Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of artifacts, including United States and German military clothing, equipment, and insignia, scrip, currency, pins, correspondence, documents, and publications relating to the experiences of David F. Busch in the US Army in Europe during World War II.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Tara Barenok, the great-niece of David F. Busch.
Browse 141 Items In This Collection
Administrative badge, Kriegsmarine.
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.2
Luftwaffe insignia from sports shirt
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.6
German Iron Cross ribbon with pin acquired by an American soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.9 a-b
German identification tag with cord
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.10
Pamphlet
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.11 a-b
Christmas card, 8th Infantry division, 1944
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.12
Schlosshotel Kassel page
Document | Accession Number: 2014.480.13
Leaflet
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.14
Poem and accompanying envelope
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.15 a-c
Instructions for Allied Prisoners of War and Displaced Persons
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.16
Safe conduct pass
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.17
Hitler youth award for proficiency
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.18
Bernhard Ramcke clipping
Document | Accession Number: 2014.480.19 a-b
Luftwaffe trade badge with cord
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.21 a-b
Chain
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.22
Nazi Party pin for Labor Day 1935 found by David F. Busch
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.23
issue: 1935
Stickpin with a painted glass heart acquired by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.28
Box containing German chocolate for the Wehrmacht
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.29 a-d
Czech paper Flag
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.30
Camillus TL-29 Signal Corps pocket knife
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.31
Solingen pocket knife
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.32
German rank insignia, Obergefreiter
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.33
German rank insignia
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.34
German eagle emblem, Kriegsmarine
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.35
Luftwaffe trade badge, Direction Finder Operator
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.36
Fork with Luftwaffe eagle
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.37
Nazi Party pin for Labor Day 1934 found by David F. Busch
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.38
commemoration: 1934 May 01
Schirmmutze eagle badge, Wehrmacht
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.39
Schirmmutze cockade, Luftwaffe acquired by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.40
Hitler Youth badge acquired by an American soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.41
Luftwaffe gull wing rank pin
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.42
Green pendant
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.43
Slide rule with case
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.44 a-b
Slide rule with case
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.45 a-b
Mechanical pencil acquired by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.47
Emblem from Luftwaffe belt buckle
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.48
1937 May Day pin with the Nazi eagle insignia acquired by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.49
found: 1945
1938 May Day pin acquired by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.50
found: 1945
WWI Touring Club of France fundraising medal
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.51 a-b
found: 1945
Dark gray shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.60
Olive shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.61
Dark gray shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.62
Wehrmacht medic shoulder board with navy piping acquired by US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.63
Olive shoulder board with gold crossed swords acquired by US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.64
Glass piece depicting the Holsten gate in Lubeck
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.65
Kadlec liquid filled AK39 German wrist compass found by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.70
manufacture: Prague (Czech Republic)
Luftwaffe eagle emblem
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.74
Packaging from Pilsner Urquelle beer bottle opener, Pilsen, Czechoslovakia
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.75
Fifty Kronen scrip
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.87
Twenty Kronen scrip
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.89
Twenty Kronen scrip
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.90
Belgian ten francs scrip
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.93
Belgian ten francs scrip
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.94
Belgian ten francs scrip
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.95
Belgian five francs scrip
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.97
German One Rentenmark scrip
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.100
Czech twenty kronen scrip
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.127
Map, "Germany the Beautiful Travel Country"
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.130
Map of Leipzig and surrounding area
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.131
Map of Western Germany, in French.
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.132
Deustches Reich postage stamps
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.133
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