Guide to the Frederick Albert Lepant Papers 1938-1947
1938-1947
Metadata Details
- Title
- Frederick Albert Lepant papers 1938-1947
- Creator
- Subject
- Lepant, Frederick Albert, World War, 1939-1945--Correspondence, World War, 1939-1945--Pamphlets
- Description
- The Frederick Albert Lepant papers contain correspondence letters to his parents and letters between Lepant and Virginia Thorton. Interspersed among the letters are postcards and greeting cards as well as photocopies of photographs. The letters to his parents are contained in box one and discuss his training and jobs at various military bases, his fellow trainees, and his relationship with and engagement to Virginia Thorton. Papers in box two include special orders, manuals and charts from the field artillery school and the Air Forces Navigation School, and a map of American Army installations in Rome (1945). Booklets included in the collection include army base service prayer books, field manuals published by the War Department, tourist books, and a soldier guide to Rome. The letters in box two are between Lepant and Virginia Thorton, dated before and after their marriage and discuss their relationship, his activities on base, and time abroad in France and Italy. The last folder in the collection contains samples of Allied Military Currency from Italy, Germany, and France., Frederick Albert Lepant Papers, 1938-1947, MSS 0785, Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center, Cataloging of this collection was funded by a Basic Processing grant from NHPRC., Carolyn Grubb Gift 2008 2008.0308, Frederick Albert Lepant was born in 1918 in Bellevue, Pa., attended Schenley High School, and was enrolled in mechanical drafting classes from 1937 to 1940 at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). He was employed by the Allis-Chamlers Manufacturing Company from 1939 to 1941 as a mechanical draftsman, where he created detailed drawings of mechanical and electrical parts for transformers. Lepant served in the United States Army from 1941 to 1946 during World War II. He trained at Ft. Meade, MD in the 54th Field Artillery Brigade, and also served in the 64th Army Air Forces Training detachment at Camden, South Carolina in late 1942. In 1943, he was stationed at Selman Field in Monroe, Louisiana and trained in the Army Air Forces Instructors School. Lepant married Virginia Thorton at the end of 1944 while training in Louisiana; he met her in 1942 while stationed at Ft. Meade. Lepant was stationed in Naples, Italy in 1945 before he was honorably discharged in 1946., Gift of Carolyn Grubb., Processed MSS 0785 05/12 S. Ecklund, Collection level finding aid available.
- Publisher
- Contributor
- Lepant, Frederick Albert., Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1938-1947
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- Identifier
- oclc: 799314558, pitt: US-QQS-mss785
- Source
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-mss785, pdcp_noharvest
- Coverage
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/