Thomas Robert Lundin Collection

1999-2003
Manuscript Collection #1433
Portions of this collection are digitized (2 items)
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Creator(s)
Lundin, Thomas Robert
Physical description
2.0 Cubic Feet, 2.6 Gigabytes, 2 shoe boxes, 2 flat boxes, 1 document case and 1 half document case, consisting of military files, maps, diary, flight records, manuals, ephemera, a flag, military buttons and badges, CD-Rs, an audio-cassette, and photographs
Preferred Citation
Thomas Robert Lundin Collection (#1433), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
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ECU Manuscript Collection
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Access to original audiovisual and digital media is restricted. Please contact Special Collections at specialcollections@ecu.edu to request access copies. Access to box 6 is temporarily closed due to conservation needs.

Thomas R. Lundin was born March 24, 1982, in Madison, Wisconsin. After completing high school in 2000 in Greenville, North Carolina, he joined the U.S. Army and served as an Apache Helicopter crew chief for 3rd Infantry Division in Kuwait during the Iraqi War of 2003. This collection contains papers, a diary, maps, military manuals, and ephemera related to his service, especially during the Iraqi War.

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August 9, 2024, (unprocessed), 1.40 cubic feet; Files, papers, and ephemera related to the service of Thomas Robert Lundin while he fought in the Iraqi War in 2003 as a crew chief for Apache helicopters. Also includes the Iraqi flag from the airport at Baghdad when the U.S. forces took control. Gift of Lynette K. Lundin.

August 21, 2024 (unprocessed addition 1), 0.25 cubic feet; Collection (1999-2003) relating to Thomas Robert Lundin's military training at the U. S. Army Training Center, Fort Jackson, SC, in 2000, and his service in Kuwait and Iraq, in 2003, as a specialist in Bravo Company, 1-3 Aviation Regiment, in the 3rd Infantry Division, U. S. Army, including correspondence, printed materials, photographic prints, compact discs and a digital video disc. Donor: Lynette K. Lundin. [Transferred from #1051 August 9, 2024.]

Source of acquisition

Gift of Lynette K. Lundin

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Container list
Box 1 Folder a Official U.S. Army Personnel File, 2000-2003
Box 1 Folder b Official U.S. Army Personnel File, 2000-2003
Box 1 Folder c Official U.S. Army Personnel File, 2000-2003
Box 1 Folder d Diary of U.S. Soldier serving in Kuwait and Iraq, February-April 2003
Box 1 Folder e Loose Items removed from diary (correspondence and photographs), 2003
Box 1 Folder g Guides for U.S. soldiers on speaking Iraqi/Kuwaiti Dialect; audio-cassette of supplement to ITAC Handbook as part of Iraqi/Kuwaiti Survival Guide
Box 1 Folder h Aviation Brigade Iraqi Smartbook; Use & Care Manual for Outer Tactical Vest (OTV) and Small Arms Protective Insert (SAPI); Sincgars ICOM Ground Radios Operator's Pocket Guide
Box 1 Folder i Map indicating military flight training routes in the U.S. (IFR enroute low altitude), August 8 - October 3, 2002
Box 1 Folder j March 3, 2003, issue of Stars and Stripes
Box 2 Folder a Family correspondence (excerpts from Lundin family Christmas letters related to Thomas Lundin's service) and photographic print relating to his training and service with the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized) during the Iraq War in 2003. Digital reproductions. 1999-2003. 4 items. 9 p
Box 2 Folder b Papers (1999, 2003) including Thomas R. Lundin's enlistment oath and a prayer for a soldier. Digital reproductions. 2 items. 2 p
Box 2 Folder c Correspondence and photographic prints relating to Lundin's service as a specialist with the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division in Iraq. 2003. 8 items.
Box 3 Handbooks: Operator's Checklist for Helicopter, Attack, AH-64D Longbow Apache (1998-1999); Vipers Strike to Kill TACTICAL SOP, 1st Battalion (Attack) 3rd Aviation Regiment (2002); 2nd Battalion, 3d Aviation Regiment "Knighthawks" TACTICAL SOP (thru CHANGE 2) 2002
Box 4 B-7 Books 1 and 2 containing aviation maps of Kuwait and Iraq used January through July 2003 by B Company, 1-3 Aviation Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized); Lundin's copy (2000) of "U.S. Army Training Center, Fort Jackson, South Carolina, Victory Starts Here" in which he was a member of Company C-1-28.
Box 5 Ephemera including XVIII Airborne Shoulder Patch, Marksmen Awards for Grenade and Rifle, 603rd Support Battalion Insignia Pin, 130th Aviation Regiment Unit Crest Pin (also worn by North Carolina National Guard members), and Award for Military Achievement.
Box 6 Iraqi flag removed from the airport at Baghdad, Iraq, when the U.S. forces took control of the airport in 2003.