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1. Frank Van Pelt collection, 1917-1931 : Veterans History Project (U.S.)

   3 photographs.. manuscripts: 42 items.. -- Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The Frank Van Pelt collection documents Van Pelt's United States Army service during World War I. The collection includes correspondence, memoirs, and photographs dating 1917-1931. Born and raised on the Kansas-Oklahoma border, he served in Fort Logan, Colorado; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Fort Monmouth, New Jersey; and in France with the Company A, 101st Field Signal Battalion. He worked primarily in radio companies and was discharged as a Sergeant First Class on April 29, 1919. Frank Van Pelt died on August 13, 1949.

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