ELWYN B. ROBINSON DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
CHESTER FRITZ LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA
GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA 58202

GEORGE S. PATTON PAPERS

COLLECTION: OGL#1360 (addition)

DATES: 1944-1946, 1997

SIZE : 3 folders

INTRODUCTION

ACQUISITION: This addition to the George S. Patton Papers was deposited in the Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection by M. Edwin Nuetzman, Bismarck, North Dakota, on October 20, 1998 (Acc.#99-2275).

ACCESS: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Department of Special Collections.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This addition to the George S. Patton Papers consists of two copies of "Combat Safari," a 108 page essay written by M. Edwin Nuetzman in 1997. Nuetzman served in the 4th Armored Division in Patton's Third Army during World War II. In the essay's introduction, Nuetzman wrote that he was "attempting to present not a blow-by-blow description of actual combat (although it may have that appearance at times), but a vivid conception to the reader of the emotions that are felt by the average soldier who is waiting to go to the front, of his feelings at night while living in a foxhole, of his intense desire to go home and to live at peace with his loved ones." The Fourth Armored Division saw extensive action in the Battle of the Bulge, and helped to relieve the surrounded 101st Airborne at Bastogne. The division then turned east, advancing through Germany to Czechoslovakia.

Also included are typescript photocopies of twelve of Nuetzman's letters home. Most of the letters were written to his father, Albert F. Nuetzman, Superintendent of Schools in Remer, Minnesota, as well as his sister Jean in Minneapolis. The letters date from 1944-1946.

BOX AND FOLDER INVENTORY

Box 4
Folder

2. "Combat Safari" by M. Edwin Nuetzman, 1997 (unbound).
3. "Combat Safari" by M. Edwin Nuetzman, 1997 (bound).
4. "Letters from Overseas" by M. Edwin Nuetzman, 1944-1946

Return to: Military History