A career in the U.S. Coast Artillery Corps

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:

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.

Access and use

Terms of access:
No quotation, publication or reproduction without written permission from legal heir.
Location of this collection:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
Contact:
510-642-6481