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Presbyterian involvement in wars from the Revolutionary War to the Vietnam War. Featured image: James Caldwell at the Battle of Springfield by Henry Alexander Ogden.

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Title:
Friendshipment information packet and publicity materials, 1975.
Description:
Promotional materials for Friendshipment, an American civilian campaign inspired by the need for humanitarian assistance in Vietnam after the war.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service., Friendshipment (Campaign)
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Religious aspects--Christianity., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Civilian relief., Humanitarian assistance, American--Vietnam.
Geographic subjects:
Vietnam.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280837
Title:
Korean Orphans, Mission-Supported Orphanage Programs; Mixed-blood/Proxy Adoption, 1949-1964.
Topics:
Missions--Korea., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea--Church history--20th century., Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:181063
Title:
Korean Orphans, Mission-Supported Orphanage Programs; Mixed-blood/Proxy Adoption, 1949-1964.
Topics:
Missions--Korea., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea--Church history--20th century., Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:180878
Title:
Prayer for the fallen.
Description:
U.S. infantrymen pray in the Vietnam jungle, Dec. 9, during memorial services for comrades killed in the Michelin Rubber Plantation Battle.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Casualities., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Casualities., Prayers for the dead--Vietnam., Soldiers--Vietnam.
Geographic subjects:
Bình Dương (Vietnam : Province)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147077
Title:
Hilfswerk welcomes war veterans.
Description:
Hilfswerk worker welcomes disabled German war veterans to the home in the American zone.
Creator:
Thorkelson. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Interdenominational cooperation., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Germany., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Germany., Disabled veterans--Germany., Humanitarian assistance, American--Germany.
Geographic subjects:
Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147004
Title:
Interfaith Ceremony Marks 35th Anniversary of Dachau Liberation.
Description:
Oliver Davis Collins, of Latham, New York (L), an United States Army Infantry Squad Leader who participated in liberating Dachau on April 29, 1945 talks with Julian Noga of Utica, New York a former slave laborer at Flossenburg Concentration Camp at an Albany Interfaith prayer service sponsored by the Polish-American Congress Central District of New York State. The occasion marks the 35th Anniversary of the liberation of Dachau.
Creator:
Saidel, Rochelle G. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Dachau (Concentration camp), Polish American Congress., Noga, Julian, -1921., Collins, Oliver D., Norden, Martin., Silton, Paul B.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany., World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Geographic subjects:
Albany (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146986
Title:
North Korean prisoners of war blood petitions.
Description:
Blood petitions made by North Korean prisoners of war who did not want to return to Communist North Korea following the armistice in 1953. Features an explanatory letter written by Charles A. Anderson to Rev. Harold Voelkel, a chaplain to POWs during the war.
Subject names:
Anderson, Charles A. (Charles Albert), 1889-1962., Voelkel, Harold, 1898-1984.
Topics:
Korean War, 1950-1953--Prisoners and prisons., Prisoners of war--Korea., Fingerprints.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145118
Title:
Military chaplains, July 16, 1972.
Description:
Produced by the WRC-TV Community Affairs Department in association with the National Presbyterian Center and the Council of Churches of Greater Washington. Guests of Dr. Lowell R. Ditzen, host, include: Rear Admiral Richard G. Hutcheson, Jr.; Chaplain, Colonel Simon H. Scott, Jr.; Rev. A. Ray Appelquist.
Creator:
Ditzen, Lowell Russell, 1913-1987. (speaker), Hutcheson, Richard G., 1921-2012. (speaker), Scott, Simon H. (speaker), Appelquist, A. Ray. (speaker)
Subject names:
National Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.), Council of Churches of Greater Washington (D.C.), WRC-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Military chaplains.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116517
Title:
Communist prison life in China, after 1953.
Description:
A radio interview with Dr. John David Hayes, former prisoner of war, recorded between 1953-1957 at the National Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C. Dr. Hayes was a Presbyterian minister and missionary in China. He was imprisoned, 1951-1952.
Creator:
Hayes, John David, 1888-1957. (interviewee)
Subject names:
National Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Communism--China., Prisoners of war--United States., Prisoners of war--China., Political prisoners--China., Communism and Christianity--China.
Geographic subjects:
China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116515
Title:
Raymond Canda interviewed by Ed Wicklein, 19 May 1981, side 1.
Creator:
Canda, Raymond J., 1913-1985. (interviewee), Wicklein, Edward C., 1934- (interviewer)
Subject names:
Canda, Raymond J., 1913-1985.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives., World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116476
Title:
George Teaz Jamieson interviewed by Alfreda Hinn, May 12, 1980.
Description:
George Teaz Jamieson was a Presbyterian chaplain, born 26 February 1907, died 4 September 1997.
Creator:
Jamieson, George Teaz, 1907-1997. (interviewee), Hinn, Cora Alfreda Pence, 1908-1982. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Jamieson, George Teaz, 1907-1997.
Topics:
Military chaplains.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116474
Title:
Ernest O. Norquist interviewed by Ed Wicklein, 27 January 1978.
Description:
Ernest Norquist was a prisoner of war, held by the Japanese Army in the Philippines.
Creator:
Norquist, Ernest O., 1919-2004. (interviewee), Wicklein, Edward C. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Norquist, Ernest O., 1919-2004.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives., World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116444
Title:
Kenneth G. Neigh interviewed by R. W. Bauer, 1983, side 2.
Description:
Interview conducted as part of Bauer's preparation of the report "An Historical Study of Past Denominational Responses to Social, Political and Economic Crises."
Creator:
Neigh, Kenneth Glenn, 1908-1996. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Topics:
Civil rights--United States., Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116438
Title:
Kenneth G. Neigh interviewed by R. W. Bauer, 1983, side 1.
Description:
Interview conducted as part of Bauer's preparation of the report "An Historical Study of Past Denominational Responses to Social, Political and Economic Crises."
Creator:
Neigh, Kenneth Glenn, 1908-1996. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975., Civil rights--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116436
Title:
Ernest O. Norquist interviewed by Ed Wicklein, 27 January 1978, side 2.
Description:
Ernest Norquist was a prisoner of war, held by the Japanese Army in the Philippines.
Creator:
Norquist, Ernest O., 1919-2004. (interviewee), Wicklein, Edward C., 1934- (interviewer)
Subject names:
Norquist, Ernest O., 1919-2004.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives., World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116430
Title:
Ernest O. Norquist interviewed by Ed Wicklein, 27 January 1978, side 1.
Description:
Ernest Norquist was a prisoner of war, held by the Japanese Army in the Philippines.
Creator:
Norquist, Ernest O., 1919-2004. (interviewee), Wicklein, Edward C. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Norquist, Ernest O., 1919-2004.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives., World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116426
Title:
Robert F. Smylie and Jonathan Kuttab on the Persian Gulf War, 1992.
Description:
Peacemaking conference presentation by Bob Smylie and Palestinian human rights lawyer Jonathan Kuttab on the aftermath of the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
Creator:
Smylie, Robert F. (Robert Frank), 1929- (speaker), Kuttāb, Jūnāthān. (speaker)
Topics:
Persian Gulf War, 1991.
Geographic subjects:
Palestine., Iraq., Kuwait.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116408
Title:
Robert F. Smylie and Jonathan Kuttab on the Persian Gulf War, 1992, side 2.
Description:
Peacemaking conference presentation by Bob Smylie and Palestinian human rights lawyer Jonathan Kuttab on the aftermath of the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
Creator:
Smylie, Robert F. (Robert Frank), 1929- (speaker), Kuttāb, Jūnāthān. (speaker)
Topics:
Persian Gulf War, 1991.
Geographic subjects:
Kuwait., Iraq., Palestine.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116403
Title:
Robert F. Smylie and Jonathan Kuttab on the Persian Gulf War, 1992, side 1.
Description:
Peacemaking conference presentation by Bob Smylie and Palestinian human rights lawyer Jonathan Kuttab on the aftermath of the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
Creator:
Smylie, Robert F. (Robert Frank), 1929- (speaker), Kuttāb, Jūnāthān. (speaker)
Topics:
Persian Gulf War, 1991.
Geographic subjects:
Kuwait., Iraq., Palestine.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116401
Title:
The Power of the State to Wage War and the Response of the Peace Movement, tape 1.
Description:
Dr. Johan Galtung, research fellow at the Center of International Studies at Princeton University, speaks at the International Peacemaking Consultation of Reformed Churches, Stony Point, May 17-21, 1987.
Creator:
Galtung, Johan Vincent, 1930- (speaker)
Topics:
Peace movements., War.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116395

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