Richard Stimson

File — Box: 7, Folder: 15

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Contains a copy of "The Longest Night by Richard Stimson, as told to John Edwards." Stimson was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1925. He attended school in Kelso, California, while his father worked on the railroad. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in October 1943 and was sent to Stanford to study engineering in the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP). He was assigned to the 100th Infantry Division, 3rd Platoon, and fought in Europe on the French-German line. Wounded in a fight for Suicide Hill, he was evacuated and ended up at the 102nd General Hospital near Oxford, England. He received a Bronze Star forty years after the war.

Dates

1940s-2007

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