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]

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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]

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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 for Caroline M. (Cahoone) Baker from April 27, 1944 to May 15, 1945]

Photos [photos of ship life, entertainment, crew members, various ships, and U.S. Military Cemetery Chamhigneul]

BALDRIDGE, ROBERT C. Residence: Lawrence, New York Service: 34th Field Artillery Battalion, 9th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: 1"

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Memoirs (1)-(4) [draft and published copy of memoirs, Victory Road; letters regarding book; a first-hand account of a young artilleryman’s military background and training in the U.S. and England, followed by his battle experiences with the U.S. 1st Army from the invasion of Normandy to the end of the war in Europe, and occupation duty in Germany]

BANKES, LINDA Residence: Abilene, Kansas Service: step-daughter-in-law of George Youker of Kansas, U.S. Navy, Pacific, 1943-1945 Volume: 2"

George Youker Papers [letters to and from home, one of the letters has a line missing which shows his letter had been censored]

George Youker Scrapbook [variety of memorabilia, such as train ticket that took sailor’s wife to Detroit to see her husband for the last time before he sailed for the Pacific; various post cards, sheet music, issuing of family allowance and the discontinuance of family allowance, letter from the Commission for Relief in Belgium (relief from WWI), and photo of his regiment with a listing of names]

BARBER, CAROL J. Residence: Rapid City, South Dakota Service: Widow of Gaylord Barber, U.S. Navy, Pacific Volume: -1"

Papers [April 20, 1945 letter from Buck Barber to his family re his travels and what he has encountered on the ship; celebration of the 4th of July; fighting-a few small skirmishes]

BARR, HOWARD E. Residence: New Orleans, Louisiana Service: Armed Guard, U.S. Navy Volume: 1"

Articles [variety of articles, such as the sinking of the S.S. Black Point, the last American Flag merchant ship sunk by a German submarine, Christmas in Murmansk, the Navy’s Armed Guard and their mission to protect U.S. shipping from the Germans’ U-boats, some cartoons and maps, the supremacy of the Texas and the Lakehurst; eyewitness description of the sinking the of LaSalle and the killing of former Mayor Carl F. Zelder, the sinking of the U-853 and its vital statistics, and the use of kamikaze pilots in the war]

The Pointer (1) (2) [veterans magazine, Navy's Armed Guard from January 1992 to April/May 1992]

Box 9:

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BARRETT, JOSEPH P. Residence: Havertown, Pennsylvania Service: 474th AAA Battalion, Europe Volume: 1"

Memoirs [Good Luck To Him Now, a published memoir which is based on 500 letters which Barrett sent home over a 34 month period and 60 or 70 letters that were sent to him to describe the home front in 1943; incorporated into the book are old clippings and magazine stories; story covers his time in the army from December 26, 1942 until his discharge on November 8, 1945]

Papers [clippings and stories of the European Theater of Operations and members of the Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge Organization; stories and newspaper clipping from June 3, 1992, which is a D-Day retrospective]

Unit History - 474th AAA Battalion [The Maverick Outfit, a book about the 474th AAA Battalion and the hardships and challenges they faced, 1942 until 1945]

BATES, CHARLES C. Residence: Green Valley, Arizona Service: weather officer, U.S. Navy, Europe Volume: 1"

Swell Forecast Section Final Report (1) [activities and investigations of the Swell Forecast Section, Admiralty, from February to August 1944; objects of the section were to provide sea, swell, and surf forecasts for the Allied invasion of Europe, and to test, apply, and develop the methods of wave forecasting]

Swell Forecast Section Final Report (2) [51 reporting stations situated along the south and east coasts of England transmitted three daily reports of wave height and period to the section in London; these reports provided synoptic information of existing wave conditions which was used as a basis for forecasts and furnished data for the investigation of wave phenomena; study concluded that North Atlantic swell, by the time it reached the invasion beaches, would be reduced in height by more than half the height near Cherbourg, and need only be considered when exceptionally heavy at Land’s End; wave forecasts for the English Channel and adjoining sea areas were incorporated in the “OVERLORD” forecasts issued by Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces and Allied Naval Commander, Expeditionary Forces, before and throughout the operation]

Swell Forecast Section Final Report (3) [contains a number of technical papers dealing with the following subjects, the technique of forecasting sea, swell, and surf, a rapid method of forecasting ocean swell, the accuracy of the basic forecasting data, the change in wave height from deep to shallow water, methods of obtaining wave information, effect of tides, tidal currents, bars, and shoals on wave heights, wave refractions]

8 Swell Forecast Section Final Report (4) [a number of synoptic weather episodes for which wave computations have been worked out in detail by the methods of both Sverdrup and Suthons and compared with observed values; in the appendix are collected full descriptions of the reporting stations, a paper on codes, an account of a method of measuring wave height and length with graticuled binoculars, together with diagrams and other supplementary material; remainder of reports goes on to tell more in depth of the investigation into the project of “OVERLORD” and the use of the sea for success in this operation]

BAUER, ROBIN Residence: Shawnee, Kansas Service: Material collected by her grandmother during 1930s Volume: -1"

Papers [photos and clippings of troops and ships in Hawaii, 1931-1932; post cards and newspaper articles re the 19th Infantry]

BEACH, JOHN B. Residence: Santa Clara, California Service: Company C, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, Germany Volume: -1"

Articles [1948 magazine (BLUE BOOK) article which tells of the story of an American Infantry Unit; fought in Normandy to Huertgen Forest in Germany; heavy casualties]

BEAGHLER, RALPH Residence: Wamego, Kansas Service: USS Electra Volume: 2"

Clippings [news of the Valley Forge; photos of the French ship Richelieu; article on the Midwest “IT IS THE STEADY HEART OF A NATION AT WAR” (1942); editorial on National Security and the Japanese surrender; Hiroshima and Nagasaki; French newspaper from December 1942]

French Books [two books for translating French to Spanish or Spanish to French; a handbook of English-French conversation]

Maps [French map of Casablanca; road map of Northwest Africa and the area from Casablanca to Rabat]

Box 10:

Memorabilia [idea pad from the First Anniversary Ball for the crew of the USS Electra in Ashley Park, Charleston, South Carolina, May 20, 1943; menu for Christmas Dinner; a menu from a 1942 New Year’s Eve party; menu for the Big “E’s” First Anniversary March 17, 1943; menu

9 for Easter Sunday April 25th, 1943; plotting coordinates on a circle; clippings with photos of Commanders James Hughes, Jules James, and Dewitt W. Shumway]

Tourist Literature [photos and postcards of Casablanca]

BEATTY, WILLIAM E. Residence: Henrietta, New York Service: Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces, Europe Volume: -1"

Memoirs [booklet compiled from the Chansonee Reunion, Music and Morale Memories of the European Theater of Operations, a book on the Com-Z Chansoneers the group Beatty performed with during the war; A Chairborne Paris-Trooper’s Journey To VE-Day: May 1945 (1995); an eyewitness account compiled from correspondence, diary, and memory; events of April and May of 1945; being stationed in Paris prior to VE-Day]

BECKER, VELMA Residence: Abilene, KS Volume: -1”

Papers

BEEGLE, LaVERNE Residence: Bedford, Pennsylvania Service: Infantry officer, Aleutians Volume: -1"

Papers [articles about the Battle of Attu and the Reconquest of the Aleutian Islands; many of the articles are about Lt. Russell Beegle’s eyewitness accounts of the battle and letters sent home to his wife]

BELL, RONALD K. Residence: Covington, Georgia Service: Son of James Fred Bell, Jr., Seaman First Class, U.S. Navy, Pacific Volume: 7”

Letters (1)-(10) [copies of letters James Bell wrote to his parents, March 1944 to January 1946; early training at Bainbridge, Maryland; life aboard ship; arrival in New Guinea, June 1944; general comments about service in the Southwest Pacific]

Box 11:

Letters (11)-(20) [copies of letters James Bell wrote to his parents, March 1944 to January 1946; early training at Bainbridge, Maryland; life aboard ship; arrival in New Guinea, June 1944; general comments about service in the Southwest Pacific]

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Box 12:

BENNETT, CHARLES I. Residence: Jacksonville, Florida Service: friend of Capt. P.D. Cotes-Preedy, British officer at AFHQ Volume: -1"

P.D. Cotes-Preedy Papers [Allied Force Headquarters Anniversary Celebration program from August 11, 1943; sketch of Ike as well as a song about the staff at the Allied Forces Headquarters]

BENNETT, ELFRIEDE E. Residence: Columbus, Ohio Service: German civilian Volume: -1"

Memoir [story of a German woman civilian who was married to a black enlisted man; she relates the trouble they had and how with the help of Eisenhower finally were legally married on October 15, 1947]

BENNETT, F.G. Residence: Arlington, Virginia Service: Brother-in-law of Henry J. Kelly, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces, Europe Volume: -1"

Henry J. Kelly Speech [Kelly was sent behind enemy lines in August 1944 to recover the Siegfried Line maps; maps were to help the Allies know where the strength of the opposing army would be; the mission went so well that Eisenhower picked Kelly as one of the four officers to go to Oslo, Norway to represent him in accepting the surrender of the German forces in Norway]

BERGER, GORDON Residence: Quebec, Canada Service: Public Relations Officer, U.S. Army, Europe Volume: -1”

Memoirs [printed book re his war experiences; life in London, England, and Reims, France; comments on VIPs including Justus Baldwin Lawrence, Clare Booth Luce]

BERGER, MARLOF Residence: Unknown Service: 12th Field Artillery; 77th Field Artillery (631st Field Artillery Battalion) Volume: -1”

11 Diary (1) (2) [assault on Sicily; service in Italy; fighting; daily activities, January 1943-August 1944]

BERKLEY, ELIOT S. Residence: Shawnee Mission, Kansas Service: collector Volume: -1”

Papers [ship newsletter, Queen Elizabeth, June 11, 1945]

BERRY, MAXWELL Residence: Shawnee Mission, Kansas Service: 117th and 133rd Station Hospitals, Medical Corps, Pacific Volume: 1"

Memoirs [early medical career in U.S.; medical service in Australia, New Guinea and Philippines during WWII; officers and doctors with whom he worked; hospital conditions; sanitation; diseases; abstracts of letters he wrote home to his wife]

Memorabilia [samples of Japanese government currency used during occupation of Philippines; “I Shall Return” matchbook cover; Guinea Gold newspaper for 13 April 1943, 15 April 1944 and 7 June 1944]

BESIG, PAUL L. Residence: Silver Springs, Florida Service: Merchant Marines Volume: -1"

Memoirs [Paul joined the Merchant Marines when he was seventeen years old; the ship he worked on was part of a convoy from New York that carried airplanes, tanks, and trucks; his ship was hit by 3 torpedoes just off the coast of New York]

BEST, JOHN C. Residence: West Chester, Pennsylvania Service: 15th Air Force Volume: -1"

Papers [post card with photo of street in Berlin; photos of wrecked WWII bombers brought in for repair or salvage; two aerial photos taken during bombing runs]

BETCHER, JEANNE E. Residence: Whiting, New Jersey Service: WAC, 9th Bombardment Group, 9th Air Force, Europe Volume: 18"

12 Clippings (1) (2) [articles on the B-26's marauders; a soldiers prayer; Eisenhower arrives in England takes over invasion command; trip to Washington; Nazis reveal surrender to western Allies (May 8th, 1945); the rebuilding of France; WWII battles and different reports; one of the war’s most tragic missions, a low level B-26 attack on Ijmuiden, Holland (not a single plane came back); D-Day Recalled ... Eisenhower’s Great Decision; liberators; survivors remember horror of Dachau 50 years later; poem about the Unknown Soldier; the Manhattan Project; “A Glimpse of Hell,” GI’s recall liberation of Nazi death camp; VE-Day; sailors remember the Japanese surrender on the Missouri; General Patton]

Correspondence (1)-(3) [Christmas card from the South West Pacific, December 1943; holiday cards; post cards and greeting cards; post-war letters; letters from family of Rev. John Struyk of Belleville, New Jersey]

Diary [typed entries concerning her experiences in training in the U.S.; life in England and France]

Box 13:

Memorabilia [book of stamps, postcards, and photos of scenes from Reims, France]

Notebook November 16, 1942-December 31, 1942 (1) (2) [notebooks are typed copies of letters she sent to her parents regarding her experiences; also contain copies of church programs, scattered clippings and a few original letters; 1942 notebook covers her early training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa]

Notebook January 2, 1943-November 29, 1943 (1)-(4) [service at Daytona Beach, Florida; Camp Upton, New York; Fort Devens, Massachusetts; travel by ship to England in July 1943; life in England; sightseeing in London]

Notebook December 1, 1943-May 31, 1944 (1)-(4) [life in England]

Notebook June 3, 1944-December 31, 1944 (1)-(4) [life in England; move to France in September; life in France]

Box 14:

Notebook 1945 (1)-(5) [life in France; move to Namur, Belgium in April; vacation in Nice, France, in July; return to U.S. in October]

Orders [Restricted Orders of transfer]

Postcards (1)-(7) [a few have writing on them]

Box 15:

13 Publications (1)-(4) [Times war atlas of 1942; short stories from the Saturday Evening Post; religious and patriotic booklets, and a magazine entitled the “Return To England 1942-1992, The Fiftieth Anniversary”]

Publications - American Legion (1)-(3) [6 copies of the WWII commemorative Issue, War Ends 1945, War Years, Part one and two, and 1945 Victory]

Publications - France and England [booklet of photos, stories, and a brief history of the 9th Air Force]

Publications - Maps (1) (2) [U.S.; Germany; the world]

Publications - Target: Germany [The Army Air Forces’ official story of the VIII bomber command’s first year over Europe]

Box 16:

Publications - Tour Guides (1)-(6) [tour guide pamphlets from England, Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Essex, and a book of postcards]

BIED, DAN Residence: West Burlington, Iowa Service: 106th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: -1"

Memoirs (1) (2) [two published memoirs; Memories has 7 chapters devoted to the war; Trio has sections on the Ardennes, one of WWII’s greatest battles is recalled in first-hand terms; travel tales, Europe without C-rations; Benny Goodman]

BIELUCH, WILLIAM C. Residence: West Hartford, Connecticut Service: U.S. Navy, Pacific Volume: -1"

Papers [letter telling of his duty during the Iwo Jima campaign]

BIRRA, ALFRED F. Residence: Alexandria, Virginia Service: U.S. Army, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [letter that recounts his experiences during the D-Day invasion; evidence of some sort of censorship in parts of the letter]

BLANC, MARCEL Residence: Caen, France

14 Service: Prisoner at Buchenwald Concentration Camp Volume: -1”

Memoir (1) (2) [memoir in French with English translation describing experiences at Buchenwald; resistance to Germans; living conditions; liberation by General Patton]

BLAZEK, ELIZABETH Residence: Des Moines, Iowa Service: WAC, North Africa and Italy Volume: -1"

Papers [experiences being a WAC in Africa and Italy; letters describe what her job was and what was expected of her; living arrangements and the social life of a woman in the army; description of everyday activities that would occur such as lights out, chow, roll call]

BLOSSER, MARY Residence: Haysville, Kansas Service: Daughter of Ted Welch, U.S. Navy, Pacific Theater Volume: 2"

Discharge Packet (1) (2) [honorable discharge papers for Willard Rickman]

Documents [Ted Welch’s letters re readjustment allowance in June of 1946; letter from the secretary of the Navy wishing him luck in the civilian life; standard letter from Harry Truman]

List of Navy Battles [diary of Jay Lauren, the highlights of the Navy’s battle actions from December 7, 1941 to February 20, 1944]

Photographs (1) (2) [crew and the ship that Ted Welch was on; village called Baten-Ko before and after the typhoon]

Box 17:

VFW Cap [cap distinguished with pins; he was Post Jr. Vice Commander in 1983-1984]

BOCKELMAN, MELVIN Residence: Concordia, Missouri Service: U.S. Air Force Volume: -1"

Concordia Veterans [book on war experiences of veterans who live in the area of Concordia, Missouri]

BOHM, LEONARD J. Residence: Salina, Kansas Service: U.S. Navy, Pacific Theater

15 Volume: 2"

Memoir – Francis Daily [1998 memoir by survivor re his service on the USS Liscome Bay]

Papers [History of the USS Liscome Bay, the first “ baby flattop” to be lost as a result of enemy action in the Pacific; the USS Liscome Bay, was torpedoed by an enemy submarine November 24th, 1943; newspaper clippings and articles about the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay; a list of the ships company in alphabetical order.]

USS Liscome Bay Deck Log [copy of ship log, August 7-October 31, 1943]

USS Liscome Bay History (1) (2) [copy of scrapbook containing photos, news clippings, reports and correspondence about the ship and post-war efforts to honor the crew]

USS Liscome Bay Muster Roll [copy of list of officers and crew]

USS Liscome Bay War Diary [copy of operational diary, August 7-October 31, 1943]

BOOK, DAVID E. Residence: Reno, Nevada Service: Son-in-law of Fred G. Moreston of Berkeley, California, Counter Intelligence Corps Volume: -1”

Fred Moreston Letters (1) (2) [transcripts of letters to his parents re language training at University of Michigan, May 1943-May 1944; advanced training at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, August 1944-June 1945; occupation duty in Japan, October 1945-September 1946]

BOOK, HERBERT E. Residence: Chapman, Kansas Service: radioman, U.S. Navy, Pacific Theater Volume: 7"

Letters 1942-March 1943

Letters April-September 1943

Letters October-December 1943 (1) (2)

Letters January-March 1944

Letters April-June 1944 (1) (2)

Letters July-September 1944

Letters October-December 1944 (1) (2)

16 Letters January-March 1945

Box 18:

Letters April-June 1945 (1) (2)

Letters July-September 1945 (1) (2)

Letters October-December 1945

Letters 1946 [letter to his father telling his dad he is dropping out of college and enlisting in the armed forces; letters to let his parents know that he is okay; most of his letters tell of things he needs or activities he has taken part in]

Memoirs [4-page composition on the life of Gene Book; early life in Chapman; college; the armed forces; back to college; work in the field of health physics and nuclear power plants; retirement in Chapman]

Miscellaneous Correspondence [letters and radiograms that Germany and Japan had both surrendered; letter from a girl named Kate; Christmas card; letters from the U.S. Employment Department]

Miscellaneous Papers [letters about mail buoys and radiomen; package slips; songs and poems; old liberty passes]

Photos and Memorabilia (1) (2) [Japanese money; a contribution to the National Foundation to honor General Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Armed Forces; service photos; photos of friends; postcards and a napkin from “the Circle;” 22 photos]

Printed Material [materials received at boot camp; a booklet about U.S. Naval Armed Guard Center in the Pacific at Treasure Island]

BORDNER, CHARLES Residence: Breckenridge, Texas Service: 543rd Squadron, 381st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, Europe Volume: 2” Note: Material donated by Joe Todd of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, who received it from Emma Bordner, widow of Charles Bordner

Memorabilia [copies of photos and maps]

Miscellaneous Papers [lists of Bordner’s missions; crew lists; target maps; statistical data on 381st Bomb Group printed from internet]

Mission Report, Dresden, Germany, 17 April 1945 (1)

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Mission Report, Dresden, Germany, 17 April 1945 (2)

Mission Report, Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, 25 April 1945 (1) (2)

BORKOWSKI, NANCY Residence: Akron, Ohio Service: Niece of James H. Ludington of Gary, Indiana, U.S. Navy, 1942-46 Volume: 1"

Log [log book of where and when Ludington’s ship arrived and left port; October 1942-August 1945]

Memorabilia [Christmas card to his mother; Father’s Day card; a certificate for crossing the Equator, January 7th, 1943]

Papers [letters and transfer orders; service records re capturing and sinking of a German submarine; a joke letter (Subpoena And Summons Extraordinary The Royal High Court of The Raging Main); article about Jimmy Ludington]

BOWDEN, MURRAY C. Residence: Niceville, Florida Service: 113th Evac Hospital, Europe Volume: -1"

Memorabilia [Swastika; German Bank Notes; pass to visit cities and towns in Germany]

BOWLIN, CLYDE Residence: St. Joseph, Missouri Service: II Corps, North Africa and Europe Volume: 1"

Papers [article re the training of American troops; article re Stars and Stripes, and its humble beginnings in Bloomfield, Missouri; nine days of News bulletins dated July 2-11, 1942]

Stars and Stripes [4 issues of Stars and Stripes newspaper, dated May 3, 8, 9, August 25, 1945, Mediterranean edition; three May issues encapsulated in plastic; includes headline, “Allied Victories Rock Hitler’s Axis Empire”]

Unit History - II Corps [history of II Corps is the story of all its members, living and dead, who served under its command]

BOYCE, HELEN HILL Residence: Bartlesville, Oklahoma Service: WAC, New Guinea, Philippines

18 Volume: 4” Note: Material donated by Joe Todd of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, who received it from Mrs. Boyce

Miscellaneous Papers [letters and memorabilia re Philippines]

Printed Material (1)-(3) [Papuan Campaign; guides to Australia and New Guinea; pictorial account of WACs in the western Pacific; first aid manual]

Scrapbook (1) (2) [clippings; memorabilia; orders; correspondence; mostly re Philippines]

Box 20:

Scrapbook (3)-(5) [clippings; memorabilia; orders; correspondence; mostly re Philippines]

201 File [enlistment and discharge papers; orders; funeral arrangements]

BRADLEY, Dr. J.R. Residence: Greensburg, Kansas Volume: -1"

Greeting Card [made up newspaper for the boys in the service; every day camp life]

BRADLEY, JOHN T. Residence: East Point, Georgia Volume: 2"

Army Cook Books (1) (2) [two government issue cookbooks]

BREWER, LOTTIE Residence: Tampa, Florida Service: Wife of World War II soldier Volume: -1"

Papers [article re segregation in the army in the 1940s; map of IRTC Camp Blanding, Florida; propaganda to buy war bonds; photographs; Ingalls News, News from Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation, Pascagoula, Mississippi, December 31, 1942]

BRIGGS, ELAINE Residence: Kansas City, Missouri Service: Widow of Robert E. Briggs, Company A, 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division, Pacific Volume: 10”

Diary [brief entries, January 1-February 11, 1945, re life at Camp Fannin, Texas]

Infantry Replacement Training Center, Camp Fannin, Texas [printed booklets re Camp Fannin]

19 Box 21:

Letters October-December 1944 (1) (2) [to family in Kansas City re processing at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; training at Camp Fannin, Texas]

Letters January-May 1945 (1) (2) [Camp Fannin; Fort Ord, California; arrival in Philippines]

Letters June-July 1945 (1) (2) [Philippines]

Letters August-September 1945 (1) (2) [Philippines; departure for Japan]

Letters October-December 1945 (1) (2) [occupation duty in Japan]

Letters January-March 1946 [occupation duty in Japan]

Box 22:

Letters April-June 1946 (1) (2) [Japan]

Letters July-September 1946 [Japan]

Memorabilia [clippings; awards; certificates; discharge paper; funeral notice]

Photo Album #1

Photo Album #2

Documents from Photo Album #1

Documents from Photo Album #2

Terrain Handbook, Central Luzon [printed guidebook, November 1944]

Unit History – 32 Infantry Division [printed booklets]

BRILLOUET, JULIA J. Residence: Everest, Kansas Service: Widow of Francois F. Brillouet, Belgian army Volume: -1”

Papers [copy of commendation by DDE to Eleventh Belgian Fusilier Battalion, July 13, 1945]

BRINDLEY, JAMES M. Residence: La Crosse, Wisconsin Service: Collector Volume: -1”

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Allied Propaganda [samples of Allied leaflets; 10 in German; 1 in Italian]

German Propaganda [samples of German leaflets; 26 in English; 1 in Polish]

BRISTER, JANE G. Residence: San Antonio, Texas Service: Women's Army Corps, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers (1) (2) [invitation to Fencers Ball, November 16, 1945; photo of people fencing; article from the Stars and Stripes, December 23, 1945; photo of Henry Kissinger, having dinner with donor; drafts written for a 1988 proposed book to be an account of the experiences of three WAC officers who traveled in late May 1945, on the troop ship George Washington; newspaper from October, November, and December 1946]

Box 23:

BROCK, CAROLYN Residence: Lindsborg, Kansas Service: Daughter of Elmer Vecera, gunnery officer, U.S. Navy, Pacific Volume: 2”

Memorabilia (1) (2) [pocket signal disk; pocket compass trainer; Japanese money]

Miscellaneous Papers [discharge papers; obituary of Elmer Vecera; 1946 letter to Vecera]

Photographs

Publications (1) (2) [guides to U.S. and Japanese ships and airplanes; Japanese phrase book; postcards]

BROOKS, FLOYD E. Residence: Perris, California Service: 230th Field Artillery Battalion, 30th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: 1"

Memoirs (1)-(5) [A Boys Story, experiences he had from January 1943 to January 1946]

Poems

BROWN, HASKIEL J., SR. Residence: Pinckney, Michigan Service: Company F, 115th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: -1”

21 Papers [occupation of Bremen; German hunting laws; ship’s newsletter, Central Falls Victory, March 1946]

BROWN, JOHN A. Residence: Pasadena, Maryland Service: Tank Service Battalion, Europe Volume: 1"

Cards [cards to and from family members]

Memorabilia [Lutheran identification tag; service prayer book; letters to his pastor; 16 photographs about the reception center at Camp Lee, Virginia]

Service Record [booklet with Brown’s service record and his transfer dates]

Box 24:

BROWN, RONALD E. Residence: Brighton, Michigan Service: son of Haskiel J. Brown, Company F, 115th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: -1”

Haskiel Brown Memoir [service in France, Belgium, Germany]

BROWN, THOMAS W. Residence: Cottonwood, Arizona Service: 3156th Signal Service Co, North Africa Volume: -1"

Papers [booklet on history of 3156th Signal Service Co, compiled for 1993 reunion; copies of photos of Brown’s service in Algiers]

BUCKER, HONALD B. Residence: Ponca City, Oklahoma Service: Company C, 35th Tank Battalion, Europe Volume: -1”

Papers [copy of discharge certificate, December 1945]

BUCKNER, SIMON B. Residence: Yuma, Arizona Service: collector Volume: -1"

22 Papers [copies of photographs and printed material concerning the World War II service of General Simon B. Buckner who was killed on Okinawa in 1945]

BUDIMLIJA, LILLIE MAY Residence: Overland Park, Kansas Service: Sister of A.T. Mosimann, B-17 navigator, 8th Air Force, Europe Volume: 1"

Correspondence [graduation announcements and birthday cards sent to his sister]

Memorabilia [basic mileage rations; prayer; poem; newspapers with headlines re the surrender of Germany and the surrender of Japan]

V-Mail Envelopes (1) (2) [empty envelopes]

BUGIN, ALEKSANDR Residence: Moscow, Russia Service: Driver for Marshal Zhukov Volume: -1"

Papers [greeting card in Russian from Bugin to John Eisenhower; letter from Bugin to John Eisenhower]

BURNS, CECIL J. Residence: Denver, Colorado Service: Airplane mechanic, Air Force Volume: -1”

Papers [enlistment and discharge papers; awards; certificates]

BURRIS, CHARLES Residence: Coffeyville, Kansas Service: Historian, American Legion Post 20, Coffeyville, Kansas Volume: -1”

Memorial Scrapbook [lists of servicemen from Montgomery County, Kansas, killed in action in World War II, Korea and Vietnam; copies of newspaper clippings of their obituaries; miscellaneous articles from newspapers]

BURT, BETTY Residence: Decatur, Nebraska Service: Daughter of George R. Miles, Seabee, Pacific Theater Volume: -1"

Newsletters (1) (2) [newsletters from the Philippines, February 18 to October 13, 1945; a newspaper called the Sea-Bee, a newspaper to help keep people in the service informed]

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BUSBY, CAROL A. Residence: Smyrna, Georgia Service: Grade School Teacher Volume: -1"

Student Papers [WWII War Stories: Oral Histories From the Elders to the Young, interviews conducted by fourth and fifth grade students on what role people of their town played during the war]

BUSS, ALVIN E. Residence: Prudenville, Michigan Service: Persian Gulf Command Volume: -1"

Papers [letters sent home, 1942 to 1945, most of the letters are just small talk, but some include simple reminders such as “IDLE GOSSIP SINKS SHIPS;” photographs; pamphlet about serving in the Persian Gulf Command]

BYE, NORMAN A. JR. Residence: Derby, Kansas Service: Son of Norman Bye, Sr., Bombing Squadron 109, Pacific Volume: -1"

Unit History [pictorial record of the combat duty of Bombing Squadron One Hundred Nine in the Central Pacific, December 28, 1943 to August 14, 1944]

Box 25:

CABLE, CLAUD A. Residence: Colorado Springs, Colorado Service: U.S. Coast Guard, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [postcards; letter of appreciation; honorable discharge from the United States Coast Guard; photos of crew from the Combat Cutter; newspaper article about ceremonies to mark 40 years since D-Day; photographs of the crew and daily activities; Time magazine, May 28, 1984, Forty Years After the Great Crusade]

CAEN MEMORIAL ARCHIVES Residence: Caen, France Service: Archives which collects material on World War II in Normandy; this file contains copies of letters, diaries and memoirs of individuals in Normandy regarding the German occupation and the Allied invasion on D-Day; the material is in French. Volume: 28"

24 Adam, Louis [310] [memoir from June-July 1944; Avranches is his memoir on the D-Day invasion and the attack on schools by the Germans]

Adeline, Pierre [30] [notes taken from June 6, to September 3, 1944; bombing of Caen on D- Day; search for a safe place; school reception center for refugees; liberation of Caen by Canadians; German will to keep fighting; reminiscences of a deaf child; diary made into a narrative in 1986 called The Deaf School, Boys and Girls, During the Battle of Caen]

Alibert, Dr. [210] [diary of Aunt Leo re the bombing and being evacuated from Cherbourg; exodus of the whole family]

Anonymous (1)-(8) [209, 309, 175, 189, 271, 65, 212, 143] [description of military actions; in wait of liberation; bombing on Cherbourg area; contradictory information; vanguard arrives June 21; German artillery; Cherbourg liberated June 26; letter found in the ruins, a mother writes to her son and tells him his brother has just died from the bombings, in Vire; notes taken from May to July 1944, re the living conditions of the population; acts of sabotage on the railroad; Battle of Caen, Anglo-American and German assaults, D-Day and bombings, organization of the population for the children; the Allies liberate Caen, July 6, 1944; German artillery shellings go on until August 15, 1944; diary from June and July, the daily life of the community from D-Day to liberation; letter from Alice Dagobert, exodus of the community, evacuation of the sick, the elderly and the young girls, including Alice; list of emergency team members; interventions; names and events day after day; D-Day and bombings; diary with drawings; diary of D-Day bombings of Lion-Sur Mer, Caen, and Hermanville and the wait for liberation]

Avenel, Genevieve [317] [description of the many bombings of the town and the effects on the population]

Baduel, Mme. [224] [diary; before the landing; resistance; German requisitions and preparations for the landing; D-Day; liberation of the village begins; occupation ends July 7, 1944; resume day to day life]

Baille, Mme. [82] [description of hard living conditions and the organization of people; placed at the head of the nursery; took care of the injured and dead; Canadians finally liberate them]

Beauchemin, Drougard, Lagnel (1)-(3) [4] [four people describe the same events, living conditions, and military operations]

Beaulieu, Mme. [90] [a report written for school about the tragic events of 1944; description of D-Day in vicinity of Mondeville, Demouville, and Mard-De-Reno; exodus, separation from parents; father died of gangrene from a war wound; reunion with her mother]

Beuvre, Mme. [118] [letter addressed to the Mayor, city council, and the inhabitants of Herqueville who welcomed the U.S. in June; German repression in Vauville; Vauville liberated June 30, 1944; letter from the Mayor of Herqueville to both villages]

Box 26:

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Bechet, Michel [76] [diary of the daily life of town in North Magenne from D-Day to its liberation by the American army under Patton; Gorron is liberated August 5, 1944; photographs; R.A.F. leaflets; maps of military operations]

Betts, Madeleine [25] [diary of 1944 mixed with personal thoughts; daily life in Janville from D- Day to liberation]

Bigeon, Mme. [207] [diary, letters, reports, and autographs; letter on food problems during occupation; diary of daily life under German occupation (June 6 to 26); a bomb kills her mother, June 26, 1944; letters on German and American behavior in Cherbourg; reports on the Americans; report on D-Day in Cherbourg; autographs by Americans,1944]

Blanvillain, Jean [300] [memoir called, The Allied Landing in Normandy-What I Saw and Felt in June 1944; D-Day and bombings of Saint-Lo; exodus to Saint Croix and return to Saint-Lo]

Blumstein, Robert [268] [diary from June 6, to September 7, 1944; daily report on his leaving with the people from Brouy]

Bouchard, Mme. [82] [memoir, Reminiscences of Mrs. Bouchard; the reception of the injured from Caen in Bayeux; battle of Caen and the evacuation of the people]

Bouchy, A. [214] [memoir titled Testimony on the Landing and Liberation; D-Day bombing of Vire; leaving Vire with family to Magenne; meeting of Americans]

Bouiller, Alice [1] [biographies and letters; biographies of Miss Alice Bouillet and Miss Eugene Simon, Alice’s sister; D-Day in Cramesnil; exodus to Louvigny]

Boulard, Marie-Christiane [321] [memoir of one day, June 14, 1944; bombing of Vimoutiers; organization of first aid and operations by her father]

Boulvain, M. [8] [memoir titled Six Weeks in the Quarries of Maladrerie; the shelling of the town; the quarries were a refuge for 250 to 300 people; organization of food, hygiene]

Brechoire, Mme. [205] [D-Day in St. Martin-Le- Greard; flight of family and the people from St. Martin-Le -Greard; error of the American bombers that attacked their own positions; the death of her husband from the bombing]

Briend, Mme. [265] [memoir with map and birth certificate; leaving Clamart, pregnant and with a one-year old daughter; to her mother-in-laws in Vire; the bombing and D-Day at Vire; she gives birth on 7/17/44; escapes Vire in search of shelter; Americans arrive on August 16, 1944; back to Clamart on September 10, 1944]

Broquet, Paul [106] [memoir and a map and a letter to grandson; war memories written for his grandchildren from 1940 to 1945; arrival of Germans in Canville-La-Rocque; life among the Germans during the occupation, bombings, and the liberation of Catteville]

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Buon, Simone [279] [memoir for about ten days during July, 1944; tells about her husband who dies in the bombings; helped the resistants (including her brother) escape from Caen to quarries of Fleury and then to Ifs]

Cachet [313] [memoir for June 6 to 11, 1944; from bombings of Periers to evacuation; tells about a lot of injured people and the death of a young boy]

Catherine, Jacques [45] [diary of a man from Caen during the occupation, 1940-1944; the occupation of Calvades from 1940 to 1944; battles of the Poche de Falaise; being forced to work as a labor conscript]

Cauderlier, Mr. [239] [memoir and a questionnaire; D-Day tragedy and the panic of the 1st days; life under occupation, the bombings, in refugee centers, religion, and after liberation]

Chaperon, Dr. [42] [diary from June 6, to July 25, 1944 and following days; notes taken during the events; helping the injured; search for a safe shelter]

Chapron, Michelle [278] [memoirs of returning to St. Lo, where she becomes a boarder in middle school; being away from her parents for two months; D-Day and the bombings; evacuation and organization of shelters]

Chemama, Mme. [235] [memoir re D-Day and the organization of everyday life]

Box 27:

Chenet, Paul [93] [diary and newspaper articles from June 6, to December 31, 1944; the organization of daily life in Mondeville and the evacuation; relationships with Germans and allied forces; life in caves]

Cirou, Marie de la Trinite [82] [memoir about taking care of the contagious people and traveling to Carpiquet and to Bayeux; bombings and many medical details]

Coantic-Dormoy, Mme. [281] [diary; letter to the Mayor of Caen in 1944; war diary and logbook from truck no.1 of National Assistance and French Mutual Aid; resupplying of food and material transport; maps; list of survivors; copy of envelope sent by Cardinal Suhard; article called “200,000km under the Bombs”]

Corbasson, Mme. [49] [memoir; a member of the resistance; deported to Mauthausen; relationship with the Gestapo; D-Day and bombings of Caen; relationship with Americans and Canadians]

Corbet, Gerard [10] [memoir about D-Day and bombings; meeting Canadian soldiers in Tournai- Sur-Dives]

27 Corbin, Melle. [66] [diary about D-Day in Lion-Sur-Mer; bombings; 2 written pieces from nurses in Lion-Sur-Mer]

Cuche, D. [314] [memoir from June 1944, St. Hilaire Du Harcouet; D-Day and the bombings described in detail]

Dabosville, Cecile [82] [memoir; the bombings of Caen; help to the injured at home; the quarries of Fleury; organization of life in the quarries; work of nuns and priests; evacuation of some people on German orders; liberation; evacuation to Villers-Le-Sec in Canadian trucks]

Dangeard, Louis [6] [diary on notes re emotions and behaviors of people; personal observations; list of emergency teams of the Red Cross; Swiss Help Conference]

Daure, Mme. [48] [diary (?); her husband, commissioner of education, was dismissed by Vichy; he became prefect of Calvados; D-Day and bombings; relationships with resistance and the Germans; escape of the family; Canadian soldiers]

David, Robert [108] [memoir; he helped American troops capture 30 German prisoners]

Debleds, Mme. [24] [letter to relative; D-Day machine gunners; escape] de Carantilly, Mr. [46] [diary and notes made in 1944; D-Day and bombings; organization of life within a small group of people in castle; black market; relationship with Germans; the English liberate Rapilly; daughter’s birth]

Delaunay, Paulette [275] [diary and autographs of allied soldiers; letter to daughter Paulette; D- Day bombings of St. Aubin-Sur-Mer; purification; everyday life; liberation]

Denquin, Alfred [78] [diary; D-Day bombings; wedding of her mother during a difficult moment; wait for the English, Canadian soldiers; goes to St. Pierre-Eglise]

Devillard, Philippe [100] [memoir; family tree; map; 1939-1945 Gatteville (no chronological order); reminiscences of a child; June 1940, Germans settle in their house; very resistant family; grandfather in contact with Allies; Grand-parents take care of the sick]

Dignet, Mr. [220] [diary of D-Day and the English; 3 month old son; evacuation to La Carneille; English and Canadian soldiers]

Duchesne, Marin Pierre [298] [memoir about the first bombings of Isigny; evacuation of the family; arrival and life of American soldiers; he becomes a young interpreter; American Army logistics; departure of German prisoners; road and railroad traffic; friend of the soldiers and everyday life of the GI’s]

Dudouit-Meynard, Gilberte [299] [memoir and letter to the Memorial; D-day bombings of Caen; refugee in St. Vincent-de-Paul; helping of nuns and taking care of babies; refugees; serves as interpreter for an English soldier]

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Duncombe, Dr. [73] [memoirs; Caen; the Battle of Normandy; life in Caen; liberation; member of the Emergency Red Cross team of Le Bon Sauveur Hospital; reception and care of the injured; bombings; anecdotes]

Ehly, Marcel [11] [memoir; anecdotes of a baker; relationships with the Germans under occupation; D-Day; lack of water to make bread; Canadian and English soldiers]

Fauchier-Delavigne, Marcolle [99] [diary of the three months spent with the English; D-Day and following days; St. Gabriel; lives with the Scottish and English]

Fortineau, Marie-Paule [82] [memoir; hospital partly occupied by Germans; D-Day bombings; Germans take everything from the hospital with them; refugees sent to the hospital; taking care of the contagious people; Allies arrive July 7, 1944 and fight until August 15, 1944]

Fouquet, Mme. [64] [letter to son Jacques in Paris; description of Caen; destroyed and the dead; worries for her family]

Gautier, Leon [195] [diary; D-Day and bombings; pillage by the Germans; working for the French Navy; military actions]

Giet, Melle. [70] [speech; teachers and students lives during the siege]

Godet, Louise [222] [memoir; newspaper article on people from Quebec; German Occupation; liberation; restocking; close relationship with Canadians]

Goupil, Bernard [191] [memoirs; Caen, June 6-7th, 1944; D-Day bombings; St. Gilles and St. Jean districts]

Greves, Jeanne Francoise [56, 57] [memoir about Mondeville; life in refugee center; evacuation to Magenne]

Guerin, Janine [319] [newspaper article about D-Day bombings; shelter in the crypt of St. Germain church and bombing of this church; evacuation of the injured; family members injured or killed]

Guibe, Henriette [237] [memoirs; life in basements in Caen; supplies; fires; Canadian soldiers; rats, fleas, and bugs; money and solidarity of citizens]

Guillouet, Odile [82] [memoir; D-Day bombings of Caen; evacuation of the sick; people alive under the rubble]

Box 28:

29 Hamel-Heteau, Mme. [277] [memoir; served as a guide and interpreter for Americans; served as a nurse for Americans and Germans from 1940-1944; maps; close relationships with the Americans]

Hanocque, Gerard [305] [memoir; D-Day bombings on Lisieux]

Hardelay, Mr. [59] [memoir; the landings and bombings; German defenses]

Harmel, Leon Felix (1) (2) [81] [diary, October to December 1944; talks of his many travels; participated in the battle of Normandy (distribution of supplies); life in a besieged Caen; last day of the siege; quarries of Fleury; Calvados to the English Channel, and return.]

Havard de la Montagne, Manuel [32] [diary; maps and documents on General Von Schwein; the end of occupation when he lived by a Norman family; Les Moutiers-Hubert, July to August, 1944; rapid war in this area over 60 hours; liberation came in 48 hours; relationship with the Germans]

Hebert, Georges [12] [memoir; memories from D-Day to refuge; living in the quarries of Mr. Andre Sainot; organization of daily life; 7/07-7/17/1944 to liberation]

Heintz, Andre [32] [memoir; D-Day, Caen; resistance; Red Cross; hospital; Organization of Life; bombings; relationship with Germans; fires everywhere; British soldiers liberate Caen]

Hospice D'Ecouche [318] [memoir; Ecouche 6/06-8/20/1944; German occupation; homes and towns are bombed; help to the injured]

Houet, Abbe Jean-Marie [308] [memoir; D-Day; bombings of Vire; assistance to the injured during evacuation]

Huet-Patry, Mme. [22] [letter; Vierville-Sur-Mer liberated; relationship with Americans; the surprising abundance of American supplies]

Jacob, Rene [233] [diary from 6/05-8/27/1944; family settled in Ste. Croix; made Fluery-Sur- Orne into a nursery and hospital; gave assistance to the injured; Canadians and British arrive; Antoinette dies of shellings, a member of the Armed Resistance Organization; chronology of events in Ste. Croix]

Jehenne, Paul [53] [speech; 1939-1943, Tilly-Sur-Seulles under occupation; D-Day and Battle of Tilly; reaction of population; liberation]

Joseph, Mr. [169] [diary; letter to Mayor of Caen; D-Day and bombing of Caen; relationship with the Germans]

Laberthe, Mme. [74] [diary; lived in the religious community known as the Little Sisters of the Poor; D-Day and bombings; organization of the reception center for refugees with nuns and the nurses; liberation]

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Laisney, Mr. [110] [memoir; D-Day and bombings; goes to St. Lo, Montebourg, Manche, and Valognes to give help to the injured and search for supplies]

Lamer, Mr. [149] [diary; hand-written diary of D-Day and bombings of Caen; typed diary re D- Day and the bombings of Caen as well as giving assistance to the injured and organization of help; letter from the Red Cross on the death of Robert Aurray]

Langlois, Andre [97] [memoir; Canon and Mezidon, fighting, bombing, and shelling; narration made after the testimonies of (1) soldiers of the Scottish Army (2) Mr. Thierry, only inhabitant left after evacuation, (3) meeting of veterans on 6/15/1982]

Larue, Jean [304] [testimony about D-Day and the bombings; evacuation of the injured; daily life]

Leber, Madelaine [82] [memoir; to Bon Sauveur for refuge; takes care of the injured and the dead; Canadian parachutists arrive]

Lebrec, Mr. [202] [diary and memoir describes events before and during the war, 1939 to 1944; Russia; Africa; Mediterranean; Asia; Oceana; France; resistance; requisition; forewarning of landing; what the Germans said and did; material damages and the war scene; the results of the war, injured or dead civilians, fires, dead soldiers, destroyed tanks and cars; planes that were shot down; the war for the farmer; life on the farm, requisitions, resistance and restrictions]

Lebret, Roland [55] (1) (2) [letter; air-battles on Sassy after D-Day; occupation of Sassy; evacuation; anecdotes; liberation by Canadians and Polish]

Lecerf, Mme. [137] [diary; map of Plomb; daily life in a small village; bombing; relationship with Americans and Germans]

Lecornu, Bernard [72] [interview transcript, extracted from his book, A Prefect Under Occupation; an active resistance member; crossed enemy lines to give information to the Allies]

Lecourtois, L'Abbe Jean [115] [memoir; the Battle of St. Jores; D-day and bombing]

LeGros, Marguerite [240] [diary; D-Day and bombings from Caen; working with emergency teams; organization of daily life; travels to Fleury-Sur-Orne to Caen to Bayeux]

Lemanissier, Andre [117] [article and photographs; Andre Francois and Louise-Marie Lemanissier are doctors; A.F. enlists in the Free French Forces; L.M. a doctor in the French Foreign Legion; change name to ASQUINS]

Box 29:

LeMeilleur, Mr. [58] [diary; welcomes many refugees in his house; daily life]

31 Le Normand Camille [315] [report to the director of the passive defense of Saint Lo; assists the injured; free victims from under the rubble; resupplying]

Lepelley, Rene [323] [diary and maps; high school in Paris; difficult life in wait of liberation; liberation by Americans 7/17/1944]

Leproust, Rejane [34] [diary; bombings of Caen; her father works at the fire station; refugees; personal worries]

LeRoux, Michelle [52] [diary; D-Day bombings of Tilly-Sur-Seulles; injured people and people under rubble; evacuation to Fleurs]

Leroy, Cecile [82] [memoir; D-Day and bombings in Caen; help to victims; fires; victims stuck under rubble waiting for help]

Lesage, Victor [242] [diary from the summer of 1944; report from 1984; D-Day bombings of Caen; in search of refuge; everyday life; 8/13/1944, liberation of Chevaigne]

Letenneur, Pierre [54] [letters; a volunteer in 1939; the resistance; D-Day; almost dying from a small bomb]

Levoy, Ferdinand [38] [memoir; military actions; preparation of Normandy by occupiers; relationship with Germans; requisition; D-Day; battle of Normandy; liberation]

Leullier, Mme. [1] [reminiscences of a housewife; gave birth two weeks before the D-Day bombings; search for a safe place; everyday life and worries of a mother]

Louise, Marguerite [29] [memoir; D-Day bombings of Caen; the resistance; Caen high school; everyday life until 9/01/44]

Lucet, Louis [107] [diary; clippings and maps of Montebourg; the preparations for D-Day and the bombings; military actions; daily life; Americans liberate Montebourg]

Lust, Jean [303] [a ten year old child during the bombings of Aunay-Sur-Odon; D-Day and the bombings of Aunay-Sur-Odon; father was a war prisoner in Germany; mother ran a cake shop; explosion of their shelter; sees injury or death to close friends]

Madelaine, Marcel [28] [diary; D-Day and daily life; escape from compulsory work; goes to Aunay-Sur-Odon to Le Bon Sauver to Bayeux; liberation of Caen; critical remarks]

Magot, Mme. [234] [memoir; didn’t expect D-Day; takes refuge in a church; opinion toward Germany; daily life; walks to Paris to find mother and sister]

Mahier, Mme. [208] [memoir; D-Day at Cherbourg; daily life during the battle; 6/26/1944, Americans arrive]

32 Mannevy, Yvonne [320] [memoir; D-Day in L’aigle; in search of medical equipment; brings help to the injured]

Manoury, Mme. [82] [memoir from the former director of a nursery; D-Day and bombings; 62 babies and 13 adults; German soldiers react to the babies; difficult transfer to Le Bon Sauver]

Manuelle, Paul [111] [diary, 3/01 to 8/06/1944 in Valognes; D-Day bombings; takes care of refugees; organization of everyday life; religion; Americans arrive]

Marie, Robert [230] [memoirs and diary; before the landing Germans oblige French to build obstacles; “Evrecy” buries several members of his family; forced evacuation]

Marteau, Marcel [241] [questionnaire and 2 reports; Mr. Marcel Marteau, Mr. Camille Marteau, and Mr. Jean Baptiste Pierre]

Martinet, Mme. [82] [report; availability of equipment and linens; care and feeding of babies]

Massinot, M. [62] [diary; D-Day and bombings; evacuation; resupplying; daily life in Fortenay- Le-Pesnel/St. Pierre-La-Vieille/Ceauce/Niort-La-Fontaine]

Maurin, Max [77] [memoir; military actions; D-Day bombings of Caen; daily life in Caen; Le Bon Sauver; medical team; works at the reception of the victims; supplies difficult to get (water); took refuge in St. Etierre church with family; liberation by English and Canadians]

Box 30:

Moitie, Mme. [211] [memoir from 1939 to 1944; 1944 D-Day and bombings; daily life; exodus; liberation by Americans]

Monsterleet, Mr. [39] [memoir over D-Day bombings, fires, help to victims]

Montebourg Abbey [109] [diary, May 1944; daily life; D-Day and following days in detail; relationships with Germans; tries to find place of refuge, liberated by Americans]

Mougin, Pierre [18] [memoir; D-day in Falaise and evacuation to a farm in St.-Martin-De-Meux; worked for national help organization; organizes a reception center for refugees in transit; daily life; relationship with Germans; artillery attacks; Canadians liberate 8/18/1944; returns to Falaise; worked for French mutual help organization]

Notre Dame Monastere [145] [diary; D-Day and bombings of Caen; destruction of church; life in a shelter; fires; evacuation to Le Bon Sauver; liberation; spiritual life]

Osouf, Mme. [312] [memoir; D-Day and bombings of Caen; explosion of the house; family under the rubble; looking for refuge; Americans arrive]

33 Oudinet Family [14] [letters between family members, May-October 1944; the battle of Caen; daily life (letters almost unreadable)]

Ozenne, Denise [292] [memoir; D-Day bombings of Ceaux; religion; military actions; fires; Americans arrive; artillery]

Ozenne, Marie [216] [memoir; Germans settle at their farm; bombings of their farm; Americans arrive July 6, 1944]

Paul, Abbe [21] [memoir; bombing of Aunay-Sur-Odon; lots of the people left buried under the rubble; lack of equipment; worries of the population; 163 counted as dead; questioning this total destruction; an attempt to explain; religious beliefs; a list of the dead]

Perret, Joseph [15] [father’s diary, June 6 to July 13, 1944; 2 memoirs with father’s notes and children’s comments; (1) D-Day bombings of Caen, various refugees, Canadian parachutists, part of an emergency team, worries for the family, everyday life, sons avoid compulsory work, relationship with the Germans, and finally liberation; (2) same narration with very slight differences; (3) same story, only father’s notes]

Peschet, P. [215] [memoir reminiscences of the period from March to September 1944 in St. Sever, Calvados; ammunition dump; requisition of men and women; D-Day bombings in detail; pillaging; various refugees; liberation; the difficulties of life after liberation]

Petites Soeurs des Pauvres [80] [diary with extracts from the relationship of the Little Sisters of the Poor, chronicles of the religious community, Caen 1943-1946; 1943 bombings; 1944, becoming a reception center for the victims; D-Day and the bombings; help to the injured; leaving of the town; liberation; housing 80 children for two months]

Pezeril, Marie [82] [testimony given by one of her religious sisters on the work performed by Sister Marquerite Marie Pezeril, Augustine Nun in Caen hospital; works at the mortuary depot; belongs to a French-Polish resistance movement; at night lists information of the dead and sends it to the resistance movement; many decorations after the war]

Philippe [103] [memoir (typed, incomplete); diary of the D-Day bombings; looking for a refuge; daily life; spiritual life; liberation]

Pinot, Pere [250] [memoir, tells of the war, 1939; life at the orphanage; the liberation; D-Day; occupation; hospital; Allies arrive; resistance in the orphanage; map; extract from Region Argentan re an orphanage and craft school; the liberation; the little red handkerchief; the dialogue between two boys on the orphanage resistance; under the Germans noses: enthusiastic march; death notice of Priest Francois Mathieu]

Pipet, Albert [19] [article and letter; thank you letter from Ms. Jules Larousse, Mayor of Louvigny to the Mayor of Toronto; the Royal Department of Canada- the Queens regiment; military actions]

34 Pouchin, Mr. [86] [memoir; runs 2 farms; Gruchy (where the farms are) isolated from the rest of the country; D-Day, refuge in the basement of a manor; organization of daily life; relationship with the SS; after liberation; a list of the refugees in the basement]

Priout, Mme. [47] [incomplete memoir; husband English teacher (retired), resistance movement follower; D-Day bombings in detail; liberation; husband gives information to and translates for English headquarters]

Ravignon, Soeur [102] [memoir from Sister Ravignon with the end missing; religious life; bombings; death of two nuns; exodus of the countryside; liberation]

Richer, Mme. [223] [memoir remembering Bayeux; occupation; goes to Caen; D-Day bombings; to Bon-Sauveur; the meeting of a few English soldiers]

Roger, Jean [316] [memoir from St. Lo tells of D-Day, bombings, and being evacuated into a shelter]

Rossignol, Mme. [163] [diary and a letter from the departmental committee of liberation; D-Day in Caen; everyday life; supply bread all along the battle; English and Americans arrive]

Box 31:

Roux, Mme. [82] [memoir about the D-Day bombings of Caen; working at the emergency room until the end of July; giving help to the injured; personal anecdotes]

Roux, Charles [26] [diary; D-Day bombings of Caen; everyday life]

Ruet, Mme. [63] [interview of Mrs. Ruet on the landings, the Americans, the Germans, the population, and the ruins]

Rullier, Mme. [236] [memoir; D-Day and the bombings of Caen; everyday life; French- Canadians arrive; evacuate to Bayeux; workers for civil affairs]

St. Louis Hospice [82] [article; D-Day bombings in Caen; giving help to the injured; travel to Giel orphanage; living in the caves of Fleury]

Saint Sauveur le Vicomte [251] [extract from the Echo of St. Saurveur Le Vicomte Abbey; D- Day bombings; evacuation of the injured and the children; liberation; daily life; religious life]

Sainte Scolasse [57] [memoir; D-Day bombings; German and American soldiers; liberation]

Saville, Leslie [238] [letter; populations attitude toward British soldiers; British soldiers attitudes toward French civilians; the French view of themselves; Second Army; issue of special items; copy of personal message from General Montgomery to troops; message to troops from Eisenhower; Second Army newsletter, July 29, 1944]

35 Schneider, Mme. [228] [memoir; D-Day bombings of Caen; sees Canadian soldiers massacred and mutilated by German soldiers; taking refuge in a well in the quarries (51 people in the well for 1 month); organization of everyday life; relationship with the Germans; the Canadians and Scottish arrive]

Seguin, Jean [311] [memoir; D-Day bombings of Avranches; help of the emergency team by the family; fires; description of the town]

Soeur Saint Benoit [306] [memoir; D-Day bombings; exodus of the community; injured]

Speck, Nadine S. [2, 3] [memoir; D-Day bombings of Caen; exodus of the family; daily life; personal comments]

Spengler, Mme. [198] [memoir; D-Day; refugees; resistance; hospital; daily life; arrival of the Canadian soldiers]

Tostin, Mme. [217] [diary; D-Day bombings; refugees; exodus; American soldiers; back home]

Touzan, Mr. [264] [memoir; D-Day bombings of Caen; evacuation; living conditions in the quarries; pillaging; personal anecdotes]

Touzan, Roland [263] [diary; D-Day bombing; battle; liberation; evacuation; resupplying]

Travert, Mme. Retru [105] [diary; D-day bombings; daily life; relationship with the Germans and the Americans; defense of her property against the Germans]

Tribouillard, Andree [144] [memoir; occupation; resistance; D-Day bombings of Cazel; M. Tribouillard injured and evacuated to England; everyday life; relationship with the English and Canadian soldiers]

Vanier, Colette [82] [memoir (last page missing); nursing school that is not occupied by the Germans; D-Day bombings of Caen; organization of help; deaths of many nurses; hospital becomes a reception center for the victims; director of the nurses school dies]

Vermeer, Elmer H. [128] [memoir by Mr. Elmer “Dutch” Vermeer; born in 1920 in Iowa; enrolls in the American Army; prepares for the landing; the landing; military information]

Villette-Saingt, Mme. [17] [memoir; battle of Caen; D-Day; people settle in the quarries; organization of everyday life; made prisoner; liberated by the Canadians; back to Caen to find it destroyed]

Wurmlinger, Mme. [104] [memoirs; (1) narration written May 5th to July 6th 1944; D-Day bombings; shelter in a trench by the farm with parents; (2) narration written in 1984; presentation of a family under German occupation; (3) end of narration written in 1984; from shelter to shelter; everyday life; separation from the group; American soldiers; revolt against the bombings]

36

CALHOUN, ANN Residence: Los Osos, California Service: Scrapbooks kept by her mother, Mary Ellen Gosch, during 1930s Volume: 3"

Scrapbook I (1) (2) [political cartoons from the 1930s; most relate to the war in Europe; some cartoons advise American public to use common sense in their daily activities; many underlying political innuendoes in the cartoons]

Box 32:

Scrapbook I (3) [political cartoons from the 1930s; most relate to the war in Europe; some cartoons advise American public to use common sense in their daily activities; many underlying political innuendoes in the cartoons]

Scrapbook II (1)-(5) [European trip, 1930; sailed from New York to England; Passion Play and a tour of Europe; postcards; poems; photos; clippings; stories]

Box 33:

Scrapbook III (1)-(4) [U.S. trips, 1930-1939; postcards and photographs; a few photos from Canada and Washington, D.C.]

CALLAWAY, STELLA Residence: Pratt, Kansas Volume: -1"

Roosevelt Album [book about FDR’s life]

CARLSON, SVEN Residence: Hartford, Connecticut Service: Son of Sven G. Carlson, 5th Marine Division, Iwo Jima Volume: -1"

Diary [ten-page listing of his duties from February 19, 1945 until March 10, 1945 on the island of Iwo Jima; battle of Iwo Jima; describes his ideas and feelings as the war progresses on]

CARROLL, PHILIP J., JR. Residence: Brick, New Jersey Service: son of serviceman in North Africa Volume: -1”

Papers [three message from DDE’s headquarters to the troops, dated 7 October 1943, 8 November 1943 and 1 January 1944]

37 CASALE, ANTHONY Residence: Hubbard, Ohio Volume: -1"

Newsletters [clippings and ship newspapers from Atlantic and Pacific; the surviving crew of the U.S.S. Buckley and the survivors of a German U-Boat had a reunion near Frankfurt, Germany; articles about American destroyers; two ships newspapers dated August 15 and August 21, 1945; the newspapers inform the people on the ship the war is coming to an end, and it gives the sailors news about the U.S.]

CASAVANT, DONALD A. Residence: Winslow, Maine Service: 3rd Army Air Force Glider School, Artesia, New Mexico, 1942 Volume: -1”

Papers [poem]

CASE, ALBERT B., JR. Residence: Jefferson City, Missouri Service: Machinist, USS Strive Volume: -1"

Diary [day-by-day account of the actions of the U.S.S. Strive; diary starts on September 23, 1942; leaves for duty from Jefferson City, Missouri, on September 30, 1942; discharged February 6, 1945; roster of the officers and crew and a brief background on the U.S.S. Strive]

CECCHINI, JOHN J. Residence: Fernandina Beach, Florida Service: USS West Point and USS Neches, Navy Volume: -1"

Diary [day-by-day diary that starts aboard the USS West Point, September 22, 1941 and ends on the USS Neches, December 25, 1945; battle commissions; crossing of the equator; copy of photo of the crew; sketch of the ship and where it was hit; infamous Subpoena and Summons Extraordinary sent by The Royal High Court of the Raging Main]

CELLA, BILL Residence: Albuquerque, New Mexico Service: Son of Joseph Cella, Colonel, U.S. Air Force, Europe Volume: 1”

Memoirs [bound volume containing memoirs of Joseph Cella; covers early life, West Point (Class of 1923), service in Philippines and China in 1920s, service in U.S. to 1940; information on World War II service completed by son Bill, includes abstracts from letters re air force in Italy, western Europe, Market-Garden, 9th Air Force, First Allied Airborne Army]

38 CHENARD, MARCELLE Residence: Manchester, New Hampshire Service: widow of Jean J. Chenard, U.S. Army, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers (1) (2) [mostly printed material; Army song book; a book about Paris; book on Cote D’ Azur; postcards; letter; play book from a French play]

CHINA-BURMA-INDIA VETERANS ASSOCIATION, INC. see R.M. Anderson

Box 34:

CHRONISTER, PAUL Q. Residence: Abilene, Kansas Service: Company K, 413th Infantry Regiment, Europe Volume: 1"

Memoirs [many facts and special insights relating to his part in the war; accounts of battles; censorship of letters]

CILIBERTI, M. Residence: Runford, Maine Service: England Volume: -1”

Papers [March 1944 letter to donors parents from English acquaintance re life in England]

CLARK, FORREST Residence: Kissimmee, Florida Service: 8th Air Force, Europe Volume: -1"

Memoirs [what it was like to be an airman during the war; story re Gen. Eisenhower and D-Day; an internee in the Swiss Alps in 1944]

CLARK, THAINE Residence: Hays, Kansas Service: 8th Air Force, Europe Volume: -1"

Printed Material [book for officer in the Army Air Forces; handbook for Army Air Force Officer; Reserve Officers Handbook; inconveniences of traveling by train; series of war poster labels]

39 CLARK, VERNON Residence: Villa Park, Illinois Service: 181st Engineer Heavy Ponton Battalion, Europe Volume: 2"

Capabilities of Heavy Ponton Equipment [report that deals with a number of experiments conducted at the Lac de la Galeppe in Belgium; the capabilities of the Heavy Pontoon Equipment in the transportation of troops and materials]

Lithographs [printed drawings; most show the work that goes on prior to battle; great detail and precision]

Military Engineer (1)-(3) [magazine, December 1944 to December 1946]

Rhine River Crossings Report

Unit History - 181 Engineer Heavy Ponton Battalion [printed report and history of the 181st Engineer Heavy Ponton Battalion]

CLAYTON, JEANNE Residence: Shawnee, Kansas Service: Daughter of Kenneth Quy, 271st Infantry Regiment, Europe Volume: 1"

Papers [copies of foreign money; honorable discharge papers; souvenir issue from The U.S.S. Stevens Victory , October 17, 1945; process of being discharged; the G.I. Bill; loans; insurance]

Tourist Literature (1)-(3) [Denmark; sights of Copenhagen; a night club called the Kasino; German book; postcards of famous sights in and around Denmark]

Box 35:

COCHRAN, ROLLIN H. Residence: Homer, Louisiana Service: 913th Ordnance Heavy Auto Maintenance Company, Europe Volume: 3"

Memoirs [basic training to war time in Germany; many stories about his part in the war]

Memorabilia [certificates of appreciation from U.S. and France, 2001; copies of clippings]

Scrapbook (1)-(5) [photos of donor and two brothers in uniform; songs; dog tags; pay records; life insurance; transfer papers; photos of men in his unit; photos of men and women he met while in the Army; guide booklet for troops on leave; postcards; newspaper called the HOMERUN from the U.S.A.T. Thomas H. Barry]

40 COCHRANE, SHIRLEY Residence: Norfolk, Virginia Service: Cousin of Bill Harrison who served in Europe Volume: -1”

Papers [letter DDE wrote to Harrison’s mother Edna Evans regarding Harrison’s application to return to U.S. for illness of his grandmother]

COLLINS, PHYLLIS Residence: Iola, Kansas Service: wife of Gordon L. Collins, 467th Bombardment Group, Europe Volume: -1"

Letters [letters from his aunt, uncle, minister, and other people back home]

Miscellaneous Papers [mission papers; promotion slip; list of places lived in from enlistment to discharge; individual clothing and equipment turn-in slip; honorable discharge papers]

CONNOLLY, JOSEPH P. Residence: Orange, Connecticut Service: Collector Volume: -1"

B-17 "General Ike" Airplane [history of the plane’s missions; autographs of crew members who flew on the plane; photos; facts about the plane]

Histories [160th Engineer Combat Battalion; 81st Station Hospital; 505th Parachute Infantry; story of his actions during the war effort; 81st Station Hospital Reunion program; 81st Station Hospital Log Book, March 18, 1943 to February 6, 1946; military biographical sketches of Marion Hein Burrell and Thomas Brenton Burrell; medical care and procedures instructions]

CONTRADA, JAMES J. See: Allen Douglas

Box 36:

COOK, ERVIN J. Residence: St. Joseph, Missouri Service: 397th Bomb Group, 9th Air Force, Europe Volume: 8"

Letters to Parents February-December 1944 [letters to his parents to let them know he is okay; informed them on his location and situation in every letter; made it clear that he misses them a lot and would like some things from home like candy or cookies]

Letters to Wife January-February 1943

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Letters to Wife March 1943

Letters to Wife April-June 1943

Letters to Wife July 1943

Letters to Wife November-December 1943

Letters to Wife February-March 1944

Letters to Wife April 1944

Letters to Wife May 1944

Letters to Wife June 1944

Box 37:

Letters to Wife July 1944

Letters to Wife August 1944

Letters to Wife September 1944

Letters to Wife October 1944

Letters to Wife November 1944

Letters to Wife December 1944-January 1945 [letters to his wife at least every other day; he gives a full run down of everything that happened to him every day]

COON, THOMAS F. Residence: Dumont, New Jersey Service: Navy, USS Waukesha, Pacific Volume: -1"

Memoirs [dropping of the atomic bomb; the ship he served on was called the Waukesha; President Truman and decision to drop the atomic bomb]

CORDELL, HARRY J. Residence: Webster Groves, Missouri Service: 6th Infantry Division and 184th Ord Battalion, Europe Volume: 10"

42 Clippings [General MacArthur; article from the St. Louis Dispatch; newspaper called News of the World, with many sections on the war and political cartoons]

Memorabilia (1) (2) [New Testament issued by the Army; Yahoo magazine (joke book); many reprints of paintings; (a cross reference sheet)*; one oversized printed chart listing members of Company K, First Infantry, at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, no date; * One book, in German, published Leipzig, 1904, containing photos of nude women, title “Das lebende Modell”]

Miscellaneous Papers [postcards; his resume; and an indoctrination sheet to help prevent any dishonor to the United States Armed Forces]

Box 38:

Tourist Literature - Booklets (1) (2) [Folies Bergere program (a type of Burlesque); Vers L’Armee Nouvelle in French; a booklet called “Hannover, Deutschland Bildheft” in German; illustrated book about Paris]

Tourist Literature - Postcards (1)-(6) [no writing on any of them; most are famous monuments of the countries he served in]

201 File 1942-1953 (1) (2) [Organized Reserve Corps Current Status Questionaire; Reserve Officers Qualification and Availability Questionaire; inventory of personal effects; discharge sheet from the USAR; retirement points sheet; certificate of individual performance of reserve duty; letter from the Veterans Administration; Semiannual Statement of Retirement Points; Missouri Military district Headquarters; travel expenses; service school and active training school approval sheet; list of officers and civilians who attended meeting of St. Louis Ordnance Procurement District November 30th, 1949; recall to active duty with the Ordnance Department; assistant to the Chief of the Engineering and Inspection Branch; letter of commendation; active reserve status; notification of discontinuance of allotment; pay and allowance accounts; Ordnance papers; post clearance sheet from Camp Gruber, Oklahoma; Ordnance school certificate]

Box 39:

201 File 1942-1953 (3) (4) [Organized Reserve Corps Current Status Questionaire; Reserve Officers Qualification and Availability Questionaire; inventory of personal effects; discharge sheet from the USAR; retirement points sheet; certificate of individual performance of reserve duty; letter from the Veterans Administration; Semiannual Statement of Retirement Points; Missouri Military district Headquarters; travel expenses; service school and active training school approval sheet; list of officers and civilians who attended meeting of St. Louis Ordnance Procurement District November 30th, 1949; recall to active duty with the Ordnance Department; assistant to the Chief of the Engineering and Inspection Branch; letter of commendation; active reserve status; notification of discontinuance of allotment; pay and allowance accounts; Ordnance papers; post clearance sheet from Camp Gruber, Oklahoma; Ordnance school certificate]

43 Unit History - Misc. [story of Ordnance in the ETO; story of the Fighting First, the Big Red One; history and directory of the 184th Ord Battalion]

Unit History - Ordnance School 1942 [Ordnance School Yearbook; Company I from Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland]

Unit History - 6th Infantry Division 1941 [pictorial review of the 6th Infantry Division from Fort Leonard Wood, 1941]

Unit History - 745th Tank Battalion [history of the 745th Tank Battalion, August 1942 to June 1945]

CORTRIGHT, DONALD Residence: Monro, Michigan Service: 162nd Infantry Regiment, 41st Infantry Division, Pacific Volume: -1"

Papers [letter to his parents; honorable discharge papers; photos of the damage to Hiroshima]

COTES-PREEDY, P.D. see Charles I. Bennett

COTTON, MARTHA Residence: Belmont, Massachusetts Service: Daughter of Ernestine Cotton who lived in England during World War II Volume: 5"

Journal for Penelope #1 (1)-(3)

Box 40:

Journal for Penelope #1 (4)-(6)

Journal for Penelope #2 (1)-(7) [diary or book of notes; how the war affected the Cottons’ lives during World War II; a representation of the lives of many families who lived in England throughout the war; harsh conditions and dangers of war]

COWART, V. PRESTON Residence: Portland, Oregon Service: 2nd Field Artillery Battalion, North Africa and Europe Volume: -1"

Tony Pennline Diary [printed version of Tony Pennline’s diary, November 21, 1943 to August 25, 1945 with additional “Tall Tales” by his associates]

COYLE, FRED (MRS.)

44 Residence: North Bergen, New Jersey Service: wife of Fred Coyle, U.S. Navy, Pacific Volume: -1"

Papers [letter from the Secretary of the Navy wishing Mr. Coyle good luck in his civilian life]

Box 41:

CRAGHEAD, JESSE J. Residence: Jetmore, Kansas Service: 322 Squadron, 91 Bomb Group, Europe Volume: -1"

Memoirs [copy of photos of donor and his flight crew; honorable discharge letter; a story for his family called “The Adventures of Grandpa Joe,” re his activities during WWII]

CRAGON, HENRIETTA Residence: Austin, Texas Service: sister of William H. Herbert of Alexandria, Louisiana, member of 111th Mobile AAA Battalion in U.S., and 546th Field Artillery Battalion in Europe Volume: 5"

Guide to Letters

December 1, 1942-February 9, 1943 Camp Wallace, Texas (1) (2)

February 22-May 8, 1943 Camp Davis, North Carolina (1) (2)

May 25-July 10, 1943 Fort Bliss, Texas

July 21-December 27, 1943 Camp Davis, North Carolina (1)-(3)

January-September 1944 Camp Davis, North Carolina (1)-(3)

October-November 1944 Camp Haan, California

March-July 1945 Md, Europe [letters to his mother telling her where he was stationed and what he had been doing; most contain small talk or inquiries about news at home]

CRONAN, J. MICHAEL Residence: Kansas City, Missouri Service: Son of Pat Cronan, 8th Air Force, England Volume: -1"

Scrapbook and Journal [daily journal or diary of events in his life; letters and newspaper clippings; hand-written messages]

45

CURRAN, CLETUS G. Residence: Washington, DC Service: unknown Volume: -1”

Papers [DDE’s D-Day message]

Box 42:

CURTIS, LEE Residence: St. John, Kansas Service: Material collected by an aunt during World War II Volume: 1"

Papers [letter to his aunt thanking her for writing to him while he was in the field; a propaganda sheet for buying war bonds]

Religious Tracts (1) (2) [prayer guide; six religious pamphlets written by Dan Gilbert]

DAL CANTON, RENA Residence: Kankakee, Illinois Service: Sister of Mario Dal Canton, 518th Port Battalion, Europe Volume: 2"

Letters 1943 [letter to his sister during his first part of camp while in Boston; several postcards]

Letters 1944 (1) (2) [more letters home to tell how he is doing and what life is like in the Army; postcards including one to a girlfriend; tells about events and sights in France]

Letters 1945-1947 [letter to sister re first combat action; postcard; a Valentine’s card; honorable discharge certificate]

Letters Undated [undated postcards, hard to read]

Memorabilia [American troops on the beach of Normandy; war ration book stub; book of facts and a guide to the Indiantown Gap Military Reservation; black and white postcards from post at Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania.; Salzburg; homemade postcard from a girlfriend; pamphlet on the battle record of the 3rd Division]

Newsletter - 3rd Infantry Division [newsletter called the Front Line, May 19, 1945; German Defeat; Task Force Osgard; Wehrmacht Collapses in Alps; sports news]

DALE, RANDI M. Residence: Manhattan, Kansas Service: Model for war bond poster

46 Volume: -1"

Papers [cover of the Magazine Popular Photography shows a small child dressed up in Uncle Sam garb selling war bonds]

DALTON, WALTER F. Residence: Frankfield, Colorado Service: Marine Corps, Pacific Theater Volume: -1"

Papers [two stories by donor; the “Ballad of Finnegay, There Were No Heroes,” and “The Day I Performed For Ike;” first story tells about how he and his comrades secured an island from the Japanese; how one man remembers war and the friends he lost in battle; the second story is about the day his ROTC troops performed for Ike at the halftime show at a Kansas State football game; six poems written by Dalton dealing with war or the thought of dying]

DAVIDS, HAROLD E. Residence: Waterbury, Connecticut Service: 184th General Hospital Unit, Europe Volume: -1"

Memoirs [Way Back With Davis, copy of memoirs as one of the optometrists in the 184th unit in England; he worked on a variety of assignments such as eye surgery to the delivering of a baby]

DAVIS, CHARLES L. Residence: Falls Church, Virginia Service: Historian Volume: -1”

Yugoslavia Material [copies of Air Force documents and historical articles re Yugoslavian pilots who flew bombing missions in support of General Mihailovich]

DAVIS, EDITH M. Residence: Mesa, Arizona Service: Commander, WAC detachment, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces, Europe Volume: 6"

Guide to Davis Material [empty folder]

"Wandering WACs" [diary of a WAC, September 4, 1943 to October 24, 1943; day-by-day description of a WAC’s experiences]

Photographs (1)-(3) [photographs of mainly leisure time activities; mostly informal, some group shots]

47 Printed Material (1) (2) [USFET handbook; guide to Great Britain; a pamphlet for U.S. soldiers in Geneva; postcards from Frankfurt; pamphlet on the city of Reims; article on Paris; the shoulder sleeve insignia of the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force; papers from WAC detachment Headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, September 29, 1945, February 7, 1946, and March 13,1946]

Box 43:

Miscellaneous [program for third birthday of the WAC in Paris, France May 14, 1945; photos; clippings re WACs, Laura Loveland and Marjorie Wells; roster of WAC personnel on duty with SHAEF; menu for a Father’s Day dinner; routine times sheet; invitation to a party from the men of Company C]

Correspondence [letter to a former college friend; invitation to a festival in Versailles; an invitation and an acceptance letter to attend a dinner at the WAC mess hall on Christmas Day 1945; letters to Captain Davis from service families concerning their daughter’s well-being during the Christmas season; many other letters telling of the nice things she did for all the people under her overseas- invited servicemen to WAC dinners and baked a cake to share]

Christmas Letters (1) (2) [letters from brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers of WACs who received the Christmas letter Captain Davis wrote 1943-1946]

Letter to Relative in Service 1945 [letter to a man named Caral; what has been going on in recent weeks with her and the other women in her WAC outfit; day-by-day account]

Daily Bulletins (1) (2) [official notices (meetings, Post Exchange, personnel interviews) and unofficial notices (movies, dances, parties, bridge night]

Clippings [landing of allied forces on the beaches of Normandy; Captain Davis promotions]

Ruth Blanton Chaney - Scrapbook [black and white photographs; dog tags; article about enlisting in the WAAC; program for religious services; article about Ruth Blanton and VE Day; letter from Mamie Eisenhower and John Eisenhower; honorable discharge certificate; letter from Harry Truman to his Secretary of Defense]

Ruth Blanton Chaney - Manuscript [Reminiscences of a WAC 1941-1945; Ruth Blanton gives a total description of her time as WAC from enlisting in 1941 at Bald Knob, Arkansas to being overseas at the end of the war in 1945]

Theresa Coppola [an account of the WAC’s perspective of working at SHAEF from March 1943 to December 1945]

Helen M. Meyer [three articles; reunion with former SHAEF members; being one of Eisenhower’s Sweethearts (a WAC stationed with SHAEF); a copy of Eisenhower’s telegram signaling the end of the war]

48 Anna Yarnow - Newsletters [copies of post newspapers, European Theater Intelligence School at Oberammergau, Frankfurt Military Post, and Garmisch Military Post, 1946-1950; articles on what was going on in and around the posts]

Anna Yarnow - Programs [Christmas card from Fort King in 1948; 1948 and 1949 dining menu for Christmas Day; program from the Garmisch Military Post Ice Revue; cocktail list from the hotel Schneeferner-Haus; menu from the Strohhof; article called, “WACs in Bivouac”]

Anna Yarnow - Tourist Literature [photos of the countryside of Berchtesgaden; pamphlet on the winter sports of Garmisch; map or a guide to Garmisch; maps of Berchtesgaden area and points of interest]

Anna Yarnow - Photographs [photographs of different points of interest in the European theatre, mostly in Oberammergau]

DAVIS, MYRON H. Residence: Chicago, Illinois Service: Life photographer, Southwest Pacific Volume: -1”

Memoirs [bound volume containing recollections of his work as photographer for Life magazine in New Guinea and Australia; includes comments on Franklin D. Roosevelt, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Joseph Stilwell]

DAWDY, J.L. Residence: Port Lavaca, Texas Volume: -1"

Unit Diary – 377th AAA Auto Weapons Battalion [Europe; diary from June 11, 1944 to January 25, 1945]

DEAM, DONALD L. Residence: Topeka, Kansas Service: 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division Volume: 1”

Documents [copy of award citation; 1944 letter; 2006 newspaper article]

Memoirs (1) (2) [training for D-Day; DDE visit to troops; D-Day activities; injury by shell; medical treatment]

Box 44:

DENNY, JOHN ROBERT Residence: Tallahassee, Florida Service: 31st and 165th Combat Engineer Battalion, Europe

49 Volume: 1"

Memoir [bound copies of letters and photographs Denny sent home while in Europe, March 1945-July 1946; most pertain to occupation duty in Vienna, Austria, and the social life of the soldiers]

DERRICK, GEORGE W. Residence: Temple, Texas Service: Gunner, USS Hancock, Pacific Volume: 1"

Memoir [incidents, happenings, and events Mr. Derrick experienced in WWII; he served with the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific and Western Pacific]

DIERKES, RAYMOND B. Residence: St. Louis, Missouri Service: 97th and 108th Naval Construction Battalions, Europe Volume: 1"

Memoirs [training; social life in England; building Mulberry Harbor]

Papers [story by Bob Pintar re sinking of USS Phoenix in English Channel by German U-boat; newsletter of 97th and 108th Seabee organization May 1999; roster of 108th Battalion; newspaper article re Raymond Dierkes]

Photographs [copies of photos of 97th and 108th battalion personnel]

DIETER, CLEMENT Residence: Clarkdale, Arizona Service: 397th AAA (AW) Battalion, Europe Volume: 1”

Battalion Journal, June 1944 (1) (2) [copy of official journal describing activities during landing in Normandy]

Memorabilia [photo of 397th members; battalion newsletter, June 1945]

Newspapers (1) (2) [miscellaneous New York City newspapers, June 1944]

Box 45:

Orders and Reports [list of battle honors; list of 397th members being sent home, November 1945; list of 397th movements, 1943-59; 1943 field order re movement in U.S.]

Post-War Correspondence [letters from 397th vets about their experiences, mostly 1989-1992; memoir by Edward DeField re landing in Normandy after D-Day; program of 1996 reunion]

50

DIETER, JOHN P. Residence: Abilene, Kansas Service: 3rd Army, Europe Volume: 2"

Notebook [contains balances and entries of expenses]

Printed Material - Adolf Hitler Book [book about Hitler written in German]

Printed Material [guidebook on going back into civilian life; pamphlet on how to speak French; postcards; Stars and Stripes, June 25, 1945 (southern Germany edition); Yank magazine, July 22, 1945]

3rd Army Material [G-2 Periodic Report; final periodic report; map showing 3rd Army’s victories; letters from Kock and Patton; the back side of map autographed by the soldiers in the unit; a pamphlet on the brief history of the 3rd’s unit operations in Europe; invitation for the dedication of Patton Hall April 4th, 1946 at Fort Riley, Kansas; Alumni letter to Patton’s staff; men of the staff that have been located and their addresses; list of men that attended Patton Centennial Celebration November 10-12, 1985, Atlanta, Georgia; certificate of appreciation awarded by the U.S. committee for the Battle of Normandy Memorial Museum]

Box 46:

DINNING, GEORGE W. Residence: Grandview, Missouri Service: Marine Corps, Pacific Volume: 13"

Letters from Betty Klein 1944 (1)-(5) [letters to her fiancé George Dinning; part of the letters give the impression that Dinning broke up with her, later there is some indication that the couple got back together; pages from a joke book]

Letters from Betty Klein 1945 (1)-(4) [the last letter she wrote informed him she had decided to marry another man]

Letters from Betty Klein Miscellaneous [newspaper articles; birthday and holiday cards; photos]

Letters from Rena Wooliscroft (1) (2) [letters re their personal relationship]

Box 47:

Letters from Rena Wooliscroft (3) (4) [letters re their personal relationship]

Letters from Father [short and to the point]

51 Letters from Mother (1)-(3) [informs him as to what is going on in his home town; mostly family business; how everyone is getting along]

Letters - Miscellaneous (1)-(3) [request for a furlough; photos of Betty Klein; letters from friends and relatives; shipment request of household goods in 1965; price list from Camp Pendleton, California for uniforms and accessories]

Memorabilia (1)-(3) [notebook with message written in Japanese; postcards from all over the U.S.; business cards; train ticket; jokes; photos; two certificates of clearance; discharge certificate; USS Tennessee material; post-war veterans benefits]

Printed Material (1) (2) [Basic Field Manual for the U.S. Rifle, Caliber .30, M1, 1940; a pamphlet on Japanese morale issued by the Marine Corps; individual score book for the rifle; newspaper clippings about American soldiers getting to wear civilian clothes while on leave; four newspapers, the Chevron dated March 21, 1946, June 14, 1946, June 28, 1946, and September 13, 1946]

Box 48:

DIRKS, ARTHUR W. Residence: Wakeeney, Kansas Service: Hawaii Volume: -1"

Printed Material [printed photos-Gen. Eisenhower with other officers, German surrender, concentration camps, London-sword to city]

DOIRON, CLAUDE J. JR. Residence: Grandview, Missouri Volume: -1"

Ploesti Report [large printed report filed in oversized box at end of collection]

DONATH, W.J. Service: Underwater Demolition Team #7, U.S. Navy, Pacific Theater Volume: 1"

Articles [Navy’s underwater demolition experts; Naval newspaper called the Sea Bea dated September 12, 1945]

Memoir [the donor’s service as an underwater demolition expert and the men that served with him]

Narrative History [narrative history of Underwater Demolition Team #7; brief history of the UDT as well as a chronological look at the training periods, movements, and operations of the UDT and the original roster of UDT#7]

52

DONOVAN, BERNARD J. Residence: Lewiston, Maine Service: 80th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: -1"

Unit History - 80th Infantry Division [unit history of the 80th Infantry Division (copies of printed, illustrated booklets)]

DOUGHTY, CHARLES Residence: Jefferson City, Tennessee Service: Sailor, USS Halloran; his dog also served in the War Dog program Volume: -1"

Ship Roster [ship roster from the USS Halloran]

War Dog Program [donated his dog to the United States Coast Guard; War Department sent Doughty a letter of appreciation for donating his dog]

DOUGLAS, ALLEN Residence: Des Plaines, Illinois Service: 46th Engineer Battalion, Pacific Volume: 3"

Diary (1)-(6) [”Draftee” is an expanded WWII diary covering basic training in Texas, through the Panama Canal, across the Pacific Ocean to Australia, Americans in Australia, campaigns in New Guinea, encounters with natives, malaria, Port Morsby, “Bloody Buna,” Milne Bay, Kiriwina, Merauke, Ora Bay, Hollendia, Biak, and back home to U.S.]

DRAKE, RAYLEN H. Residence: Manchester, Kansas Service: Son of John C. Drake, CCC and U.S. Navy, Pacific Volume: -1"

John Drake Papers [Civilian Conservation Corps certificate of Diesel Engines, Psychology, and Forestry; honorable discharge from the Civilian Conservation Corps; rating description of Fireman first class in the United States Navy; information bulletins about life insurance; letter from Harry Truman; application for Servicemen’s Readjustment Allowance; separation center referral sheet; honorable discharge from the United States Navy; photos of John Drake and his wife Margie]

Box 49:

DRUMMOND, JAMES Residence: Bozeman, Montana Service: B-24 pilot, 826th Bombardment Squadron, 15th Air Force, Europe

53 Volume: 2”

Memoir (1)-(4) [training in U.S.; crossing Atlantic to Africa; account of bombing raids over Central Europe and Italy; copies of documents and photographs]

DUNN, MARY MAJORS Residence: Omaha, Nebraska Service: Friend of Roger Williams, U.S. Navy, Pacific Volume: -1"

Letters from Roger Williams [letters To Mary Majors telling how important it is for people back home to get behind the war effort; editing from the censors]

Male Call [112 GI comic strips featuring the war activities of Miss Lace]

DYER, FRANCES Residence: Lafayette, California Service: wife of William Dyer, HQ Squadron, 9th Air Division, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [letter to his girlfriend telling of the events of the past week and recalling a huge celebration re the news that the war was over in Europe]

EDWARDS, RUTH G. Residence: Dixon, Illinois Service: U.S. Navy Women's Reserve Volume: 1"

Naval Training School (1) (2) [magazine clipping re WAVES; U.S. Naval training school pamphlet on how to be a WAVE; prayer of a WAVE; WAVES third birthday; book on the short history of the United States Naval Training School in the Bronx, New York]

WAVES Book [illustrated book of the daily activities of a WAVE]

EHSTER, RITA M. Residence: Milwaukee, Wisconsin Service: Friend of A.W. "Chick" Parry, British Navy Volume: -1"

Papers [Letters from Parry, wireless operator; 1941-1944]

EISENHART, Merle G. Residence: Sun City, Arizona Service: U.S. Army, Pacific Volume: -1”

54 Miscellaneous Papers [discharge papers; letter to parents from New Guinea re living conditions; travel orders and immunization register from 1950s military service]

Newspapers (1) (2) [scattered issues, Guinea Gold, 1943-1944; Free Philippines, 2 May 1945 re death of Hitler; Stars and Stripes, 28 July 1953 re Korean armistice]

EKBLAD, AL Residence: Camarillo, California Service: Pacific Volume: -1"

Papers [English-Japanese corpsman medical questionnaire; Japanese label]

ELKINS, RICHARD H., SR. Residence: Locust Grove, Georgia Service: 3118 Signal Service Battalion, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces, Europe Volume: -1”

Memoirs [training in U.S.; service with Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe; account of message re German surrender]

Scrapbook [copies of photos of DDE at Reims, France]

ELKUND, ELEANOR N. Residence: Asheville, North Carolina Service: home front Volume: -1"

Newsletters [First Free Methodist Church, Seattle, Washington; 1944 newsletter for local service people]

ENGLISH, EVELYN HONTS Residence: Pasadena, California Service: widow of George S. Honts, medical corps and Judge Advocate General Group, European Theater Volume: 5”

Cards

Letters January 1944 [England]

Letters February 1944 [England]

Letters March 1944 [England]

55 Letters April 1944 [England]

Box 50:

Letters May-June 1944 [England; France]

Letters July 1944 [France]

Letters August 1944 [France]

Letters September 1944 [France]

Letters October 1944 [France]

Letters November-December 1944 [France]

Letters 1945 (1)-(3) [Germany; telegram stating Honts killed in action]

Memorabilia [biographical material; clippings; photographs]

Vignettes [abstracts of letters set to music; performed at Tanglewood Music Center, Massachusetts by Boston Symphony, 2002]

ESAU, ELMA E. Residence: North Newton, Kansas Service: home front Volume: -1"

Memoir [re Mennonite clothing drive at Newton for war relief]

EVRY, HAL Residence: Palm Desert, California Service: Pacific Theater Volume: 4"

Japanese Material (1)-(4) [poem; songbook; notebook with sketches; unused forms; Philippine school songbook used during Japanese occupation 1942]

Box 51:

Memorabilia [Australian items picked up by soldier on leave; guidelines for what soldiers may discuss upon returning home; overseas soldier’s application for voting ballot; drawings of Pacific scenes in portfolio]

Newsletters [1943-1945]

56 Photos [Japanese subjects]

Printed Material (1)-(6) [telephone and radio broadcasting information; naval reserve booklet, 1942; naval officers uniform booklet, 1943; newspapers and magazines,1943-1945; booklets on recaptured lands]

Tourist Literature (1) (2) [pocket guides and souvenirs from China, Australia, Brisbane, and New Guinea]

FAUSZ, EDWARD W. Residence: Harrison, Ohio Service: 3103rd Signal Service Battalion, Europe Volume: -1”

Memoirs [Battle of the Bulge]

FIENI, GABRIEL J. Residence: Reading, Pennsylvania Service: 3rd Auxiliary Surgical Group, Bradley’s 1st Army Volume: -1”

20 page memoir of his experiences during WWII entitled A Birds-eye-view of World War II

1 scanned photograph of the Pottstown World War II memorial

1 brochure soliciting funds for the Pottstown World War II memorial

1 photocopied newspaper clipping concerning the Pottstown World War II memorial

FLUCK, WILLARD H. Residence: Quakertown, Pennsylvania Service: 333rd Infantry Regiment, 84th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: 3"

Letters 1944 [letters and V-mail to parents and friend]

Letters 1945 (1)-(3) [letters and V-mail to parents from front lines in France, Germany, and Belgium]

Letters 1946 [letters to parents near end of stay in Europe]

Box 52:

Memoirs (1)-(3) [account of Battle of the Bulge; photos of GIs]

Memorabilia [clippings; propaganda sheet; photos of GIs]

57

Propaganda Book [German language]

Unit Histories [84th Infantry Division; 2nd Battalion, 333rd Infantry Regiment]

FORRESTER, MARGARET Residence: Abilene, Kansas Service: collector Volume: -1”

344th Engineer Regiment Map [oversized map showing route of Company F, 344th Engineer Regiment in Europe, July 1, 1942-July 1, 1945]

FOSTER, JOHN J. Residence: Lebanon, Pennsylvania Service: 8th Service Regiment, U.S. Marine Corps, Pacific Volume: 1"

Unit History – 8th Service Regiment, USMC

FRAILEY, BRANSFORD I. Residence: Bartlesville, Oklahoma Service: 179th Infantry Regiment, Italy and France; occupation duty in Japan 1947-1948; son-in- law of Raymond Dwyer of Greenville, Kentucky, who served in France in World War I Volume: 2”

Memoirs [transcript of interview re WWII combat experiences in Italy and France; wounded in action and medical treatment he received]

Memorabilia [news clippings re awards, marriage, eruption of Vesuvius; photos; programs; ship newsletters from USAT E.B. Alexander 26 May 1948, SS Marine Serpent 18 July 1946]

201 File (1) (2) [orders and memorabilia, mostly 1946-1952]

World War I Memorabilia [postcards, photos, souvenirs collected by Raymond Dwyer]

World War I Postcards [postcards sent by Raymond Dwyer to his wife, 1918]

FRAIZER, HAROLD Residence: Salina, Kansas Service: Richard Lipps in 513rd Bomber Squadron, North Africa Volume: -1"

Richard Lipps Diary 1943

FRAME, HAROLD

58 Residence: Manhattan, Kansas Service: Seabees, Europe and Pacific Volume: -1"

Papers [letter from mother; photo with local representative, 1955]

FRANKLIN, SUSAN Residence: San Pedro, California Service: Sister of Robert F. Oiler, 1104th Engineer Combat Group, Europe, and David Oiler, U.S. Navy Volume: -1"

David Oiler Papers [photos, group and single; letters from Navy; induction paper; communication record at time of Japanese surrender]

Robert Oiler Papers [discharge papers; 1104th Engineer Combat Group history]

FRED, LOREN Residence: Wichita, Kansas Service: personnel clerk, 915th Field Artillery Battalion, Europe Volume: 6"

Letters (1) (2) [Telegram; letters and V-mail 1942-1945; photos of buildings, German graves, and armaments]

Box 53:

Printed Material [newspaper clippings 1944-1945; Time and Newsweek, October 1945; magazine clipping]

Scrapbook (1) (2) [clippings, photos from beginning of military service, and personal records]

Service Documents (1)-(3) [passes; ID cards; permits; ration books; patches; division history; service record; toxic chemical poster; radio operations training records; menus; rosters; captured equipment documents; furlough paper]

Service Documents - Agnes Fred [Civil Air Patrol ID; CAP service record; photo of 4 women; patch; ration book; CAP group photos]

Souvenirs - Currency [German, French, Italian, English, Austrian, and Czechoslovakia as German protectorate paper currency, various denominations]

Souvenirs - England [Candy wrapper; play booklets; American guide to Great Britain booklet]

59 Souvenirs - France (1)-(3) [Opera ticket stubs; French religious souvenirs; bag with recipe; English language handbooks to Paris area; French phrase book; French “state” souvenir patches; Reims, France souvenir hanky; cathedral cards and postcards]

Souvenirs - Germany (1)-(3) [Nazi post-office card; cigarette pack; safe conduct for surrender sheet; instructions on how to deal with Germans after war; blank checks; Nazi workbook cover; 915th Field Artillery Battalion souvenir handkerchiefs sent to Mrs. Agnes B. Fred; newspaper clippings 1944-1945; wartime ration stamps; photo books of Bavarian tourist sites]

Souvenirs - U.S. and Misc. (1) (2) [patches; ballet playbill; “opera news” clipping 1945; Thanksgiving dinner 1942 menu book; ticket stubs; church pamphlet 1944; maps of Europe]

Transport Ship [assignment and meal cards; safety and regulations sheet; information on ship]

FREEDMAN, MORRIS Residence: Randolph, Massachusetts Service: home front Volume: -1"

Papers [copy of handmade joke book “The Bean Press” made by Freedman while living in Boston during World War II and sent to Boston servicemen]

FREEMAN, ELIZABETH S. Residence: Phillipsburg, Kansas Service: Relative of Hugh G. Myers, crewman, USS Cleburne, Pacific Volume: -1”

Hugh Myers Letters [copies of Hugh’s letters re his return to U.S. after the war; his hospitalization for his final illness, early 1946]

Box 54:

FROST, KRISTIAN P. Residence: Minneapolis, Minnesota Service: 391st AAA AW Battalion, Europe; guard at Nuremberg war crime trials Volume: 1"

Memorabilia [clippings re Nuremberg trials 1945-1966; photos of departure, armaments, camps, soldiers, and preparation for return home]

Official Papers [pay record book; security clearance card for Palace of Justice; church pamphlet from USS Portland 1945; orders of the day; discharge papers; address list of men of Battery “B;” Radio Press News December 1945]

Tourist Literature [postcards; show programs 1944-1945; tourist pamphlet for southern Germany and northern Austria]

60

War Criminals [signatures of Nazi war criminals; brief autobiographies of Keitel, Von Ribbentrop, Goering, Von Papen, Ley, Funk, Speer, Von Schirach, Frick, Frank, Schacht, Von Neurath, Rosenberg, Stricher, and Doenitz]

FRUMKIN, JOSEPH Residence: Hallandale, Florida Service: translator, OMGUS Volume: -1"

Memoirs [German political situation in early days of occupation, duties of translators, and attempted search for Hitler’s remains; German 50 mark currency, 1944]

FUJITA, FRANK Residence: Abilene, Texas Service: 131st Field Artillery Battalion, Java; prisoner of war in Japan, 1942-1945 Volume: 3"

Clippings [“Lost Battalion” 1942-1957; photos of POW’s of “Lost Battalion”]

Correspondence [letters to parents informing them on status of their son; letters to home from Japan; form letter from president upon return; letters concerning whereabouts of diary; telegrams informing parents of return home]

Diary (1)-(3) [diaries with story of incarceration; diary with information on men he was incarcerated with, including information on alleged traitors; book with all entries from all diaries]

Memorabilia [letters to parents following release; photos of artwork depicting scenes of torture; map of Tokyo area; weight chart May 1944-October 1945; sketches; photos of camp and men incarcerated there; camp diagram; aerial photos of Tokyo area showing location of camp]

Box 55:

FURBECK, MARGARET Residence: Abilene, Kansas Service: Wife of Paul Furbeck, 432nd Coast Arty Battalion, North Africa and Italy Volume: 7”

Letters, Paul to Margaret Furbeck 1942-1943 (1)-(3) [North Africa; Sicily]

Letters, Paul to Margaret Furbeck 1944 (1)-(4) [Italy]

Letters, Paul to Margaret Furbeck 1945 (1)-(3) [Italy]

Box 56:

61

Letters, Paul Furbeck to Harold Munger

Miscellaneous Papers [War Department pamphlet 20-6, Command of Negro Troops; Organized Reserve Corps records management plan; artillery training notes]

Publications – New Infantry Drill Regulations

Publications – FM 23-45, Browning Machine Gun

Publications – TM 30-450, German Forces

Publications – TM 30-480, Japanese Forces

GIBLER, GORDON B. Residence: Kemah, Texas Service: Aleutians Volume: -1"

Papers [program for 50th anniversary of V-J Day services from League City, Texas; poem books from service]

GLASS, NAP Residence: Aventura, Florida Service: 5th Armored Division, Europe Volume: 13"

Court Martial 1942 [court papers on the court martial of Mr. Glass]

Diary - U.S. Book I (1)-(3) [December 1941-April 1942; induction and early army career; photos of soldiers]

Box 57:

Diary - U.S. Book II (1) (2) [April-May 1942; stay at Fort Knox and court martial]

Diary - U.S. Book III (1) (2) [May-August 1942; transfer to Camp Cooke, California]

Diary - U.S. Book IV (1) (2) [August-November 1942; desert maneuvers to furlough; copies of letters to parents]

Diary - U.S. Book V (1)-(3) [November 1942-February 1944; life in California, transfer to Tennessee; letters to relatives; clippings re soldiers on home front]

Box 58:

62 Diary - ETO (1)-(6) [1944-1945; Nazi pin; story of time in Europe “Goldbrick in the ETO” re stay in England, northern France campaign, into Germany, Red cross trip to Paris, and post- surrender activities; photos of soldiers; maps; sketches; clippings re final stages of war and surrender; souvenirs]

Letters from Home 1944 (1) (2) [V-Mail; cover sheet with family list]

Letters from Home 1945 [V-mail]

Box 59:

Letters to Moe and Harriet 1942 (1)-(3) [from Fort Devens; from Fort Knox; from Louisville, Kentucky; from California; from Chicago, Illinois; from New York]

Letters to Moe and Harriet 1943 (1) (2) [from Los Angeles, California; from Camp Forrest, Tennessee; from Nashville, Tennessee; from Kingston, Ontario; from Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania]

Letters to Moe and Harriet 1944 [from Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania; from New York, New York; from England; from France; from Luxembourg; from Belgium; from Germany]

Letters to Moe and Harriet 1945 [from Belgium; from Holland; from Germany; from France]

Letters to Parents 1942 [from California; fake joke letter from Headquarters, 81st Armored Regiment regarding insignia change; from New York]

Letters to Parents 1943 [from New York; from Pennsylvania; from England]

Letters to Parents 1944 (1)-(3) [from England; from France; from Belgium; from Germany]

Letters to Parents 1945 (1) (2) [from Holland; from Germany; from Belgium; from France]

Memorabilia [Army Italian language guide; army letters; base newsletters]

News Clippings [1944-1945 re push through Europe; 1943-1945 Victory News; 1942 Victory Division News]

Unit History - 5th Armored Division

GLENDENING, JOHN W. Residence: El Dorado, Kansas Service: 789th Engineer Petroleum Distribution Company, China-Burma-India Theater Volume: 3"

China-Burma-India Theater [copies of maps and pass card]

63 Diary 1945-1946 [re stay in CBITO and voyage home]

Box 60:

Language Dictionary [Bengali and Hindustani]

Muirmaid (1)-(4) [ship newsletter 1945-1946]

Official Papers [discharge papers]

Scrapbook (1) (2) [telegram from home; clippings re India oil pipeline; last will; poem; commendation letters; pipeline information poster; personal papers; training orders; safety rules; camouflage procedure sheet]

789th EPD Co. [copies of ship information; “Army Basic Today” clippings re pipeliners; “Pipeline Bulletin” newsletter; unit history; “Yank” magazine, 1945; pipeline map]

U.S. Army Pipelines in India [copies of history and maps]

GLENNON, JOHN Residence: Emporia, Kansas Service: son of Paul Glennon, who served in Pacific Volume: -1"

Papers [postcard; Reader’s Digest advertisements; envelopes]

GOAD, EDWARD V. Residence: Riverside, California Service: Transportation Corps, Europe Volume: 1"

Diary (1) (2) [1945, with maps showing travels; diary copies with printed photos]

Papers [clipping re death of Omar Bradley; instructions for German camera; photos from Holland]

GODMAN, VIRGINIA Residence: Alamogordo, New Mexico Service: Wife of Col. Henry C. Godman, Army Air Corps, Pacific Volume: -1”

Memoirs [copyrighted manuscript by Henry Godman; family background; childhood; joined Air Corps 1936, Texas; training in B-17 planes; flight to Philippines September 1941; retreat to Australia December 1941; evacuation of MacArthur; return to U.S. 1944; Korean War; post war service]

64 Box 61:

GOFORTH, PEGGY E. Residence: Modesto, California Service: Widow of Merrian Herbert Goforth, 786th Tank Battalion, Europe Volume: 3"

Army Papers - Herb Goforth [draft papers; discharge papers; medical records; dependent records; certificate of merit; battalion roster; insurance papers; civil service papers]

Biographical Information [photos of Mr. Goforth; funeral bulletins; sympathy letters; photo copies; copies of army patches; brief biography; reference letter; resume; clipping re Mr. Goforth at Great Basins Petroleum 1962]

Journal of Herb Goforth [address book pages; table of locations and dates; account of tour in Europe]

Memorabilia [cemorial certificate from President Ronald Reagan; pocket guide to Germany; V- mail to Grace Marquis; letter to Mrs. Goforth re death of Mr. Littlejohn, friend of Mr. Goforth from army; clipping re Japanese surrender]

Notebook of Herb Goforth [notebook with intelligence data and policy]

201 - Merrian H. Goforth [Army service letters and documents]

Unit History – 786th Tank Battalion [”The Path of Destruction”]

GOODYEAR, CAROLE D. Residence: Key Biscayne, Florida Service: Niece of Otto Horne, Union Pacific railroad employee Volume: -1"

Papers [postcard showing a train in Europe; copies of photos of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s homecoming in Abilene, 1945]

GOOGE, ROBERT Residence: Salina, Kansas Service: Nephew of Sam Ray, 91st Field Artillery Battalion, Italy Volume: -1”

Papers [V-mail letter from Sam Ray]

GORMAN, JOHN T. Residence: Endicott, New York Service: 133rd Infantry Regiment, 34th Infantry Division, North Africa and Italy Volume: -1"

65

Memoirs [copied records, home and overseas service]

GRAUBART, WALTER E. Residence: Schenectady, New York Service: Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces Security Volume: -1"

Papers [letter in French, 1947]

GRAY, DENVER D. Residence: Atlanta, Georgia Service: Air Force officer, Pearl Harbor Volume: -1"

Article re Pearl Harbor [quarterly booklet: “Nebraska History,” 1981]

GREEN, GEORGE J. Residence: Webster Grove, Missouri Service: 10th Marine, Iceland; 3rd Marine Division, Pacific Volume: 1"

Memoir (1) [Iceland, 1941-1942]

Memoir (2) [Bougainville, Guam, Iwo Jima 1942-1945]

Papers (1) (2) [articles re Iwo Jima, Iceland 1975; resume; map of Iwo Jima; copies of Marine letters of award; copy of photo of “B” company, 9th Battalion]

GREENE, R.W. Residence: Topsfield, Massachusetts Service: Navy, Atlantic and Mediterranean Volume: -1"

Papers [photo of Mr. Green; memoir re battle with U-boats; memoir re “box top sailors;” article re German surrender at Marseilles 1944]

GREGORY, JOHN P. Residence: Fort Pierce, Florida Service: 932nd Signal Battalion, 19th Tactical Air Command Volume: 1"

Communications in XIX Tactical Air Command [communications instruction book]

66 Papers [telegram from Sec of War to General Vandenberg re success of 9th Air Force; telegrams from SHAEF re German surrender; Xeroxed photos equipment, German POWs, soldiers, citizens and battle wreckage]

Box 62:

GRINAGE, RICHARD Residence: Clay Center, Kansas Service: Material collected by his mother Mrs. Oscar Grinage of Salina, Kansas, during World War II Volume: 3”

Airplane Identification (1) (2) [photos and cards describing Allied aircraft]

Letters [personal letter to Ira and family 1947; business letter to phone company, 1944]

Miscellaneous [scrapbook of WWII clippings 1941-1945; newspaper and magazine clippings 1941-1945 re military activities and home front; army classification cards; Japanese government currency, 5 centavos; clipping re movie “House of Frankenstein” 1945; clipping re transport ship from Philippines to Japan; clipping re training and materials production; programs for “war loan” movie, “Around the World;” safety rules army air base in Salina, Kansas, 1942; letter to Salina High School from principal Owen E. Hodgson 1945 re death of Roosevelt; procedure sheet for acquiring essential telephone service; timeline of war events 1941-1944; informational poster on GI Bill of Rights]

Printed Material (1)(2) [war map of Europe; stamp album of famous aviators; guide to Camp Phillips; military insignia guide; booklets on General MacArthur and General Marshall; transportation activity book; Junior Scholastic magazine 1945; air corps propaganda photobook about the Louis Allis Messenger engine 1942]

Ration Material (1) (2) [various ration books; meat price guide]

GROVER, WILLIAM B. Residence: Haddon Heights, New Jersey Service: 831st Engineer Aviation Battalion, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [newsletter “The Bulldozer” 1943; photo of DDE, Marshall, Stinson, and Bradley; photos of military subjects]

GUILFOYLE, WILLIAM A. Residence: Abilene, Kansas Service: Navigator, 423rd Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force, Europe Volume: -1"

67 Papers [letter to mother 1943 re surrender of Italy and life in California; telegram 1945 re return home; photos of Mr. Guilfoyle and comrades; letters re navigator training school entrance; aerial photos from missions; clipping flight disasters; copied English and French currency; copied record of missions flown; map of Germany; clippings re flak wound; clipping front page of Stars and Stripes 1944; photos of DDE’s homecoming; copied v-mail; copied letters to parents; copied program for memorial plaque dedication for 306th Bomb Group]

HAGUE, JAMES Residence: Abilene, Kansas Service: collector Volume: -1"

Automotive Magazines (1) (2) [tune-up manual 1943; Motor Service Magazine 1941]

HALLARAN, MARY Residence: Arlington, Virginia Service: WAC, Europe Volume: -1"

WAC Reunion Speech 1992 [given at Eisenhower Presidential Library]

HALLORAN, RAYMOND F. Residence: Menlo Park, California Service: B-29 crew member, Pacific Volume: -1"

Papers [book re Halloran’s experiences in Japan; his B-29 was shot down over Tokyo in January 1945 and he was a POW]

HAMMITT, EDMOND H. Residence: Maumee, Ohio Service: Navy, Pacific Volume: -1"

Memoirs [early life, Navy career, attack on Philippines, invasion of Okinawa, postwar service, family, and retirement]

HAMRY, WILLIAM Residence: San Diego, California Service: 197th Coast Artillery Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Australia Volume: -1"

Letters [V-mail from California, 1943]

68 HANCOCK, MORCK O. Residence: Tucson, Arizona Service: 830th Engineer Aviation Battalion, Europe Volume: 1"

Unit History – 830th Engineer Aviation Battalion (1) (2) [photos, clippings, documents, memories, and reunion information]

HANNA, ROBERT J. Residence: Wichita, Kansas Service: 6th Armored Division, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [ration book; brief history of service; photos military subjects]

Box 63:

HANNEGAN, BILL Residence: St. Louis, Missouri Service: stamp collector Volume: -1"

Army Victory Stamp (1) (2) [3-cent stamp based on photo of 28th Infantry Division marching in Paris; includes information on members of the 28th Division who appear in the photo, and copies of the stamp autographed by the soldiers; one of the soldiers, Harry Wilson, was a POW in Germany; material collected by Robert Hannegan, father of donor, who was postmaster general in 1946]

HANSFORD, GORDON Residence: Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada Service: 1st Canadian Armored Brigade, Italy Volume: -1"

Papers [letter to mother, 1944]

HARLAN, WILLIS L. Residence: Lawrence, Kansas Service: Navy, USS Cimarron, 1942-1944; USS Grafton, 1944-1945 Volume: 1"

Clippings [ship refueling tankers, Doolittle bombings, Japanese invasion of Indochina; Christmas orders, 1942]

Magazine [National Geographic, 1946]

Papers [ship pass card; award certificates]

69

201 File (1) (2) [various personnel records]

HARRINGTON, FRANK B. Residence: Old Greenwich, Connecticut Service: 786th Tank Battalion, Europe Volume: 1"

Army Officers Handbook

Diary - Henry P. Morris [507th AAA Battery, Europe; participated in several tasks, including interrogation, denazification, recon, fighting, and postwar activities]

Miscellaneous Papers [clothing bill 1941; photos of Mr. Harrington]

Unit History – 786th Tank Battalion [”The Path of Destruction”]

HARRIS, LARRY Residence: Enterprise, Kansas Service: collector Volume: 2”

Correspondence [loose cards and letters found in Kenneth Sauer scrapbook; mostly greeting and sympathy cards received by Sauer’s mother after his death]

Scrapbook (1)-(4) [clippings re military service of Kenneth Sauer of Wichita, Kansas; early training; service as press officer to Douglas MacArthur in Philippines; capture by Japanese; death on transport ship, December 1944]

Scrapbook Items [loose memorabilia found in Kenneth Sauer scrapbook]

Box 64:

HARRISON, W.G. Residence: Fresno, California Service: member, Psywar Society Volume: -1"

Booklet [“A Complete Index of Allied Airborne Leaflets and Magazines 1939-1945" introduction only, no listing]

HATHAWAY, RALPH Residence: Chase, Kansas Service: 5th Air Service Group, Pacific Volume: -1”

70 Memoirs [printed volume; describes his early training in U.S.; activities in New Guinea, Australia, Philippines and Okinawa]

HAVEL, VERONICA D. Residence: Villa Park, Illinois Service: Sister of Irene Demboski, secretary in AAF Training Aids Division, 1942-1946, Lawrence, and Leo Demboski Volume: -1"

Irene Demboski - 201 File (1) (2) [personnel records 1942-1946]

Lawrence B. Demboski Papers [discharge certificate; memorabilia; death certificate 1990; condolence letters]

Leo L. Demboski Papers [discharge certificate; memorabilia]

Letters and Memorabilia [letter from Bob to Lorraine 1945; letter from brother in China 1946; printed sketch of two soldiers killed in plane crash 1945; photos of soldiers, Ms. Demboski and other secretaries, and construction of the Pentagon]

HEADLEY, JAMES Residence: Longwood, Florida Service: 3rd Marine Division, Pacific Volume: -1”

Papers [memoir re service on Iwo Jima, February 1945; copies of photos and newspaper articles; V-Mail from a friend in New York City; press release re action on Guam]

HENDRICKS, VAUGHN Residence: Hildreth, Nebraska Service: 14th Armored Division, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [physical exam papers; military certification cards; instruction pamphlet on German- American relations; pay slip; promotion records; furlough records; letter on time of induction train departure 1942; pamphlet from American Legion]

HERSHFELD, GEORGIA Residence: New York City, New York Service: Wife of Carl Hershfeld, U.S. Navy, 1940-1946 Volume: -1"

Papers [USS Elizabeth C Stanton orders of the day 1943; memo re captain commending crew for participation in getting him a Legion of Merit in Sicilian campaign 1943; discharge certificates; resume; excerpt from American Vanguard 1956; excerpt from New Voices 3: American Writing Today]

71

Photographs [lists of photos and subjects]

HESS, KENNETH L. Residence: Carmel, California Service: Son of Richard M. Hess, 161st Airborne Engineers and 503rd Parachute Regiment, Pacific Volume: -1"

Memoirs [taken from http://www.klhess.com/dad_wwii.html; training, transit, Philippines invasion, Corregidor invasion, wounding, reprint of newspaper articles, 1944-1945]

HESS, ORVILLE H. Residence: Halstead, Kansas Service: 3486th Ordnance Maintenance Company, 5th Army, North Africa and Italy Volume: 9"

Correspondence [V-mail re Christmas greetings; postcard re shipping out 1942; change of address notifications; telegrams home; Christmas letter; service rotation out of Europe letter 1944; various letters to Mrs. Hess; postcard from Vancouver 1946; envelopes]

Diary [Italy, 1943]

Memorabilia [clipping re Mr. Hess in North Africa; funeral bulletin for Wilbur D. Robuck, KIA France 1944; unused envelopes and stationery; address cards; Army Day program Camp Robinson, Arkansas, 1941; schedule of informational sessions, 1945; Italian Lire; clipping re large German artillery piece known as “Anzio Annie;” message from FDR and DDE in French and Arabic; form letter to military personnel on embarkation; listing of recreational activities Hot Springs, Arkansas 1945; “War News Summary” from Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, 1945 re V- E Day; Stars and Stripes re battle of Monte Cassino; oversize postcard re 1941 Arkansas- Louisiana maneuvers]

Memorabilia - Insignia [uniform patches]

Box 65:

Official Papers (1)-(3) [ID cards; motor cards; meal cards; pass cards; draft card; pay record; induction record; service record; reserve call-up warning letter; transfer orders; power of attorney authorization to wife; clothing checklist for customs; requisition for engraving Good Conduct Medal; separation papers; decoration forms; physical record; book to hold war bonds, tax notes, and stamps]

Photographs [clippings re induction; photos of Mr. Hess, soldiers, trucks, bivouac, theater, barracks, buildings in Vancouver, buildings in Britain, North African scenery, North African Cemetery, peasants, showgirls]

72 Printed Material (1)-(3) [books, “Freedom Speaks; Ideals of Democracy in Poetry and Prose,” “The Officer’s Guide, 4th Edition,” 1940 edition of army field manual, and 1941 edition of army field manual; bus time tables; “The Messenger,” a leaflet about morality in the military; military insignia books; guide to pastas; photobook “Great Photos of WWII;” clippings re induction; clippings re U.S. flying units arrive in England; clipping re army reorganization; clipping re death notice of Corporal Fred Williams; clippings re Mr. Hess; class syllabus book “Political and Social Growth of the United States;” hand tool guide; pamphlet on life insurance; auto part service handbooks; servicemen’s rights and benefits booklet]

Printed Material - Military (1) (2) [Engineer Recon Report book; pamphlet on disclosure of information to civilians upon return home; pamphlet on returning to civilian life; “The Road to Rome” book on Italian campaign; photobook of assembly of TUP motor vehicles by New French army in North Africa]

Printed Material - Religious [New Testament for servicemen given by his mother; prayer book and devotional guide]

Tourist Literature (1) (2) [postcard from Mountain Home, Arkansas; hotel ad card in Italian, German and French; pocket guide to North Africa; Italian photobook; soldier’s guides to Rome and Florence]

Box 66:

Tourist Literature - Maps [map of Rome and England and Wales]

Tourist Literature - Pompeii (1) (2) [Italian language tour guidebook of Pompeii; photo cards of ruins; postcards; English language tour book]

Tourist Literature - Post Cards (1)-(3) [from Italy and North Africa; Italian language photo book]

Tourist Literature - Vatican City [photo guidebook]

HIESTAND, DOUGLAS W. Residence: Creve Coeur, Missouri Service: 3156th Signal Service Company, North Africa Volume: -1"

Papers [page from guest register with signatures of Congressmen, FCC chairman, the Navy, and General Stoner; reunion books with memoirs]

HIGGINS, ROBERT M. Residence: Simi Valley, California Service: Navy, Mediterranean Volume: 1”

73 Magazines (1) (2) [Life, 23 November 1936; Saturday Evening Post, 26 February 1944, containing article on Arthur Tedder of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces]

Box 67:

Newspapers [Stars and Stripes, Italy edition, 12 August 1944; Union Jack (British forces), 15 August 1944]

Papers [letter to parents, 31 May 1942; ration books; discharge papers; information on National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Honolulu]

USS Sheliak [deck log of USS Sheliak, 1-24 April 1945 during invasion of Okinawa; Thanksgiving menu 1945; printed history of the ship]

HILDRETH, MARTHA C. Residence: Sarasota, Florida Service: daughter of Walter Commander, KIA Italy Volume: -1"

Papers [Letters to wife, 1944]

HILLEQUE, ROBERT M. L. Residence: Franklin Park, Illinois Service: 119th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division Volume: -1"

Publications [World War II magazine, 1993; book, “Saving the Breakout;” book, “August 1944, the Campaign for France”]

Box 68:

HOLLISTER, ROBERT Residence: Arkport, New York Service: 69th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: -1"

69th Infantry Division Reunions [U.S. and USSR soldiers who met at Elbe, copies of photos; copy of booklet “Victory in Europe D-Day to V-E Day;” photos of reunions; clipping re reunion; reunion address list; copy of reaffirmation to peace document; clipping re design on link-up memorial park]

HOLT, MEREDITH [donated by Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ernst of Enterprise, Kansas] Residence: Tallulah, Louisiana Service: 317th and 460th Air Service Groups, Europe Volume: 4”

74 Letters 1937, 1941 [visit to White House, Christmas Eve 1941; seeing President Roosevelt]

Letters August-September 1942 [training at Santa Ana Army Air Base, California]

Letters October-December 1942 [training at Santa Ana; Ryan Field, Tucson, Arizona; Minter Field, Bakersfield, California]

Letters January-March 1943 [Advanced Flying School, Marfa, Texas]

Letters April-July 1943 [Marfa, Texas]

Letters August-September 1943 [Marfa, Texas]

Letters October-December 1943 [Marfa, Texas]

Letters 1944 [Marfa, Texas, January; Holland, November-December]

Box 69:

Letters 1945 [England and France]

Memorabilia

HOLUBA, LAURENCE G. Residence: Lawrence, Kansas Service: 4th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: 2"

Clippings (1)(2) [casualty figures; army organization chart and info on soldiers; mental breakdowns in the army; Nazi assault on Bastogne; map of sea routes from Britain to Europe proper, 1944; “Yank” 1942; “Stars and Stripes” 1944]

Fort Benning, Georgia [OCS graduation program; photobook of Fort Benning]

4th Infantry Division [Christmas card; unit histories; cover letters from Maj. Gen. W.H. Blakeley to go with unit histories; “Ivy Leaf” division newsletter, 1945]

Memorabilia [Army patches; Nazi armband; army safety informational papers; German propaganda; Christmas greetings, 1944]

201 File (1) (2) [training papers; physical papers; promotion letter; activation lists; transfer papers; leave papers; shipping tickets; regimental roster; censor certification; D-Day landing table; notices of decoration; separation papers; pay voucher; CP lists; form to send message of cheer to wounded soldiers; records jacket to contain these papers]

75 HOSTETTER, PHILIP H. Service: 407th Medical Collecting Company, Pacific Volume: 1"

Memoirs [bound and titled “Doctor and Soldier in the South Pacific,” re service in New Guinea, Philippines, and Japan, and 1994 reunion in Philippines]

HOTTMAN, JAN Residence: Abilene, Kansas Volume: -1”

Interview by John P. Dieter with Helen and Marion Seelye regarding hospitality to servicemen during World War II; certificates of appreciation; a recitative “The Ragged Old Flag”

HOUSTON, MRS. ROY Residence: Eureka, Kansas Service: Husband was in 698th Engineer Petroleum Distribution Company, Europe Volume: -1"

Memorabilia [clipping “He’s in the Army Now;” address list; Deutschmarks; clipping re fuel usage in ETO]

Unit History – 698th Engineer Petrol Distribution Company (1) (2) [book and address list]

HOWES, HAL W. Residence: McLean, Virginia Service: Collector Volume: -1”

Papers [copies of articles and letters re sparing of Rothenberg, Germany, from bombing attacks, March-April 1945]

HOWELL, JOHN R. Residence: Austin, Texas Service: Son of Fred E. Howell, Associated Press staff, New York Volume: -1"

Papers [Associated Press message announcing D-Day landings three days early by mistake, followed by follow-up kill messages and explanations]

HRUZA, LEONARD Residence: Concordia, Kansas Service: nephew of Lloyd Bergman, photographer with 20th Air Force, Guam Volume: -1"

Papers [booklet on Hiroshima, Japan, 1949]

76

Box 70:

HUCH, WILLIAM Residence: Oakdale, Minnesota Service: brother of Robert Huch, Company E, 16th Infantry Regiment, Normandy Volume: 3”

After Action Report June 6, 1944 [handwritten after action report of Company E re landing on Omaha Beach]

Letters June 1944 [June 26 letter re experiences on D-Day]

Letters July-August 1944 [France]

Letters September-October 1944 [France, Germany]

Letters November-December 1944 [Germany, Belgium; Hurtgen Forest]

Letters January-February 1945 [Belgium, Germany]

Letters March-April 1945 [Germany]

Letters May-June 1945 [Czechoslovakia; occupation duty in Bamberg, Germany]

Letters July-September 1945 [Bamberg, Germany; vacation in France]

HULIK, EDWARD Residence: Junction City, Kansas Service: son of Edward Hulik, U.S. Navy Volume: -1”

Yank May 18, 1945 [magazine announcing end of war in Europe]

HULL, HOWARD D., JR. Residence: Lake Quivera, Kansas Service: historian Volume: -1”

Papers [brief history of 79th Infantry Division in Europe]

HULL, JAMES R. Residence: Downs, Kansas Service: 5th Armored Division, Europe Volume: -1"

77 Unit History - 5th Armored Division [map of in Europe; unit history book]

HUMPHREY, LARRY Residence: Wichita, Kansas Service: home front Volume: -1"

Ration Books [ration books used by Humphrey family in Newton, Kansas]

Box 71:

HURY, LEO T. Residence: Gainesville, Florida Service: 330th Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division, Europe Volume: -1”

Memoirs [2001 printed volume containing account of his military service; includes chapters on training in U.S.; landing in Normandy after D-Day; campaigns in Normandy, Brittany, Luxembourg, Hurtgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge, Rhineland, Central Germany; occupation duty after the war]

HUSA, KRISTIN NYQUIST Residence: Tempe, Arizona Service: Daughter of Wade Walter Nyquist, soldier in North Africa, POW Volume: -1”

Memoirs [memoirs of Wade Nyquist; family background; capture by Germans in North Africa; experiences as POW in Italy and Germany]

HUSCHKA, BETTY Residence: Great Bend, Kansas Service: Wife of Norman J. Huschka, Air Force pilot, Europe, and POW in Germany Volume: 2”

American Ex-Prisoners of War (1)-(4) [veterans organization; 1982, 1985, 1991 and 1994 annual conventions; publicity material re POWs]

Miscellaneous Publications

HYDE, PAUL Residence: Corvallis, Oregon Service: Company M, 263rd Infantry Regiment, 66th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: -1”

Newsletters (1) (2) [newsletters for veterans of Company M, 1998-2000, containing current news and reminiscences of the war]

78

IRVING, WILLIAM M. Residence: Lander, Wyoming Service: 127th Airborne Engineer Battalion, 11th Airborne Division, Philippines Volume: 1”

Clippings [designated “Luckiest Man in Army” by Stars and Stripes]

201 File

Unit History – 11 Airborne Division [pictorial history, 1944]

Box 72:

ISAAC, GEORGE D. Residence: Lincoln, Nebraska Service: 134th Regiment, 35th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: 2"

Printed Material [unit history; news booklet “News from Belgium and the Belgian Congo]

Scrapbook [with unit history and various war-related clippings, mostly of 134th Regiment]

35th Infantry Division Book 1941

35th Infantry Division Newspapers (1) (2) [”Shot ‘n Shell” 1943; “Santa Fe Express” from Germany, 1945; “35th Divisionnaire” 1947, 1948; “Covered Wagons, 1941]

JACOBSON, MRS. LESLIE L. Residence: Brinnon, Washington Service: Wife of Leslie L. Jacobson, soldier in Europe Volume: -1"

Book [copy of Nazi book on Adolf Hitler, published 1936]

JANTSCHI, JOSEPH J. Residence: Amherst, New York Service: Army Air Corps, United States Volume: -1"

Booklets [basic training handbook; Army and Navy Catholic prayer book; Fort Dix informational booklet; songbook]

JEFFERS, PATRICIA M. Residence: Waterford, Michigan Service: WAVES, 1945-1946

79 Volume: -1"

Papers [Naval training school postcards; dinner invitation, 1946; form letter about Navy Civil Readjustment Office; information on application to WAVES; information on aptitude test for WAVES; XO’s memo concerning third anniversary of organization of WAVES, 1945; “White Cap” newsletter, 1946]

JEHL, SUE SARAFIAN Residence: Maitland, Florida Serine: WAC secretary, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [all copies: correspondence between Ms. Jehl and John S.D. Eisenhower, 1977, re alleged affair with Kay Summersby and letter to Gen. Marshall; phonebooks for SHAEF train, 1945; memo to Gen. Stoner from DDE requesting to keep stenographers on staff upon return to Washington, 1945; wire report of decoration of DDE and staff from Brazil; clippings re service with DDE; reference memo; letter from DDE re services to him, 1947-1948, 1967]

JENSEN, KENNETH F. Residence: San Bernardino, California Service: Aircraft gunner/mechanic, England Volume: -1"

Letters [V-mail and letters, 1944-1945 re FDR’s death, D-Day anniversary, misc. topics]

Propaganda Leaflets [German psywar propaganda]

JENT, WINFRED Residence: Fort Scott, Kansas Service: Radarman, U.S. Navy, Pacific Theater Volume: -1"

Memoirs [re Okinawa campaign]

JEPSEN, RICHARD Residence: Manhattan, Kansas Serine: 120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: 1"

Memoir [Army patch; memoir of 40th anniversary of liberation of Maastricht, Netherlands]

Letters (1) (2) [To Mother, from England, Belgium, Holland, and Germany, 1944-1945, copy]

JESSOP, CHERYL Residence: Evarts, Kentucky Service: Daughter of James R. Spitzer, 6870th District Information Service Control Command,

80 Europe Volume: -1”

James R. Spitzer Papers [discharge paper, Paris assignment card, drivers permit]

Box 73:

JOHNSON, ARNOLD R. Residence: Omaha, Nebraska Service: Ground Observer Corps, New York Volume: -1"

Ground Observer Corps Material [Clippings, 1942-1943]

JOHNSON, LAURIE A. Residence: Pullman, Washington Service: Niece of Donovan Vowels of Princeton, Idaho, gunner, 359th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, Europe Volume: 1"

Donovan Vowels Letters [bound volume, letters to and from Mr. Vowels, with printed photos]

JOHNSON, ROBERT S. Residence: Topeka, Kansas Service: 3205th Quarter Master Service Company, Normandy Volume: -1"

Journal [first six days of Normandy Invasion]

JONES, JUANITA B. Residence: Dresden, Ohio Service: Daughter of Rev. Louis A. Bangerter of Neward, Ohio, who collected letters from servicemen Volume: 1"

Letters (1)-(3) [letters, V-mail, and postcards from ETO, PTO, and home front 1942-1945; photo of ornate crucifix in church]

JURY, JANETTE A. Residence: Salina, Kansas Service: collector Volume: -1"

Clippings (1) (2) [articles from Hope (Kansas) Dispatch re World War II activities of servicemen from Hope area, 1942-1945]

81 KAMMERER, JACK and MARYON see: Hal Ottaway

KAUFFMAN, DERALD E. Residence: Abilene, Kansas Service: Surgical technician, 347th Fighter Group, Pacific Volume: -1"

Discharge Papers [copies]

KAUFMANN, GERTRUDE Residence: Kansas City, Missouri Service: Red Cross Clubmobile worker, Europe Volume: -1"

Poster [advertisement for GI Thanksgiving ball]

Publications [”Overseas Woman,” 1945; London Daily Mail, 1945, re V-E Day]

Scrapbook [copies of photos of Red Cross clubmobiles and service clubs; “The Sinker” newsletter for clubmobiles, 1944, copy; Christmas card, 1945; “Lightning” newsletter for 78th Infantry Division, 1946; Red Cross overseas service certificate]

Box 74:

KELLEY, GEORGE W. Residence: Batesville, Indiana Service: medic, 95th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: -1"

Memoir (1) (2) [induction, training, embarkation, service in France and Germany; form letters from Patton; copy of photo of Mr. Kelley; letter home, 1942; clippings re Mr. Kelley’s division; biographical information]

KENNY, KING T. Residence: Malibu, California Service: 823rd Tank Destroyer Battalion, 30th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [telegram; letter to friend, 1944; story of the 30th Infantry Division]

KEYSER, LORETTA Residence: Council Grove, Kansas Service: niece of James Soukup, Service Company, 19th Infantry, Pacific Volume: 2"

82

Letters 1942 (1) (2) [letters to Ms. Keyser and Art from Camp Walters, Texas, Angel Island, California, Hawaii; Easter card; Christmas card]

Letters 1943 (1) (2) [letters and V-mail to Ms. Keyser and Art from Hawaii and Australia]

Letters 1944 (1) (2) [letters and V-Mail to Ms. Keyser and Art from Australia, Southwest Pacific, and New Guinea]

Letters 1945 [letters to Ms. Keyser and Art from Philippines]

Miscellaneous Papers [listing of other letters and brief descriptions of them; photo of Mr. Soukup with two nieces]

KING, BARRY D. Residence: Ottawa, Kansas Service: Friend of H. Drew Stephens, 74th Naval Construction Battalion, Pacific Theatre Volume: -1"

Papers [book, history of 74th Naval Construction Battalion; ration stamps; Christmas card from India/Burma, 1944; clipping re Battle of Tarawa]

KLAYMAN, NORMA E. Residence: Williamsville, New York Service: Sister of Edgar F. Enea, navy pilot Volume: 1"

Collegiate Digest [Thirty issues of “Collegiate Digest”]

KNUTSON, MAURICE Residence: Des Moines, Iowa Service: 133rd Infantry Regiment, North Africa Volume: -1"

Letters [from England, 1942; letters and V-Mail from Italy, 1944]

KOELLING, NIXIE Residence: Lawrenceburg, Indiana Service: Daughter of Stephen Beason, World War I veteran Volume: -1”

Poetry [copies of poems written by Stephen Beason during World War II and later years]

KOTZUR, GERMANUS P. Residence: Colorado Springs, Colorado Service: 12th Field Arty Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, Europe

83 Volume: -1"

Memoirs [clipping re memory of Normandy invasion, 1994; brief biography; copies of thank- you letters from current and former army personnel, 1990-1991; description of aspects of life abroad and at home during WWII; clipping re memories of WWII, 1985; biography of Mr. Kotzur, Stalin, and story of Korean War with copies of statistics]

KOZAK, MRS. FRANK Residence: Leavenworth, Kansas Service: Had relatives in World War I, and in Europe and Pacific in World War II Volume: 3"

Infantry Journal [three copies of “Infantry Journal” magazine, 1944-1945]

Intelligence Bulletins (1) (2) [eight copies of “Intelligence Bulletin” magazine, 1944-1945]

Box 75:

Miscellaneous Pamphlets (1)-(3) [prayer books; tourist guide to Paris and Netherlands; French language guide; guide to returning to civilian life; technical manual for army instruction, 1943; physical conditioning pamphlet; orientation fact sheet]

Newspapers (1)(2) [KC Star and Times re awards for Guadalcanal, invasion of Mindanao, Battle for Remagen Bridge, 1942, 1945; “Lone Star Scanner” newspaper from Fort Worth Army Air Field, 1946; “Timberwolf” and “Timberwolf Howl” 104th Infantry Division Newsletters, 1944- 1946]

World War I Papers [Mother’s Day letter home, 1918; postcards with photos of soldiers in camp]

World War II Papers [pass card; V-mail to grandmother and Easter greetings, 1944; pamphlet on readjustment allowances for Kansas veterans; brochure on 329th medical battalion; German propaganda; commendation letter to the battalion; 329th HQ and HQ detachment roster; memo to personnel returning from overseas to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey re procedures during stay; memoir re seeing his brother in Europe, 1992; clippings re brothers meeting overseas]

KRAUS, BARBARA A. Residence: Wichita, Kansas Service: Wife of Eugene W. Kraus, Navy medical corpsman attached to 5th Marine Division, Pacific Theater Volume: 3"

Biography of Eugene Kraus [record of military service and obituary]

Correspondence and Memorabilia [pharmacist’s mate rating description handbook; USN Hospital Corps School Great Lakes, Illinois graduation program, 1942; train tag for returning

84 items home; VA card; letter from VA re insurance; notice of pension letters; diploma from hospital corps school; Japanese phrase sheet]

Maps [U.S. resources map with map of Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia on reverse; Pacific war atlas]

Printed Material (1)-(3) [map and aerial photograph reading guide; guide to Camp Eliot Training and Distribution Center; prayer book; song books; field medical handbook; veterans pamphlets; “Time” magazine, 1945; clipping re important dates of the war, 1942; Japanese newspaper]

Stationery [unused air mail envelopes and stationery with folder to keep them in]

Unit History - 5th Marine Division (1)-(3) [three versions, Camp Pendleton, Iwo Jima, and occupation of Japan]

KRIEGER, EDWIN Residence: Hamden, Connecticut Service: Company E, 413rd Infantry Regiment, 104th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [letter from Maj. Gen. Terry Allen to Mr. Krieger’s father re status of son]

Box 76:

KRUH, BOB Residence: Manhattan, Kansas Service: 1264th Engineer Combat Battalion, 1110th Engineer Combat Group, Europe Volume: -1"

Hodges Bridge [printed report on construction of bridge across Rhine River in April 1945 by 1110th Engineer Combat Group; the bridge was at Niederdollendorf, Germany, about 6-7 miles downstream from the Remagen Bridge]

KUNTZ, LINDA Residence: Abilene, Kansas Service: Granddaughter of H.H. Jones, farmer, of Abilene, Kansas Volume: -1"

Government Material [ration cards; sheet with questions re tire rationing for farmer; instructional pamphlet for preparing application for Certificate of War necessity; letter from Treasury Department to Kansas farmers re sales of War Bonds; weekly operation report and tire inspection record; war bond purchasing information postcards; form letter re crop insurance; government sale ad; information for truck and bus operators; fuel ration application; letter urging production of soybeans and flax instead of wheat; letters and forms re 1942 winter wheat plan; notice of upcoming shortages in implement parts, 1941]

85 Miscellaneous Material [insecticide pamphlet; Kansas United War Fund donation materials; postcard re invitation to school on implement maintenance; home front propaganda, 1943; information on farm improvements in wartime; advertisements; clippings re death of FDR]

KUROWSKI, EUGENE Residence: Whitinsville, Massachusetts Service: Coast Artillery Corps, Newport, Rhode Island Volume: 1"

Coast Artillery Manuals (1)-(3) [gunners’ instruction manual for mobile seacoast artillery, 1940- 1941]

LACHER, RUSSEL J. Residence: Northhome, Minnesota Service: 3rd Marine Division, Pacific Volume: -1”

Memoir [family background; Marine training in U.S.; Bougainville, Guam, Iwo Jima]

LAHMANN, HERBERT R. Residence: Miami, Florida Service: 179th Infantry Regiment, Italy Volume: -1"

Papers [list of Purple Heart awardees, 1944; transfer orders; newsletter from hospital ship “Chateau Thierry,” 1944]

LAKE, EUNICE Residence: Glenhaven, California Service: Widow of Richard E. Lake, OIC Facilities Section, Signal Center, Paris Volume: 1"

Armistice Day 1945 [book re celebration of Armistice Day in Paris, November 1945]

Papers [photos of Richard Lake on duty in Paris, with various types of communications equipment]

Box 77:

LAMAR, BETTY Residence: Shawnee Mission, Kansas Service: civilian in Kansas City, Missouri Volume: 3”

Correspondence – William Lee [Honolulu, Hawaii, 1938]

86 Correspondence – Marianne Mish [Nome, Alaska, 1939-40; girls school in Beaverton, Oregon]

Correspondence – David Smith (1) (2) [pilot in Scotland, 1938-40]

Correspondence – Max Vavasseur (1) (2) [Rouen, France, 1938-40]

Correspondence – Rene Zoller [Le Havre, France, 1938-39]

Correspondence – Miscellaneous

LAMB, C.J. Service: Navy, Camp Edwards, California, 1943 Volume: -1"

Letter [from California to friend, 1943]

LaPOSTA, GENE Residence: Garrett, Pennsylvania Service: Nephew of Harold Chutis who was at Pearl Harbor, 1941 Volume: -1"

Harold Chutis - Diary [account of Pearl Harbor attack]

LATTIN, GLENN E. Residence: McPherson, Kansas Service: 137th Infantry Regiment, Europe; also in Louisiana Maneuvers, 1941 Volume: 1"

Scrapbook [classification card; ration books; clippings re Kansans fighting in France; French language show booklet; newsletter from 137th Infantry Reg., 1944; Deutschmark; letter of commendation to Mr. Lattin, 1944; oversize postcard for Arkansas-Louisiana maneuvers]

LAVALLEE, ROWLAND Residence: Oxbow, Maine Service: USS James O'Hara, Europe and Pacific Volume: -1"

Papers (1) (2) [list of lost American vessels with causes; roster of men who served on USS James O’Hara from 1943-1946 for reunion in 1988; programs for reunion; sheets with military biographical information, map of Pacific Theater, photo of ship, and list of locations and dates; photos of soldiers, ships, landing craft, Mt. Vesuvius, Manila, air battle; book “Amen! Until Tomorrow;” music from “The Glenn Miller Story”]

LAZERUS, IRVING Residence: Lenox, Massachusetts

87 Service: Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces, Europe Volume: 1"

Deutschland Erwacht (1)-(3) [German book on history of Nazi party, found in Frankfurt, Germany]

Box 78:

LEDY, MARVIN Residence: Abilene, Kansas Service: 738th Tank Battalion, Europe Volume: 1"

Unit History – 738th Tank Battalion (1)-(4) [copies, with activation orders, photos, equipment specs, anecdotes, and maps]

LEE, R. ALTON Residence: Manhattan, Kansas Service: Historian (research files on use of jeep) Volume: 17"

Curriculum Vitae [information on Dr. Lee with list of publications]

Handwritten Notes [for history of jeep]

Manuscript #1 [for book “The Jeep: A Marvel of Yankee Ingenuity]

Manuscript #2 [same as above, updated]

Manuscript #3 [same as above, updated]

Photographs [photos of Jeeps and jeep oriented cartoons]

Printed Material (1) (2) [religious material; copy of diagram of battle-armed jeep; copy of photo of jeep; clipping re water-motor car, 1941; clippings re jeeps, 1992-1993, 1944 and unknown dates; copy of FTC decisions re jeeps; clipping re 1940 American Bantam Speedster, precursor of the jeep, 1981; caricaturized battle map of Europe; copy of “Popular Mechanics” re “The Jeeps Baptism of Fire,” 1979; photos of Bantams; clipping re early precursor to jeeps, 1935; clipping re War Dept. motorization of wheeled transport vehicle, 1983; “Special-Interest Autos” magazine, 1977]

Box 79:

Research Correspondence (1)-(3) [letter from publisher,1995; letters to and from potential research facilities, 1989-1994; South Dakota State University research grant application; project abstract; research site business cards; brochure on advertising prices in “American Legion”

88 magazine; clipping re professors researching war memories with veterans; letters requesting space in letters to editor section of various publications re requesting stories of jeeps by veterans; research notes; application for sabbatical leave]

Research Correspondence - Henry Ford Museum [notecards with source locations in HFM; copy and publishing rights papers; copy of brief history of Ford jeep, 1945; transcript of testimony to Truman Committee investigating national defense re development of the jeep, 1941; clipping original jeep manufactured by Minneapolis-Moline; information on army development of jeep; letter re research visit]

Research Correspondence - L.D. Schmidt [copy of speech given at 1990 SAE Truck and Bus Historical Section; letters re research requests]

Veterans Letters A [letters with memoirs and clippings from veterans in response to Dr. Lee’s call for stories on the jeep, 1989-1990]

Veterans Letters B (1) (2) [letters with memoirs and clippings from veterans in response to Dr. Lee’s call for stories on the jeep, 1989-1994]

Veterans Letters C (1) (2) [letters with memoirs and clippings from veterans in response to Dr. Lee’s call for stories on the jeep, 1989-1994]

Veterans Letters D (1) (2) [letters with memoirs and clippings from veterans in response to Dr. Lee’s call for stories on the jeep, 1989-1994]

Veterans Letters E [letters with memoirs and clippings from veterans in response to Dr. Lee’s call for stories on the jeep, 1989-1994]

Box 80:

Veterans Letters F [letters with memoirs and clippings from veterans in response to Dr. Lee’s call for stories on the jeep, 1989-1994]

Veterans Letters G [letters with memoirs and clippings from veterans in response to Dr. Lee’s call for stories on the jeep, 1989-1994]

Veterans Letters H (1) (2) [letters with memoirs and clippings from veterans in response to Dr. Lee’s call for stories on the jeep, 1989-1994]

Veterans Letters I-J [letters with memoirs and clippings from veterans in response to Dr. Lee’s call for stories on the jeep, 1989-1994]

Veterans Letters K [letters with memoirs and clippings from veterans in response to Dr. Lee’s call for stories on the jeep, 1989-1994]

89 Veterans Letters L (1) (2) [letters with memoirs and clippings from veterans in response to Dr. Lee’s call for stories on the jeep, 1989-1994]

Veterans Letters M (1) (2) [letters with memoirs and clippings from veterans in response to Dr. Lee’s call for stories on the jeep, 1989-1994]

Veterans Letters N-O (1) (2) [letters with memoirs and clippings from veterans in response to Dr. Lee’s call for stories on the jeep, 1989-1994]

Box 81:

Veterans Letters P-Q (1) (2) [letters with memoirs and clippings from veterans in response to Dr. Lee’s call for stories on the jeep, 1989-1994]

Veterans Letters R [letters with memoirs and clippings from veterans in response to Dr. Lee’s call for stories on the jeep, 1989-1994]

Veterans Letters S (1)-(6) [letters with memoirs and clippings from veterans in response to Dr. Lee’s call for stories on the jeep, 1989-1994]

Veterans Letters T-V [letters with memoirs and clippings from veterans in response to Dr. Lee’s call for stories on the jeep, 1989-1994]

Veterans Letters W-Z (1)-(4) [letters with memoirs and clippings from veterans in response to Dr. Lee’s call for stories on the jeep, 1989-1994]

Box 82:

LENNY, LISLE T. Residence: Belleville, Florida Service: home front Volume: -1"

Papers [patch with Great Seal of U.S.; copy of photo of soldiers in ranks; copy of letter to uncle from occupied Japan, 1945; “GI for a Day” brochure program at Fort Leonard Wood, 1943]

Rail Transport Booklet [”Rail Transport and the Winning of Wars,” 1956]

LETSINGER, RICHARD P. Residence: Riviera Beach, Florida Service: Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces Headquarters, Europe Volume: 3"

Memoirs (1)-(6) [service in Camp Wolters, Texas, England, France, Germany, and Atlantic crossing]

90 LEWIS, ELMER Residence: Holyrood, Kansas Service: Relative of Richard Cipra, 635th TD Battalion, Europe Volume: 3"

Letters - Richard Cipra 1941-1942 [from Camp Joseph L Robinson, Little Rock, Arkansas; from Fort Ord, California; from Camp San Luis Obispo, California; from Camp Hood, Texas; photo of soldiers in field dress]

Letters - Richard Cipra 1943 [from Camp Hood, Texas]

Letters - Richard Cipra 1944 [address change notification card; letters from Camp Polk, Louisiana, England, France, Belgium, and Germany; French coins, 1924, 1932]

Letters - Richard Cipra 1945 [from Belgium, Germany, and Austria; German currency, 1937]

Box 83:

Letters - Bernard Shanelec [from Goodfellow Field, San Angelo, Texas, 1944; photos of serviceman with airplane; postcard from Bad Blankenburg, Germany; address change letter, 1945; Christmas Card from Austria]

Memorabilia [German currency, 1937; Nazi propaganda; caricaturized war map of Europe]

Rationing [ration books; ration stamps; clippings re changes in rationing]

Scrapbook [clippings re local men enlisting and transferring; political cartoon, 1952; clippings re news from Mr. Cipra, 1944; clippings re aircraft, 1939, unknown dates]

LINDSTROM, HAROLD R. Residence: Des Moines, Iowa Service: Company F, 289th Infantry Regiment, 75th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: -1"

Memoirs (1) (2) [account of the Battle of the Bulge; memoir of service time, 1990]

LINNEMAN, DAVID E. Residence: Blue Springs, Missouri Service: Son-in-law of Charles Brock, submariner, Pacific Volume: 1"

Japanese Photo History (1)-(3) [Japanese history of their conquest of the Philippines]

LOVELL, PHILIP G., SR. Residence: New York City, New York Service: Mexican border, 1916, World War I, Europe; World War II, OSS in Balkans

91 Volume: 3"

Mexican Border, 1916 [postcards with photos of soldiers in camp and drilling]

World War I [certificate of appointment to 2nd Lt.; postcards from Monaco, France, and Britain; certificate allowing for reduced railroad fare; French language letter and certificate, 1918; list of 101st Field Artillery servicemen who died in WWI; military service and veterans certificates, 1918-1922]

Booklets [Marine book from Camp Lejeune, 1943; souvenir book from dedication of General Edwards Memorial Bridge, 1936]

Clippings [Showdown Over Trieste, 1991; Allied aid for Yugoslavia, 1944]

Correspondence re World War II Service [commendation letter, 1944; letter notifying Mr. Lovell of award of DSC, 1945; letter to friend, 1945; letters re award of Legion of Merit, 1946-1947; memos re operations on MLJET, PELJESAC, FLOUNCED, NOAH’S ARK, 1944; wide photo of Vis harbor; documents re retirement, 1955; certificate of promotion to Lt. Col., 1947]

201 File 1944 (1) (2) [memo re payment of per diem allowance, 1944; travel orders, 1944; extract of #2, 1944; letter to Maj. Lovell, 1944; memo re May Day celebration, 1944; memo Churchill to Boneo re prisoners; SO 28 orders, 1944; assignment orders, 1944; SO 53 orders, 1944; SO 281 orders, 1944 (all previous are closed documents); pay and allowance papers, 1944; travel expense reimbursement form,1944; air passage forms, 1944; thank you letters, 1944; travel orders, 1944; clipping re former Wellington Sears employees serving in ETO together; promotion papers, 1944; parachutist qualification papers; press report re Lovell’s commando unit in Balkans, 1944; reply letter re absentee service ballot; American Veterans Association Card; letter re notification of departure of C Company of 2671st Special Recon Battalion from land forces Adriatic, 1944; clipping re commando attacks in Greece before invasion; shipping ticket, 1944; memo re good physical health of Mr. Lovell; letter from West Point Manufacturing Co. re stockholders meeting and return to work, 1944; General List of Capt. J.W. Layzell; French bar menu; letter re Christmas leave, 1944; letters from Wellington Sears Co. re return to work, 1944]

LOVELL, PHILIP G., JR. Residence: New Milford, Connecticut Service: Marine Corps, Pacific Volume: -1"

Scrapbook [Marine Corps cover, clippings re Mr. Lovell, and photos of Mr. Lovell, Japanese scenes, and baseball games; letter to Lovell’s mother re son entering service, 1943; certificates re completion of training in AA use, 1943; promotion order, 1946; separation and discharge papers; VA letter re claim for disability pension, 1946; telegram re homecoming; insurance papers; letter from Labor Department re veterans employment; U.S. map of Tucson USO Travelers Aid, 1944; clipping re archaeological find captured in Marianas, 1944; letter re information on GI Bill; clipping re military uniform bars; clipping re victory over Japan, 1945]

92 Box 84:

LOWITT, RICHARD Residence: Norman, Oklahoma Service: Brother-in-law of Bruce Carson, 598th Signal AW Battalion, Fort Riley, Kansas; Fort Des Moines, Iowa; the Pacific Volume: 3"

Bruce Carson Letters 1941 (1) (2) [from Camp Grant, Fort Riley Des Moines re daily life and description of these places]

Bruce Carson Letters 1943 [from Kearns Field, UT and Hawaii re daily life and description of these places]

Bruce Carson Letters 1944 (1) (2) [from Hawaii, at sea, Philippines re description of these places and daily life]

Bruce Carson Letters 1945 (1) (2) [from Hawaii and Philippines re descriptions of these places and daily life with personal accounts of Roosevelt’s death and V-J Day]

Bruce Carson Notebook [diary and drafts of letters, 1941]

Bruce Carson Official Papers [copy of certificate of military service; promotion order to captain; address list; special orders from Headquarters of 7th fighter wing, 1945; discharge papers; memo re disarming of some Americans on Philippines, 1944]

LOWRY, ROBERT N. Residence: Modesto, California Service: 3rd Marine Division, Pacific Volume: -1”

Memoir [Bougainville; Guam; Iwo Jima; service on USS Europa bringing troops home from Europe; data on members of Princeton University Class of 1942 who served in the war]

LUCAS, ERWIN M. Residence: Oklahoma [papers acquired by Joe Todd of Bartlesville, OK, who forwarded them to the Eisenhower Library] Service: South Pacific Volume: 1”

Papers [notebook containing address of his friends and lists of places he visited during WWII; drawing of a fish he caught in 1945]

MACKOWIAK, CLEMENT S. Residence: South Bend, Indiana Service: 34th Infantry Division, Italy

93 Volume: -1"

Papers [brief biographical sheet, 1991; photo of Mr. Mackowiak; clippings re Mr. Mackowiac wounded and awarded]

MADORIN, KAREN Residence: Ellis, Kansas Volume: -1"

Interviews (1)-(4) [interviews of WWII vets living at Ellis, Kansas by Madorin's high school English class, 1991]

MANGERICH, AGNES Residence: Bethesda, Maryland Service: Nurse, 807th Med Air Evac Transport Squadron, Italy Volume: -1"

Papers [memoir re travel in Balkans, handwritten and printed; clipping re missing nurses from Bowman Field; copies of photos of nurses]

MARDIAT, EDITH S. Residence: Leawood, Kansas Service: Civilian in Latvia and Berlin, Germany Volume: -1”

Memoirs [life in Latvia under Soviet occupation; life in Nazi Berlin; work for Radio Berlin; visit to Vienna, Austria]

MARICONDO, ROY P. Residence: Akron, Ohio Service: home front Volume: -1"

Clippings [chronology of WWI; “Life” magazine re prewar, wartime, and postwar events, 1941- 1945; wartime ads]

MARINER, RICHARD THOMAS see: Jeanann Olds

MARKLE, DONALD E. see: Bernard J. O’Brien

MARSHBANK, ANNA Residence: Abilene, Kansas Service: Fort Riley, Kansas; wife of James W. Marshbank who served in Mediterranean Theater Volume: -1"

94

Papers [ID card; poetry book; “The Missourian” newsletter re Japanese surrender, 1945; “Sad Sack” cartoon prints; copies of photos of hospital group, tornado at Camp Forsythe, soldiers in ranks, Fort Riley, Camp Whitside, and banners; copies of advertisements]

MASON, AGNES M. Residence: Green Valley, Arizona Service: Wife of Robert L. Mason, 58th Field Artillery Battalion, North Africa Volume: -1"

Papers [clippings re soldiers off to war; V-mail letter and Christmas greetings, 1943; Christmas cards from North Africa, Germany, and elsewhere, 1944; letter home re North African campaign, 1943; letters from War Department re condition of Mr. Mason; wartime memoir re Italian campaign written by Sgt. John R Edwards]

Box 85:

MASTERSON, JOLENTA FISCHER Residence: Sequim, Washington Service: Niece of Capt. Mary H. Fischer, Army Nurse Corps, 95th Evacuation Hospital, Europe; daughter of RoseMary Fischer, Ground Observer Corps, 1950s Volume: 2"

Army Nurse Corps History [book, “Highlights in the History of the Army Nurse Corps,” 1975; copy of press release re 75th anniversary of the ANC, 1976]

Diary January-December 1944 [diary from Italy and France]

Diary December 1944-June 1945 [diary from France and Germany]

Diary Typed Copy [same as above]

Ground Observer Corps 1957 [advertising sheet for civilian plane spotters; certificate for meritorious service award, 1957; photo of Mrs. Fischer]

Unit History - 95 Evac Hospital [handwritten and typed copies; cover letter from Chief of Military History and the Center of Military History, Medical History Division re unit history, 1977; unit history; copies of letters from Italy, 1944; clipping re nurse in battle zone, 1943; brief biographical sketch]

MATTHEWS, BOB Residence: Independence, Missouri Service: 351st Bomb Group, Europe Volume: 1”

Bombardiers Information File (1) (2) [training manual]

95

Memoirs [training in U.S.; bombing raids over Europe]

MAYS, KEN Residence: Indianapolis, Indiana Service: Son of Robert Mays, 1165th Engineer Group, Pacific Volume: -1"

Letter [to home from Okinawa, 1945]

McALEER, MRS. J.D. Residence: Primos, Pennsylvania Service: Wife of J.C. McAleer, U.S. Navy Volume: -1"

Papers [V-Mail Christmas greeting; train schedule, 1944; aircraft identification guide for American and British aircraft; information for students; “Lough Allows” newsletters re MacArthur’s return to Philippines and Roosevelt’s reelection, 1944]

McCAFFERY, LINDA Residence: Great Bend, Kansas Service: Biographer of William Brenner, U.S. Army, Philippines and Japanese POW Volume: -1”

William Brenner [account of Brenner’s service in U.S. Army in Philippines; Japanese invasion; surrender to Japan; Bataan death march; life in POW camps; attempts by wife in U.S. to learn of his fate]

McCLUSKEY, DIANE Residence: Wichita, Kansas Volume: -1"

Magazine [Make and Mend for Victory, re recycling clothes, 1942]

McCOSH, MRS. LEROY Residence: Abilene, Kansas Volume: -1"

Sheet Music ["Comin' In On A Wing And A Prayer,” 1943]

McCRAE, DR. SPENCER C. Residence: Marysville, Washington Service: 940th Field Artillery Battalion, 193rd General Hospital, 78th Field Hospital, Europe Volume: -1"

96 Memoirs [oversized bound volume containing printed abstracts of WWII letters and photos re training in U.S., 1944; medical work in France, Germany and Holland, 1945-1946]

McCUE, MIRIAM E. CROWLEY Residence: Lexington, Massachusetts Service: WAVES Volume: 4”

All Hands (1)-(3) [Bureau of Naval Personnel information bulletin; scattered issues, 1945-1947]

Box 86:

Class Papers [mimeographed reports on naval procedures]

Hospital Corps Quarterly [September 1945 issue re neuropsychiatry]

Miscellaneous Publications [booklet of navy songs; March 1949 booklet on naval correspondence courses]

Naval Medical Bulletin [March 1946 supplement re rehabilitation at U.S. Naval Hospital, Philadelphia]

Navy Service [book on history of the United States Naval Training School in the Bronx, New York]

McKEE, JOHN Residence: Tucson, Arizona Service: poet Volume: -1”

Poem [written by McKee in 1990 re Omaha Beach]

McKIERNAN, THOMAS Residence: Rapid City, South Dakota Service: pilot, 8th Air Force, Europe Volume: -1"

Memoirs [re training, European tour, postwar life, 1991]

McKINNEY, WALTER H. Residence: Fayetteville, Arkansas Service: 168th Infantry Regiment, Italy Volume: -1"

97 Memorabilia [booklet on Army insignias and decorations; dog tags worn at time of wounding; photo of Mr. McKinney, 1945; newspapers re V-E and V-J Days, 1945; photo of Mr. McKinney in hospital]

Papers [form letter from Truman, re end of war thanks; discharge papers; telegram from Clare Boothe Luce re recognition of outstanding service; letters from Chief of Staff Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lt. Col. James Stack, aide to DDE, re outstanding service, 1946; letter to father from Sen. Homer Ferguson re awarding of bronze star, 1946; letter to father from hospital re details of son’s wounding, 1945; information cards to next of kin re status of wounds; V-mail and telegram to parents re wounding; citation of bronze star; certificate for completion of basic training; maps of military bases]

McMICHAEL, FORREST Residence: Lincoln, Nebraska Service: 202nd Engineer Combat Battalion, Europe Volume: -1"

Unit History - 202 Engineer Combat Battalion [with cover letter of biographical information]

McNABB, JOAN FLOR Residence: San Francisco, California Service: Friend of Lt. Howard Patrick, USS Belleau Wood, Pacific Volume: -1"

Letters [from USS Belleau Wood, 1944; from California, 1944]

Box 87:

McQUISTON, T. MARJORIE Residence: Wichita, Kansas Service: Women's Army Corps, in United States Volume: 6"

Adjutant General's School (1) (2) [Thanksgiving menu; WAC detachment; OCS class twenty three TAGS]

Correspondence [birthday card; special orders; roster; restricted orders; correspondence; telegram; WAC alum]

Memorabilia [patches; matchboxes; postcards; membership cards; Japanese and Italian currency; pamphlets and newsletter]

News Clippings

Photographs [scrapbook of photos in chronological order]

98 Photo Album 1955 [with table of contents]

Scrapbook (1) (2) [collection of newsclippings, photos, postcards, theater programs and military papers; booklets, pamphlets, keepsakes, patches, menus and telegrams]

Box 88:

Theater Playbills [programs of various New York theaters]

MEAGHER, VIRGINIA J. Residence: White Plains, New York Service: husband Edward Meagher, U.S. Navy, LST 449, Pacific Volume: -1"

Papers [photos; military papers; postcards; servicemen’s world war map; a history of USS LST 449; newsclipping; certificates]

MENEFEE, RAYMOND W. Residence: San Antonio, Texas Service: 3rd Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: 1"

Letters and Poster [copy of correspondence mentions Fort Sill, Oklahoma, France, and Kissing, Germany; V-mail; newsclipping]

Memoirs (1) (2) [accounts of the history of WWII as written 45 years later]

MENSENDIEK, KEN Residence: Raymore, Missouri Service: Relative of John E. Abraham, Company M, 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, France Volume: 1"

Memoir [text, photos, cards, certificates, maps, and military orders]

MEYER, ESTHER Residence: Abilene, Kansas Service: Relative of Phil Meyer of Osborne, Kansas, G-1 Branch, GHQ, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan Volume: 1"

Scrapbook (1)-(4) [contains newsclippings and newsphotos of Eastern front including A-bombs; photos; envelopes regarding location of writing; wartime cartoons]

MIKE, FRED JOHN Residence: St. Paul, Minnesota

99 Service: Company A, 81st Tank Battalion, th5 Armored Division, Europe Volume: 4”

Correspondence [visits to Paris; activities of his brother Charles who was also in the 5th Armored Division]

Correspondence – Charles Mike [wounded in action]

Memorabilia (1) (2) [ration books; currency; medals; shoulder patches]

Photographs [members of Company A, 81st Tank Battalion]

Box 89:

Printed Material (1)-(3) [reunions of 5th Armored Division]

201 File

Unit History – 5th Armored Division

Unit History – 81st Tank Battalion [1947 book]

MILES, ALFRED Residence: Wampum, Pennsylvania Service: Medical battalion, occupation of Japan Volume: -1"

Letters [written from Himeji, Japan, 1946; written from Hickam Air Force base in Hawaii, 1941]

MILLER, DAVID W. Residence: Dewey, Oklahoma Service: Pharmacist, U.S. Naval Hospital, Aiea Heights, Hawaii Volume: -1”

Papers [memoirs of naval service; 1944 and 1945 Christmas programs; H.H. “Peewee” Reese, a famous baseball player, was stationed at the hospital]

MILLER, H.A. Residence: Alexandria, Louisiana Service: collector Volume: -1”

Papers [roster of personnel at station hospital, Camp Livingston, Louisiana, 1945]

MILLER, KENNETH G. Residence: Estes Park, Colorado

100 Service: China, 1946 Volume: -1"

Memoirs [narrative of experiences beginning at the Great Salt Lakes Naval Station on February 13, 1946 to his discharge of July 23, 1946]

MILLER, ROBERT L. Residence: Lincoln, Nebraska Service: Pacific Theater Volume: -1"

Religious Books [song and service book; “Strength for Service to God and Country”]

MILNAR, ANTHONLY L. Residence: Fort Wayne, Indiana Service: Friend of William P. Oliver, POW, Philippines Volume: -1"

William Oliver Diary [April 1942 to June 1944; published diary; a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines]

MILNE, SALLY ATWOOD Residence: Englewood, Florida Service: daughter of Lt. Commander Raymond Loring Atwood, U.S. Navy, Atlantic Volume: -1”

Poems [booklet of poems written by Commander Atwood while in service]

Box 90:

MITCHELL, JACK Residence: Abilene, Kansas Service: Brother of Robert Mitchell, Air Force, Pacific Volume: -1"

Memoirs - Robert Mitchell [air operations in the South Pacific, 1942 to 1945]

MOIR, JOHN T. III Residence: Austin, Texas Service: Artillery Headquarters, 27th Infantry Division, Pacific Volume: -1"

Newspapers [clippings re Moir in Hawaii, 1941; copies of photos and clippings]

MOLL, DOROTHY H. Residence: Gibsonburg, Ohio

101 Service: Widow of Walter E. Moll, Company F, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division; participant in D-Day and prisoner of war Volume: -1"

Papers (1) (2) [diary of the war; newspaper clippings and photos; copies of certificates and awards; magazine article; accounts of POW experience]

MONTAGUE, William Residence: Springfield, Illinois Service: Air Corps trainee in U.S. Volume: 26"

Books - Air Navigation [instructional booklet]

Books - B-17 and B-24 Handbook [instructional booklet]

Books - B-29 Procedures

Books - B-29 Superfortress

Books - Basic Weather

Books - Codes for Cloud Forms

Books - First Aid

Box 91:

Books - Junior ROTC Manual

Books - Radio Facility Charts [re the Army Air Force]

Books - Soldier’s Handbook

Letters August 1943 (1) (2) [original correspondence to family]

Letters September 1943 (1) (2) [correspondence from Florida]

Letters October 1943 (1) (2) [correspondence from Minnesota; telegram; mathematics exam]

Letters November 1943 [bank slips; correspondence from Minnesota]

Box 92:

Letters December 1943 (1) (2) [letter on Macalester College paper; course syllabus; correspondence from Minnesota; graduation program; Christmas cards]

102

Letters January 1944 [additional correspondence and course materials]

Letters March 1944 [military correspondence; telegrams; letters to family]

Letters April 1944 (1)-(3) [letters written from Santa Ana Air Force Base]

Letters May 1944 [letters and telegram from Santa Ana]

Letters June 1944

Letters July 1944 (1) (2)

Letters August 1944 (1) (2) [letters written from Las Vegas army air field]

Box 93:

Letters September-October 1944 [from Las Vegas and Ellington Field, Texas]

Letters November 1944

Letters December 1944

Letters January 1945

Letters February 1945 [letters written on Officers Club stationary of Lincoln, Nebraska]

Letters March-April 1945 [written on Officers Club stationary of Rapid City, South Dakota]

Letters May 1945 [letters and newspaper]

Letters June 1945 [letters from Rapid City and Ellington Field]

Letters July 1945 [letters and telegrams from Ellington field and Lincoln, Nebraska]

Letters August 1945 [letters from Jackson, Mississippe, and Clovis, New Mexico]

Letters September 1945

Box 94:

Letters October 1945

Letters November-December 1945

Letters January 1946

103

Letters Undated [telegrams; letters from Camp Cooke, California; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Clovis, New Mexico]

Magazines (1) (2) [information pamphlet on Christianity; “Flying Cadet;” log of navigation magazines; war map of the world; the “Evanston Review” of June 10, 1943]

Memorabilia

News Clippings

Pilot Log 1943-1944 [flight recording book]

Training - Class Notes (1)-(4) [includes notes, handouts and charts]

Box 95:

Training - Macalester College [school assignments; physics labs; music programs; music course syllabus]

Training – Miscellaneous [protractors; topo map; technical manual for air crew trainers; military triad]

Training - Navigators’ Information File

Training - Navigation Instrument Workbook (1) (2)

Training - Navigation Weather Workbook (1) (2)

201 File - Air Force Reserve 1946-1959 (1)-(4)

201 File - Flight Record

201 File - Induction Papers

201 File - Miscellaneous (1) (2)

Box 96:

201 File - Orders (1)-(3)

MORGAN, EARL C. Residence: Chanute, Kansas Service: 246th Engineer Combat Battalion, Europe Volume: -1"

104 Papers [magazine clipping from “Life” of March 12, 1945; map of Roer River crossing at Julich; chart of XIX Corps from Siegfried Line to Victory; maps]

MORGAN, JAMES M. Residence: Stanford, Kentucky Service: 319th Regiment, 3rd Army, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [photograph; newsclipping re Battle of the Bulge]

MORRIS, MILDRED KARLSEN Residence: Dallas, Texas Service: WAC, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces, Europe Volume: 2"

Papers [V-mail; patch; honorable discharge papers; poems; message from Eisenhower; copies of photos; Thanksgiving Day menu]

Scrapbook (1)-(4) [newsclippings; accounts of basic training and wartime missions; rosters; correspondence with family; “V-Bag” unit newsletters, 1943; maps; copies of photos; postcards; programs; poems]

Box 97:

MORRISON, LAWRENCE Residence: Flagler Beach, Florida Service: Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces, Europe Volume: -1"

Memorabilia [membership and pass cards; wartime Christmas card with photos; newsclipping of Farbin Building in Frankfurt, Germany; copies of photos with index]

Post Cards (1) (2) [postcards from Frankfurt, London and Paris; photos of trip to Switzerland]

MOSIMANN, A.T. Residence: Osawatomie, Kansas Service: B-17 navigator, 8th Air Force, Europe (see also Lillie May Budimlija) Volume: 5"

Bombing Raid Maps (1) (2) [Hull to Venice; Eniskellen to Avignon; Newcastle to Prague; European continental map]

Clippings [clippings of “GI Jerry” cartoons]

Flight School Annuals (1)-(3) [from Eagle Field]

105 Flight School Class Notebook (1)-(3) [class notes and assignments]

Box 98:

Flight School Textbook (1)-(4) [textbooks of “Air Navigation,” “Dead Reckoning,” and “Advanced Navigational Instruments”]

Miscellaneous [patch; flight compass with mileage; photo of supply drop in French Alps; short biography]

MUELLER, FRED Residence: Wichita, Kansas Service: 2097th Quartermaster Truck Company, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [life insurance form; report for induction]

Photographs [photos taken at port of Bath, England in 1945; truck maneuvers in Georgia in 1943; troops]

MUFIC, WANDA Residence: Kansas City, Kansas Service: Wife of Frank Mufic, 96th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force Volume: -1"

Papers [copies of photos; 96th Bomb Group newsletters; journal of British broadcasting]

MUSE, JUANITA Residence: Enterprise, Kansas Service: home front Volume: -1"

Papers [Christmas card and letter on V-mail]

MUTH, TOM Residence: Topeka, Kansas Service: Collector of WWII items Volume: -1"

Puderbaugh Letter [letter from England]

MYERS, AMY Residence: Enterprise, Kansas Service: granddaughter of Fred Kitchener, collector Volume: -1”

106 Letters [Kenneth Ellsworth re service on New Guinea]

Memorabilia [booklet re AAF Redistribution Station No. 2, Miami, Florida]

Scrapbook [copies of WWII photos and clippings from scrapbook kept by Kitchener]

MYLREA, DONNA V. Residence: Orlando, Florida Service: father served in Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [copy of one letter, March 14, 1944 recounts experiences on a troop train traveling from California to Colorado; copy of a diary, October 27 to November 13, 1944, injured veteran describes journey home from England to U.S.]

NATALI, RICHARD Residence: Carthage, New York Service: Army Signal Corps, Europe Volume: -1"

Radio Message [by DDE announcing German surrender]

NEUMANN, WALTER W. Residence: Salina, Kansas Service: 293rd Joint Assault Signal Company, Normandy Volume: -1"

Memoir [re D-Day; transfer to Pacific Theatre, late 1944; service in Philippines]

NEW, EDDIE Residence: Biloxi, Mississippi Service: sailor, USS Hobson, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [rescue of survivors from USS Corry which was sunk by enemy fire on D-Day]

NEWBOLD, STEFAN Residence: Lincoln, Nebraska Service: grandson of Helmut Lichtenfels, German soldier Volume: -1"

Helmut Lichtenfels [17 June 1944 letter from Lichtenfels to his family written from Normandy; letter from his commanding officer to widow re his death in France on 26 June 1944; death certificate and newspaper death notice; German identification booklet; all items are in German]

107 NEWMAN, KATHY Residence: Lee’s Summit, Missouri Service: daughter of Phillip Hanson, U.S. Navy, Pacific Volume: 4”

Diary 1944 [listings of arrivals and departures]

Japanese Military Manuals

Map [map of Pacific Ocean, annotated to show ship routes, 1945-46]

Memorabilia [Auckland, New Zealand; Tongan language; Tutuila, Samoa; water conservation aboard ship]

News Clippings

Box 99:

Publications (1)-(4) [tourist literature; Tonga; prayer book; Our Navy magazine; Carrier War by Oliver Jensen; Navy photos]

Turbine Electric Drive [navy technical publication]

U.S.S. Berrien (1) (2) [log, July-November 1945; newsletters; personnel roster; crossing the equator; souvenirs; items dated 1945-1946]

U.S.S. Solace [hospital ship; newsletters; ship history]

NICKELS, K.B. Residence: Elburn, Illinois Service: unknown Volume: -1"

Maps [showing various areas of England and France]

Box 100:

NOLL, ANNA Residence: Manhattan, Kansas Service: Sister of Berdine L. Noll, U.S. Navy nurse, Bremerton, Washington and Australia Volume: 2”

Memorabilia

Menus [holiday meals at navy hospitals in Bremerton, Washington and Australia; V-E Day dinner in Australia]

108

Newspapers – Australia (1) (2)

Newspapers – Guinea Gold

Newspapers – The Ship’s Log [Puget Sound Navy Yard, 1943]

Newspapers – U.S.

Unit Newsletters

NOLL, WILLIAM N. Residence: Highland, Kansas Service: High school teacher Volume: -1"

Memoirs [interviews of veterans by high school students, 1992]

O’BRIEN, BERNARD J. Residence: Fort Dodge, Iowa Service: 401st Bomber Squadron, 91st Bomber Group, 8th Air Force, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [propaganda leaflet in German with statements by DDE, FDR and Winston Churchill; dropped over Berlin on February 4-5, 1945; English translation attached; material donated by O’Brien’s brother-in-law Donald Markle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania]

O'DONNELL, GEORGE P. Residence: North Miami, Florida Service: U.S. Merchant Marine, Atlantic Volume: 1"

Clippings [copies of newsclippings and photos; copies of certificates and awards]

Correspondence [copy of letter from U.S. Department of Transportation; wartime roster; notice of medal from Soviet Union]

Memoirs [accounts of war]

Memorabilia [official records and letters to O’Donnell; certificate of service; honorable discharge; poem]

O’KANE, ERNESTINE Residence: Sebastopol, California Service: husband was Admiral Richard H. O’Kane, Submarine Captain in Pacific during WWII Volume: -1"

109

Papers [multi-piece clipping by Samuel titled “So Many Men, So Many Wars;” prayer and hymn; newscolumn; Medal of Honor notice; copies of photos and submarine design]

OKLAHOMA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Residence: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Service: collector Volume: -1"

Papers [a 1998 magazine from Belgium (in French) re World War I and World War II in Belgium; essays on World War II written by students at Bartlesville High School, based on interviews with World War II veterans; includes a soldier captured by Germans in Battle of the Bulge, a soldier who landed in Normandy one day after D-Day, a soldier who was in the invasion of Luzon in the Philippines; transcript of October 1993 interview with Gene R. Haff re service in 115th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, in Europe, and as POW in Germany and Czechoslovakia; this material received from Joe L. Todd, oral historian at the Society]

Box 101:

O'LAUGHLIN, GLADYS Residence: South Lake Tahoe, California Service: Marine Corps Women's Reserve, bases in U.S. Volume: -1"

Papers (1) (2) [army service certificate; marine corps correspondence; telegram; instruction sheet; chemical warfare guidelines; certificates; accounts; patch; letters; newsclippings; cards; copies of photos]

OLDS, JEANANN Residence: Maumee, Ohio Service: Wife of Richard Thomas Mariner, USS Thatcher, Pacific Volume: -1"

Diary [July 25, 1943 to November 14, 1943, daily operations of USS Thatcher, a destroyer, in the Pacific Theater]

OLSON, GEORGE Residence: Bedford, Virginia Service: 48th Fighter Squadron, North Africa Volume: -1"

Tobruk Mission October 1943 [official history of the 48th Fighter Squadron for October 1943; other wartime accounts]

ORCHARD, FREDERICK P., JR. Residence: Corpus Christi, Texas

110 Service: 547th Field Artillery, Europe Volume: -1”

Memoirs [training in U.S.; Boston; Camp Hood; England; work as a forward observer in France and Germany; shelling of German cities; work of British commandos]

ORTEN, WILLIAM L. Residence: Salzburg, Austria Service: 294th Field Artillery Observation Battalion, Europe Volume: -1"

Memoirs [accounts of the war]

OSTEEN, IRA Residence: Springfield, Colorado Service: 114th Army Postal Unit, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [letter; poem about the APO; copy of award; photo of execution with account; copies of photos with descriptions; official orders]

OTTAWAY, HAL Residence: Wichita, Kansas Service: Collector of material re Jack Kammerer of Wichita, U.S. Marine Corps, Pacific, KIA on Iwo Jima, and Jack's sister, Maryon Kammerer, WAC Volume: 5"

Clippings [original and copies of clippings]

Correspondence: (1)-(5) [telegrams and letters from various forts and camps]

Death of Jack Kammerer [memorial materials; letters, cards, pamphlets and other miscellaneous materials]

Miscellaneous Papers [address book; other booklets; receipts; chemical agent’s information; crew newsletter]

Official Papers

Publications (1) (2) [chronicle of Iwo Jima “Springboard to Final Victory;” the New Testament; book of Iwo Jima written by five official marine combat writers]

WAC Material [certificates; official papers; WAC handbook; WAC news for October 7, and September 23, 1944]

Box 102:

111

PALDE, ULDIS Residence: Stone Mountain, Georgia Service: Displaced person, Europe Volume: -1”

Memoir [Dwight Eisenhower’s visit to Lohengrin DP camp near Munich, 17 September 1945]

PARCEL, DAN Residence: Manhattan, Kansas Service: Son of Claire K. Parcel, 3939th Signal Inspection and Maintenance Detachment, North Africa and Italy Volume: 10”

Correspondence (1)-(4) [letters from Claire to relatives in Coldwater, Kansas, re service in North Africa and Italy; letters to Claire from parents re life on farm in Coldwater; letters to Claire from friends 1945-1946 after his discharge; letters from Claire to his parents while attending Kansas State University, 1947-1948; letters to Claire’s family from other servicemen]

Diary and Address Book [diary kept by Claire in Italy, July-December 1944]

Enemy Souvenirs (1) (2) [two diaries kept by German soldiers, January-April 1943 and January- December 1944; one personal letter in German, January 1944; Italian postcards; German booklets; map; official document]

Memorabilia

Personnel Material [orders, certificates]

Printed Material – Booklets (1)-(3)

Printed Material – Life June 26, 1944

Printed Material – Maps

Box 103:

Printed Material – Newspapers (1)-(3) [The Nickel Son, ship paper of SS Joseph Nicholson, 11 October 1945; Eighth Army Weekly, 26 December 1943; Adriatic Breeze 11 August 1945; various issues of Stars and Stripes; miscellaneous clippings]

Radio Class (1)-(3) [textbooks and notes re military radio class]

Tourist Literature (1)-(3) [postcards and guidebooks from Italy]

Box 104:

112

PARKS, JANET Residence: Kansas City, Missouri Volume: -1"

Booklet [accounts of the war titled "Chronology of the War in the Southwest Pacific"]

PARTRIDGE, PATRICIA K. Residence: Austin, Texas Service: Niece of George W. Beaver, 46 Naval Constr Battalion, Pacific Volume: -1"

Papers [two letters, from George W. Beaver to Miss Frances Beaver 1943]

PATTERSON, NEILL Residence: Colorado Springs, Colorado Service: Army Air Corps, North Africa and Europe Volume: -1"

Memoirs [”From Biplanes to Missiles” 1941 to 1968; newspaper of 82nd Airborne 1944; experiences of a pilot in North Africa and Europe]

PECKHAM, LOUIS STANTON Service: 7th Army Press Camp, Europe Donated by: Karl Vogel and Kathleen Price Volume: -1"

Papers [letter re finding bottle in Hitler's bathroom, 1945]

PERRY, BRENDA HELSEL Residence: Independence, Missouri Service: Daughter of Lawrence E. Helsel, U.S. Navy, U.S.S. Bell (DD-587); U.S.S. Cread (APD- 88) January 7, 1942 – December 17, 1945 Volume: 1.5"

A Navy Log: 1942 – 1945 by Lawrence E. Helsel and dedicated to daughters Brenda Jo, Linda Darlene, Darla Michelle and Karen Renee [bound and edited transcripts of Lawrence E. Helsel’s letters home to his mother from enlistment to discharge. Copies of photographs and supporting materials are included. Letters in the volume detail his experiences in the U.S. Navy]

PETTERSON, JOHN L. Residence: Topeka, Kansas Service: son of C.J. Petterson, Associated Press reporter Volume: -1"

113 Papers [letter account of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s homecoming in Abilene, Kansas, June 1945]

PETTERSSEN, SVERRE Service: meteorologist, England Donated by: S. Eugene Buell Volume: 2"

Memoirs (1)-(5) [”Of Storms and Men;” covers entire life with emphasis on forecasting for Operation Overlord]

PETZSCHLER, HORST W. Residence: Wichita, Kansas Service: Fighter Pilot, German Luftwaffe Volume: 2”

Album 1 (1) (2) [postcards, awards, articles, photographs re service as German fighter pilot]

Album 2 (1) (2) [photographs, articles, memorabilia re service as German fighter pilot; his post- war career in U.S. as an airplane designer for McDonnell-Douglas]

Miscellaneous [printed material re aircraft]

Box 105:

PEYTON, WILLIS O. Residence: Enid, Oklahoma Service: 36th Infantry Division, France, World War I Volume: 4” Note: This material was donated by Joe Todd, who got it from the American Legion Post in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, who got it from Peyton’s nephew; it is mostly letters Peyton received from servicemen during World War II

Letters – Burton Brandt [India]

Letters – James Chance [406th Infantry Regiment, Germany]

Letters – Elwood Driskell [North Africa; Italy]

Letters – Marvin Foley [Pacific]

Letters – Merril Foley [Camp Pickett, Virginia; Anzio, Italy]

Letters – Warren K. Grots

Letters – Robert A. Harper (1) (2) [Pacific; Guam]

114 Letters – Harry R. Klopfenstein [116th Regiment, France, Germany]

Letters – G.M. Rhodes (1)-(4) [30th Naval Construction Battalion; Norfolk, Virginia; Gulfport, Mississippi; Trinidad, British West Indies]

Letters – Clarence W. Wheeler [France; Germany]

Miscellaneous Papers [Seabee newsletter and sheet music; summary of 1985 interview re Peyton’s WWI service]

PICKING, EVERETT Residence: Abilene, Kansas Service: Relative of Charles R. Picking, KIA in Europe Volume: -1"

Correspondence [MIA and KIA telegrams to mother 1944; “Britain’s Homage to 28,000 American Dead,” 1952]

PINETTE, MATTIE A. Residence: Washington, D.C. Service: WAC, USFET, France Volume: -1"

Papers [letter from Eisenhower to donor, 1946; photo of Eisenhower’s return home to Washington, D.C.]

PINKHAM, CHARLES R. Residence: Abilene, Kansas Service: 18th Weather Squadron, 1st Air Division, 8th Air Force, Europe Volume: 4”

Army Air Forces Guide [printed booklet, 1944]

Bomb Photos [copies of aerial photos of bomb damage]

Box 106:

British Publications (1)-(7) [ranks and badges of British military; cloud formations; weather observations; meteorology for aviators; radio operations; tourist literature]

Letters (1)-(3) [conditions in England; form letter from Gen. J.H. Doolittle; roster of weather station personnel]

Maps [Central England; North Sea]

Memorabilia [certificates; identification badge; savings bond booklet]

115

Scrapbook

Unit History – 1st Air Division

Unit History – 8th Bomber Command

Unit History – USS Batfish

Unit History – Walnut Ridge Army Air Field, Arkansas

Box 107:

PLANTON, MARGARET FARMER Residence: Chillicothe, Ohio Service: Daughter of Walter I. Farmer, U.S. Army, Europe Volume: -1’

Walter I. Farmer Memoirs [protection of art treasures in Germany at end of World War II]

POE, GEORGE D. Residence: Cheektowaga, New York Service: 2nd Recon Squadron, Pacific Volume: -1"

Memoir [copies of B-24 photographs; B-24 mission titled “The Milk Run,” 1945]

PORTER, HAROLD Residence: Wichita, Kansas Service: private, 116th Evac Hospital, Europe; stationed at Dachau Concentration Camp Volume: 6"

Dachau [1945 illustrated report with 1942 diary of prisoner]

[brief summaries of all letters November 1944 -May 1946; member of the 7th army; letters censored to family concerning arrival in France; letters home about daily life and locations in France and Germany; all letters are copyrighted]

Letters November 1944

Letters December 1944

Letters January 1945

Letters February-March 1945

116 Letters April 1945

Letters May 1945 (1) (2) [handwritten letters, some on German SS stationary, describe physical plant at Dachau Concentration Camp as well as condition of inmates or patients]

Letters June-July 1945 [remaining letters from various sites in Germany, both typed and handwritten, describe conditions and activities of his unit]

Letters October-December 1945

Letters January-February 1946

Letters March-May 1946

Letters (transcripts) (1)-(4)

Box 108:

Memorabilia [log of travels and stations February 1944 - September 1945; newspaper article re Dachau Concentration Camp; photographs of village of Bad Mergentheim, Germany]

POSEY, KATHERENE Residence: Council Grove, Kansas Service: Sister of Howard Schlingloff, Army Corps of Engineers in Panama and Philippines, and POW in Japan; foster mother of Ralph Baird, pilot, 8th Air Force, Europe Volume: 1"

Ralph Baird Clippings [wartime letterheads]

Ralph Baird Memorabilia [graduation programs; postcards; and photograph 1943; Lubbock Army Airfield]

Howard Schlingloff Clippings and Memorabilia [clippings, photographs and a 1943 menu]

Howard Schlingloff Correspondence [letters and postcards from Japanese POW camp; notice of death to family; insurance settlement claim, 1941 to 1945]

Miscellaneous [includes wartime greeting cards]

POWELL, LOWELL E. Residence: Fresno, California Service: U.S. Navy, USS Core, Atlantic and Pacific Volume: -1"

Memoirs [brief chronological notes re naval training in U.S.; service on USS Core; comments re storms, shore leave, passage through Panama Canal]

117

PREVO, RANDALL M. Residence: Stockton, California Service: 3rd Signal Company, 3rd Infantry Division, Europe Volume: 3"

Memoirs (1)-(8) [accounts range from 1942 to 1988; 1942 to 1945]

Box 109:

PRUITT, A. DORIS Residence: Goddard, Kansas Service: sister of John Homer Thompson, Company A, 808th Engineer Aviation Battalion, Pacific Volume: -1"

John Homer Thompson Papers (1) (2) [1942 and 1943 letters to family; censored letters from 1943 to 1945; notice of honorable discharge 1945; copies of photographs]

PRUNCHUNAS, CASIMER Residence: Chatsworth, California Service: 85th Recon Troop, 85th Division, Europe Volume: 1"

Diary (1)(2) [photograph of Casimer; transcribed diary dated February 1943 re training maneuvers in Mississippi; additional diary dated May 1943 to mid-February 1945 of life in the European Theater; brief chronological history of army life; honorable discharge papers; copies of photographs of 85th Recon Troop during World War II and 1991-1993 reunions]

History [chronology of 85th Recon Troop; monthly reports, April 1944-July 1945, re operations in Italy; list of members of Troop appearing in photo]

PUMPHREY, JOHN Residence: Lenexa, Kansas Service: Clerk, GHQ, SW Pacific Theater Volume: 10"

[letters to family ranging from training in the states; stationed from summer 1943 to December of 1944 in Southwest Pacific New Guinea and Australia; typewritten correspondence from Southwest Pacific theater; scattered poems throughout; church programs; January 1945 stationed in Philippine Islands; Japanese money; concert program from February 1945; left Philippines in December 1945 for Los Angeles; sent to Carson City, Colorado in January of 1946; postcard from Manitou Springs, and photograph of couple]

Letters February-June 1943

118 Letters July-September 1943 (1)-(3)

Letters October-December 1943 (1) (2)

Letters January-March 1944 (1)-(3)

Box 110:

Letters April-June 1944 (1) (2)

Letters July-September 1944 (1) (2)

Letters October-December 1944 (1) (2)

Letters January-March 1945 (1) (2)

Letters April-September 1945

Letters October-December 1945

Letters January-February 1946

Miscellaneous Letters 1938-1949 [educational achievements from 1938; notice of shipping orders February 1943; postcard and letters from John to family]

Miscellaneous Papers [poems; correspondence; chronological dates of military service; Thanksgiving 1945 church service; Christmas 1943 restaurant menu; church bulletin; Field Artillery certificates 1943; temporary duty personnel guidelines]

Official Papers [soldiers individual pay records; letter of appreciation for service from Harry Truman; officers clearing sheet; pay rolls from officers’ reserve corps; letter regarding rights and benefits of honorably discharged veterans from Selective Service board; application for servicemen’s readjustment allowance; letter from VA; separation qualification records; war savings bond; application for national service life insurance; letter from War Shipping Administration]

Printed Material (1) (2) [pocket guide to Australia; photographs of Sydney; newspaper clippings from KC Star 1945, 1946 and 1980; church program; Acadia newsletter; copies of photograph; MacArthur brochure; 1945 foreign news newsletter; GI bill of rights; 1945 Manila newspapers; Yank; newsmagazines of Far Eastern affairs, 1945]

Box 111:

QUAM, JOHN Residence: Northfield, Minnesota Service: Son of Nels Quam, Red Cross worker, Egypt

119 Volume: -1”

Nels Quam Memoir [early life in Norway; immigration to U.S. in 1913; service in World War I; St. Olaf College; teaching career; Red Cross service in World War II: training, sailing to North Africa in 1944, German attack on ship, work in Egypt; later teaching career; trips to Norway]

QUINLAN, CHARLES E. Residence: Prairie Village, Kansas Service: 922nd Engineer Aviation Regiment, Europe Volume: 1"

Letters [V-mail from 1942 and 1944, written from Hollywood, Venice and San Francisco, California]

Memorabilia [war rations booklets; French play program; Christmas menu]

Printed Material [story of Corps of Engineers “Engineering the Victory;” symphony music; Army newsletter; newsletter of USAAF of Paris, France August-September 1945; “A Letter Home From Camp Pinedale, Fresno, California,” brochure on life at Pinedale]

Unit Histories - 2nd Armored Division

Unit Histories - 9th Engineer Command

Unit Histories - 922nd Engineer Aviation Regiment

QUIRK, HENRY G. Residence: Stuart, Oklahoma Service: Merchant Marine Volume: -1"

Papers [letter awarding Mr. Quirk a commemorative medal from the Russian Federation; newsclipping; pass for Easter leave of absence]

RALSTON, RICHARD H. Residence: Richland Hills, Texas Service: Air Force, Pacific Volume: -1"

Memoirs [an autobiography of the war years 1941-1946 “Time Flies”]

RAMEY, NADINE Residence: Abilene, Kansas Service: Wife of Webb Ramey, ground crew and gunner with 4th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force, England Volume: -1"

120

Flak Maps - 8th Air Force

Miscellaneous Papers [newsclippings; copies of photographs]

RAUH, CHARLES Residence: Hutchinson, Kansas Service: Lawyer for estate of E.P. Sanders, veteran of 12th Armored Division, Europe Volume: -1"

Letters [1937 letter from Kansas governor regarding application for W.P.A.]

Newspapers [1945 wartime newspapers “The Stars and Stripes”]

RAYMOND, ROBERT S. Residence: Lawrence, Kansas Service: French Ambulance Corps, 1940; RAF Bomber Command, 1940-1943; U.S. Army Air Force, Europe, 1943-1945 Volume: 4"

Diary (1)-(4) [“Diary of a Volunteer” April 1940 to July 1943; stationed in France; member of the American Volunteer Ambulance Corps]

Log Book [pilot’s log book covering service with RAF, 1941-1943]

Box 112:

Miscellaneous Papers [transcribed copy of family’s Christmas letter and summary of their married life; “A Students’ Guide to Academia;” copy of newspaper article about donor; ration stamps; pages from Raymond’s book A Yank in Bomber Command]

Printed Material (1)-(3) [newspaper clippings; journal of “Air Force” 1944; the admiralty account of the naval war in the eastern Mediterranean, 1939 to 1941; “Coronet;” newsmagazine “Yank,” 1945; magazine and pamphlet]

Propaganda Leaflets

REED, ELDORA (CHERRY) Residence: Chillicothe, Missouri Service: Widow of Vernon Janzen, Army private who accompanied Dwight D. Eisenhower on return to U.S. in June 1945 Volume: -1"

Memoirs [three part copy of news story, “War bride tells why she ‘like’s Ike’”]

121 REES, CAROL J. Residence: Belleville, Illinois Service: collector Volume: -1”

Military Police Basic Training Notes 1943 [booklet on MP procedures, Fort Riley, Kansas]

REGALBUTO, LOUIS A. Residence: Mayfield Heights, Ohio Service: Lab technician in hospital in Hawaii Volume: -1"

Papers [August 1943 letter in Spanish from Hawaii, stamps, and four envelopes from 1942-1943 with handmade illustrations, including an Hawaiian girl and an eagle]

RENDZIO, JOHN Residence: Staten Island, New York Service: collector Volume: -1"

Printed Material [newsclipping from “Stars and Stripes;” weekly newsmagazine “The Yank” 1943; Air Force service journal]

REXFORD, MARY METCALFE Residence: St. Louis, Missouri Service: Red Cross Clubmobile worker, Europe Volume: 10"

American Red Cross - Official Papers

Letters 1943 (1) (2) [correspondence written from Washington D.C.]

Letters January-March 1944 (1) (2)

Letters April-June 1944 (1) (2)

Box 113:

Letters July-September 1944 (1) (2)

Letters October-December 1944 (1) (2)

Letters January-March 1945 (1) (2)

Letters April-June 1945 (1) (2)

122 Letters July-October 1945 (1) (2) [letters and postcards from the French Riviera]

Letters - David Metcalfe

Log

Maps (1) (2)

Memorabilia - Miscellaneous [money, postcards, notes]

Memorabilia - Programs and Menus

Box 114:

Memorabilia - Tourist Literature (1)-(3) [postcards from Europe]

Miscellaneous Correspondence [from Red Cross, newsclippings, more letters]

News Clippings (1)-(3)

Publications (1)-(5)

RICHARDSON, DALE Residence: Topeka, Kansas Service: Blimp squadron, Tillamook, Oregon Volume: -1"

Papers [newsletter of the NAST, “Naval Air Station Tillamook” March 19, 1944]

RICHMOND, F. JAMES Residence: Front Royal, Virginia Service: Cousin of LTC Kimball R. Richmond, 16th Infantry Regiment, North Africa and Europe Volume: -1"

Album (1) (2) [account of Kimball Russ Richmond, WWII rifle company commander of the 16th Infantry Regiment]

Box 115:

RIDDLE, JAMES ARNOLD Residence: Warrensburg, Missouri Service: Army Air Force, Salt Lake City, Utah and Guam Volume: 5”

123 Biographies [biography of James Riddle; obituary of his wife Jean Riddle, 2001; compiled by their daughter Susan Pentlin]

Letters, March 1943 (1) (2) [Army Air Base, Salt Lake City, Utah]

Letters, April 1943 (1)-(4)

Letters, May 1943

Letters, July-August 1945 [life aboard ship in the Pacific]

Letters, September 1945 [Guam]

Letters, October-November 1945 (1) (2)

Postcards [pictures of Army Air Base, Salt Lake City, Utah]

Box 116:

ROBB, ROBERT Residence: Port Arthur, Texas Volume: -1"

Articles [story of the “Loss of the Dorchester;” magazine article “4 Men of God;” copy of photograph of Dorchester]

ROBERTSON, ROB R. Residence: Fripp Island, South Carolina Service: Air Corps meteorologist, 12th Tac Air Command, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [accounts of year tour in Europe; travelled from Italy to cities in France; from Saarguemines, France to Kaiserslautern, Germany; time span is July 15, 1944 to July 17, 1945]

ROBINSON, ALBERT F. Residence: Peekskill, New York Service: 8th Naval Construction Battalion, Aleutians Volume: -1"

Papers [notes on the Aleutian Islands during WWII]

ROGERS, B.J. Residence: West Orange, New Jersey Service: Nephew of John M. Rogers, 1st Infantry Division, North Africa and Europe Volume: 1"

124 Clippings [various East coast newspapers from 1944; “Fortune” magazine; “Picture Parade” portion of the Philadelphia Inquirer]

Maps

Newsletter - 69th Infantry Division

ROGERS, FLOYD EUGENE Residence: Vero Beach, Florida Service: U.S. Navy, 1948-1952 Volume: -1”

U.S.S. Thompson [incomplete history of ship, 1943-1945, re service in Normandy invasion and in Mediterranean]

ROGERS, RUBY G. Residence: Belton, Missouri Service: Sister of Ivan B. Rogers, USS Pierce, Pacific Volume: 1"

Letters 1943 [censored V-mail from overseas; letters from U.S. Naval Training Station in Farragut, Idaho]

Letters 1944-1945 [censored V-mail to family members]

Memorabilia [thank you card; war ration book; copies of newsclippings; copy of map; Japanese surrender, “Instrument of Surrender”]

ROSIE, GEORGE M. Residence: Parchment, Michigan Service: 101st Airborne Division, Europe: POW Volume: -1"

Memoirs [a history of his experiences while in the military, titled “American POW in Germany;” covers training in 1943 to action in 1945]

ROUGH, CHARLES Residence: Canyon Country, California Service: 11th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: -1"

Drawings [creation and history of sketches text; copies of photographs; sketches and copies]

ROXBURGH, ALFRED S. Residence: Sacramento, California Service: 289th Infantry Regiment, 75th Infantry Division, Europe

125 Volume: 9"

Letter [copies of correspondence and reports on history of 289th and 290th Infantry Regiments and attached units, collected by Roxburgh after the war; many relate to the Battle of the Bulge]

Memoirs July 1994 Version (1)-(5)

Box 117:

Memoirs March 1995 Version (1)-(5)

Memoirs September 1995 Additions

Memoirs December 1996 Additions

Memoirs November 1997 Additions

Memoirs September 1998 Additions

History Panels August 1997 Kansas City, Missouri

Inventory of Documents [290th and 289th Regimental Combat teams in action; 75th Infantry Division; The Ardennes; Battle of the Bulge; revised and added to in March 1995]

Documents 1-3

Documents 4-5

Documents 6-8

Box 118:

Documents 10-13

Documents 14-15

Documents 16-17

Documents 20-21

Documents 23-27

Document 28

Documents 29-30

126 RUPERT, JAMES M. Residence: Topeka, Kansas Service: 3118th Signal Service Group, Europe Volume: 3”

Papers, Volume I (1)-(3) [letters re training at Fort Lewis, Washington, 1943-44; Buckley Field, Colorado, February-March 1944; Eastern Oregon College of Education, LaGrande, Oregon, March-April 1944; Camp Crowder, Missouri, May-July 1944]

Box 119:

Papers, Volume II (1)-(3) [letters re training at Camp Crowder, Missouri, August-September 1944; transfer to Europe in October 1944; service in France and Germany November 1944- March 1946; discharge papers; biographical information]

RUSSELL, CARLTON P. Residence: Carthage, Mississippi Service: 3rd Armored Division, Europe Volume: -1"

Memoirs [autobiography titled “A Civilian Soldier”]

RUSSUM, GERALDINE Residence: El Dorado, Kansas Service: Widow of Emmerson Russum, U.S. Navy, Pacific Volume: -1”

The Beachmaster [base paper, Amphibious Training Base, Solomons, Maryland, November 1943-April 1944]

Bee Lines [base paper, Naval Construction Training Center, Camp Peary, Williamsburg, Virginia, April 1943-February 1944]

The Invader [base paper, Naval Landing Force Equipment Depot, Norfolk, Virginia, July- October 1944]

RYFF, HENRY J. Residence: Carlton, Kansas Service: Cousin of Paul Bethe and Donald Bethe; letters donated by his daughters Barbara Constable, Sharon Melton and Carol Rader Volume: -1”

Letters (1)-(3) [letters from Paul Bethe, 893rd Tank Destroyer Battalion, re life at Camp Hood, Texas and Camp Selby, Mississippi; one letter from Donald Bethe re life at boot camp near San Diego, California]

127

Memorabilia [ration books]

Box 120:

SAIDEL, RAYMOND Residence: Manchester, New Hampshire Service: 1st Armored Division, North Africa and Italy Volume: 1"

Diary [copy of diary infrequently recorded over 3 years of combat in Africa and Italy, 1943- 1945]

Drawings and Sketches [copies of sketches and photographs spanning 1943 to 1945]

Papers [honorable discharge paper; copy of map; “ghost story” re U.S. soldiers in Italy, 1945; letter regarding unit’s wartime experiences to former 1st Sgt. Jerome Lowrey 1994]

SAKAIDA, HENRY Residence: Rosemead, California Service: Collector Volume: -1”

Papers [meeting of Sakaida with Col. Petr Petrushin in Ulan Ude, Russia, August 2007; Petrushin was member of Soviet forces that met Americans on the Elbe River in Germany April 1945]

SALTER, FRANCES G. Residence: Temple, Texas Service: Sister of David Green, 358th Fighter Group, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [dedication to pilots of the 358th Fighter Group who lost their lives; copies of photos, map, and newsclipping]

SALTMAN, DAVID Residence: Wantagh, New York Service: 638th TD Battalion, 84th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [memoir re the Battle of the Bulge; 977th Field Artillery Battalion]

SANBERG, LYNDON C. Residence: Clay Center, Kansas Service: 666th Engineer Topographic Company and Headquarters, XV Corps, Europe Volume: 4"

128

Correspondence [Christmas cards and postcards; 666th reunion correspondence 1971]

Memorabilia [newsclipping of obituary; dog tags and patch; copies of photos; order to report for induction; notice of honorable discharge]

Printed Material [Army song book; Army issued book “Going back to Civilian Life”]

Printed Material - FM 23-55

Printed Material - XV Corps Headquarters Directory

Unit History – 666th Engineer Topographic Company

SANTORA, WILLIAM Residence: Brooklyn, New York Service: collector Volume: -1"

Papers [copies of documents from Public Record Office re German surrender; copy of 1970 letter by Charles Kuhl, one of the soldiers slapped by General Patton in 1943, giving his recollection of slapping incident]

SCHEELE, EDWARD Residence: Seattle, Washington Service: 320th Engineers, 95th Infantry Division, 3rd Army, Europe Volume: -1”

Papers [memoirs of his experiences in France and Germany]

SCHERER, EARL F. Residence: Olney, Illinois Service: 184th Ordnance Battalion and 18th Ordnance Company, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [notice of promotion to technician 4th grade (temporary) of the 18th Ordinance Company; history, headquarters 184th Battalion; unit history of 18th Ordinance MM Company, February 16, 1944 to May 19, 1945; roster of 18th Ordinance MM Company]

SCHMIDT, FRANK, JR. Residence: Arcata, California Service: U.S. Navy, Pacific Volume: -1”

Papers [copy of letter received from his father in 1945 describing his reaction to FDR’s death]

129 Box 121:

SCHMIDT, PAT Residence: Hutchinson, Kansas Service: Niece of Elevia Drummond, WAC in South Pacific Volume: 8"

Memoirs - WACs in South Pacific [account of Eglin Field WACS in the South Pacific 1944]

MATS, Westover Air Force Base [annual]

Our Lives in Switzerland [a book complete with photos of Switzerland]

Photographs

Scrapbook #1 (1)-(3) [overseas scrapbook of photos; Southwest Pacific Theater]

Scrapbook #2 (1) (2) [scrapbook of original photographs and postcards]

Box 122:

Scrapbook #2 (3) [scrapbook of original photographs and postcards]

3441 Roundup 1964-68 (1) (2) [news briefings of the 3341st, May to September 1964; October 1966 to April 1967]

201 File - Elevia Drummond [official military papers and discharges of Elevia Drummond]

WAC Locater 1965-1967 [yearly mailing list]

SCHOLL, NANC Residence: Abilene, Kansas Service: Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elwain Dreyer of Ferndale, California Volume: -1”

Papers [items the Dreyers received from Theodore Guthrie, a soldier in North Africa and Italy; includes an e-mail message, 1943; a photograph of Guthrie; an Italian lira note]

SCHRAMM, HENRY W. Residence: Camillus, New York Service: U.S. Navy, Pacific Volume: 2"

Memoirs (1)-(4) [an introspective view of certain WWII engagements in the Pacific Theater, “Steaming as Before”]

130 Box 123:

SCHUSTER, CHESTER Residence: Clinton Township, Michigan Service: Army Air Force Volume: 15"

Air Force 1943 [official service journals of the U.S. Army Air Forces, February 1943 and December 1943]

Air Force 1944 (1)-(3) [Air Force service journals]

Air Force 1945 (1)-(3) [Air Force service journals]

Air Navigation [technical manual]

Air Tech August 1944 [magazine of aircraft maintenance and operation]

Attack [magazine of American war life, covers weapons, leaders, medicine and health]

B-17F Airplane Manual (1)-(4) [pilot’s flight operating instructions; erection and maintenance instructions; landing gear components]

Box 124:

Battle Talk [newsmagazine of science and technology used]

Clippings [newspaper clippings of airplanes]

Electrical Equipment [operation and adjustment of electrical power systems]

Individual Flight Record

Instrument Flying Manuals (1) (2) [basic instrument flying without radio aids; instrument flying technique in weather]

Letters [1944 and 1945 official V-mail]

Memorabilia [keepsakes, pay record, postcard, certificate]

Miscellaneous Booklets (1) (2) [”Get that fighter,” “Military Triad,” etc.; pilot training manuals]

Newspapers [invasion extra, Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal June 6 1944]

Operations Memoranda [Las Vegas Field, Nevada]

131 Pilots Information File (1) (2)

Box 125:

Plane Facts [booklets from April and May 1945]

The Reserve Officer [informational magazines from December 1945, January and May 1946]

Salvo 1943 [newsmagazine of the Roswell Army Air Field, November and December 1943]

The 1364 Days [book by Carlton Murray from Pearl Harbor to V-J Day with Michigan Bell]

Training Course Notes (1)-(11) [notes from the 326th Flexible Gunnery Training Group]

Box 126:

201 File (1)-(6) [medical statements, rosters, notes, insurance claims and miscellaneous]

War Planes [1942 magazine with illustrations of war planes]

Weather for Aircrew Trainees [February 1944 Air Forces manual]

Your Body in Flight [book for Aircrew, July 20, 1943]

SCHUSTER, HERMAN Residence: Topeka, Kansas Service: Kansas National Guard; Commander, 161st Field Artillery Battalion, 35th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: 7”

Awards and Certificates

Correspondence (1) (2) [from former members of 161st Field Artillery Battalion, 1946-1947]

German Publications

Maps (1) (2)

Box 127:

Memorabilia (1) (2)

Newspapers (1)-(3)

Notebooks

132 Tourist Literature (1) (2)

201 File #1 (1) (2)

201 File #2 (1) (2)

Unit History – 35th Infantry Division 1941

Box 128:

SCHWILLE, GEORGE W. Residence: Branchburg, New Jersey Service: 424th Regiment, 106th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: 5"

Clippings (1) (2)

Letters 1943 (1)-(3) [life at Fort Jackson, South Carolina]

Letters 1944 [Belgium]

Letters 1945 (1)-(3) [Belgium; Germany]

Memorabilia [424th Regiment newspaper, 19 July 1945]

Tourist Literature (1)-(3)

Box 129:

201 File

Unit History – 106th Infantry Division

SCOTT, INEZ G. Residence: Portland, Oregon Service: 149th WAAC Post Headquarters Company, North Africa Volume: -1"

Unit History - 149th WAAC Post HQ Company

SEBAUGH, ELTON R. Residence: Oberlin, Kansas Service: 635th Tank Destroyer Battalion, Europe Volume: -1"

133 Papers [original uncensored letter home; photo; copy of safe conduct pass; account of D-Day invasion; Battle of the Bulge fact sheet; copies of newsclipping of D-Day; newsclippings]

SEMRAD, SUSAN Residence: Duluth, Minnesota Service: Cousin served in Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [typed letter to family 1945; list of needed materials for army knit turtleneck sweater]

SETTER, LEON J. Residence: Wichita, Kansas Service: Son-in-law of Eugene Stomp, senior air raid warden, Wichita, Kansas Volume: -1"

Civil Defense Minutes 1942-1943 [minutes of meetings of air raid wardens in District 1, Precinct 4, in Wichita, Kansas]

SHADDY, HAROLD Residence: Indianapolis, Indiana Service: Cannon Company, 289th Infantry Regiment, 75th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: -1"

Unit History - Cannon Company, 289th Regiment [narrative history of the Company’s activities in Europe; Belgium during Battle of the Bulge; Colmar pocket; invasion of Germany; roster of company members]

SHEARER, BETH Residence: Princeton, Indiana Service: Daughter of William Fox, 5th Armored Division, Europe; prisoner of war, 1944-1945 Volume: -1"

William Fox Memoirs [annotated copy of diary kept while POW]

SHERMAN, PRISCILLA Residence: Centerville, Massachusetts Service: Material collected by her mother Volume: -1"

Papers [letter to Priscilla from friend 1943; British postal censorship guidelines; additional correspondence; 1942 citation to Harold Loveland and 1944 information bulletin re service at Pearl Harbor; poems]

Catherine Smith Letters (1)-(3) [letters from pen pal in England, 1942-1946]

134 SHERRILL, ELIZABETH Residence: Chapel Hill, North Carolina Service: husband served in Europe Volume: 3"

Scrapbook I (1) (2) [includes photos, postcards, correspondence, and newsclippings; covers entire life]

Box 130:

Scrapbook II (1) (2)

SHOCKEY, GLENN Residence: Abilene, Kansas Volume: -1"

Papers [Japanese currency; end of the war notice signed by fellow troops]

SHYROCK, GEORGE H.R. Residence: Englewood, Florida Service: historian and genealogist Volume: -1"

William Bright Interview [Bright’s service as navy gunner in North Africa; work with LSTs in England]

John Canellis Memoir [service in Italy]

Frank Dratz Memoir [seaman on SS Sara Teasdale, a Merchant Marine liberty ship, in Pacific]

Delbert Rothwell Memoirs [printed memoirs re Rothwell’s service with 188th Glider Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne Division, in New Guinea, Philippines, occupation duty in Japan]

Marion Rothwell Memoirs [printed memoirs re Rothwell’s service as naval gunner and deep sea diver in Pacific; includes photos of equipment Rothwell used and ships on which he served]

Box 131:

William H. Rothwell Biography [copies of photos and documents and brief outline by Shyrock of Rothwell’s military service; with signal corps in India, 1943-1945; with army food service in U.S., 1950-1952; Germany, 1953; Cambodia, 1957-1958; Korea, 1961-1962]

Arvel Shryock Memoirs [work as B-17 gunner and flight engineer in Italy]

George Shyrock Memoirs [postwar service in Philippines, 1946-1948]

135 W. Hudson Turner, Jr., Biography [192nd Field Artillery Battalion, 43rd Infantry Division; training in U.S.; visit to New Zealand; wounded on Guadalcanal]

SIEBERT, WILLIAM Residence: Valley Center, Kansas Service: 610th Quarter Master Graves Registration Company; 319th Infantry Regiment, 80th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: 3"

German Souvenirs [army goods map and pouch with compass; uniform attire including swastika]

Graves Registration [War Department’s technical manual 1941; memoir re work in graves registration company in Europe]

Maps [Blue Ridge Path and 319th Infantry route]

Newspapers - 80th Infantry Division

Newspapers - 319th Infantry Regiment

Newspapers - Miscellaneous

Official Papers [employee’s receipt; pay record; general orders]

Printed Material [booklets on Camp Kilmer and Camp San Luis Obispo; War Department pamphlet; training booklet for Army Air Forces; combat divisions of WWII]

Box 132:

Ship Material [safety rules; e-deck mess aft; newsletter 1946; profile of ships compartment capacities]

Tourist Literature [postcards; short guide to Great Britain]

Woolworth Company [New Year 1944 booklet to Woolworth employees]

SIMON, ELEANOR Residence: Diamond Springs, California Service: T/4 reporter, Third U.S. Army Volume: -1"

Papers [official press cards and passes]

Third Army Song Book

SIMPSON, ALICE

136 Residence: Abilene, Kansas Service: Wife of Roscoe H. Simpson; at Fort Mills, Philippines, 1933-1937; 7th Engineer Battalion, Europe, World War II; Sergeant, Recruiting Station, Danbury, Connecticut, 1950- 1952 Volume: 5”

Correspondence (1)-(3) [letters from friends in Korea, 1950-1952]

Memorabilia

Notebooks (1) (2)

Printed Material (1) (2) [1917 army cooking manual; 1948 directory of Masonic Lodge at Pawling, New York; field manuals on marksmanship]

Ration Books

Box 133:

Scrapbook 1949-1952 (1)-(3) [clippings from Danbury, Connecticut, newspaper re local people in service]

201 File (1) (2) [1950-1952]

SISOY, PETER Residence: Detroit, Michigan Service: Marine Corps, Pacific Volume: -1"

Papers [letter from D.D. Roche to Peter Sisoy, March 1, 1945]

SLOCUM, MARY E. Residence: Tucson, Arizona Service: Daughter-in-law of Richard Slocum, journalist, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Volume: -1"

Diary (1) (2) [diary kept by Richard Slocum during tour of Europe in July-August 1945]

SMITH, IVAN Volume: -1”

Unit History – 512th FA Battalion

SMITH, W. GORDON Residence: Tampa, Florida Service: various replacement units, Pacific

137 Volume: -1"

Memoir [account of his Pacific assignment as an Army medic, 1943-1945]

SNODDY, ETHEL Service: Collector Volume: 24"

Cartoons [five scrapbooks of WWII editorial cartoons compiled by Mrs. Snoddy; she gave them to her nephew Daniel Lumley, Olathe, Kansas, who forwarded them to the Eisenhower Library]

SNYDER, RALPH W. Residence: Abilene, Kansas Service: 487th Bombardment Group, England Volume: 1”

Memorabilia [printed material; reunions; records jacket]

Papers [1944 newsclippings; history of the 487th Bombardment Group, 22 September 1943 to 7 November 1945]

201 File (1) (2) [routine orders covering WWII and post-war service in Air Force Reserve; account of bombing raid over Germany, December 1944]

SPENCE, MARTHA Residence: Dodge City, Kansas Service: Wife of John Spence, 108th Field Artillery Battalion, European Theater Volume: 1"

Correspondence [letters, 1941-1945; telegrams; postcards; greeting cards]

Memorabilia [sugar ration stamps; postcards and snapshots]

Official Papers [identification cards; military cards; discharge papers and other miscellaneous]

Printed Material (1) (2) [life insurance brochures; Going Back to Civilian Life booklet]

SPRECHMAN, JACK Residence: Brooklyn New York Service: 708th Amphibian Tank Battalion, Pacific Theater Volume: -1"

Poetry

Box 134:

138 SPRINGMAN, NANCY MILLER Residence: Lincolnshire, Illinois Service: Daughter of Nelson P. Miller of Alton, Illinois, USS President Adams and USS Laertes, Pacific Volume: 4”

Memorabilia [dog tags]

Navigation Training

Officers Qualification Board

Scrapbook (1) (2) [photos, clippings and memorabilia re New Caledonia; New Zealand; Solomon Islands; Australia; activities aboard USS President Adams; shore leave in New York City, March 1945; commissioning of USS Laertes, March 1945; 1987 and 1988 reunions]

Scrapbook Material (1)-(4) [loose items from scrapbook]

201 File (1)-(3)

STADNICKI, BRUNO Residence: Chicopee, Massachusetts Service: 557th Field Artillery Battalion, Europe Volume: 1"

Papers [a war story and photos]

Unit History – 557th Field Artillery Battalion

Unit History – 558th Field Artillery Battalion

STANFIELD, GEORGE M. Residence: Lincoln City, Oregon Service: 119th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [military biography of George Stanfield; commendation; military orders; keepsake newsletters; copies of certificates]

Box 135:

STEELE, ART Residence: Blair, Nebraska Service: 448TH Bomber Group, 2nd Air Division, 8th Air Force Volume: 9"

139 Bomb Training School 43-6 (1)-(3)

Book "Company Administration and Personnel Records"

Memoirs [account of April 21, 1944 mission attempt when Lt. S.D. Ausfresser was lost at sea]

Miscellaneous Magazines [newsletter “Crosshairs” February 1987; magazine “The New Republic”]

Scrapbook (1) (2) [official wartime documents and photos]

201 File (1)-(3) [official Army papers]

2nd Air Division Association Journals (1) (2)

Box 136:

2nd Air Division Association Journals (3)-(9)

8th Air Force [a brief history]

98th Bomb Group [membership list]

448th Bomb Group [1993 reunion program; rosters; 1986 reunion pamphlet]

STEINER, FRANCIS J. Residence: Wichita, Kansas Service: Medical Corps, North Africa Volume: -1"

Papers [copy of discharge and service record received from Personnel Records Center]

STEINZEIG, HANAN Residence: Overland Park, Kansas Service: Material collected by his parents, mostly letters from relatives who served in the war Volume: -1"

Letters [letters collected from 1943 to 1945; from Belgium, Colorado Springs, and Waco Army Air Field; letters address location and events]

Map [dated events war map]

Ration Books

Box 137:

140 STEPHENS, VIOLA JANE Residence: Indiana, Pennsylvania Service: Daughter of H. Drew Stephens, 74th Naval Construction Battalion, Pacific Theater (papers filed under Barry B. King)

STEWART, LEROY N. Residence: Washington, Kansas Service: 1st Infantry Division, Europe Volume: 1"

Memoirs (1) (2) [accounts of Normandy Invasion, Battle of the Bulge, training in U.S.]

STIMETZ, PATRICIA A. Residence: Kansas City, Missouri Service: collector Volume: -1"

Papers [sections 1 and 2 of the August 15, 1945, issue of the Los Angeles Examiner, announcing end of war in the Pacific]

STOCKELL, CHARLES W. Residence: Beaufort, South Carolina Service: Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [excerpts of wartime diary 1944 entitled “Diary of the Plague;” stories of the death and horrors of combat]

STOKER, ELSPETH Residence: Merriam, Kansas Service: British civilian, worked for U.S. Army, England Volume: -1"

Memoirs [letter to Eisenhower Library giving the accounts of British civilians working for the U.S. Army, 1943-1945; photo]

STOKES, ROBERT P. Residence: Sandy Hook, Connecticut Service: LCT officer, Gulf Coast and Pacific Volume: 3"

Logbook - LCT 161 (1) (2)

Logbook - LCT 329

141 STORK, HENRY W. Residence: Los Angeles, California Service: Operations Officer, Air Transport Command, India Volume: -1"

Papers [photo; copy of the act of surrender; Instrument of Surrender; tour of duty; greeting card; certificate of good standing; correspondence; enlisted record; newsclipping; certificates, awards]

STOUTENBOROUGH, BOBBETTA Residence: Lincoln, Illinois Service: Daughter of James A. Stoutenborough who was at Pearl Harbor, 1941, and on USS Biloxi, 1943-1944 Volume: 1"

Clippings [original clipping from 1943 and copies of newsclippings]

Memorabilia [songbook; copy of discharge certificate; poem; map “Hell on Wheels, War against the Axis;” copies of photos; service recognition certificate; certificate from White House]

Box 138:

Pearl Harbor [Christmas dinner menu; Thanksgiving menu; newsclipping of the attack on Pearl Harbor; Japanese identification number; letter from U.S. naval air station]

USS Biloxi (1) (2) [travel log; daily schedules; copy of photo of USS Biloxi; book on the USS Biloxi]

STROBEL, WALLACE Residence: Saginaw, Michigan Service: 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [copies of infantry field manual; copies of maps, pins, other miscellaneous]

STROMQUIST, VERA Residence: Wichita, Kansas Service: Widow of Milton M. Stromquist, C Company, 63rd Infantry Division, Philippines Volume: 2”

Miguel Diary #1 [8 December 1941-18 January 1942; diary of Philippine soldier found on battlefield in Philippines by Milton Stromquist; describes reaction to Japanese invasion]

Miguel Diary #2 [19 January-24 March 1942; Japanese invasion; news of evacuation of MacArthur; sample of Japanese propaganda leaflet dropped on Philippine forces]

142 Miguel Diary #3 [25 March-31 July 1942; Japanese propaganda leaflet; surrender to Japanese forces; life in prison camp]

Milton Stromquist Papers [discharge papers; brief summary of military service]

STRUNK, MELVIN Residence: Abilene, Kansas Service: 447th Bombardment Group, Europe Volume: 3"

Aircraft and Principles of Flight (1) (2) [provisional and student workbook]

Air Navigation [Army Air Forces training command]

Miscellaneous Papers [newsclippings; telegrams; letters; copy of the officer’s guide; 2002 award from France]

201 File [official Army papers, certificates and logs]

SULLIVAN, BERNARD Residence: Ridgewood, New Jersey Service: sailor, USS Bennington Volume: -1"

Letters [correspondence from 1943 to 1945; personal correspondence to and from family/friends]

Memoirs [enlisted in Navy in 1943; accounts of boot camp; accounts of action in the Eastern Theater of the war from a carrier; fighting with the Japanese; discharged in December of 1945]

Box 139:

SULLIVAN, JOHN H. Residence: Falls Church, Virginia Service: 8th Infantry Division and 8th Air Force, London, England Volume: 6"

Letters 1941 [copies of letters to friends and family from Fort Jackson, South Carolina]

Letters 1942 [copies of letters from Fort Jackson, South Carolina; Kelly Air Field, Texas; Cochran Air Field, Macon, Georgia; San Antonio, Texas; and Grider Air Field, Pine Bluff, Arkansas]

Letters 1942 [copy of censored V-mail from overseas; letters on Presbyterian hospitality House of Atlantic City, New Jersey]

Letters 1943 (1) (2)

143

Letters 1944 (1)-(3)

Letters 1945 [typed letters to family and friends from London; censored V-mail from European Theater]

Manuscript (1)-(5) [draft of book containing edited transcripts of his World War II letters]

Box 140:

Miscellaneous Papers [history of V-Mail service]

SUPINSKI, ROSE Residence: Lorain, Ohio Service: Granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wiater of Maynard, Ohio; wife of Walter Supinski, 358th Field Artillery Battalion, 95th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: -1"

Maps [road map series of Europe 1944; odyssey of the 9th Victory Division]

John Waiter Papers [V-Mail received from friends and relatives in the service]

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES VETERANS ASSOCIATION Residence: Veterans organization of Lakewood, New Jersey, disbanded December 2007 Service: Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces, Europe Volume: 5”

Booklets [Army Song Book; French dictionary]

Correspondence [letters from SHAEF veterans, 1986-1989; many contain anecdotes regarding their recollections of SHAEF]

Miscellaneous (1) (2) [articles; menus; memorabilia; poetry; roster of Public Relations Division]

Orders (1) (2) [copies of military orders, 1943-1946]

Photos

Questionnaires (ETOUSA)

Questionnaires (SHAEF) (1)-(5)

Reunions

Telephone Directory December 1944

144

SVOBODA, BETTY Residence: Chapman, Kansas Service: Wife of Dr. Charles R. Svoboda, medical corps, Texas, 1946-1949 Volume: 4”

Correspondence

Medical Field Service School (1)-(3) [class papers, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, 1947]

Printed Material [Fort Sam Houston newspaper; William Beaumont General Hospital, El Paso, Texas]

Radio Sets (1) (2) [Technical Manual 11-600, March 1943]

Tape Teletype [manuals for Morkrum-Kleinschmidt tape teletype machine, 1925-1927]

Box 141:

201 File (1) (2)

SYMBOL, PAUL H. Residence: Mercer Island, Washington Service: 35th Engineer Combat Battalion, Europe Volume: -1"

Unit History - 35th Engineer Combat Battalion

TAYLOR, HERBERT A. Residence: Independence, Missouri Service: Military Police unit, Normandy Volume: -1"

Memoir [account of D-Day invasion “Twenty Four Hours Into France”]

TAYLOR, WARREN E. Residence: Topeka, Kansas Service: collector Volume: 2"

Herbert Warner Letters (1) (2) [re Hawaii; Pacific Theater]

Leonard Warner Letters (1)-(3) [re Hawaii; Pacific Theater]

Miscellaneous Letter [letter from the social service department regarding deceased family member, 1930]

145

TEASLEY, KENNETH ROSS Residence: Topeka, Kansas Service: 321st Signal Corps Air Wing, California and Okinawa Volume: 3”

Background Information [biographical; list of major figures mentioned in correspondence]

Letters December 8, 1940-January 15, 1941 [letters to Teasley’s mother, describing life at March Field, California]

Letters April 28, 1941-June 6, 1941 [March Field]

Letters June 11, 1941-July 10, 1941 [March Field; school in Chicago, Illinois]

Letters July 27, 1941-September 15, 1941 [March Field; Fresno Air Base, California]

Letters September 17, 1941-January 27, 1942 [Fresno Air Base; school at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey]

Letters February 2, 1942-March 23, 1942 [Fort Monmouth; Camp Haan, California]

Letters April 1, 1942-April 27, 1942 [Camp Haan]

Box 142:

Letters May 4, 1942-June 25, 1942 [Camp Haan; Santa Barbara, California]

Letters July 4, 1942-September 29, 1942 [Santa Barbara]

Letters October 10, 1942-December 23, 1942 [Santa Barbara]

Letters January 11, 1943-March 11, 1943 [Santa Barbara]

Letters May 5, 1943-April 14, 1944 [Santa Barbara]

Letters September 10, 1945-September 16, 1945 [Okinawa]

TEBBEN, VALERA V. Residence: Yates Center, Kansas Service: WAC, Fort Dix, New Jersey Volume: 3'

Addresses (1) (2) [envelopes and rosters with addresses]

Autograph Book 1939-43

146

Business - WAC [professional correspondence]

Clippings (1)-(3) [wartime and post-wartime clippings]

Box 143:

Clippings (4)-(7) [wartime and post-wartime clippings]

Correspondence 1942-1943 [letters to and from family and friends; letter from Fort Dix, New Jersey; letter from Corpus Christi, Texas; postcards and Easter card from 1943; WAAC correspondence; letter re Officer candidate]

Correspondence 1944 [Easter card; letters from family; birth announcement; wedding invitation; newsclippings; letters from friends; postcards; Christmas card]

Correspondence 1945 [Valentines card; bridal shower invitation; itineraries of travel; letters to and from family and friends; birth announcement; wedding invitation; Christmas cards]

Correspondence 1946 (1) (2) [letters from family and friends; photo of Tebben; postcard from Oregon; WAC chain letter; professional military correspondence; Christmas card]

Correspondence 1947 [letters from family and friends; Easter card; wedding announcement; postcard from Canadian Rockies; Christmas card; clipping re WAC]

Correspondence 1948-70 [Christmas cards and Easter cards; correspondence; letter from the “New Yorker” magazine]

Correspondence undated [Easter cards; birth announcements; Christmas cards; greeting cards]

Box 144:

Diary - Basic Training [typewritten diary of basic training 1942]

Directories and Rosters (1) (2)

Memorabilia (1)-(3) [miscellaneous keepsakes, matchbooks, pamphlets, postcards and poems]

Newsletters - AFRA [official Air Force Recreational Association newsletters from 1942]

Newsletters - Fort Dix [newsletters from Fort Dix 1943 and 1945]

Newsletters - Camp Upton (1)-(3) [newsletters from 1944]

Newsletters – Miscellaneous

147 Box 145:

News Releases (1) (2)

Official Papers (1) (2) [original correspondences and notices]

Printed Material [pamphlets and brochures; calendars of War Department theaters and special service activities]

Radio Scripts (1) (2)

Scrapbooks [newsclipping; photo; card]

Special Orders [professional papers from Army Service Forces]

201 File (1) (2) [administrative papers; efficiency ratings; information for War Department employees]

WAC Book - Correspondence [professional correspondence from Army Service Forces and Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps recruiting station]

WAC Book - Drafts - re Adjustment [copies of accounts of Army experiences]

Box 146:

WAC Book - Drafts - re Criticism (1)-(5)

WAC Book - Drafts - re Criticism - Alike/Different

WAC Book - Drafts - re Criticism - Causes

WAC Book - Drafts - re Criticism - Conduct of WACs

WAC Book - Drafts - re Criticism - Miscellaneous Thoughts

WAC Book - Drafts - re Criticism - Offers to Help

WAC Book - Drafts - re Criticism - Reactions

WAC Book - Drafts - re Criticism - Scandalmongers

WAC Book - Drafts - re Criticism - Transient GIs (1)-(4)

WAC Book - Drafts - re Criticism - Uniform (1) (2)

WAC Book - Drafts - GIs at Fort Dix

148

WAC Book - Drafts - re Inspections (1) (2)

Box 147:

WAC Book - Drafts - Introduction

WAC Book - Drafts - re Jobs (1) (2)

WAC Book - Drafts - Miscellaneous (1)-(5)

WAC Book - Drafts - Outline

WAC Book - Drafts - Wings of Freedom

WAC Book - Early Draft (1)-(3)

WAC Book – Galleys

Box 148:

WAC Book - Notes (1)-(5)

WAC Book - Orders

TENOLD, GERALDINE Residence: West Liberty, Iowa Service: Home Front Volume: -1"

Propaganda Leaflets [made by German POWs in the U.S.]

THOMPSON, MARGARET Residence: Hutchinson, Kansas Service: Midwest Procurement District, AAF, in Wichita, Kansas, and reporter for Winfield Courier; sister of Robert L. Thompson, 11th Airborne Division, Pacific Volume: 6"

Letters - World War I 1918 [original letters and newsclipping]

Letters - Camp Roberts, CA [telephone directory page with autographs on front; letters; roster]

Letters - LA and NC (1)-(4) [postcards and original letters]

Box 149:

149 Letters - New Guinea and Philippines (1)-(4) [typewritten and handwritten letters; autographs]

Letters - Japan

Memorabilia

Printed Material

Scrapbook - Midwest Procurement District

Scrapbook - World War II Vets (1) (2)

Box 150:

Yearbook - 11th Airborne Division

Yearbook - 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment

THOMPSON, RAY Residence: Joppa, Maryland Service: Merchant Marine, Pacific Volume: -1"

Memoirs [kamikaze attacks on U.S. ships]

THORNBERG, MAURINCE F. Residence: Gideon, Missouri Service: Army Air Corps, England Volume: -1" Material donated by his widow, Mrs. Hazel Troxell

Correspondence [letter to family involving code names he would use if sent to certain countries 1943; telegram; letter from the War Department informing wife of the death of husband]

Memorabilia [pamphlet for travelling in Paris titled “Paris in Three Days;” graduation program for the advanced flying school of Moody Field, Georgia; copies of newsclippings; aircraft clearance form filled out by Thornburg just before his crash]

TODD, JOE L. See also: Oklahoma Historical Society Residence: Bartlesville, Oklahoma Service: collector Volume: 2”

Papers [log book for lead and zinc mine operation in northeast Oklahoma, December 1942- March 1946; one oversized map of Fort Hood area, Texas; interviews with Dale Chase re

150 merchant marine, H. Sam Childers re merchant marine, Bill Cox re marine service in Aleutians, Saipan and Tarawa, Phillip Rafferty re driving supply trucks]

Scrapbooks (1)-(3) [USO scrapbooks containing pictures of pin-up girls and cartoons; scrapbooks acquired from P.J. Epple of Dewey, Oklahoma]

TONKAWA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Residence: Tonkawa, Oklahoma Service: Home front Volume: -1"

Papers [printed account of POW camp at Tonkawa; includes stories by two German officers who were interned there (English translation of original German account); booklet forwarded by Joe Todd of Bartlesville, Oklahoma]

TOSSEY, VERNE Residence: Portland, Oregon Service: 175th Engineers, North Africa and Italy Volume: 4"

Papers (1)-(4) [scrapbook and loose items; includes clippings, military orders, sheet music, greeting cards, ration cards and books, military currency, engineering booklets]

TOWER, LOREN Residence: Tigard, Oregon Service: brother of Roger Tower, medic, Marine Corps, Pacific Volume: -1"

Papers [diary of Guadalcanal; copy of letter to family, 1945; memorial record; copies of photos]

Box 151:

TRAUB, SUSAN Residence: Springhill, Kansas Service: Daughter of Frederick Bodie of Lincoln, Nebraska, 351st Infantry Regiment, 88th Division, Italy Volume: 2”

Papers [clippings; discharge papers; ID card for Glen Webber Harvey]

Reunions [88th Division magazine February 1987; 351st Regiment rosters 1980-1982]

Small Unit Actions [1946 War Department booklet; contains account of 351st Regiment in Italy]

Unit History – 5th Army

151 Unit History – 88th Infantry Division

Unit History – 351st Infantry Regiment

TRAVALINE, LEONARD Residence: Conshohocken, Pennsylvania Service: 938th Field Artillery Battalion, Europe Volume: 1"

Diary (1) (2) [enlisted in October 1940; member of the 166th Field Artillery; re training and time overseas; sent overseas in August of 1943; discharged October of 1946; copies of photos]

Newspaper Articles [copies of clippings of articles written by Bill Collins Sr. titled “Heard Under...The Spreading Maple Trees”]

TRIMBLE, GLEN Residence: Wichita, Kansas Service: Merchant Marine Volume: -1"

Papers [clipping; synopsis of the U.S. maritime service entitled “Merchant Marine of WWII; history of the U.S. as a maritime nation;” historical details of the birth of the German submarine wolf packs]

TROXELL, MRS. R.H. (HAZEL) see: Maurice F. Thornberg

TUCKER, JOAN PINKERTON Residence: Cashmere, Washington Service: Relative of Ralph Pinkerton, newspaper editor of Ferndale, Washington Volume: -1”

Papers [letter, DDE to Ralph Pinkerton, 24 June 1946, re censorship of Daily Pacifican, military newspaper being published at Manila, Philippines]

TUCKER-MAXWELL, SANDRA Residence: Roanoke, Virginia Service: Material collected by her grandmother Fannie E. Burdiss of East Beckley, West Virginia Volume: 1"

Arthur Fred Burdiss Material [postcards and Christmas cards; letters to family both written and typed from the Pacific Theater; copies of photos]

Charles W. Burdiss Material [original correspondence from Okinawa both typed and written; Mother’s Day card; copies of photos]

152

John Burdiss, Jr. Material [official V-mail; telegram; postcard; original correspondence; copies of photos]

Miscellaneous [snapshot album of Oxford; V-mail and newsclippings; Christmas card; postcards; copies of photos]

News Clippings (1) (2) [copies of newsclippings; poems; original newspaper from June 6, 1944 “Beckley Post-Herald”]

TUFTELAND, RAYMOND Residence: Lemon Grove, California Service: USS Astoria, Pacific Volume: 1"

Diary [original WWII diary; begins with December 7, 1941 raid on the Hawaiian islands; force attacks March 13, 1942; Naval battle off Java February 27, 1942; attack on Tulagi May 4, 1942; tribute to USS Lexington, sunk in Battle of Coral Sea; poetry]

Papers [re Battle of Coral Sea]

TUPKER, CLEO R. Residence: Rapid City, South Dakota Volume: -1"

Newspaper [original French newspaper from May 1945]

Box 152:

TURNER, MILDRED Residence: San Antonio, Texas Service: wife of Robert E. Turner, 3256th Signal Service Company, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [letter from Bob Turner to his girlfriend of May 11, 1945]

ULLERY, Bob Residence: Lathan, New York Service: Army Band, Frankfurt Occupation, 1946 Volume: -1"

Printed Material [booklet on 500 snacks; newspaper the “Occupation Chronicle,” September 28, 1946]

UNRUH, ELMER W. Residence: Enterprise, Kansas

153 Service: Brother of Victor Unruh of 371st Fighter Squadron, who was KIA in Germany 1944 Volume: -1"

Clippings [copy of “The Story of the 371st Fighter Group in the E.T.O;” photo of warplanes; copies of newsclipping]

UNRUH, LORENE Residence: Enterprise, Kansas Service: Riveter, Douglas Aircraft Corp, Tulsa, Oklahoma Volume:" 1"

Scrapbook [1992 newsclipping of Unruh re riveting during the war for the military; newspaper of the Douglas Airview from August 17, 1945]

VAUGHN, RONALD Residence: Eastland, Texas Service: USS Kitkun Bay, Pacific Volume: -1"

Memoirs [accounts of wartime service, “Memories of Two Years Before the Mast,” January 1944 to January 1946, served in Navy on USS Kitkun in the Pacific Theater]

VERGA, LAWRENCE L. Residence: Avon Lake, Ohio Service: 291st Infantry Regiment, 75th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: -1"

Memoirs [a history of the 291st Infantry of the 75th Division]

VOWELS, DONOVAN see: Laurie A. Johnson

WALIGURA, PETER Residence: McKeesport, Pennsylvania Service: 273rd Infantry Regiment, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [accounts of the U.S. and Russian armies linking together; newspaper of the Stars and the Stripes announcing the American-Russian linking]

WALLACE, DAVID H. Residence: Frederick Maryland Service: married Evelyn Schmitt, niece of James R. McKeen, Sea Bees, Pacific Volume: -1"

James R. McKeen Letters [original V-mail and original correspondence from 1943 to 1945]

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WARD, KENNETH Residence: Payson, Arizona Service: Air Rescue Squadron, Pacific Volume: -1"

Papers [patches; clearance cards; certificates and awards; newsclipping; air combat photographs]

Photographs [copies of photos of division, individuals, certificates, newsclipping]

WARD, REBA Residence: Dallas, Texas Service: Sister of George R. Gilbert, Marine Corps, Pacific Volume: -1"

Papers [report of separation from the U.S. Marine Corps; copy of magazine clipping; copy of honorable discharge papers]

WATERMAN, MARTHA R. Residence: Asheville, North Carolina Service: widow of Maj. Robert Waterman, Air Force, Home Front Volume: 4"

Papers [scrapbook of photos, documents and artifacts relating to Robert Waterman’s service]

Unit History - Marianna Army Air Field, 1942

WATTS, VAN Residence: North Hollywood, California Service: U.S. Navy, Pacific Volume: -1"

Clipping [newsclipping entitled “Where was I on December 7”]

WEAVER, JOHN R. Residence: Merriam, Kansas Service: U.S. Air Force, Europe; POW in German Luftwaffe stalag [Stalag Luft 1] Volume: -1"

POW Registration Form

WEFALD, ROBERT O. Residence: Bismark, North Dakota Service: Collector

155 Volume: 1"

Unit History – 816th Engineer Aviation Battalion

Box 153:

WEIMER, DANIEL Residence: Jacksonville, Florida Service: Son of Earl Weimer, Army Air Corps, Alaska and Philippines Volume: -1"

Diary (1)-(3) [original and retyped manuscripts of life at the Aleutians and the Philippine Islands from October 1943 to January 1944]

WELDON, RUTH Residence: Bartlesville, Oklahoma Service: Widow (?) of Gilbert E. Weldon, Battery C, 432nd AA Battalion, North Africa and Italy Volume: 1”

Diary (1)-(3) [original diary, electrostatic copy and typed transcript, covering March 1943- September 1945; describes social activities and sight-seeing in North Africa and Italy]

WELLMAN, STANLEY Residence: Freeport, Illinois Service: 158th Engineer Combat Battalion, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [original memorandum commending troops of the 158th Engineers of January 6, 1945; commendation to the commanding officers of all companies of January 10, 1945]

WHEELER, GERTRUDE Residence: Manhattan, Kansas Service: Secretary, School of Agriculture, Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University) Volume: 15"

[Note-papers donated by her daughters Marialyce Taylor and Eunice Justus; they consist mostly of letters she received from graduates of the School of Agriculture who were in the military]

Letters A [letters from Merrill Abrahams in N. Ireland of 1943; letter from Lieutenant Maynard L. Abrahams of the U.S. Army Air Forces from San Marcos, Texas and England; graduation announcement of John Aiken from the Luke Field Army Advance Flying School]

Letters B

Letters C

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Letters D, E

Letters Driver, William [original correspondence from William Driver]

Letters F, G

Letters H [letters from Donald Henderson of 1944 and 1945, location is Camp Polk, Louisiana and Germany; letters from Gordon Hoath of 1943 and 1945, member of the 3715th AAF Base Unit located at Burbank, California]

Letters Hines, Clesson Leigh [letters ranging from 1942 to 1945; member of the Navy CC Division stationed on the USS South Dakota]

Letters I [correspondence with Lt. Don Irwin of the A-Excess Officer Co., written 1944]

Letters J, K [V-mail from Joseph Jagger of the 335th Infantry in Germany; V-mail and additional correspondence from Sgt. W.W. Justus, mentions Paris; telegram from Justus; 1945 letter from Luke Kissick, member of the 74th Fighter Squadron stationed in China; 1944 letters from Norman Kruse from Luxembourg and Belgium]

Letters L [letters from Robert Leonard from Hawaii; letters from Merlin E. Line in France]

Box 154:

Letters M [1945 letters and postcards from Russell Miller stationed in France; 1944 letters from Carol Montgomery, stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia and France]

Letters Massey, John R. [letters from Lt. Massey of Company E, 261st Infantry; stationed in the European Theater]

Letters N [1945 letters from O.W. Norly of the USNR stationed on the USS San Diego]

Letters O, P, Q [letter from PFC Fred Palmer, member of Company I, 274th Infantry, training at Fort Leonardwood, Missouri, and service in Europe]

Letters R [letters from Eldon Reichart]

Letters Russel, Darrell [1944 and 1945 letters from Russell, stationed in the European Theater]

Letters S [1944 letters of Paul Sanford, Med. Det. 342nd Infantry; 1943 letters of Harold Snyder; letters from KP Storey of USMCAS]

Letters T, U, V [personal letter from Roy Tebo, Jr.; notice of commendation]

157 Letters W (1) (2) [1945 letter from Sgt. C.L Wahl; newsclipping of German V-1 bomb explosion; Christmas cards and greeting cards; 1945 letter from PFC Wayne Ward of Company I, 305th Infantry]

Letters Werts, Merrill H. [1945 letters stationed in France and Germany]

Letters Winner, William H. (1)-(3)

Letters Winter, John S. 1942 (1)-(3)

Letters Winter, John S. 1943 (1)-(3)

Box 155:

Letters Winter, John S. 1944 (1) (2)

Letters Winter, John S. 1945

Letters Winter, John S. Undated

Letters X, Y, Z

Miscellaneous Papers [Christmas poem; list of students and graduates who entered the draft; War Department pamphlet; FDR pamphlet; list of military awarded shoulder patches]

WHITCHER, ROBERT G. Residence: Rancho Pales Verdes, California Service: 3118th Signal Service Group, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces, Europe Volume: -1"

Circuit Service Orders [orders from April to November 1945]

WHITT, FRANK Residence: Tacoma, Washington Service: Brother of Clyde Whitt, 577th Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, Europe Volume: -1"

Clyde G. Whitt Diary [diary from January 6, 1943 to June 23, 1944 containing dates, copies of photos and mission assignments]

WHITTIER, RODERICK P. Residence: Donated by son Duncan Whittier of Pittsburg, Kansas Service: Anti-aircraft battalions, Panama, U.S. and Europe Volume: 3"

158 Certificates and Commission [certificates from Camp Davis, North Carolina and Camp Stewart, Georgia; certificates from the Barrage Balloon school, army extension courses and from the President of the United States; military records]

Letters [letter from the reserves office concerning active duty training; letter from the VA pertaining to an application for outpatient treatment; notice to report for hospitalization or domiciliary care]

Property Slips and Receipts [certificates of release from the Fort Dix hospital; property turn-in slips; shipping tickets]

201 File (1)-(6) [official military papers]

WICHMAN, JOAN Residence: Menasha, Wisconsin Service: daughter of Lawrence Ganzel, Company G, 347th Infantry Regiment, 87th Infantry Division, Europe Volume: -1”

Lawrence Ganzel Memoir [service in Belgium; secret crossing of Rhine at Oppenheim 5 March 1945; George Patton; liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp; visit to Germany 1995]

Box 156:

WICKSTEN, LAYTON Donated by: Mary K. Wicksten and Linda Leathley Residence: Sun Valley, Nevada Service: artist with 28th Air Depot, India Volume: 40"

Album #1 [certificate for crossing Equator; original and printed cartoons for Yank magazine; original and printed sketches of military and native scenes in India; photographs of troops in India]

Album #2 [original pencil sketches of Indian people, street scenes, and countryside; photographs of GI’s, Indian people, and Indian sites]

Album #3 [cartoons and drawings, both original and printed, of Indian people and U.S. military personnel; photographs of people and scenes in India]

Album #4 [printed and original sketches and articles by Wicksten for armed forces publications, scenes of Indian people and U.S. military personnel; official military papers, certificates, passes, and permits]

Album #5 [printed illustrated articles by Wicksten entitled, “Depot Review” which portrayed G.I.s serving in India]

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Album #6 [printed illustrated articles by Wicksten entitled, “Depot Review” which portrayed G.I.s serving in India]

Album #7 [”Depot Review” articles as in #5 and #6; illustrated articles entitled “Indian Folk” and “Scene in India,” published in Army camp newspaper]

Album #8 [printed copies of illustrated articles by Wicksten on “Indian Folk” published in Army camp newspaper]

Art Work [over 200 original pencil sketches, paintings, and drawings by Wicksten on such subjects as U.S. servicemen in India and their activities, natives of India and their customs, and scenes of life in India]

Miscellaneous Items (1) [numerous issues of Tiger Rag, base newspaper of 28th Air Depot at Bengal, India, 1943-46, all contain articles or cartoons by Wicksten; one newspaper from a Mississippi ordnance plant, 1943; photographs of U.S. soldiers in India and some Indian scenes]

Miscellaneous Items (2) [copies of articles designed by Wicksten for military publications, including cartoons and “Depot Review”]

WIESE, JAMES Residence: Gresham, Oregon Service: Rocket ship, D-Day Volume: -1"

Papers [accounts of the invasion of Normandy; accounts of the invasion of lower France; quotes from the New York Herald June 22, 1944; copies of photos; program for the 50 year reunion of “Operation Overlord”]

WILKINS, ARTHUR N. Residence: Kansas City, Missouri Service: Company B, 343rd Infantry Regiment, 86th Infantry Division, Europe and Pacific Volume: 3"

Letters December 1943 [mentions Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and Camp Fannin, Texas]

Letters January-April 1944 (1) (2) [mentions Fort Benning, Georgia]

Letters May-August 1944 (1) (2) [mentions Camp Livingston, Louisiana]

Letters September-December 1944 [written from Camp Cook, California; mentions Camp San Luis Obispo, California]

Box 157:

160 Letters January-May 1945 (1) (2) [sketches; letters from Camp San Luis Obispo, California; letters from France and Germany]

Letters August-December 1945 [from Camp Gruber, Oklahoma; from California; Thanksgiving menu]

Letters January-March 1946 [mentions San Jose, Nebraska, Luzon, Philippines Islands]

Miscellaneous Papers [account of infantryman’s life related in letters he wrote, “Dirt Behind Our Ears;” photos; honorable discharge form; daily newsletters]

WILKINSON, EUGENIE R. Residence: Frisco, Texas Service: Army nurse, Italy Volume: -1"

Papers [re travel in Balkans]

WILLIAMS, MRS. GLENN Residence: Colony, Kansas Service: Wife of Glenn Williams, 481st AAA Battalion, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [brief history of Williams; copies of photos; rosters; daily newsletters; newspapers “Warweek”]

WILLIAMSON, PATRICIA Residence: Durham, North Carolina Service: Wife of Frank Williamson, U.S. Navy, 1942-1946 Volume: -1"

Diary [November 1942 to August 1945; Frank Williamson served on Navy destroyers in the European, Mediterranean, and Pacific Theaters; reference to D-Day]

Miscellaneous Papers [obituary of Frank Williams; notice of separation from U.S. Naval Service]

WILLIS, WARREN W. Residence: Joplin, Missouri Service: Marine Corps pilot, Pacific Volume: 2"

Memoirs (1) [family background in Abilene, Kansas; ROTC at Kansas State University; pilot training in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and Florida; base at Newport, Arkansas; service in Caroline and Marshall Islands, Pacific; service of other family members]

161 Memoirs (2) [reference material copied from internet; includes data on airplanes, aircraft carriers, Marine Corps, military bases in U.S., Pacific Theater, cartoons, bombs, depth charges and PT boats]

Box 158:

WINDHOLZ, PAT Residence: Hays, Kansas Service: Daughter of Edmund Pfannenstiel of Hays, 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division, Europe; prisoner of war in Germany 1945 Volume: 1"

Papers (1) (2) [correspondence and reports concerning POW camp near Bad Orb, Germany, where Pfannenstiel was held; also some correspondence with former prisoners and guards in late 1940s]

Post-War Papers [biography of Pfannenstiel compiled by his daughter; articles re his receipt of POW medal in 1980s; his trip to Bad Orb, Germany, in 1989]

A Wartime Log [copy of notebook kept by Pfannenstiel while a POW; contains drawings, lists of fellow prisoners, and documents relating to his military service]

WINDHORST, LEROY Residence: Wells, Kansas Service: Instructor, Pre-Flight School, AAF Bases in Texas Volume: 4"

Aircraft Electrical Systems [technical manual]

Aircraft Recognition (1)-(3) [aircraft spotters guide; aircraft recognition for preflight school]

Elementary Flight Maneuvers

Inspection Forms [booklet]

Math Textbook [booklet]

Miscellaneous Papers [memorandum report; roster; student guide to airplane engines branch]

Naval Vessel Identification [booklet]

Box 159:

Physics Textbook [booklet]

162 Public Speaking Guide [booklet]

Training Exercises (1) (2) [aircraft electrical systems from academic department; airplanes engines branch; aircraft mechanics’ tools branch; airplane structures branch]

WINTEROWD, B.D. Residence: Rochester, Washington Service: 81st Armored Recon Battalion, North Africa and Italy Volume: -1"

Memoirs [account of war entitled “One Soldiers Memories,” donor served North Africa and Italy, 1942-1945]

WISBEY, HERBERT A., JR. Residence: Horseheads, New York Service: soldier in England Volume: -1"

Newspaper [copy of “The Daily Telegraph,” a London paper of June 13, 1945]

WOELLHOF, LAWRENCE Residence: Topeka, Kansas Service: North Africa Service Command, U.S. Army; brother of Lloyd Woellhof, U.S. Navy, Pacific Volume: 2"

Lloyd Woellhof Papers [travel orders; letter from department of Navy regarding Lloyd Richard Woellhof; copy of photo of Honolulu memorial; newsletter “The Lone Sailor”]

Lloyd Woellhof Flight Log [copy of New Testament; aviator’s flight log book]

Lloyd Woellhof Letters [telegram; letter to mother; correspondence from Navy regarding son MIA; notice of settlement claims; letters from the Veterans Administration]

Lloyd Woellhof Memorabilia [photos; news clippings; memorandums; certificates and awards; roster]

Miscellaneous Letters

WOOD, NANCY Residence: Junction City, Kansas Service: Daughter of Leland L. Sphar, civilian employee, Manhattan Project Volume: -1”

Articles [articles on Hanford plant from Washington State Historical Society magazine]

163 Leland L. Sphar Papers [photo; awards; biographical sketch; memoir by Grace Sphar re life at Richland, Wash, Hanford plant]

WOODBRIDGE, GEORGE R. Residence: Grand Rapids, Michigan Service: 336th Engineer Combat Battalion, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [personal message note to all troops from the C-in-C; 1994 reunion program containing rosters, copies of photos and accounts of Omaha Beach to the Elbe River; newsclippings]

Box 160:

WORTHINGTON, WILLIAM Residence: Delaware, Oklahoma [donated by Joe Todd who received them from Worthington’s niece Ms. Norma Wallace of Bartlesville, OK] Service: Company F, 43rd Engineer Regiment, Pacific Volume: 3”

Financial Papers [car registration; insurance]

Letters 1941-1942 (1) (2) [voyage to Australia]

Letters 1943 (1) (2) [New Guinea]

Letters 1944

Memorabilia (1) (2) [program for 1946 military parade in England; V-Mail forms]

WREND, JOSEPH R. Residence: Madison, Wisconsin Service: 19th Special Service Company, Europe Volume: -1"

Diary 1942-45 [copy of memorandum calendar]

German Documents [copies of German letters and envelopes]

Photographs [copies of photos and descriptions]

19th Special Service Co., Material [rosters]

WUSS, DOROTHY Residence: San Jose, California Service: Wife of Peter G. Wuss, sergeant, XVIII Corps, Europe Volume: 4”

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German Army Organization [charts showing standard organization of various types of German army units]

Japanese Maps [class papers on how to read Japanese map symbols]

Maps and Aerial Photos – Class Papers (1) (2) [class papers on how to read maps and aerial photographs]

Box 161:

Maps and Aerial Photos – Manuals (1)-(4) [printed Army manuals]

Miscellaneous Manuals [guide to uniform insignia; Japanese military signs; Japanese air and ground forces]

Miscellaneous Papers [ration book; orders; honorable discharge certificate]

WYHS, CHARLES R. Residence: St. Charles, Missouri Service: home front Volume: -1"

Poem [written by his mother during the war]

YAKSTIS, JEAN Residence: Ellenton, Florida Service: friend of Capt. Morton S. Pratt, U.S. Navy, Pacific Volume: -1"

Morton Pratt Papers [certification cards; newsclippings; memorandum; military correspondence; poem; copies of photographs]

YOUNG, BARBARA Residence: Independence, Missouri Service: collector Volume: -1"

Army Song Book

Defense Postal Savings Stamp Albums [books of postal stamps]

YOUNG, DR. F.W. Residence: Waucoma, Iowa Service: U.S. Air Force, Europe Volume: 1"

165

Papers (1)-(4) [copy of “Texans for Ike” material; flight manual; professional drawings of military planes; news maps of the armed forces; aeronautical maps of Lincoln, Nebraska, Sioux City, Dubuque, Iowa, and Milwaukee; aeronautical charts of Lake Erie, Illinois, Wabash and Kanawha Rivers, Wichita and Sangre de Cristo Mountains, and Estacado Plain]

YOUNG, JOANN Residence: Raytown, Missouri Service: Niece of William Gregg McCready, U.S. Marine Corps in U.S. and Pacific Volume: 1"

William McCready Papers (1) (2) [military keepsakes newspaper photo; cartoon; civilian readjustment booklet; newsmagazine for forces in Guam; mentions USS California; book entitled “Think It Over Mate”]

YUZWA, ANDREW Residence: Las Vegas, Nevada Service: 1st Signal Armored Battalion, North Africa and Europe Volume: -1"

Memoirs [wartime accounts of the 1st Signal Armored Battalion I Armored Corps of the 7th Army originating in Fort Knox, Kentucky]

Box 162:

ZAJAC, JEANETTE HODGES Residence: Michigan Service: Wife of Casimir John Zajak, U.S. Army Air Force Volume: 2.75"

Scrapbook [autobiographical account of the life of Casimir John Zajak compiled by Jeanette Hodges Zajac including photographs, ephemera, electrostatic copies of WWII military documents, silk pilot’s maps and personal reminiscences of WWII]

Box 163:

SHAEF VETERANS ASSOCIATION Volume: 5”

Booklets

Correspondence

Miscellaneous (1) (2)

Orders (1) (2)

166

Photos

Questionnaires (ETOUSA)

Questionnaires (SHAEF) (1)-(5)

Reunions

Telephone Directory

END OF CONTAINER LIST

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