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Dublin Core
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Title
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Robert D. Davis Letters
Subject
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World War, 1939-1945
Description
An account of the resource
These letters are written by Robert. D Davis, a World War II Veteran who would move to and contribute to the community of Wooster, Ohio. Davis describes his experiences in multiple places in Europe to his family at home.
Creator
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Robert D. Davis
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College of Wooster Special Collections, Robert D. Davis World War II Collection http://cdm15963.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15963coll27/id/441/rec/33
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Unknown
Date
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1939-1946
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PDF
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Robert_Davis_Letters_001
Dublin Core
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Title
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Robert D. Davis Letter from Ingolstadt 1945-10-06
Subject
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World War, 1939-1945; United States. Army; World War, 1939-1945--Europe--End;
Creator
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Robert D. Davis
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College of Wooster Special Collections, Robert D. Davis World War II Collection http://cdm15963.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15963coll27/id/441/rec/33
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Unknown
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1945-10-06
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Robert D. Davis Collection
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eng
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Text
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Robert_Davis_Ingolstadt_002
Coverage
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Ingolstadt, Germany
Description
An account of the resource
This letter written by Robert D Davis, a rifleman and interpreter during World War II who would end his career in Wooster, Ohio, depicts his post war plans. Davis explains that he plans on staying in Germany following the end of the War and when American troops are no longer necessary in Germany. Davis gives multiple reasons for this, especially monetary and economic reasons, an issue that would be prominent in the minds of many following World War II because the United States was just pulling itself back from The Great Depression in the 1930s when they went into World War II. Another reason for Davis to write home about his post-war plans and why staying in Germany would make a lot of sense to him because was only about twenty years old when the war started. The skills that he currently has will mostly relate to war and what he has done during war. Davis wants to be able to utilize those skills that World War II built for him, as other men who served will want to use their military skills as well.
Use Ohio Social Studies Standard 22 (The United States mobilization of its economic and military resources during World War II brought significant changes to American society) and 29 (The postwar economic boom, greatly affected by advances in science, produced epic changes in American life) for integration into the classroom.
1939-1945
OSSAH 29
OSSSAH 22
Robert Davis
World War II
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
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Robert D. Davis Letters
Subject
The topic of the resource
World War, 1939-1945
Description
An account of the resource
These letters are written by Robert. D Davis, a World War II Veteran who would move to and contribute to the community of Wooster, Ohio. Davis describes his experiences in multiple places in Europe to his family at home.
Creator
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Robert D. Davis
Source
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College of Wooster Special Collections, Robert D. Davis World War II Collection http://cdm15963.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15963coll27/id/441/rec/33
Publisher
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Unknown
Date
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1939-1946
Rights
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Format
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PDF
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Identifier
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Robert_Davis_Letters_001
Dublin Core
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Title
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Robert D. Davis Letter from Ingolstadt 1945-08-20
Subject
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World War, 1939-1945; United States. Army; United States. Army--Anecdotes
Creator
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Robert D. Davis
Source
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College of Wooster Special Collections, Robert D. Davis World War II Collection http://cdm15963.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15963coll27/id/441/rec/33
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Unknown
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1945-08-20
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Robert D. Davis Collection
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JPEG
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Robert_Davis_Ingolstadt_001
Coverage
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Ingolstadt, Germany
Description
An account of the resource
This letter written by Robert D Davis, a rifleman and interpreter during World War II who would end his career in Wooster, Ohio, discusses the some of the conditions that Davis is living in while he is overseas during World War II. Davis discusses that him and the rest of his unit are willing to live further away and have to walk further to get wherever they need to go in exchange for a much nicer place to live. In addition, Davis discusses the comradery that he and the other men in the unit have amongst them. He says that his fellow soldiers know that he should be sitting a certain way on the sofa to be comfortable. The comradery that soldiers have amongst each other is one of the things that got many soldiers through the war itself, but also the integration back into society following the war. The soldiers share an experience that others cannot relate to, making it difficult following the war when soldiers had to integrate back in to civilian life.
Use Ohio Social Studies for American History 22 (The United States mobilization of its economic and military resources during World War II brought significant changes to American society) and 4 (Historians analyze cause, effect, sequence and correlation in historical events, including multiple causation and long- and short-term causal relations) for integration into the classroom.
1939-1945
OSSAH 4
OSSSAH 22
Robert Davis
World War II
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Robert D. Davis Letters
Subject
The topic of the resource
World War, 1939-1945
Description
An account of the resource
These letters are written by Robert. D Davis, a World War II Veteran who would move to and contribute to the community of Wooster, Ohio. Davis describes his experiences in multiple places in Europe to his family at home.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Robert D. Davis
Source
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College of Wooster Special Collections, Robert D. Davis World War II Collection http://cdm15963.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15963coll27/id/441/rec/33
Publisher
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Unknown
Date
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1939-1946
Rights
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In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Format
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PDF
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Identifier
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Robert_Davis_Letters_001
Dublin Core
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Title
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Robert D. Davis Letter from Dachau
Subject
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World War, 1939-1945, Schloss Dachau (Dachau, Germany), Concentration camp buildings
Creator
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Robert D. Davis
Source
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College of Wooster Special Collections, Robert D. Davis World War II Collection http://cdm15963.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15963coll27/id/441/rec/33
Publisher
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Unknown
Date
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1945-06-11
Rights
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Robert D. Davis Collection
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JPEG
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Robert_Davis_Dachau_001
Coverage
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Dachau, Germany;
Description
An account of the resource
This letter written by Robert D Davis, a rifleman and interpreter during World War II who would end his career in Wooster, Ohio depicts what Davis saw as he went to one of the concentration camps shortly following its liberation. Disturbed by the way that the Germans forced those imprisoned at these camps to live, Davis discusses that there were still some living in the horrifying chambers because they had nowhere else to go. He discusses the sight of burned bodies, the crematorium, and the shock he felt as saw how many people were shoved into the small building on the pretense of showering.
The atrocities committed by Nazi’s during the Holocaust shocked both Soviet and American soldiers as they came upon the concentration and death camps in late 1944 and 1945. As SS guards attempted to cover up what was happening in the camps by burning and burying evidence of starving bodies, American and Soviet soldiers who liberated these camps were horrified to see multiple of the world’s largest crematoriums and thousands of prisoners, starving to the point of near death. Davis’s accounts of what he saw in the Dachau death camp were not unlike any of his fellow soldiers.
Use Ohio Social Studies Standard for Modern World History 16 (Oppression and discrimination resulted in the Armenian Genocide during World War I and the Holocaust, the state-sponsored mass murder of Jews and other groups, during World War II) for integration into the classroom
Use Ohio Social Studies Standard for American History 22 (The United States mobilization of its economic and military resources during World War II brought significant changes to American society) for integration into the classroom.
1939-1945
OSSAH 22
OSSMW 16
Robert Davis
World War II