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Title |
World War II U.S. Army Wool Coat |
Object Name |
Coat |
Description |
World War II U.S. Army wool coat; staff sargeant E-6 patches on shoulders; U.S. Army European Theater of Operations Command patch on left shoulder worn by Maynard Archer Olson. |
Provenance |
This U.S. Army uniform was donated to the museum by Maynard A. and Shirley L. Olson. The uniform was worn by Mr. Olson during World War II. He entered the Army at Fort Snelling, Minnesota on July 13, 1942 and was discharged at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin on January 1, 1946, after serving at various locations in the U.S. and France over 3 1/2 years of service. Casualties from the Battle of the Bulge in the northeastern France and Belgium areas were served by a hospital train running from Dijon to Marseilles, France. Maynard served on this train very briefly and in the 237th General Hopsital at Metz. When the war ended in Europe the 237th boarded the U.S.S. General Elting going to Manila for the invasion of Japan. Fortunately in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean the news came the war in Japan had ended and the ship was diverted to Hampton Roads, Virginia. Olson served nearly forty years in education in various positions and locations: Teacher-coach at Ft. Yates, North Dakota and Boulder, Montana; County high school principal at Boulder; superintendent of schools at Whitehall and Helena, Montana; U.S. Army; state high school supervisor (Harriet Miller, Superintendent of Public Instruction) and: deputy superintendent (Ed Argenbright, State Superintendent). |
Collection |
Military |
Caption |
Maynard Olson |
People |
Olson, Maynard |
Used |
Olson, Maynard |
Catalog Number |
2018.147.4 |
Year Range from |
1942 |
Year Range to |
1946 |
Date |
Circa 1940s |
Search Terms |
Army Historical Military Uniform World War II World War II Military Uniform |
Subjects |
World War II Military Uniform |