Inventory of the Harry Roswell Hill papers
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Title: Harry Roswell Hill papers
Date (bulk): 1942-1946
Collection Number: 97018
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English, Persian, French, and other languages
Physical Description:
1 manuscript box, 1 oversize box
(1.3 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Personnel records, orders, letters, manuals, servicemen's newspapers, clippings, other printed matter, photographs, and miscellany
relating to American military railway service operations in Iran and elsewhere in the Persian Gulf Command during World War
II.
Creator:
Hill, Harry Roswell, 1899-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
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or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
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Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1997.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Harry Roswell Hill papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
Captain, United States Army Transportation Corps; member, 762nd Railway Shop Battalion, 1942-1946.
Scope and Content of Collection
Personnel records, orders, letters, manuals, servicemen's newspapers, clippings, other printed matter, photographs, and miscellany
relating to American military railway service operations in Iran and elsewhere in the Persian Gulf Command during World War
II.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1939-1945 -- Transportation
World War, 1939-1945 -- Middle East
Railroads -- Iran
United States. Army. Railway Shop Battalion, 762nd
box 1, folder 2
Service in Persian Gulf Command materials
1942-1945
Scope and Contents note
Includes memoranda, orders, invitations, passes, certificates, receipts, and ephemera relating to Hill's service in Iran and
time spent in Palestine, Germany, and Paris on leave or in connection with his Army service. Also includes a small amount
of material related to Claude Hovis, Hill's roommate, who was killed in Iran.
box 1, folder 3
Agenda book and calendars
1943-1944
box 1, folder 4
Correspondence,
1943-1945
Scope and Contents note
Between Hill and his wife, Martha (Marty).
box 1, folder 5
Photographs
undated
Scope and Contents note
French Foreign Legion headquarters, Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria (2 photos); unidentified Army men getting water from barrels in
desert (1 photo); and 60th Operations group in front of C-47 aircraft, possibly at Tafaraoui Airfield, Algeria (1 photo).
box 1, folder 7
India, Iraq, Libya, Syria
1942, undated
box 1, folder 8
Iran - guides
1942-1943, undated
box 1, folder 9
Iran, Middle and Near East - maps
undated
box 1, folder 10
Iran/Persian Gulf Command - clippings
1943-1944, undated
box 1, folder 11
Palestine,
1944, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes maps, tour information, and newsletters collected by Hill in relation to leave taken in Palestine.
box 1, folder 12
Paris,
1943, 1945, undated
box 1, folder 13
Railway service
1943-1945
Scope and Contents note
Includes materials specifically related to the 762nd Railway Shop Battalion.
box 1, folder 14
United States Army, general
1943, 1945, undated
box 1, folder 16
Miscellaneous
1949, undated
Oversize material
1937-1945
box 2, folder 1
The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. 84, No. 2
1943 August
Scope and Contents note
Includes article titled "Iran in Wartime."
Persian Gulf Command,
undated
Scope and Contents note
Brief pictorial record of Persian Gulf region. Includes standardized letter to all individuals who served in Persian Gulf
Command from Brigadier General Donald P. Booth.
Souvenir of an Accomplishment
1944
Scope and Contents note
Photo booklet recognizing American railroad efforts in Iran to bring supplies to Russians in World War II.
Yank, The Army Weekly, Persian Gulf edition, Vol. 1, No. 18, excerpt
1943 December 15
The Saturday Evening Post, excerpt
1944 September 2
Attack, excerpt
1944 July
Scope and Contents note
Includes article titled "Men of the 762nd Find Time for Recreation Now."
Egyptian Mail, No. 9681, excerpt
1945 May 29
Sandscript, Vol. 3, No. 19
1945 May 26
box 2, folder 2
[Shaypour?] magazine
1943
Language of Material: Persian.
Krokodil (Moscow), No. 26-27
1943
Voici comment la VIIIème Armée battit les Allemandes et fit crouler l'Empire Africain de Mussolini
undated
La guerre illustrée, L.T.A. Robinson, Ltd. (London)
1943 March
box 2, folder 3
"Gmunden [Austria]: Das tor ins Salzkammergut," tourist map
1940
"Gmunden [Austria], Ostmark, Deutschland," tourist map
undated
"Old Persia, Modern Iran," illustrated map
undated
"Cartographical Map of Iran, Once Known as Persia, Showing Many Places of Biblical and Historical Interest," Persian Gulf
Command, illustrated map
circa 1944
box 2, folder 4
"Iran," TWA travel poster
undated
"Deep in Iran, Alco-G.E. Diesel-electric Locomotives Haul Supplies to Russia," General Electric poster
undated
"New Songs," songbook of compositions from Iranian composer Ahmad Furutan Rad
1937
Language of Material: Persian.
box 2, folder 5
Algérie, edition de l'OFALAC [Office algérien d'action économique et touristique]
undated