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September 2006
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Provenance: Gift of Robert Bell
Bradley
Biography:
Robert Bell Bradley was a medic with the 30th Infantry division
during WWII. Prior to enlisting, he was a pre-med major at the University
of Maryland.
He was taken as a prisoner of war on August 9, 1944, in France
after the Battle of Mortain. He was imprisoned east of Berlin
and freed by the Russian army in January, 1945. After finishing his tour of
duty working at a contagious ward in Virginia,
he returned to college and became a medical physicist, designing and testing
medical equipment. He met his wife Marjorie while working at the National
Institutes of Health in Bethesda,
Maryland.
Scope and Content:
This collection is composed of Robert Bell Bradley's memoirs of his experiences
as a medic during combat in France
during WWII and his subsequent capture and five months' imprisonment east of Berlin
in a prisoner-of-war facility. Included are poems from that time as well as
collections of his general poetry selections and philosophical reflections.
There are no letters or other memorabilia from his war experiences.
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