Will McMasters papers
Collection Overview
The collection consists of photographs, booklets, and maps related to Will McMasters, a captain in the 56th Armored Engineers Battalion of the U.S. Army during World War II. Photographs are of McMasters and fellow soldiers in the field during World War II, mostly working on pontoon bridge construction. Also included are nine Holocaust atrocity photographs from Mauthausen concentration camp, in Austria.
Dates
- Creation: 1942-1945, 2007
Creator
- McMasters, Will (Person)
Language of Material
Materials in English
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
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Biographical Note
Will McMasters was a captain in B Company, 56th Armored Engineers Battalion, 11th Armored Division, of the U.S. Army during World War II. McMasters was part of a group present on May 6, 1945, the day Mauthausen concentration camp was liberated.
Extent
0.1 linear feet (2 folders, 1 oversize folder)
Abstract
The collection consists of photographs, booklets, and maps related to Will McMasters, a captain in the 56th Armored Engineers Battalion of the U.S. Army during World War II. Included are nine Holocaust atrocity photographs from Mauthausen concentration camp, in Austria.
Collection Arrangement
Materials are described at the folder level.
Acquisitions Information
Materials donated in 2007 by Will McMasters.
Processing Information
Processed by Rebecca McClure, February 2012.
Source
- McMasters, Will (Donor, Person)
Subject
- McMasters, Will (Person)
- United States. Army (Organization)
- United States. Army -- Military construction operations (Organization)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp) (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Inventory of the Will McMasters Papers, 1942-1945, 2007
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by: Rebecca McClure; machine-readable finding aid created by: Rebecca McClure
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Dacs
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources supported the processing of this collection and encoding of the finding aid.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
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