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Size | 32 items |
Abstract | Veteran F. Carlyle Shepard's collection contains his recollections of military service in Europe during World War I and World War II. Other materials are transcriptions of letters written home from overseas between January 1944 and May 1945 and letters to family members written between 1966 and 1972, the latter containing personal recollections about family members in North Carolina and the army. Genealogical information about the Shepard family is included. |
Creator | Shepard, F. Carlyle (Frederick Carlyle) |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
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F. Carlyle Shepard was born 27 November 1895 in South Carolina. His family later moved to Wilmington, N.C. He attended the University of North Carolina (UNC), but left at the end of 1917 to join the U.S. Army. After the close of World War I, he returned to UNC and finished his A.B. degree in 1921. He then received master's and doctoral degrees in education. His 1938 doctoral thesis was titled An Investigation of the Relation Between Physiological and Personality Changes During Adolescence. He served in the European theater during World War II, and he died in 1975.
Back to TopVeteran F. Carlyle Shepard's collection contains his recollections of military service in Europe during World War I and World War II. Other materials are transcriptions of letters written home from overseas between January 1944 and May 1945 and letters to family members written between 1966 and 1972, the latter containing personal recollections about family members in North Carolina and the army. Genealogical information about the Shepard family is included.
Back to TopDigital Folder DF-5709/1 |
World War I
"An account of my personal experiences in World War I written from my recollections as they have emerged after a period of 47 years." Written in 1964. |
Digital Folder DF-5709/2 |
World War II
"World War II. As seen through the emotions of F. Carlyle Shepard. Memories as recollected in tranquility some twenty years later when reading the Work Horse of the Western Front, The Story of the 30th Infantry' Division, by Robert L. Hewitt." Written between 1961 and 1966. Other recollections are titled "Waiting-The Build Up," "Incident Near Gauciel," "Embarking & Debarking" "Christmas Eve In The Bulge," "D-Day," and "Incident At Mortain." Also included are "Origin Of My Writing Of My Memories of World War I & World War II" and transcriptions of contemporary World War II documents such as a newspaper article, a letter of commendation, and letters written by Shepard to his family between 1944 and 1945. |
Digital Folder DF-5709/3 |
Shepard Family, 1966-1972
Chiefly transcriptions of family letters containing recollections about family in North Carolina and the army. Also included is Shepard family genealogical information. |