Personal Narrative Manuscript/Mixed Material Photo, Print, Drawing Software, E-Resource Audio Recording Edward L. Pierce Collection
Veterans History Project Service Summary:
- War or Conflict: Korean War, 1950-1953
- Branch of Service: Army
- Unit of Service: 48th Field Artillery Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division
- Location of Service: Fort Riley, Kansas; Korea
- Highest Rank: Corporal
- Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/8025
From the time he was drafted in the summer of 1952, 20 year-old Edward Pierce kept up a regular, well-written correspondence with his parents back home in Calumet City, Illinois. Writing almost every day, he penned his letters from boot camp, from the ship taking him to Korea, and finally from the front lines of the war with North Korea. Pierce's letters provide a wealth of detail about the life of the ordinary American soldier in Korea. The letters are also preoccupied by the drudgery of Army life and the weather, which nearly every soldier who served in Korea described as the coldest they had ever experienced in their lives.
Edward L. Pierce Collection
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Title
- Edward L. Pierce Collection
Names
- Daughters of the American Revolution, Captain Nathan Watkins Chapter
- Pierce, Edward L.
- Montgomery, Arlene J.
Home State
- Arkansas
Headings
- - Pierce, Edward L.
- - Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Personal Narratives
- - United States. Army.
Repository
- Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Gender
- Male
Status
- veteran
Service History
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Korean War, 1950-1953
- Branch of Service: Army
- Unit of Service: 48th Field Artillery Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division
- Location of Service: Fort Riley, Kansas; Korea
- Highest Rank: Corporal
- Dates of Service: 1952-1954
- Military Status: veteran
Materials
- Audio: CD [1 item] -- Reference copy (collected 2009-08-20; 2009-08-20)
- Manuscript: Transcript [1 item] -- Typewritten document (collected 2009)
- Computer File: Floppy Disk [1 item] -- Electronic file of manuscript (collected 1996-02-06; 1996-02)
- Manuscript: Correspondence [1 item] -- (collected 1952-1954)
- Photograph: Copy photographic print [15 items] -- Photograph (collected 1952-1954)
- Audio: Microcassette [1 item] -- Oral history interview (collected 2003-01-15)
Collection Number
- AFC/2001/001/8025
Cite as
- Edward L. Pierce Collection (AFC/2001/001/8025), Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
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- audio
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