Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Archival Collection Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context P1667 Title A name given to the resource Philip Karl Boraas Lundeberg papers, circa 1940-2017 Description An account of the resource Born in Minneapolis into a distinguished Norwegian-American family (see papers of other Lundebergs), Lundeberg was educated at Duke University and Harvard University, where he was assistant to Samuel E. Morison. He was officer on the destroyer escort "Frederick C. Davis" when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat near the close of World War II. He taught at St. Olaf College and the Naval Academy, but most of his career was as a naval curator at the Smithsonian Institution. <br /><br />He collected and donated papers of his relatives to NAHA, 1987-2003. Includes: <br /><ul><li>Abstract Ship Log in Historical Perspective of U.S.S. Frederick C. Davis, 1941-1945;</li> <li>German Naval Critique of the U-Boat Campaign by Philip Lundeberg, 1963, Military Affairs; Oral History Program from Naval Historical Foundation, 2003;</li> <li>Correspondence with Forrest Brown and Philip Lundeberg. Added Nov. 8, 2012: Philip K. Lundeberg, "Undersea Warfare and Allied Strategy in World War I (The Smithsonian Journal of History, Vol. 1, 1966).</li> <li>Lundeberg, Philip K., Arthur B. Cohn and Jennifer Jones. Tale of Three Gunboats: Lake Champlain’s Revolutionary War Heritage (National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 2017). <ul><li>In the spring of 1776, the Lake Champlain Valley became a pivotal location in the American War for Independence. The British invasion from Canada and subsequent battle for naval supremacy of this strategic waterway was critical to the Americans' eventual success in later years. With General Benedict Arnold leading the American effort, the combatants met on October 11, 1776, at the Battle of Valcour Island. This and other wartime encounters on Lake Champlain left behind a legacy of shipwrecks and an underwater archaeological collection.</li> </ul></li> </ul> Location: 13/C/2 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1940-2017 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lundeberg, Philip K. Extent The size or duration of the resource. 2 folders Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence History