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Perrine, Laurence D. (Second World War correspondence scrapbooks)
2020.102.w.r  
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  • Conditions Governing Access
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  • Content Description
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  • Contributing Institution: Center for American War Letters Archives
    Title: Laurence D. Perrine Second World War correspondence scrapbooks
    Creator: Perrine, Laurence, Master Sergeant, PhD, 1915-1995
    source: Perrine, Douglas
    Identifier/Call Number: 2020.102.w.r
    Physical Description: 0.1 Linear Feet (1 folder)
    Date (inclusive): 1945 February 2 - 1945 December 3
    Abstract: This collection contains two scrapbooks compiled by MSgt. Laurence D. Perrine, USA relating to his service during the Second World War. Included are correspondence, photographs and collected ephemera.
    Language of Material: English .
    Container: WWII 156
    Container: 1
    Container: 1

    Conditions Governing Access

    This collection is open for research.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Gift of Douglas Perrine.

    Arrangement

    This collection is arranged sequentially;
    • Series 1, Scrapbook volume 27
    • Series 2, Scrapbook volume 28

    Biographical / Historical

    Master Sergeant Laurence D. Perrine, United States Army (10/13/1915 - 4/27/1995) was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Mary D. and Ren B. Perrine, both American citizens. After returning to the US and his father's passing in 1938, he lived with his siblings Eugene, Ruth and Paul, as well as his aunt and uncle Lenora and John Dollins. He attended and worked at Yale University as a graduate student when he registered for the draft in October 1940 and worked as a substitute teacher in Lyndhurst, Ohio when he enlisted on June 23, 1942 at Camp Perry in Lacarne, Ohio. After training and beginning his service with a medical unit, he departed for France as a Psychiatric Assistant with the 103rd Infantry Division on October 6, 1944 and arrived on October 20 at Le Havre.
    While in France, he wrote home to his sister Ruth and his mother, detailing the sights and the horrors of war, including casualties and trauma to soldiers as well as the destruction seen in the various towns and cities he passed. He continued to serve in various locations throughout Europe, even attending school at Shrivenham American University in Shrivenham, Berkshire, England until he left on December 14, 1945, arriving on December 24 and separating on December 28.
    After the war, Perrine went on to have a very successful career as an English professor at Southern Methodist University. (https://blog.smu.edu/smumagazine/2007/12/3-3-million-gift-extends-professors-legacy/)
    Laurence Perrine, PhD passed away on April 27, 1995.

    Preferred Citation

    [Item title / description; Box "n" / Folder "n"], Laurence D. Perrine Second World War correspondence scrapbooks (2020.102.w.r), Center for American War Letters Archives, Chapman University, CA.
    For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.

    Content Description

    This collection contains two scrapbooks compiled by MSgt. Laurence Dollins Perrine, USA relating to his service during the Second World War. Included are sixteen typed correspondence, 157 pictures (photographs, postcards, drawings and magazine clippings) of people, landscapes and landmarks, as well as collected ephemera.

    Conditions Governing Use

    There are no restrictions on the use of this material except where previously copyrighted material is concerned. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain all permissions.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    World War (1939-1945)
    World War (1939-1945) -- Casualties
    World War (1939-1945) -- England
    World War (1939-1945) -- Photography
    World War (1939-1945) -- Germany
    World War (1939-1945) -- Concentration camps -- Germany
    World War (1939-1945) -- Concentration camps
    World War (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Refugees
    Austria -- Pictorial works
    World War (1939-1945) -- Battlefields -- France
    World War (1939-1945) -- France
    Correspondence -- World War, 1939-1945
    War -- Pictorial works
    Perrine, Douglas