PAPERS Container List Box 1: ACCETTA, DOMINICK Residence
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WORLD WAR II PARTICIPANTS AND CONTEMPORARIES: PAPERS Container List Box 1: ACCETTA, DOMINICK Residence: Fort Lee, New Jersey Service: 355th Infantry Regiment, Europe Volume: -1" Papers (1) (2) [record of Cannon Co., 355th Infantry Regiment, 89th Infantry Division, January- July 1945; Ohrdruf Concentration Camp; clippings; maps; booklet ”The Story of the 89th Infantry Division;” orders; song; ship’s newspaper, January 1946; map with route of 89th Division] AENCHBACHER, A.E. "GENE" Residence: Wichita, Kansas Service: Pilot, 97th Bomber Group, Europe; flew DDE from Gibraltar to North Africa, November 1942 Volume: -1" Papers [letters and news clippings] ALFORD, MARTIN Residence: Abilene, Kansas Service: 5th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: -1" Papers [copy of unit newspaper for 5th Infantry Division, May 8, 1945; program for memorial service; statistics on service and casualties in wars and conflicts] ALLMON, WILLIAM B. Residence: Jefferson City, Missouri Service: historian Volume: -1” 104th Infantry Division (1) (2) [after action report for November 1944 describing activities of division in southwest Holland; this is a copy of the original report at the National Archives] AMERICAN LEGION NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS Residence: Indianapolis, Indiana Service: Veterans’ organization Volume: 13" 1 After the War 1943-1945 [a monthly bulletin published by the Institute on Postwar Reconstruction, August 1943-April 1945] Box 2: American Legion Publications (8)-(11) [civil defense; rights and benefits of veterans; home front; citizenship; universal draft; national defense and security program; Americanism; employment manual; Boy Scouts youth program; G.I. Bill of Rights; peace and foreign relations; disaster; natural resources; law and order; universal military training; national defense; veterans’ employment; 1946 survey of veterans; reprint of two pages from The National Legionnaire, June 1940; instructors manual for military drill; United Nations; junior baseball program] Army-Navy YMCA Bulletin, 1942-1944 Atlas of World Battle Fronts [1943-1945] China at War, 1939 [four issues published by the China Information Publishing Co.] Clippings [submarine war; Alaska; U.S. enters war; defense of Philippines; Pacific war] Defense Papers, 1940 [three booklets by American Association For Adult Education] Government Pamphlets (1) (2) [War Production Board plant efficiency; Special Services bulletin; Armed Forces song book; Air War report, January 1944; aviation cadets; Office of Price Administration wartime rationing; Federal Security Agency ”Spare Time: A War Asset for War Workers”] Miscellaneous Pamphlets and Bulletins [guide to military insignia; Ships (periodical article on Liberty Ships); booklet of games and puzzles; four issues of Industrial Press Service, July, September 1944; USO bulletin, June 1943] Petitions to FDR September 1941 (1) (2) [Mothers Mobilizing Against War, April to September 1941; petition forms and lists of names] Box 3: Petitions to FDR September 1941 (3) (4) [Mothers Mobilizing Against War, April to September 1941; petition forms and lists of names] Post-War Bulletin 1943 (1) (2) [March-August 1943; world government; changes in home life; servicemen’s benefits; internationalism; Britain-planned economy; rise of communism; world food problem] Report by Supreme Commander [re operations in Europe of Allied Expeditionary Force, June 6, 1944 to May 8, 1945] 2 The Scrapper (1) (2) [newsletter published by the American Industries Salvage Comm. (1942) re scrap metal and rubber drives, War Production Board, role of children, women, and press] Stars and Stripes 18 April 1947 [5th birthday edition of paper] Westinghouse Valley News 3 September 1942 [photos of all servicemen from the valley] War in Pictures [photographs and drawings, 1940-1942] War Report Conference of September 1943 [edited minutes of War Department Conference of Industry, labor, and newspaper leaders; remarks by various military leaders on all aspects of war effort] World War [1940 war stories] Box 4: ANDERSON, LEONARD A. Residence: Kansas City, Missouri Service: Ship fitter, U.S. Navy, Pacific Theater; present at Pearl Harbor attack Volume: -1" Memoirs [attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941; chronology for six years’ service in Navy] ANDERSON, R.M. Residence: Dallas, Texas Service: National Commander, China-Burma-India Veterans Association, Inc. Volume: 1" Proclamation (1)-(3) [1992 proclamation and signatures of China-Burma-India veterans] ANONYMOUS, June 8, 2004 Volume: -1” Miscellaneous Items Newspapers [Ocean News, undated; Ramps Aweigh, May 24, 1945, aboard USS Lejeune; Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, July 3, 1944] Newspapers – The Camp [September 17 and 24, 1944; weekly paper published in Berlin for British POWs held in Germany] Newspapers – The Oversea Kid [August 13 and November 26, 1944, January 14 and April 2, 1945; weekly paper published in Berlin for U.S. POWs held in Germany] 3 ANTOLINI, LOUIS Residence: Jeannette, Pennsylvania Service: Military intelligence, North Africa and Europe Volume: -1” Memoir [work in North Africa and England; importance of knowing enemy’s Order of Battle; interrogation of prisoners] ARMSTRONG, EDNA HOLM Residence: Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania Service: Clerk in Census Bureau, Washington, DC Volume: -1" Memoirs [life in Washington, D.C. during the war; drills, rationing, housing shortage, war bonds; clipping with headline, “War is Over,” August 15, 1945] ARMSTRONG, FRANK H. Residence: South Burlington, Vermont Service: 283rd Light Field Arty Battalion, Europe Volume: -1" Memoirs [tower of Millen Castle in Netherlands used as observation post, October 1944] AUNE, ALLEEN M. Residence: San Antonio, Texas Service: Sister of Capt. Charles C. Johnson III, Air Corps pilot, South Pacific Volume: 7" Clippings (1)-(7) [war news, 1940-1943; some clippings relate to wartime service of Capt. Charles C. Johnson III] Box 5: Clippings (8) (9) [war news, 1940-1943; some clippings relate to wartime service of Capt. Charles C. Johnson III] Correspondence [1940-1943, relating to service of Charles Johnson and death in 1943; letters, telegrams, and V-mail; postcard with photo of BT-14] Memorabilia (1) (2) [postcards; programs; poster; speech; transcript of meeting of relatives and friends of POWs, civilian internees, and missing personnel-March 1945; certificates] Official Papers [orders; enlisted record; officer’s commission; diploma] Photographs [photos of Capt. Charles Johnson and mother; postcard photos of Randolph Field in Texas] 4 Printed Material [flying cadets; 1940 magazine for Randolph Field cadets; Morrison Field Air Base weekly magazine, 1941; Air Force journal, 1943] Scrapbook (1) (2) [clippings and letters, 1937-1940; training and testing; some articles relate to Johnson] 201 File - Charles C. Johnson (1)-(3) [orders; promotions; awards; flight record; commendations; correspondence] Box 6: AVERY, THELMA Residence: Creal Springs, Illinois Service: Nurse, 20th Hospital Train, Europe Volume: 4" Memorabilia [postcard views of France, c. WWI; map of Europe] Miscellaneous Papers (1) (2) [soldier’s diary, “While Waiting,” March 1945; Switzerland, 1945; Christmas Menu and roster for Gardiner General Hospital, 1943; FDR form letter; list of personnel in 20th Hospital Train; poem, “The Invasion;” memo re indoctrination for return to U.S. (tongue-in-cheek); 1953 Boy Scout National Jamboree; history of hospital ship, USS Haven (Korean War)] 201 File 1943-1946 (1) (2) [orders; certificates; I.D. card; pay authorization; officer’s qualification record; clothing requisition; physical exam; separation papers] 201 File 1947-1954 (1) (2) [orders; reports; applications; questionnaires; certificates; memorandum] 201 File 1954-1966 (1) (2) [orders; reports; personnel data sheets; unit photo; certificates; memos] 201 File 1966-1972 (1) (2) [orders; memoranda; data sheets; certificates; retired reserve status] AYERS, MINDY Residence: Chanute, Kansas Service: granddaughter of William Moore Gray III, Company K, 114th Infantry Regiment, 44th Division, Europe Volume: -1” William Gray Memoirs [training at Fort Benning, Georgia; 9th Service Command, Fort Douglas, Utah; 44th Infantry Division in Europe; importance of training and leadership] 5 Box 7: BAHNER, STAN T. Residence: Topeka, Kansas Service: 171th Field Artillery Battalion, 45th Infantry Division, Sicily and Italy Donated by: Kevin Bahner, Pam Ferrell and Colleen Leiker Volume: 3” Correspondence [WWII awards; discharge papers; post-war letters from veterans’ organizations] Diary (1)-(3) [service in Sicily and Italy, June 1943-April 1944; includes original diary, a copy and typed transcript of entries] Photos (1) (2) Printed Material (1)-(3) [45th Infantry Division newsletter July 1944; 45th Infantry Division booklets; tourist literature; German and French language booklets; Stan Bahner obituary 1996] BAKER, CAROLINE Residence: Cottonwood Falls, Kansas Service: Women's Army Corps, Africa and Europe Volume: 2" Clippings [Stars and Stripes, August 15, 1945, “Peace;” Air Transport Command; WACs] Miscellaneous (1) (2) [WAC qualification certificate; brochure on separation center; map; information on Switzerland; directions for passengers on over water flights; information bulletin for WAC personnel on Enterprise; Glasgow Red Cross Service Club; USS Enterprise; discharge papers] Box 8: Newsletters (1) (2) [G.I. Neptune and The U.S.S. Enterprise newsletters, 1946; cartoons, news of the ships, and news from larger cities around the world (Washington, Nuremberg, London, etc.)] Orders (1) (2) [list of orders and transfers