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 Finding Aid: Thomas E. Nelson Collection Item Number: 24540000000

Individual Collection
Location: D064.2D; Restricted Access


Scope & Content:

  • Less than half a linear foot of material including a daily journal kept by Thomas E. Nelson during his service in Vietnam as a medical technologist in charge of the blood bank with the 71st Evacuation Hospital at Pleiku, 1969-1970. Also included in the donation are letters, a Japanese phrase book, and a soldier's field manual.

Biographical Note:

  • Thomas E. Nelson was born on October 6, 1945 in Yorktown, Indiana. He was drafted into the Army in 1968 and was stationed at Fort Campbell from April 1968 to March 1969. Thomas served in Vietnam as a medical technologist in charge of the blood bank with the 71st Evacuation Hospital at Pleiku from April 1969 to March 1970. He was discharged in 1970, with a rank of Specialist 5, and afterward attended graduate school on the G.I. Bill.

Access Level:

  • Unrestricted

Collection Inventory:

LocationBoxFolderContents
D064.2D11
Personal diary, 19 March 1969 - 30 June 1969
2
Personal diary, 1 July 1969 - 30 September 1969
3
Personal diary, 1 October 1969 - 30 November 1969
4
Personal diary, 1 December 1969 - 17 March 1970
5
Personal letters sent home by Nelson, 27 March 1969 - 18 January 1970
6
Personal letters Nelson received from home, 17 August 1969 - 16 November 1969
7
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous letters, 1969-1970
8
War Department "Japanese Phrase Book", 1944
Basic Field Manual "Soldier's Handbook", 1941
9
Miscellaneous papers
3rd Marine Division Christmas card from WWII
Instructions for guard duty

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