elizabeth I.
- Abstract:
-
Covers his career from enlistment in 1903 to retirement in 1946; World War I; service in the Philippines during the 30's; World War II and imprisonment by Japanese.
Ausmus relates his boyhood in the Southern Kansas wheat belt and his career in the Coast Artillery Corps, 1903-1946.
- Extent:
- 3 volumes (xiii, 1531 leaves) ;
- Language:
- English
Background
- Biographical / historical:
- Soldier.
- Custodial history:
- Forms part of: Oral History collection, Dept. of Special Collections, University Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Physical description:
- 3 volumes (xiii, 1531 leaves) ; 28 cm
- Dimensions:
- 28 cm
- Note:
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Vol. 3 includes index.
The UCLA Oral History Program : catalog of the collection / compiled by Constance S. Bullock (Los Angeles : Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1982) is available in the UCLA Dept. of Special Collections.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Soldiers
Interviews
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1939-1945
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
France
Pacific Ocean
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces
United States. Army. Coast Artillery
EΜtats-Unis. Army. Coast Artillery
Ausmus, Delbert, 1887-
1914-1945 - Places:
- France. fast (OCoLC)fst01204289 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJd8gD4vdtqQMdQHvYqbBP
Pacific Ocean. fast (OCoLC)fst01243528 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJt3VGpY6rKDD3QVRdJVYP
Access and use
- Terms of access:
- No quotation, publication or reproduction without written permission from legal heir.
- Location of this collection:
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University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft LibraryBerkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
- Contact:
- 510-642-6481