ORU_Ax514.xml Guide to the Fred Michael Fuecker Papers 1911-1955 Fuecker (Fred Michael) Papers University of Oregon Libraries, Archivists' Toolkit Project Team and Tanya Parlet. Funding for production of this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives 2012
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-12-22. Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives
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Fred M. Fuecker papers Fuecker, Fred M. (Fred Michael), 1895-1975 Ax 514 5 linear feet 11 containers 1911-1955 Fred Michael Fuecker (1895-1975) served in the military from 1911-1955, including World War I and World War II. The collection consists of a World War I diary, administrative papers of the provost marshal of Los Angeles and Arizona, and of Service Command Unit 4910, Los Angeles (1942-1944), and seven photograph albums, (1911-1924), scrapbooks and mementos. 2 record storage boxes, 1 oversize volume, 1 flat box, 7 photograph albums. English .

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 Fuecker, Fred M. (Fred Michael), 1895-1975 United States. Army United States. Army. Field Artillery Philippines--Photographs Soldiers--United States World War, 1939-1945 World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, American Military Correspondence Photograph albums Diaries Administrative records Scrapbooks

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Fred Michael Fuecker (1895-1975) was born in Cold Springs, Minnesota. He enlisted in the Army in 1911, and by 1917 was Regimental Sergeant Major, 1st Minnesota Field Artillery. He was commissioned 1st lieutenant, F.A., Minnesota National Guard in 1917, and went to France, serving with the 151st Field Artillery, 42nd Division, A.E.F. After the war he was in the Field Artillery Reserve. In WWII he served with the Military Police Corps in Arizona, California and the Philippines. He retired in 1955.

The collection consists of a World War I diary (1917-1919), administrative papers of the Provost Marshal, Los Angeles and Arizona, and of Service Command Unit 4910, Los Angeles (1942-1944), and seven albums of photographs (1911-1924), and mementos.

There is also a scrapbook made by the officers of the S.C. 21 4910 for Lt. Col Fuecker filled with correspondence, military memos, photographs of soldiers and places visited (the Phillippines), and mementos such as military patches, travel ephemera, and a Japanese diary found by Fuecker in Manila in 1945.

The photographs document the people and activities of Fuecker's military units.

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