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Linear feet: This collection occupies 25.5 linear feet of space.

Abstract:  The Special Collections Library's World War II collections were gathered by the University of Tennessee's Center for the Study of War and Society. The collections are composed of veteran's papers.

Administrative Information

Provenance:  The material for this collection was donated by the various veterans or their relatives.

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Scope and Content:  These fifteen boxes contain records, interviews, maps, newsclippings, personal letters, photographs, souvenirs and recollections of World War II and its aftermath by American servicemen and women. These include the memories of service on a submarine, as a naval aviator, fighter bomber pilot, side gunner, radio operator, paratrooper, ship's nurse, infantryman, sailor, artilleryman, engineer, medic and marine. Also included are memoirs of foreign civilians in the path of the war, and people involved in war work in the United States and Canada. There are many histories of military units and ships, and newspapers written at the various fronts. Many narratives of prisoners of war are included.

Biographical Note/Information: The various separate collections that compose our collective World War II Collections - see the manuscripts directory for the other WWII material -- were acquired by the University of Tennessee's Center for the Study of War and Society. The Center, established by the late Dr. Charles Johnson with the cooperation of the Special Collections Library, gathered the material for the purpose of studying the effects of the war on the common soldier.
    Of special interest are: a transcript of an interview with Rear Admiral Winston Folk; narratives of life as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne by Edward Laughlin; Phillip Broadhead's materials on taking over German towns as a Military Government Officer; memoirs of Graves Registration Officers, Charles D. Butte and Joseph J. Shomon; Milton Woodside's description of the Bataan death march; materials on "Exercise Tiger"; H.E. Ziegler's material on the trial of General Yamashita; details of the prisoner of war camp at Crossville, TN.

LCSH
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 - Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945 - Photographs.

Keywords
Nagasaki
Guadalcanel
Corregidor
Saipan
Bataan
Yamashita
Memphis Belle
Pacific Theater
European Theater
Marines
Navy
Air Force
Army
Crossville
Germany
Omaha Beach
Normandy
Nazi
North Africa Campaign
U.S.S. Mustin
Exercise Tiger
U.S.S. Woodford
Japan
Iwo Jima
4th Marine Division, 23rd  Regiment
302d Transport Wing
6th Armored Division
71st Squadron
36th Infantry Division
461 Strategic Intelligence Team
329th Infantry
453rd Heavy Bomber Group
82nd Airborne
Graves Registration Group
83rd Infantry
59th Coast Artillery
319th Bombardment Group
440th AAA AW Battalion
3rd Cavalry Group
U.S.S. Quincy
70th Fighter Squadron
1st Marine Division
15th Field Artillery Observation Battalion
5th Armor
U.S.S. Hermitage
32nd Division
319th Infantry
Convoy CU-37
26th Infantry
5th Amphibious Force
8th Amphibious Group
2nd Ranger Battalion
121st Infantry
U.S.S. Gamble
U.S.S. Harry F. Bauer
YMS-478
310th Infantry
407th Infantry
158th Infantry
52nd Fighter Group
864th Aviation Engineer Battaliion
253rd Infantry
U.S.S. Barbero
347th Infantry
248th Field Artillery Battalion
17th Armored Infantry
505th Parachute Infantry Regiment
3rd Squad of the Demolition Battalion
505th Parachute Infantry Regiment
82nd Airborne
313th Bomber Group
101 Engineer Combat Battalion
1st Marine Division
109th Engineer Battalion
34th Infantry Division
70th Infantry Division
8th Air Force
159th Engineer Combat Battalion
6th Aircraft Repair Unit
97th Bomb Group
76th Infantry Division
385th Regiment
976 Field Artillery Battalion
526th Armored Infantry Battalion
313th Medical Battalion
88th Infantry Division
465th Bomb Group
348th Fighter Group
5th Infantry Division
350th Bomb Squadron
1st Cavalry Division
503rd Infantry
7th Armor Battalion
325th Glider Infantry
9th Air Force
42nd Field Artillery
16th Infantry Regiment
33rd Fighter Group
6714th WAC Communications Platoon
5220 WAC Service Unit
77th Amphibious Assault Division
U.S.S. Partridge
U.S.S. Elmore
U.S.S. Knox
U.S.S. Bataan
U.S.S. Cowpens
415th Infantry Division
4th Infantry
75th Coast Artillery
194th Field Artillery Group
20th Air Force
40th Bombardment Group
351st Bomb Group
79th Infantry
813th Tank Destroyer Battalion
U.S.S. Sumner
1164th Engineers Combat Group
9th Infantry Division
39th Infantry
5th Air Force
36th Infantry
74th Naval Construction Battalion
30th Infantry
168th Engineer Combat Battallion

This collection is in two series:
Series 1: Alphabetical by Individual.
Series 2: Oversized Materials

Series/ Container List
Series 1: Alphabetical

 Box 1:
Folder 1:  Aberg, Eric.  Copies of articles, "Questions to be answered by Japanese Party."
Folder 2:  Akers, Artie E.  Pacific Theatre.  U.S.S. Skipjack.  Memoirs of submarines in the Pacific.
Folder 3:  Akins, James J.  Notes from interview.  September 20, 1993.
Folder 4:  Allen, John H.  Notes from interview.  May 5, 1993.  Copies of citations, commendations.
Folder 5:  Allen, John H.  China-Burma-India Theatre.  Photocopies of maps.  List of personnel and local terms.
Folder 6:  Allen, William B.  Photocopy: United States Marines: authentic U.S. Marine Corps picture stories.  No. 3.
Folder 7:  Allen, William B.  Pacific Theatre.  4th Marine Div., 23rd reg.  Marine invasions.
Folder 8:  Allen, William B.  Commemorative booklet.  Tarawa...76 hrs.
Folder 9:  Askerman, Donald L.  My Forties: Reminiscences of the World War II Years.
Folder 10:  Asquith, Robert.  1st Lutheran Church (Knoxville, Tn).  First Lutheran Service Bulletin.  November/December 1944.
Folder 11:  Asquith, Robert.  Liberation.  Memoir of being liberated from Stalag 3 A at Luckenwalde, Germany.
Folder 12:  Atkins, Henri B.  Recollections of WWII.  99th Infantry Division.
Folder 13:  Aytes, Erlene.  Crossville: how did we treat POWs? By Herston Cooper.  (photocopy).
Folder 14:  Aytes, Erlene.  My Memories of the Prisoner of War Camp in Crossville, Tennessee.  By Hans Albert Smolinski Albertson.
Folder 15:  Aytes, Erlene.  Minutes of meetings of Muffs (organization formed by women associated with Crossville, TN POW camp to provide entertainment
and R & R for American troops.
Folder 16:  Aytes, Erlene.  Photocopy of cards detailing officers in Crossville, TN.  POW Camp.
Folder 17:  Aytes, Erlene.  Camp Forest, Tullahoma, Tennessee.  1941-1946.
Folder 18:  Aytes, Erlene.  Map of Crossville Internment Camp.  Photocopies of newsclippings regarding Crossville.  Sales order from Crossville.  Pages copied
from Cumberland County Tennessee by W. Calvin Dickinson regarding Crossville.
Folder 19:  Aytes, Erlene.  Crossville POW camp.
Folder 20:  Baghetti, Frank.  As I Witnessed World War II.  1941-1945.
Folder 21:  Balcombe, Roslyn.  Memoir of service in WAAC.
Folder 22:  Barfield,Barwick O.  "Days Not Forgotten."
Folder 23:  Barlow, Ernest.  Co "A". 44th Engr. Bn.  Record of events.
Folder 24:  Baumann, J. Fred.  Freshman to Fighter Pilot ... in fifteen easy months.
Folder 25:  Baumann, J. Fred.  Freshman to Fighter Pilot ... in fifteen easy months.  Book I.
Folder 26:  Baumann, J. Fred.  Freshman to Fighter Pilot ... in fifteen easy months.  Book II.
Folder 27:  Baumann, J. Fred.  Aviation Cadet Class of: 44-E. Moore Field Mission, Texas.
Folder 28:  Baumann, J. Fred.  XV FC.  One Year Escort.
Folder 29:  Belli, Joachim.  Kriegsweihnachten *1942. Eine Schleswig-Holsteinsche Infantriedivision im Osten. Photocopy of Kriegsweihnacht * 1943...
Folder 30:  Best, Edwin J.  Notebook of handouts from Ammunition Section, Ordnance School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.
Folder 31:  Best, Edwin J.  Photographs and copies: Omaha Beach, Normandy and South Hames, England practice area for assault in Normandy.
Folder 32:  Best, Edwin J.  War memorabilia: patches, cigarette case with Philip Morris cigarettes, belt buckle, medal "Au Merite," sign taken from a toilet
door in Cherbourg July 1944.
Folder 33:  Best, Edwin J.  "Maps of Omaha Beach Area taken into Normandy & used by Lt. Edwin J. Best, Ord. Dept., 6 June 1944."

Box 2:
Folder 1:  Best,Edwin J.  "Know Your Bible Heart Shield. Pocket size New Testament or Catholic Prayer Book with Gold Plated Steel Cover."
Folder 2:  Best, Edwin J.  Triage tag for German Army horses.  Omaha Beach.  June 1944.
Folder 3:  Best, Edwin J.  "Serviceman's Kase o' Kards." (mailing cards).
Folder 4:  Best, Edwin J.  Carrying pouch for a German "gas-impermeable covering."  Omaha Beach area, Summer 1994.
Folder 5:  Best, Edwin J.  British War Relief Society, Inc. of Knoxville, TN.  Poster, invitation to benefit ball, correspondence to Edwin Best.
Folder 6:  Best, Edwin J.  Extracts from a report "Business Methods in the War Department," Washington, 1889.
Folder 7:  Best, Edwin J.  Booklets: Navy Song Book, Army Song Book.
Folder 8:  Best, Edwin J.  Booklets: Speak French: a book for the soldiers, Guide Interprete.  Map of France.
Folder 9:  Best, Edwin J.  Booklets: Engineer Field Notebook, Engineer Replacement Training Center Information bulletin.
Folder 10:  Best, Edwin J.  Stars and Stripes.  European Theatre.  November 14, 1944.
Folder 11:  Best, Edwin J.  Voir magazine, No. 4: program from Opera Municipal; Ville de Marseille and ticket; newspaper: Le Populaire, October 1944.
Folder 12:  Best, Edwin J.  Nazi flag.
Folder 13:  Best, Edwin J.  Notebook containing papers "from a German gun emplacement on the Falaise d'Aval at Etretat in Normandy."
Folder 14:  Best, Edwin J.  Postcards of France.  Packages of small souvenir photos of : Le Mont Saint-Michel, Etretat, Monaco, Monte-Carlo, Avignon.
Folder 15:  Best, Edwin J.  Postcard: "public anger toward French prostitute who allegedly furnished information to the Enemy...This may be in the City of
Cain. 1944 - 1945?"
Folder 16:  Best, Edwin J.  "Stamp Out the Axis" ten cent war stamp album.
Folder 17:  Best, Edwin J.  Handbook on German Military Forces.  U.S. War Dept.  March 1945.
Folder 18:  Best, Edwin J.  Photocopies of Edwin J. Best's discharge papers.
Folder 19:  Best, Edwin J.  Folder of papers on foreign hand grenades, mortar ammunition, artillery ammunition.
Folder 20:  Best, Edwin J.  Personnel roster, Office of the Comptroller of the Army, 1 March 1952.  Telephone directory Management Division, 15 May 1952.
Folder 21:  Best, Edwin J.  Telephone directory, Dept. of Defense.  April 1955.
Folder 22:  Best, Edwin J.  Folder "Jeanne Michel, Incurables Hommes, Entre le 16 Octobre 1920."  Patches: "Royal Canadian Army Service Corps.  Paper:
"Kraftfahrzeugschein."  Tags (for animals?), rubber stamp.
Folder 23:  Best, Edwin J.  Letter from T.B. Lynch, Lt. Col., Ord Dept.  Depot Commander to Officers and Men of Depot O-6035.  Thanks and
commendations.
Folder 24:  Best, Edwin J.  "Press conference statement by Brig. General Don J. Shingler as printed in Army Navy Journal."
Folder 25:  Best, Edwin J.  Ammo, April 28, 1945.
Folder 26:  Best, Edwin J.  Clipping from magazine: "Insignes Particuliers..." showing medals.
Folder 27:  Best, Edwin J.  Clipping from Time, December 25, 1944, "World Battlefronts."
Folder 28:  Best, Edwin J.  Military manuals: Instructions in Military Signaling; Manual of Physical Training; Field Service Regulations; message book M-210.
Folder 29:  Best, Edwin J.  Manual for Courts-Martial, U.S. Army.  1917.  Also, memoranda Court-Martial procedure.
Folder 30:  Best, Edwin J.  48 Million Tons to Eisenhower.  By Lt. Col. Randolph Leigh.
Folder 31:  Best, Edwin J.  Oxbow Incident.  By Walter Van Tilburg Clark.  Armed Services Edition.
Folder 32:  Best, Edwin J.  Manuals: Basic Field Manual: Military Training.  FM21-5; Basic Field Manual: conventional signs; Military Symbols and
Abbreviations.  FM 21-30; Basic Field Manual: soldiers handbook.  FM 21-100.
Folder 33:  Best, Edwin J.  Infantry Examiner's Guide.  1930.
Folder 34:  Best, Edwin J.  New infantry drill regulations.  1941.
Folder 35:  Best, Edwin J.  Company Administration including Supply and Mess Management and Personnel Records.  By Lt. Col. C.M. Virtue.  1942.

Box 3:
Folder 1:  Best, Edwin J.  Miss You: World War II Letters of Barbara Wooddall Taylor and Charles E. Taylor.  1990.  (Uncorrected page proofs).
Folder 2:  Best, Edwin J.  Combination score book for U.S. Rifles M1903 and M1 and Browning Automatic rifle M1918A2.
Folder 3:  Best, Edwin J.  Survival.  FM 21-76.  1957.
Folder 4:  Best, Edwin J.  General Orders, No. 65. April 6, 1904.  General Orders, No. 94. August 9, 1902.
Folder 5:  Best, Edwin J.  Army Regulation.  No. 10-5.  Organization and Functions.  Dept. of Army.  1957.  Army Regulations.  No. 10-80-1.  Organization
and Functions.  Dept. of the Army.  Office of the Comptroller of the Army.  1951.  Special Regulations No. 60-60-1.  Personnel Insignia. 1951.
Folder 6:  Best, Edwin J.  Photograph.  Transcript of oral history of Edwin J. Best.  2 Franc note.
Folder 7:  Bivens, Ullin L.  With the 302d Transport Wing in the E.T.O.
Folder 8:  Bivens, Ullin L.  Yank the Army Weekly.  "Victory Edition," and Vol. 2, No. 7 (September 1945).
Folder 9:  Bivens, Ullin L.  Stars and Stripes.  "Victory," Vol 1, No. 285 (May 8, 1945); "Surrender of Japanese..." Vol. 2, No. 36 (August 15, 1945).
Folder 10:  Blankenship, Sterling.  Proof of 1943 newspaper article concerning Sterling Blankenship's "submarine activities ... in the South Pacific."
Folder 11:  Boles, Joseph A.  6th Armored Division.  Typewritten record of service of Joseph A. Boles.  Photocopies of: photographs of Joseph A. Boles; his
correspondence with family and friends, Certificate for Bronze Star; Certificate from President George Bush; newsclipping "6th Armored Campaigns
Gloriously but Incognito."
Folder 12:  Bonine, Gladys.  Recollections of One Army Nurse in World War II.
Folder 13:  Bowman, Albert Hall.  Invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944.  (notebook and transcript of notebook contents).
Folder 14:  Bowman, James.  Ex-CBI Roundup.  1996: November.  Monsoon Weather Digest, 9 July 1945.
Folder 15:  Boyd, Joseph B.  Publications: Flying Sergeant: newsletter of the Army Air Corps Enlisted Pilots Association.  July 1995.  WWII Night Fighters
Newsletter.  July 1995: 1st Fighter. (1st Pursuit Group) Spring 1995.
Folder 16:  Boyd, Joseph B.  1st Fighter Group, 71st Squadron.  Photocopies of: citation for extraordinary achievement; article "Last Mission of Basil
Stephens AKA Basil S. Rudnick"; description of Joseph B. Boyd's experiences as pilot.
Folder 17:  Bradly, Clyde W.  Memoirs of crash landing in Germany and being a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft 3, at Sagan, Germany.
Folder 18:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Diary: covers 1941, service in U.S.A.
Folder 19:  Broadhead, Phillip.  36th Infantry Division.  Military Government Officer.  Notebook listing conditions in some German towns as the 36th
arrived in them.  Back pages are a schedule for April 13 - May 11, 1945.
Folder 20:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Mess record book, Hotel Toledo, Naples Italy, for primarily British Officers, Jan-Mar 1944.
Folder 21:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Photographs of railroad cars of people who had been removed from Dachau to avoid detection and had died of suffocation,
etc.
Folder 22:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Photographs taken at prison camp near Landsberg, Germany.
Folder 23:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Letters to Mother, 1943.
Folder 24:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Letters to Mother, 1944.
Folder 25:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Letters to Mother, 1945.
Folder 26:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Correspondence from family in England, to whom packages were sent, thanking Mrs. Broadhead.
Folder 27:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Correspondence between Mrs. Broadhead and a "Lady in Algiers."
Folder 28:  Broadhead, Phillip.  "Diary from date of Commission as 2nd Lt. Aug. 22, 1942 to end of Feb, 1944."
Folder 29:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Nazi arm band.
Folder 30:  Broadhead, Phillip.  M.G. Police armband.
Folder 31:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Typewritten copy of notes made in Sicily as Military Government Administrator of Section.  July - October 1943.
Folder 32:  Broadhead, Phillip.  36th Infantry Division.  Military Government reports and directives concerning: entering towns, prisoners of war, displaced
persons, German records, collection of weapons, curfew, etc.  26 March - 24 May, 1945.
Folder 33:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Greely Gazette.  Souvenir Edition.  U.S.N.S. Greely.  February 21, 1953.
Folder 34:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Blood and Fire.  63rd Division News.  Souvenir Edition.  August 29, 1945.
Folder 35:  Broadhead, Phillip.  T-Patch.  36th Division News.  Vol. 4, No. 1,7,8,14.
Folder 36:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Outpost.  Volume 1, No. 7.  7 July 1945.
Folder 37:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Beachhead News.  Vol 2, No. 38. (3 copies).
Folder 38:  Broadhead, Phillip. 461st Strategic Intelligence Team (Reserve).  5 May 1949 - 26 February 1953.  Copies of orders.
Folder 39:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Correspondence, 1946, concerning merger of the Armed Forces.
Folder 40:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Garmisch Scene.  Garmisch Military Post.  Vol. 3, No. 43.
Folder 41:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Papers, concerning service in Officer Reserve Corp, dated 1945 - 1952.
Folder 42:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Shipping tickets, receipts, clearance sheets, 1942 - 1944.
Folder 43:  Broadhead, Phillip.  "Civil Affairs Experiences: with supplementary remarks with regard to industry."  30 April 1944.
Folder 44:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Letters sent to Mother, 1952 - 1953.
Folder 45:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Our Sun.  January 1947.  Contains article: "A Sun Oil man tells his part in ... The Capture of Hans Frank" concerning Phillip
Broadhead.
Folder 46:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Dachau.
Folder 47:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Robert Reveille.  Vol. 1, no. 7. (7 copies).
Folder 48:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Army Talks.  Vol. 4, no. 15, August 1945.
Folder 49:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Germany.  U.S. Army Road Map.  Sheets 1&2.  Sheets 3&4.
Folder 50:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Notes of work at Armored Force O.C.S. at Fort Knox, March to July 4, 1942.
Folder 51:  Broadhead, Phillip.  In the Field with the Second Armored Division.

Box 4:
Folder 1:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Military Personnel Guides to: Riviera, Britain, Sicily.
Folder 2:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Pocket Guide to Germany; Pocket Guide to France; Pocket Guide to Tunisia.
Folder 3:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Salerno: American Operations from the Beaches to the Volturns. (9 September - 6 October 1943).
Folder 4:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Tour brochures for: Berchtesgaden, Garmisch, Capri.
Folder 5:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression: opinion and judgement.  Office of U.S. Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality,
1947.
Folder 6:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Great Photographs of World War II.
Folder 7:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Rifles and Machine Guns of the World's Armies.  By Melvin M. Johnson, 1944.
Folder 8:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Short History of the Army and Navy.  By Fletcher Pratt.
Folder 9:  Broadhead, Phillip.  The Gun.  By C.S. Forester, 1943.
Folder 10:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Reader's Digest Humor in Uniform: jests, jokes and witty anecdotes from the War Years.  1969.
Folder 11:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Scourge of the Swastika.  By Lord Russell of Liverpool, 1954.
Folder 12:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Freiwillig zur Kriegsmarine.
Folder 13:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Booklet: Quaderno. (graph paper booklet).
Folder 14:  Broadhead, Phillip.  New Testament.  Army & Navy Edition.  1917.
Folder 15:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Military Government Gazette.  Germany, Twelfth Army Group Area of Control.  No. 2.
Folder 16:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Handbook for Unit Commanders.  (Germany) 1945.
Folder 17:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Military Government Gazette.  Germany.  Sixth Army Group Area of Control.  No. 1.
Folder 18:  Broadhead, Phillip.  First Army.  Information Bulletin.  No. 1.  November 1942.
Folder 19:  Broadhead, Phillip.  United States Army and Navy Manual of Military Government and Civil Affairs.  22 December 1943.
Folder 20:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Notes for Troops Proceeding to North Africa.  1943.
Folder 21:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Welcome to the States.  Boston Port of Embarkation.  Camp Myles Standish.
Folder 22:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Orders, 1942-1945.  Also, Army Reserve Orders, 1947 - 1949.
Folder 23:  Broadhead, Phillip.  Correspondence (miscellaneous) 1946 - 1953.
Folder 24:  Brooke, Julian.  War ration book.
Folder 25:  Brooke, Julian.  Letters to his wife.  1942, 1944.  Written in U.S.
Folder 26:  Brooke, Julian.  Letters to his wife, written overseas.  Photocopies of photographs.  Map of Deutschland.
Folder 27:  Brooke, Julian.  "Letter ... returned ... following his death at Battle of the Bulge."  Copy of article on Henri Chapelle Cemetery.  Copy of a letter found in his personal effects.
Folder 28:  Brooke, Julian.  Photocopies of : newsclippings containing photo of soldiers wounded in Battle for Omaha Beach: letter to editor claiming Julian Brooke is in photo; wedding photo.  Letters concerning photo of soldiers wounded in Battle for Omaha Beach.
Folder 29:  Brown, Carroll B.  Co. E, 329th Infantry.  Letters to his mother and Davis Bryson.  1943, 1944.
Folder 30:  Brown, Carroll B.  Letters to his mother, 1945.
Folder 31:  Brown, Carroll B.  Post cards: "North Platte Nebr. Canteen," "Canteen located at the C&N.W.Ry.Co. Station," "Looking down LaSalle St.,
Chicago," Field Building, Chicago."
Folder 32:  Brown, John A.  Articles about U.S.S. Washington (BB56).
Folder 33:  Brown, John A.  Articles about loss overboard of Rear Admiral John W. Wilcox, Jr.  March 27, 1942.
Folder 34:  Brown, Moss C.  Photographs: unknown unit, in front of airplane; Building, "Bldg. 505-5"; "Maint & Const. Crew Bldg" M.A.S.S. 44; Carpenter
Shops M.A.S.S. 44.
Folder 35:  Brown, Moss C.  Description of service with the first wartime carrier based Marine Fighting Squadron.  Newsclippings.  Induction order.
Folder 36:  Brown, Moss C.  Ashore in San Diego.
Folder 37:  Buck, Billy.  U.S.S. Mustin. "Late History Summary of U.S.S. Mustin."  By Officer Bob Casson.
Folder 38:  Buck, Billy.  Memoir of service aboard the U.S.S. Hornet and rescue by the U.S.S. Mustin.
Folder 39:  Buck, Billy.  "Mighty Mustin a Fighting Machine."  By Charlie McMahn.
Folder 40:  Buck, Billy.  "Downies Log. U.S.S. Mustin, DD413. Dec 1942 to 1943."  By Owen Downie.
Folder 41:  Buck, Billy.  "Life Aboard Ship, U.S.S. Mustin DD 413."  By Bernard R. Yohe.
Folder 42:  Buck, Billy.  "U.S.S. Mustin (DD413) report of action on October 26, 1942." Includes casualty list and list of personnel from Hornet rescued.
Folder 43:  Buck, Billy.  "U.S.S. Mustin (DD413), report of action on December 25, 1942."
Folder 44:  Buck, Billy.  "History of U.S.S. Mustin (DD413)."
Folder 45:  Buck, Billy.  Letter to Billy Buck from Frederick C. Branyan, May 20, 1996, concerning videotape of U.S.S. Hornet and archive summaries of film.
Folder 46:  Buck, Billy.  "History of U.S.S. Mustin (DD413)."
Folder 47:  Buck, Billy.  "History of U.S.S. Hornet (CV-8)."
Folder 48:  Buck, Billy.  U.S.S. Mustin (DD413 & U.S.S. Hornet (CV-8) Association.  Messenger.  (1987 - 1989, 1991, 1994, Jun and Christmas 1995).
Folder 49:  Buck, Billy.  Photocopies of newsclippings concerning U.S.S. Mustin and Hornet from 1980's and 1990's.
Folder 50:  Buck, Billy.  Photocopies of 2 articles from 1943 concerning Destroyer Squadron Two: "History of Destroyer Squadron Two" and "Story of Squadron II."
Folder 51:  Buck, Billy.  "Roster of U.S.S. Hornet (CV-8), June 1996."
Folder 52:  Buck, Billy.  "U.S.S. Mustin (DD413) Roster, June 1996."
Folder 53:  Buck, Billy.  "Doolittle Raiders, Roster."
Folder 54:  Buck, Billy.  Mustin Mutterings, October 1, 1941.  Other U.S.S. Mustin publications from 1940-1941.
Folder 55:  Bunch, Archie C.  Soldier's Odyssey - The War Years. Photograph: Archie C. Bunch and 3 unknown at Flak Shelter, Depot #5, Bari Italy.  Disk of
"War Years."
Folder 56:  Bunch, James E.  IX Combat.  735th Squadron of the 453rd Heavy Bomb Group.
Folder 57:  Burchby, Glen.  Photocopy of "A history of Stalag 4 B, a German P.O.W. camp (WWII)" [with this is a tape and transcription of a translation of this history, made by the head of U.T.'s German Dept.].
Folder 58:  Burns, Raymond D.  Memoirs.  U.S. Navy 1937 - 1945.

Box 5:
Folder 1:  Butte, Charles David.  Memoirs.  17 March 1921 to 1 September 1996.
Folder 2:  Butte, Charles David.  "The Occupation, June 1940-1944."  Copy of a translation of memoir of Juliette Brault of Ste Mere Eglise.
Folder 3:  Butte, Charles David.  Photocopy of Company History 603 QM GR.Reg. Co. 1943-1945 by Ronald A. Milton.
Folder 4:  Butte, Charles David.  "Graves Registration in Normandie France, June 1944, 603rd Quartermaster Graves Registration Company with the 82nd
Airborne.  By Elbert E. Legg.
Folder 5:  Butte, Charles David.  "Graves Registration During World War II in Europe."  603rd Quartermaster Graves Registration Company.  By Charles
D. Butte.  Includes photocopies of photographs.
Folder 6:  Butte, Charles David.  "Extract Quartermaster History, 83d Infantry Division, World War II." (20 April to May 1945).   By Lt. Col. John D.
McLaughlin.
Folder 7:  Butte, Charles David.  Photocopy of a chapter of a book: Cross-Channel Attack.
Folder 8:  Butte, Charles David.  Life Story of Charles Butte, 17 March 1921 to 01 June 1996.  Marked "Draft not complete."
Folder 9:  Butte, Charles David.  Description of life of Charles D. Butte.
Folder 10:  Butte, Charles David.  "Women's History Report," by Jackie Butte, 6th Grade March 21, 1994, about her grandmother who was in the WAVES.
Folder 11:  Byers, Richard H.  Battle of the Bulge.  99th Infantry Division.
Folder 12:  Byers, Richard H.  Charley Battery Blues.  Prelude to "Battle of the Bulge."
Folder 13:  Byrum, Peter.  Tin Can Sailors Scrapbook 1934 - 1954.
Folder 14:  Campbell, James H.  Pilots Man Your Planes: recollections of a naval aviator in World War II.  U.S.S. Yorktown.
Folder 15:  Carroll, Radford.  War Stories for my Grandchildren (fifty years later).
Folder 16:  Carter, Park.  Sound Off.  China-Burma-India Veterans Assoc.  Vol. 24, no. 1 (Spring /Winter), 2, 3; Vol. 25, no. 1-4; Vol. 26, no. 1.
Folder 17:  Carter, Park.  Ex-CBI Roundup.  China-Burma-India.  1974: Dec, Feb; 1975: Jul, Oct, Nov; 1976: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Oct, Nov.
Folder 18:  Carter, Park.  Ex-CBI Roundup.  1977: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Oct, Nov, Dec.
Folder 19:  Carter, Park.  Ex-CBI Roundup.  1978: Jan-Dec. 1979: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Oct, Nov, Dec.
Folder 20:  Carter, Park.  Ex-CBI Roundup.  1980: Jan-Dec; 1981: Jan-Dec.
Folder 21:  Carter, Park.  Ex-CBI Roundup.  1983: Jan-Jul, Oct-Dec; 1984: Jan-Jul, Oct-Dec.
Folder 22:  Carter, Park.  Ex-CBI Roundup.  1985: Jan-Jul, Oct-Dec; 1986: Jan-Jul, Oct-Dec.
Folder 23:  Carter, Park.  Ex-CBI Roundup.  1987: Jan-Jul, Oct-Dec; 1988: Jan-Jul; Oct-Dec.
Folder 24:  Carter, Park.  Ex-CBI Roundup.  1989: Jan, Feb, Mar, May, Jun, Jul, Oct, Nov, Dec: 1990: Jan-Dec; 1991: Mar, Apr. 1992: Oct, Nov, 1994: Oct, Nov, Dec, 1995: Apr-Jul, Oct-Dec.
Folder 25:  Carter, Park.  China-Burma-India Theatre of Operation. Sookerating "Scoops and Sketches. Victory Edition. Contains in back:  "World War II
Soldier in India," a memoir by Park Carter, a photograph of Sookerating Airbase, and a diagram of Sookerating Airbase
Folder 26:  Casey, Santford N.  As I Remember my POW Experience.
Folder 27:  Chitwood, John R.  Pacific Theatre of Operations. 59th Coast Artillery, Fort Mills, Philippine Islands. "Army Service Record." Contains
photocopies of letters written by John R. Chitwood, describing his experiences in the Philippines prior to the surrender of Corregidor; notification to his mother of his having been captured; newsclippings concerning Knoxvillians at Bataan and prayer service for them; letters from his mother attempting to locate him;
letters from people regretting that they had no information; notification of his release; letters from John R. Chitwood after his release.
Folder 28:  Church, Arlie E.  European Theatre of Operations.  "History of Able Battery 440th AAA AW Battalion in Combat in the ETO Taken from the
Morning Report and the Memory of One Man."  By Lt. Frick.(?).  Copy and retyped copy.
Folder 29:  Cooper, William G., Jr.  Memoirs.  POW Stalag Luft 3.
Folder 30:  Cooper, William G., Jr.  Col. Randy's Flying Circus.  319th Bombardment Group. (Sept-Oct 1983, No. 41).
Folder 31:  Cope, Charles, E.  Memoirs.  464th Heavy Bombardment Group, 777th Squadron.
Folder 32:  Costley, Bill.  Memoir.  Article written for I.L.P.A. (Liaison Pilot's Assoc.) newsletter.
Folder 33:  Dane, Richard.  Ex-CBI Roundup.  1992: Jan-Jul; Oct-Nov. 1993; Jan-Jun, Oct-Jan. 1995; Dec. 1996; Jan-Jul, Oct-Dec. 1997; Jan.
Folder 34:  DeBugk, Benton.  "(CA39) History of U.S.S. Quincy (CA71)". Office of Naval Records and Histories. Ship's History Section. Navy Dept.  By
Joseph Sepe.
Folder 35:  De Bugk, Benton.  Pages copied from a book giving details about U.S.S. Quincy and its history.
Folder 36:  De Bugk, Benton.  Photocopies of newsclipping concerning U.S.S. Quincy.
Folder 37:  Deadrick, R.O.  European Theatre of Operation.  3rd Cavalry Group, APO 403.  S-2 Reports, Aug. 1944-May 1945. (After Action Reports, include
Casualty Information Report).
Folder 38:  Deadrick, R.O.  Copy of "Address presented the 19th of May 1945 to Officers and men of the 3rd Cavalry Group ..."
Folder 39:  Deadrick, R.O.  Photocopy of "Third U.S. Army Operations.  Dec. 1944-1945.  A Brief Summary."
Folder 40:  Dick, Newton.  Letter to Mrs. Newton Dick from a secretary of Selective Service Board telling her that her husband would be classified 3-B.

Box 6:
Folder 1:  Doughty, Charles R.  Letter concerning war dog service of police dog, "Boy," who served in the Coast Guard, 1943-1945.  Photocopy: of Certificate
of Appreciation, picture of dog and owner, correspondence with Coast Guard, Boy's Honorable Discharge.
Folder 2:  Doughty, Charles R.  Pacific Theatre.  Memoir of naval service.
Folder 3:  Doughty, Charles R.  Photograph: "Co. 199- J.S. Howe-C.S.P. Co. Comdr - Mar. 7, 1944, U.S. Naval Training Station., Great Lakes, ILL.
[See: OVERSIZE]
Folder 4:  Duncan, David Donald.  European Theatre.  Memoirs.
Folder 5:  Eckstam, Eugene E.  "Exercise Tiger" material.  Naval Message (secret) "LST 507 sunk by enemy E Boat torpedo.  28 April 1944..."
Folder 6:  Eckstam, Eugene E.  Memo from C.O. LST 507 to Secretary of Navy, Subject: "Loss of Ship".  Date 2 May 1944.
Folder 7:  Eckstam, Eugene E.  "Exercise Tiger" material.  Memo from C.O. LST 507 to Chief of Naval Operations, subject, "Publications, Loss of, in Sinking
of LST 507."
Folder 8:  Eckstam, Eugene E.  "Exercise Tiger" materials.  Casualty Rosters from sinking of LST 507.
Folder 9:  Eckstam, Eugene E.  "Exercise Tiger" materials.  Memos recommending for medals: James S. Swarts, Bruce B. Hofman and Angelo Charles
Crapanzano.
Folder 10:  Eckstam, Eugene E.  "Exercise Tiger" materials.  Memo from Commander LST Flotilla Eleven.  Subject: "Orders for survivors and wounded of
LST's 511, 507, 531 and 259."
Folder 11:  Eckstam, Eugene E.  "Exercise Tiger" materials.  List of names and addresses of survivors of LST 507 ("excluding Hospital corpsmen except
Star").
Folder 12:  Eckstam, Eugene E.  "Exercise Tiger" materials.  Memo to Secretary of Navy, from C.O. U.S.S. LST 245, Subject: "Factual History of U.S.S. 245."
12 Oct 1945.
Folder 13:  Eckstam, Eugene E.  "Exercise Tiger" materials.  Correspondence between Lt. F. James Murdock and survivors and families of casualties of the
sinking of LST 507.  Letter from Navy Dept.: thank you for narrative of experiences on LST in European waters.
Folder 14:  Eckstam, Eugene E.  "Exercise Tiger" materials.  Roster of names.  Heading: Headquarters, 228 Station Hospital, APO 578 U.S. Army.  29
April 1944.
Folder 15:  Eckstam, Eugene E.  "Exercise Tiger" materials.  Roster of Officers and Enlisted Personnel attached to the U.S.S. LST 511.  3 January 1944 - 19
December 1945.  Unofficial.
Folder 16:  Eckstam, Eugene E.  "Exercise Tiger" materials.  List of men recommended for Purple Heart Award approved by Commander 1st Flotilla.
Folder 17:  Eckstam, Eugene E.  "Exercise Tiger" materials.  "Comphibsukay Order No. 108."  Subject: Trained Amphibious Enlisted Personnel; return of
for New Amphibious Requirements.  16 July 1944.
Folder 18:  Eckstam, Eugene E.  "Exercise Tiger" materials.  Memo from J.F. Murdock, Lt., USNR.  Subject "Survivors LST 507 and LST 531."
Folder 19:  Eckstam, Eugene E.  Poem: "Who Thought up the Point System!"
Folder 20:  Eckstam, Eugene E.  Form: Temporary Appointment and Promotion of Lt. James F. Murdock.
Folder 21:  Ector, H. Haley.  U.S. Air Force.  70th Fighter Squadron.  Cadet's Handbook.  (copy) Riddle Aeronautical Institute Carlstom Field, Arcadia
Florida, 1941.
Folder 22:  Ector, H. Haley.  "Pilot's Log."  April 2, 1942 to August 9, 1942.  Also, copies of Individual Flight records, May 1942 - August 1945.
Folder 23:  Ector, H. Haley.  Copies of correspondence with family, newsclipping with personal reference and separation papers.
Folder 24:  Ector, H. Haley.  Copies of Pilot training materials, certificates, examinations.
Folder 25:  Ector, H. Haley.  Records concerning service in Air Force Reserve.
Folder 26:  Ector, H. Haley.  Copies of Memoranda: "Check list for Personal Affairs," Mar 5, 1942; #98 "Instructions for Officers upon Reporting for Duty,
"Nov 20, 1942; "Check List of Clothing and Equipment."
Folder 27:  Eisenacher,Howard L.  Pacific Theatre.  1st Marine Div. 11th Regiment.  Memoir.  Photographs: 1st, 2nd, 3rd Squads and N.C.O.'s. 3rd Platoon
at Oro Bay New Guinea, Nov. 1943.
Folder 28:  Eldridge, Rick.  Nazi flag.
Folder 29:  Eldridge, Rick.  Photographs: Nordhausen Concentration Camp, Russian D.P.'s waiting to cross the Elbe into Russian held Germany; Gusten;
Loaf of Bread Line; Berlin 1945, Nordhausen villagers burying bodies, Hitler's old balcony; Church at Eskweiler; Old American Embassy; Russian Prisoners;
Americans meet the Russians; Pill Box at Omaha Beach.  Also, badges.
Folder 30:  Eldridge, Rick.  "Seven-Five-Zero Tank Battalion" cartoon description of activities in Europe.
Folder 31:  Evans, Thomas H.  Photocopy of World War II Veterans' Survey response.  Photograph of the crew of "Sunday Punch" bomber.  Newsclipping
concerning the "Sunday Punch."
Folder 32:  Fink, Harold.  Leaflets to be held up by "anyone - Japanese, Korean, soldier, Civilians, etc." who wants to surrender.  Written in Japanese and
English.: "THE BEARER HAS CEASED RESISTANCE."  Also, propaganda leaflets.
Folder 33:  Finley, Fred.  European Theater of Operations.  Company C, 1st Engineer Combat Battalion.  Photocopy of Visions of an Uncommon Man.  By
Mary McBee.  Includes copies of photos, memorabilia, correspondence, papers and newsclippings.
Folder 34:  Finley Fred.  Lamar Democrat.  April 3, 1996.  Contains article about and obituary of Fred Finley.
Folder 35:  Fleming, James B.  "Random Recollections of Various 'Characters,' Events and Places During World War II."
Folder 36:  Folk, Winston.  Transcript of taped interview with Rear Admiral Winston Folk, Nov 11, 1991.
Folder 37:  Folk, Winston.  History of the U.S.S. Woodford (AKA 86).
Folder 38:  Folk, Winston.  Photocopy of program of Commissioning Ceremony, Assault Cargo Ship, U.S.S. Woodford (KA-86) 3 March 1945.
Folder 39:  Folk, Winston.  "Captain's Farewell."  Photocopies of photos of U.S.S. Woodford and Rear Admiral Winston Folk making his farewell....
Newsclipping "Skipper handed medal for valor."
Folder 40:  Folk, Winston.  Photocopy of newsclipping, The News (Nashville), May 28, 1992.  "Folk Returns to Area; Donates Naval Sword."
Folder 41:  Folk, Winston.  Photocopies of pages from book, Battle of Leyte Gulf and an advertisement for the book from BOMC News, Fall of 1994.
Folder 42:  Ford, Neal.  U.S. Army II Corps Artillery.  "The Arno to the Alps."  Final phases Italian Campaign.  25 July 1944 to 2 May 1945.  Sequel to
"Minturno to Rome."
Folder 43:  Ford, Neal.  15th Field Artillery Observation Battalion.  15 FAOB Reunion.
Folder 44:  Fox, Victor J.  Photocopies of letters to Mother and family, some from Germany and Okinawa.  1944 - 1945.
Folder 45:  Fox, Victor J.  Letters from: Alex McPherson , India 1944 - 1945; Urban Fox Jr, 1943 - 1944; John (Jack) Fox, Italy 1945; Harvey Arbuckle, San
Francisco 1943 - 1944, Kingsville, TX 1945; Joseph C. Fisher, San Francisco 1943; John Sapton, San Francisco 1943-44; John O' Sullivan, NYC 1943, Robert
Leitch, Fort Knox 1943; Thomas Fox, San Francisco 1945.
Folder 46:  Fulton, Charles.  Poems.
Folder 47:  Glasgow, Alexander M.  Letter to "Marg" on stationery of Headquarters, XXIV Corps, Office of the Commanding General, Nov. 15, 1944.  War
Bond cartoon.  Poem, "The Virgin of Waikiki."
Folder 48:  Gleason, Robert T.J., Jr.  Correspondence: to his Mother from: Germany 1944; Belgium 1945 (contains photo of Cpl. Robert Gleason, Jr. and 2
friends and a check for $2 from VFW) ; France 1945. From "Aunt Mable" (containing photographs of 2 soldiers and call to active duty form for 4 men dated
January 1, 1943).
Folder 49:  Gleason, Robert T.J., Jr.  Fourth Service Command Signal School.  List of men who ... completed course, date and grades: Co 74 Radio Mechanics;
Co. 61 Radio Operators; Co. 39 Radio Operators.
Folder 50:  Gleason, Robert T.J., Jr.  Memorabilia: Postcard and tourist photo of Schloss Herrenchiemsee.  Menu from U.S.S. Hermitage at sea, Thanksgiving
Day 1945.  Card stating Robert T.J. Gleason returned to United States on U.S.S. Hermitage.  War Ration Book One.  Page from Liberty, January 2, 1943.
Folder 51:  Gleason, Robert T.J., Jr.  Newsclipping, photo of ship Hermitage.
Folder 52:  Gleason, Robert T.J., Jr.  Copy of article from Stars and Stripes, 2 Oct 1944 concerning 5th Armored breakthrough into Germany.
Folder 53:  Gleason, Robert T.J., Jr.  Map showing "Advance of the 5th Armored Seine River to the Rhine.  30 Aug 1944 to 5 March 1945."
Folder 54:  Glover, Christine.  Memoir: Dutch family's experiences.  (Includes Japanese occupation of Java, Japanese prison camp for civilians).
Folder 55:  Godby, Garland D.  European Theater of Operations.  Co. E, 319th Infantry.  Memoirs of Heidersheid, by Capt. Garland D. Godby, Sgt. Eugene
A. Tippens, Sid Rowling, Col. O.L. Davidson, G.W. Harmon.  Photocopy of photograph and description of service of Garland D. Godby.  Photograph of
Liberation Ceremony in town of San Bendit.
Folder 56:  Godby, Garland D.  Co. E, 319th Infantry.  Morning Reports, 1 Dec - 29 May 1945, Hombourg, France to Grobming, Austria.
Folder 57:  Greene, Whayland H.  Pacific Theater.  32nd Division. I Made P.F.C. "Even a P.F.C. Can Be Wrong Sometimes!" "Classified."
Folder 58:  Greene, Whayland H.  Pacific Theater.  32nd Division.  Grateful Soldiers...Not Great Soldiers.
Folder 59:  Gregory, Oliver C.  China-Burma-India.  Transcript of taped interview.  Also, newsletter from China-Burma-India Veterans Assoc., Inc. April
11, 1993.
Folder 60:  Greup, Ernie.  European Theatre.  Copies of records requested from National Archives and Dept. of Navy, concerning Convoy CU-37, Troop
Movement #132, August 1944.
Folder 61:  Greup, Ernie.  "26th Infantry Division at Sea 1944, 1945, 1946."  (Includes photograph and copies of newsclippings).
Folder 62:  Grubin, Mortin L.  Pacific Theatre.  "Top Secret.  Commander Task Force Fifty-Four and Commander Fifth Amphibious Force Operation
Plan No. A1501-45."
Folder 63:  Grubin, Mortin L.  Pacific Theatre.  "Secret.  Commander Task Group 54.8 and Commander Amphibious Group Eight.  Operation Order
No. A803-45. NAGOYA GROUP.
Folder 64:  Grubin, Mortin L.  Pacific Theatre.  "Confidential. S.O.P.A. Instructions Yokkaichi-Nagoya, Japan.  Part I - Miscellaneous Instruction."
Folder 65:  Gurney, Edward L.  European Theatre.  2nd Ranger Bn.  Memoir (includes action at Omaha Beach).
Folder 66:  Hamlin, John W., Jr.  European Theater of Operations.  121st Infantry.  Photographs: including: Refugee camp in North Germany; Local
Germans made to bury the dead in political prison camp; The Dead; Pile of clothes and blankets from dead prisoners; Schwerin, Germany; Tank knocked
out by a negro soldier with one of the germans own tank weapons; Duren Germany after we took it.
Folder 67:  Hamlin, John W., Jr.  European Theater of Operations.  121st Infantry.  Photographs: including: Liberated Frenchmen going home, Germany,
April 1945; 2 of the gals that entertained us; German POWS, March 1945; Danube, April 1945; Pictures taken from truck on the Autobahn, April 1945;
Munich, May 1945; German soldier killed by strafing and burned up as he sat dead at wheel of his volkswagon; German planes out of gas; Children, Alsace
Dec. 1944; Road blocks in Germany; USO show , May 1945; Tourist photos of London and the French coast during war.
Folder 68:  Hamlin, John W., Jr.  Coffin flag.

Box 7:
Folder 1:  Hansen, Richard.  "United States Navy, 1941-45."  Memoir, includes service on U.S.S. Gamble (DM 15), 1942-43, U.S.S. Rudyerd Bay (CVE 81)
1944 - 1945).
Folder 2:  Hansen, Richard.  Pacific Theatre.  Offensive Minelaying by Surface Craft During the Second World War.
Folder 3:  Hansen, Richard.  Pacific Theater. "One Ship's Odyssey at Okinawa, U.S.S. Harry F. Bauer (DD-738)."
Folder 4:  Hansen, Richard.  "Short History of YMS 408."
Folder 5:  Hansen, Richard.  "Mines Laid per Ship Sunk or Damaged.  Pacific Theater, World War II."
Folder 6:  Hansen, Richard.  "Last ship to be at Pearl Harbor During the Japanese Attack on 7 December 1941 is still around, alive and well... in San
Francisco Bay." (U.S.S. HOGA (YT-146)).
Folder 7:  Hansen, Richard.  "Ultimate Fate of YMS-183."
Folder 8:  Hansen, Richard.  "Foundering of the YMS-133."
Folder 9:  Hansen, Richard.  "History of YMS-478."
Folder 10:  Hansen, Richard.  "History of Various YMS's and Their Ultimate Fate."
Folder 11:  Hansen, Richard.  "Landing Craft, Infantry (LCI) That Were Converted to Mine Locator Vessels (MHC) After World War Two Was Over."
Folder 12:  Hansen, Richard.  Articles concerning post World War II: mines, mine counter measures, mine use in Near East, Desert Shield/Storm, Haiphong,
Korea.
Folder 13:  Hardison, Ervin H.  History of the 310 Infantry Regiment.  Written and published in Berlin.  (Contains photographs of platoons, labeled with
names of soldiers; List of Awards).
Folder 14:  Hardison, Ervin H.  Invasion money, issued at end of fighting: Three 20 Mark notes.  Note from Ervin H. Hardison about invasion money.
Folder 15:  Harris, George.  The Landings in North Africa.
Folder 16:  Harris, George.  "In Harm's Way: The Navy in the Atlantic Theatre in World War II."
Folder 17:  Harris, Phil.  "Mission on the Morgan Line."  By Lt. Col. William G. Bell.
Folder 18:  Harshman, Brent.  "Battle of the Bulge - The First Day."
Folder 19:  Harshman, Brent.  "P.O.W. Experience of L.R. Harshman."  (Includes experiences at Stalag XII-A when bombed by English and at Stalag III-A).
Folder 20:  Hubenreich, Paul N.  Memories of Service in the Second Platoon, Company K, 407th Infantry.  March 1944 - September 1945.  Edited by Paul
N. Haubenreich and William L. Schaible.
Folder 21:  Hawley, Thomas J., Jr.  Photographs of Thomas J. Hawley, Jr in uniform taken in various places.
Folder 22:  Hawley, Thomas J., Jr.  Memoir of time in the infantry, August 1940 - December 1941.
Folder 23:  Hawley, Thomas J., Jr.  Memoir of time in the Air Force, December 1941 - June 1945.
Folder 24:  Hawley, Thomas J., Jr.  Photographs: persons and places at Florence SC, May(?) 1942.
Folder 25:  Hawley, Thomas J., Jr.  Photographs: soldiers from Co. K, 158th Infantry , 45th Division at Camp Barkeley TX, March - August, 1941.  (Includes
Hopi and Apache soldiers later killed in action).
Folder 26:  Hawley, Thomas J., Jr.  Photographs: soldiers from Co. K, 158th Infantry, 45th Division at 2nd-3rd Army maneuvers, Louisiana, August - September 1941.
Folder 27:  Hawley, Thomas J., Jr.  Photographs: soldiers from Co. K, 158th Infantry, 45th Division at Fort Sill, September 1940 - March 1941.
Folder 28:  Hawley, Thomas J., Jr.  Photographs: soldiers from Co. K, 158th Infantry, 45th Division at Camp Riverside Park AZ, September 1940.
Folder 29:  Hawley, Thomas J., Jr.  European Theatre of Operation.  2nd Fighter Squadron, 52nd Fighter Group.  Palermo, Sicily.  Photographs of persons
and places, 1943.
Folder 30:  Hawley, Thomas J., Jr.  2nd Fighter Squadron.  52nd Fighter Group.  North Africa.  Photographs: Bone, Africa: armorers from 2nd Fighter Sqdn.
just after air raid on field (bombed and strafed), December 26, 1942.  Le Sers, 1943.
Folder 31:  Hawley, Thomas J., Jr.  Photographs: persons at Borgo Airfield, Northern tip of Corsica, 1943 - 1944.
Folder 32:  Hawley, Thomas J., Jr.  Photographs: Persons and planes at Madna Airfield, Italy, 1944 - 1945.
Folder 33:  Hawley, Thomas J., Jr.  Photographs: include: "sqdn ensignia, George the dog flew couple mission in our Spitfire" ; Clyde and Reva Headley;
Parade in Phoenix, 1946.
Folder 34:  Hawley, Thomas J., Jr.  Newsclipping Arizona Republic, August 27, 1989: "Breakout at Papago Park Sparked Terror During Christmas 1944."
Folder 35:  Hawley, Thomas J., Jr.  Newsclippings: concern: Thomas J. Hawley, Jr.; 52nd Fighter Group; Battle of Kassarine Pass; Col. McComb; "Allied
Armies Invade French Channel Coast," (Arizona Republic, June 6, 1944).
Folder 36:  Hawley, Thomas J., Jr.  Newsclippings: concern World War Two remembered.
Folder 37:  Hawley, Thomas J., Jr.  Newsletters: 52nd Comments, April 1948; "To Former Members and Friends of the Fifty Second Fighter Group,"
(contains a list of attendees at squadron reunion, and a "we need to find list"), October 6, 1990.
Folder 38:  Hawley, Thomas J., Jr.  Newsclippings: poems and cartoons.
Folder 39:  Hawley, Thomas J., Jr.  Certificates, Citation, Discharge Papers, "Welcome Home" instructions.
Folder 40:  Hawley, Thomas J., Jr.  "Project Green": includes: instructions to passengers; travel orders including roster; air travel clearance certificate;
identification tag; membership card in the "Short Snorter Club" with a map of the route.
Folder 41:  Hawley, Thomas J., Jr.  Memorabilia, includes: dog tags; badges; emblem; currency; membership card AAF Aid Society; membership card Red
Cross; Classification and registration cards; transient ration card.
Folder 42:  Hawley, Thomas J., Jr.  Correspondence: letters to family from Italy, 1945; letter from pilot to Thomas J. Hawley's family; letter to family from
commanding officer, October 1944.  Letter concerning donation of war materials.
Folder 43:  Hennes, Gerhard.  Under the Crooked Cross.
Folder 44:  Herman, Edward R.  Postcards: servicemen's humor; Pan American Airways "China Clipper" arrives at San Francisco..."; Greetings from Camp
Smith, Peekskill, NY; New York City; San Francisco.
Folder 45:  Herman, Edward R.  Letters from friends and family, 1943 - 1945.
Folder 46:  Herman, Edward R.  Memorabilia: greeting cards; Navy dance invitation; dance ticket; card - "having crossed 180th Meridian"; books of
complimentary Western Union stamps; Marine Corps field message envelope with Naval Message; booklet "Something Doing in San Francisco"; Hawaii
Baseball League player's schedule.
Folder 47:  Hickman, Edward M.  Company B, 864th Aviation Engineer Battalion.  Photocopy of Service Diary, August 12, 1943 - Feb 1, 1945.  Contains
address book for buddies.
Folder 48:  Horne, Elmer T.  "Camp Fannin - A Trainees's Memoir."  Also, Camp Fannin Guidon, Vol. 2, no. 1.
Folder 49:  Houbler, Claude D.  Memoir.
Folder 50:  Huber, Ferdinand V.  "Recollections of World War II."
Folder 51:  Hughes, Mari.  Newsclippings.
Folder 52:  Hughes, Mari.  Memorabilia: Copy of diary pages concerning trip to Normandy, photocopy of photos of WACs at Omaha Beach, Certificate,
Programs.
Folder 53:  Humphrey, Clyde E.  Photograph.  Pay record for Clyde E. Humphrey, Separation Record.
Folder 54:  Hutchison, Robert S.  POW diary written in calendar booklet "Christmas 1942," from Vatican Press.
Folder 55:  Hutchison, Robert S.  Officer's Identification Card with description, photograph and fingerprints of Robert S. Hutchison.
Folder 56:  Hutchison, Robert S.  POW identification card with photo of Robert S. Hutchison. ("Kriegsgefangenen-Offz.-Lager 64").
Folder 57:  Hutchison, Robert S.  Surgeon's Bulletin: "Take the Doctor's Advice," Camp Ramp, 6 May 1945.  (Concerning returning to normal eating after
starvation POW diet).
Folder 58:  Hutchison, Robert S.  Memorabilia: Pass from Camp Ramp to Paris; Four "Kriegsgefangenen=Lagergeld, Gutschein uber 10 Reichsmark"; One
"2 Reichsmark"; insignia 37th Infantry Division, Co. A.
Folder 59:  Ivey, Aubrey.  Letters to wife written in 1944, mostly from Camp Croft, SC.  Also, copy of Certification of Military Service.
Folder 60:  Ivey, Aubrey.  European Theatre.  253 Inf, Co. L.  Letters to his wife, written in 1945, mostly from Germany; some written while on boat.
Folder 61:  Ivey, Curt.  Memoir.
Folder 62:  Johnson, Walter R.  European Theatre.  9th AF Div, 368 Fighter Group.  Memorable Mission of a Fighter Bomber Pilot.  By Lynn Hatcher.
(Includes Walter R. Johnson's action as a pilot; being shot down behind German lines; returning to his own lines with four German prisoners) Also
photocopies of photographs and newsclippings.
Folder 63:  Johnson, Walter R.  Photocopy of flight log.
Folder 64:  Johnston, G.M.  "Patrol Report: Second War Patrol. U.S.S. Barbero. SS-317."

Box 8:
Folder 1:  Kahn, David A.  "Reminiscences of Life as an Aircraft Worker in WWII."
Folder 2:  Kesslerr, Sydney.  Poems.
Folder 3:  Kessler, Sydney.  "Captain Dahlke, F Company, 347th Infantry, 87th Division."  Also, correspondence between Sydney Kessler and Barbara
Strang, May - July, 1996, concerning Captain Dahlke.
Folder 4:  King, Avery P., M.D.  Photocopies of newsletter: Letterman General Hospital, Foghorn.  December 1, 1948.  Includes "Highlights of Letterman
History Over Half a Century."
Folder 5:  King, Avery P., M.D.  248th Field Artillery Battalion.  (Photocopy) Also, photocopy of photograph of Dr. Avery King, Italy, 1943 or 1944, 33rd
Field Hospital.
Folder 6:  King, Kyle K.  "Corporal Patsy": memoir includes breaking up of a whiskey ring in Ireland that was selling bad whiskey to American troops
resulting in deaths.
Folder 7:  Klutke, William.  Memoir.  Service in R.A.A.F.  1942 - 1946 ("joined up in Adelaide").
Folder 8:  Knight, Clayton K.  Clayton Kenneth Knight Memorial Book.  (photocopy) Contains photographs, newsclippings, letters and diary, March 4,
1941 - June 10, 1944.
Folder 9:  Kocour, Max G.  European Theatre.  Memoir.  Includes action at Utah Beach, Normandy, Battle of Bulge, and Rhineland.  Also, information on
Max G. Kocour and his awards.  Correspondence between Max Kocour and a class of 8 yr olds in Normandy, 1994.
Folder 10:  Kotzur, Germanus P.  "A Story of a Professional Soldier."
Folder 11:  Lankford, Paul H.  "Paul H. Lankford, Survivor of the Bataan Death March."  By Edna M. Riddick.
Folder 12:  Lans, Sherman B.  European Theatre.  17th Armored Infantry, 12th Armored Division.  Mount Up! History of Company C.
Folder 13:  Laughlin, Edward.  Memoir.  Also, Bio-Sketch.
Folder 14:  Laughlin, Edward.  Berlin Sentinel.  Vol. 1, no. 2, October 5, 1945.  Static Line.  Vol. 3, no. 7, September 1945.
Folder 15:  Laughlin, Edward.  505th Parachute Infantry Regiment.  Regimental Headquarters Company Newsletter.  February 1995.  The Panther.
January 20, 1996.
Folder 16:  Laughlin, Edward.  European Theatre.  "Crossing the Elbe - 1945."  Part I and Part II.
Folder 17:  Laughlin, Edward.  "Ft. Benning PX Incident."  Also, "Episode at a Ft. Benning PX."
Folder 18:  Laughlin, Edward.  European Theatre.  "Pinky--in Retrospect."  Concerns John Pinkerton and 3rd Squad of Demolition Platoon.
Folder 19:  Laughlin, Edward.  "Glimpses of Major General James Gavin."
Folder 20:  Laughlin, Edward.  "Sgt. Robert Tague."
Folder 21:  Laughlin, Edward.  "Fred Beise."
Folder 22:  Laughlin, Edward.  "First Sergeant Baker."
Folder 23:  Laughlin, Edward.
Folder 24:  Laughlin, Edward.  "The Labor Camp."  Includes liberation of camp, killing of commandant and his wife by freed prisoners, killing of informants.
Folder 25:  Laughlin, Edward.  "Summary: contacts with German Prisoners of War (POWs)."
Folder 26:  Laughlin, Edward.  European Theatre.  "Village Street Fighting."
Folder 27:  Laughlin, Edward.  "Air Corps Cadet Program: Flying Lessons."
Folder 28:  Laughlin, Edward.  "Biarritz, Paris, London, New York, 1945 / 1946."
Folder 29:  Laughlin, Edward.  European Theatre of Operations.  "France: the Practice Jump."  Includes description of crashing plane that picked up
paratroopers on its wings - 11 paratroopers killed.
Folder 30:  Laughlin, Edward.  European Theatre.  "Memories of Huertgen Forest (II)."
Folder 31:  Laughlin, Edward.  "Miscellaneous Episodes and Memories."
Folder 32:  Laughlin, Edward.  European Theatre.  "The Village, Female German Soldiers, The Bank, Etc., April 1945."
Folder 33:  Laughlin, Edward.  "Pillbox/Flame Thrower."
Folder 34:  Laughlin, Edward.  Newsbriefs.  505th Parachute Infantry Regiment.  May, 1944.
Folder 35:  Laughlin, Edward.  Newsclipping: "82nd Airborne comes in on the Queen Mary."  Photocopy of photograph of HQ Co, 505th Parachute
Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Benning.  April 1942.
Folder 36:  Laughlin, Edward.  Airborne Assault on Holland.  Wings at War Series, No. 4, 1992.
Folder 37:  Laughlin, Edward.  "Pallbearer."
Folder 38:  Laughlin, Edward.  "Camp Chaffee digging a hole."
Folder 39:  Laughlin, Edward.  "Transfer from Camp Chaffee to Camp Mackall."
Folder 40:  Laughlin, Edward.  "Alabama Area: The Knife Fight."
Folder 41:  Laughlin, Edward.  "Fort Benning: the Near Riot" and "Ft. Benning: The Holding Area."
Folder 42:  Laughlin, Edward.  Medals and Badges.
Folder 43:  Lea, Luke.  Pacific Theatre.  20th AF.  313th Bomber Group.  Transcription of taped interview.  Includes experiences as an Air Force intelligence
officer during and after war.
Folder 44:  Lea, Luke.  Pacific Theatre.  Copies of photographs: Defendants, International Military Tribunal, Far East; Luke Lea; "You Helped Do This to
Osaka"; Attack of 14 March 1945; Capt. Lea's room at the Hattori; Guarded entry to Hattori; An official dinner; Russian Guards for PU-YI.  Program for
Imperial Hotel Dance. Biwako Hotel Menu.
Folder 45:  Lea, Luke.  Photocopy of article from the New Yorker, "Annals of the Cold War, The General and World War III" (Concerns Curtis Le May).
Also, copy of Letter to the Editor, Wall St. Journal, June 13, 1995, "Japan, 1945, Mass Suicide."
Folder 46:  Leake, John Jr.  Resume with description of service.  Menu for Christmas Eve Dinner aboard the SS Exchequer, 1945.  Photocopy of page from
book showing photo of Nuremberg trial defendants and their sentences.  Sketch done by John Lock Jr (prison at Nuremberg?)
Folder 47:  LeBaron, Ted.  "The Attack on Pearl Harbor."
Folder 48:  LeBaron, Ted.  Typed quotes from letters: "Drawdown for a Vermont Family - 1945-Post-War."  Also, typed copy of a letter from Nagasaki Japan
describing condition of returning American POWs.
Folder 49:  Lee, Roy.  "My Life with the Japanese."
Folder 50:  Leesemann, William, Jr.  Memoir of return to USA from France in December 1945 on the Liberty SS William Maxwell Evarts.
Folder 51:  Leesemann, William Jr.  Memoir concerning the Village of Sarreguemines and Major Bennett.  (incomplete?) Also, a letter from Archives
Municipales Ville de Sarreguemines with attached photocopy of book pages concerning Robert Henderson Bennett.
Folder 52:  Leesemann, William Jr.  "Hammelburg, Germany - Summer 1945."
Folder 53:  Leesemann, William Jr.  Memoir of Margaret Braun Leesemann telling of experiences as a ship's nurse with Military Sea Transportation
transporting displaced persons.
Folder 54:  Leesemann, William Jr.  Letter (contains info from another letter concerning experiences of M.P. in Ireland, guarding GIs to be hung for murder
of English civilians).
Folder 55:  Leesemann, William Jr.  European Theatre of Operations.  101 Engineer Combat Battalion.  Memoir.
Folder 56:  Leesemann, William Jr.  European Theater of Operations.  "Battle of the Bulge Maps for YD and Engineer Water Points for Division."
Folder 57:  Leesemann, Willaim Jr.  European Theater of Operations.  "Displaced Persons (DP's), Europe."
Folder 58:  Leesemann, William Jr.  Correspondence, 1990-1994, requests for information.
Folder 59:  Leesemann, William Jr.  Photocopies of: Photographs, including: Retreat Parade Around 1944 at Camp Upton, Long Island; with Leo Durocher,
Joe Louis.  Articles: "I Am the Infantry"; "Soldier"; "Return to Camp Upton"; "Syndicated Account of the Writer's Night Stay at our Old Camp" by Ernie
Pyle; "Fight to Death 5 Miles Up".  Memo: "Reduction in ASTP, 19 February 1944.
Folder 60:  Leesemann, William Jr.  European Theatre of Operations.  101 Engineer Combat Batallion, 26th Yankee Division.  "Record of Events."
Folder 61:  Leesemann, William Jr.  Cartoons and war humor.
Folder 62:  Leesemann, William Jr.  European Theatre of Operations.  Stars and Stripes.  Vol. 3, no. 22-23, 26-27, 32, 36, 38, 40-41.  Vol. 4, no. 5.
Folder 63:  Leesemann, William Jr.  Newsclippings.  Includes, "Poland Man Recalls Tragedy of Deaths in Sinking of Ronna."
Folder 64:  Leesemann, William Jr.  Yank.  British Edition.  July 4, 1943.
Folder 65:  Leesemann, William Jr.  The Man Nobody Knows.  Armed Services Edition.  Britain: for members of American Expeditionary Forces in Great
Britain.  Sheet music: Lilli Marlene."
Folder 66:  Leesemann, William Jr.  Warweek, September 28, 1944.  Contains "Diary of a Dead German," and "Hitler's Guesses Were World's Worst."
Folder 67:  Linke, Simpson.  Pacific Theatre.  Memoir (concerns service with the Occupation Forces in Korea).
Folder 68:  Lones, Raymond R.  Pacific Theatre.  1st Marine Division.  Handwritten copy of a letter from Raymond R. Lones, written January 6, 1943.
Concerns Marine Corp Service at Guadalcanal.
Folder 69:  Lovett, Jim.  "Military History."  (Memoir of service, June 1940 - Fall, 1943).
Folder 70:  Mackenson, John C.  Leather case, contains card with poison gas description and first aid; photograph of John C. Mackenson, August 18, 1944,
Italy; envelopes.
Folder 71:  Mackenson, John C.  Field Manuals: FM 5-25.  Explosives and Demolitions.  FM 21-105.  Engineer Soldiers Handbook.
Folder 72:  Mackenson, John C.  Photographs from an album labelled "Camp Claiborne Louisiana."  Include: At Camp Edwards, Mass; Cpl Ed Jaeger...
practicing firing prone; Sgt. Henry Sorenson; Sgt. "Bing" Evans; where we went swimming in Lake Pontchartrain; tent ... in New Orleans; Suntan uniform;
in New Orleans on Truck Convoy, May 25, 1941; Blue Denims of Field Uniform; Edward McCarty; Dick Daly.
Folder 73:  Mackenson, John C.  Photographs encased in plastic: include, Blasting some of the bigger rocks, Highway 65 Italy, March 1945; My Dog House
for the Winter; in Winter Outfit Italy Jan 1945; Convoy of trucks; line of soldiers on motorcycles on snowy road.
Folder 74:  Mackenson, John C.  History, 109th Engineer Batallion (C) Tunisian Campaign.
Folder 75:  Mackenson, John C.  Photographs (in plastic) include: Capt. Richard E. Hummel; Lt. Russel, R. Schilling; T/5 "Pete" Van Hove; 3rd Platoon ,
Co. A, 109 Engr. Combat Bn taken after African Campaign, July 1943; "Hellsgate" Bridge built by 109 Engr near Maktare in Africa; Lt. Glenn; 1st Lt. King;
S/Sgt Lyle Huag taken in Africa; Oran Africa, Henry Barth, Frank Carra; "Swede" Halverson, Bob Berry; Lars Martens; Jack Bear, Michael Nazarchyk.
Folder 76:  Mackenson, John C.  "Pianta Panoramica Di Roma" (Street map of Rome).  Notebook, "Cahier de Dessin" with drawings.  Cover of Scrapbook
from Camp Claiborne, La.
 
 

Box 9:
Folder 1:  Mackenson, John C.  Soldier's sewing kit.
Folder 2:  Mackenson, John C.  Story of the 34th Infantry Division.  Louisiana to Pisa.
Folder 3:  Mackenson, John C.  Frontpost. Ausgabe Sud. Nachrictenblatt fur deutsche Soldaten Nummer 60. 5 Sept. 1944.  "Die Alliierten in Belgien und
Holland."
Folder 4:  Mackenson, John C.  Red Bulletin.  34th "Red Bull" Infantry Division.  Vol. 1, no. 5, 11. 1945.
Folder 5:  Mackenson, John C.  Photographs: German convoy of prisoners going to the rear; parked double along highway while another convoy crosses;
bridge blown just outside of Bergamo, Italy; Legnano Italy; 34th German Division Stockade; Prisoners stockade taken from machine gun tower; bridge blown out... Northern Italy (also some negatives); "Buck" Orlan Morris; Burford Gray; Pvt. John F. Blane.
Folder 6:  Mackenson, John C.  Postcards, include: Belfast, Glenariff, Naples, Rome, Cuneo, Pisa, Civitavecchia, Cassino, Milan, Tunis, Alger.  Tourist photos of Pompei.
Folder 7:  Mackenson, John C.  Newsclippings: St. Louis Globe-Democrat, May 7, 1945 "20 Month Campaign in Italy Unique in History"; "This Airview Shows Camp Claiborne."  Memorabilia: 34th Division Rest Camp Meal Ticket and Pass.  Christmas card with photograph, letter on back, 1944.
Folder 8:  Mackenson, John C.  European Theatre of Operations.  Winter Campaign.  History of Company I of the 274th Regiment of the 70th Infantry
Division from 17 November 44 until 25 March 45. (photocopy).
Folder 9:  Mansfield, J. Norman.  91st Bomb Group (8th AF) 322 B. Sq.  List of B-17 mission on which Norman J. Mansfield served as radio operator.
Photocopies of Individual Flight Record, January - June 1944.
Folder 10:  Martin, C. Russ.  Transcript of taped interview.  Includes experiences in Oran, Africa and as a POW at Camp 59 in Italy.
Folder 11:  Marartin, Joseph.  European Theatre of Operations.  Transcript of taped interview.  Includes action in Sicily and Italy.
Folder 12:  Martin, Joseph A.  159th Engineer Combat Battalion.  Edited by Capt. Wm. W. Baltz.  Reproduced copy, 1989.  (Includes platoon photographs,
roster).
Folder 13:  Martin, Joseph A.  'Daily Situation "Task Force A"' Headquarters, 159th Engineer, C Battalion, APO #403. 1 August 1944 - 25 December 1944.
Folder 14:  Mason, Keith S.  European Theatre of Operations.  Photocopies of letters to Miss Emily Gosnold (Aunt).  April 3, 1942-July 29, 1945.  Letter 5 May
1945, contains typed account ("to be sent home") of 12th Armored Division battle activities.
Folder 15:  McDonald,George B.  History of the 6th Aircraft Repair Unit (f) World War II.
Folder 16: McDonald, George B.  Photographs: gun crew on the Alfred J. Lyon; 6th A.R.U.(F) Reunion Aug.  1992; photo of identification card.  Photos
from 6th A.R.U.(F) Reunion, August 1992.
Folder 17:  McDonald, George B.  Photocopy from Air Force Combat Units of World War II: "97th Bombardment Group."  Also, "List of Men of the 97th
Bombardment Group who were Killed in Action."
Folder 18:  McDonald, George B.  "Army Airmen in Sailor's Hats."  Photocopy article from CAF*DISPATCH, May  /June 1991.  "U.S. Air Force Operating
from Ships?..."
Folder 19:  McDonald, George B.  "B-17 Flying Fortress Association."  "Surviving B-17's from Around the World"; "U.S. A.A.C. Units Equipped with B-17
Aircraft."
Folder 20:  McDonald, George B.  Shipping Orders for the 6th A.R.U.(F)  23 January 1945. (photocopy).
Folder 21:  McDonald, George B.  Shipping Orders for the 97th Bomb Group (H)AAF.  May 12, 1942.
Folder 22:  McDonald, George B.  "Details of Glenn Miller's Death."  By Thomas E. O'Connel, 338th B.G. (copy)
Folder 23:  McDonald, George B.  "Mid-Air Collision February 1, 1943."  (Involved Messerschmitt, "Flaming Mayme" and "All American").
Folder 24:  McDonald, George B.  "A Rather Special Award."  Copied from Air Force Magazine, August (1990?).  Concerns David Kingsley.
Folder 25:  McDonald, George B.  Photocopies of: Marine Training School Seamanship Certificate Honorable Discharge, Separation Qualification Record.
Decal from 97th Bomb Group Reunion.
Folder 26:  McDonald, George B.  Newsclippings: "Sailger: this sailor was also a soldier"; "Mrs. McDonald dies; Had 3 sets of twins." (copies).
Folder 27:  McGill, William W.  "Brief Narrative of Naval Service."
Folder 28:  Mietus, Walter S.  Letters written in response to ad in V.F.W. magazine June 1979, asking for combat veterans to answer a survey regarding G.I.
education benefits.
Folder 29:  Mietus, Walter S.  Combat Veterans Questionnaire Concerning Education Benefits.  Survey responses.
Folder 30:  Mietus, Walter S.  "American Memories of Belgium During World War II" copied from Belgian American Association Newsletter, Vol. 3, no. 4, Dec. 1994.
Folder 31:  Mietus, Walter S.  Letter concerning taped interview.  Sketch to accompany tape.  Copy of General Order Number 98, from General Patton, 9 May 1945.  Copy of letter from Robert F. Gay "return to Ground and Service Forces...men...qualified for training as Pilots... but who have not yet entered
Pre-Flight School."
Folder 32:  Mietus, Walter S.  European Theatre of Operations.  Photocopies of pages from books: "Medic not Medics"; List of Charlie Company dead;
"Chronology - 76th Infantry Division..."; "...76th...assault crossing River Sauer..."; Description of Walter Mietus (life and service); "Five Chicagoans of "C"
Company" by Walter Mietus (incomplete?); "River Wider."
Folder 33:  Mietus, Walter S.  Letters to Editor of Washington Post, May 8, 1990 and December 7, 1992.  Newsclipping concerning Vietnam era vets study.
Folder 34:  Mietus, Walter S.  Infantry Drill Regulations.  1919.
Folder 35:  Mietus, Walter S.  Basic Military Training: text book for the R.O.T.C. basic course.  1931.
Folder 36:  Mietus, Walter S.  Photocopies of letters from Walter S. Mietus concerning experiences during war and the 385th Reg.  Letter from Gaylord Mosher concerning being wounded.
Folder 37:  Miles, Charles.  Certificate: George H. Miles "has participated in work essential to the production of the Atom bomb."
Folder 38:  Miller, H.A.  European Theatre of Operations.  976 Field Artillery Battalion.  Memoir.
Folder 39:  Miller, Thomas E.  "A Story for My Grandchildren."
Folder 40:  Mitchell, Charles A.  European Theatre of Operations.  526th Armored Infantry Battalion, Company A.  Memoir of action at Stavelot, Belgium
during Battle of the Bulge.  (2 copies).
Folder 41:  Mitchell, Charles A.  European Theatre of Operations.  526th Armored Infantry Battalion.  After Action Report.  Appendix I.  For 18 December
1944 (photocopy).  Also, map of Stavelot.
Folder 42:  Mitchell, Charles A.  Company "A" 526th Armored Infantry Battalion (on 18 December 1944).
Folder 43:  Mitchell,Woodrow W.  Transcript of interview of Woodrow W. Mitchell and photograph of Woodrow W. Mitchell.
Folder 44:  Moore, Brittain.  Pacific Theatre of Operations.  Typed copies of letters from Petty Officer 1st Class Norman H. Post written in the Philippines,
January - August 1945.
Folder 45:  Moore, Brittain.  Pacific Theatre of Operations.  Photographs of Norman H. Post; Philippine Island, servicemen's hut; Philippine natives and
buildings.  Also, Tennessee tie pin engraved N.H. Post 1949.

Box 10:
Folder 1:  Morelli, Jean.  Negatives for photographs.
Folder 2:  Morelli, Jean.  European Theatre of Operations.  Co. B, 313th Med. Bn.  Letters from Jack Durell, written to his parents while he was in Italy,
February - July, 1944.
Folder 3:  Morelli, Jean.  European Theatre of Operations.  Co. B, 313th Med. Bn.  Letters from Jack Durell, written to his parents while he was in Italy,
August - December, 1944.
Folder 4:  Morelli, Jean.  Letters from Jack Durell, written to his parents while he was at Camp Grant Illinois, January 1944.
Folder 5:  Morelli, Jean.  Letters from Jack Durell, written to his parents while he was at Camp Reynolds, PA, February 1944.
Folder 6:  Morelli, Jean.  Letters from Jack Durell, written to his parents while in hospital in Italy, January 1945.
Folder 7:  Morelli, Jean.  European Theatre of Operations. Co. B, 313th Med. Bn.  Letters from Jack Durell, written to his parents while he was in Italy,
February - April 1945.
Folder 8:  Morelli, Jean.  European Theatre of Operations.  Co. B, 313th Med. Bn.  Letters from Jack Durell, written to his parents from Northern Italy,
May - June, 1945.
Folder 9:  Morelli, Jean.  European Theatre of Operations.  403rd Med. Coll. Co.  Letters from Jack Durell, written to his parents from Italy, July - November,
1945.
Folder 10:  Morelli, Jean.  Yank (Mediterranean Edition) Vol. 2, no. 10, 12, 14 (May, June 1945).  Yank. Vol. 3, no. 19. (October 27, 1944).
Folder 11:  Morelli, Jean.  Stars and Stripes (Mediterranean) Vol. 1, no. 24, 31, 212, 240-243.  1945.
Folder 12:  Morelli, Jean.  Volkisher Beobachter.  Munchen, 14 April 1945: "Roosevelt plotzlich gestorben."
Folder 13:  Morelli, Jean.  Our Leave in Switzerland.  (a souvenir of the visit of American soldiers to Switzerland in 1945 / 1946).
Folder 14:  Morelli, Jean.  Authentic Guide for Veterans.  By Sidney Alten, 1945.
Folder 15:  Morelli, Jean.  Lecture on Switzerland.  By J. Alfred Meyer.  1944.  Tourist brochures from Switzerland: "Important Information for Members of
the U.S. Armed Forces on Leave in Switzerland."  "Soldier's Guide to Emilia."
Folder 16:  Morelli, Jean.  Review of Allied Military Government and of the Allied Commission in Italy.  (July 10, 1943 to May 2, 1945).
Folder 17:  Morelli, Jean.  Notebook with Pvt. Jack Durell's medical notes, March 1943.
Folder 18:  Morelli, Jean.  Tyndall Field Flexible Gunnery Class, 42 - 47.  Army Air Forces Gunners School, Tyndall Field, Florida.
Folder 19:  Morelli, Jean.  Souvenirs from Italy: Venice, Naples, Florence.  Souvenirs from Switzerland: Bienne, Lucerne, Zurich, Suchard.
Folder 20:  Morelli, Jean.  "My Observations of Italian Traits."  By Jack Durell.
Folder 21:  Morelli, Jean.  Newsclippings.  Most concern Medical corps.  Some Ernie Pyle articles.
Folder 22:  Morelli, Jean.  "History of Medical Center and Area."  (7th Replacement Depot of the Replacement and Training Command).
Folder 23:  Morelli, Jean.  Post cards from Camp Grant, Ill.: Medical Center Barracks, clean up after mess, Replacement Center barracks, drill parade.
Folder 24:  Morelli, Jean.  Jack Durell's papers: order to report for induction; completed course in basic surveying; registration certificate; change of
address card; person has arrived card; Form 52b; Soldiers Individual Pay Record; pass; Welcome Home booklet.
Folder 25:  Morelli, Jean.  Mud, Mules and Mountains.  By Bill Mauldin. 1944.
Folder 26:  Morelli, Jean.  Blue Devil. (88th Inf. Div. Assoc.) Vol. 26, no. 3.
Folder 27:  Morelli, Jean.  Photographs of servicemen and equipment. Includes photos labeled: Sgt. Theron Hust, Regan, Weise, Rasbach, Glei, Sgt. Weiss,
Rivera, Ramos, Carrol.  Photos taken at Savazzo, Lake Garda, Rome, Florence, Corvano, Italy and Oran, Africa.
Folder 28:  Morelli, Jean.  Photographs of Italy and Italians.
Folder 29:  Morelli, Jean.  Medal: Campaign & Service Victory World War II.  Patch.

Box 11:
Folder 1:  Murphy, Charles.  First Infantry Division, First Engineer Combat Btn.  Transcript of interview.  Includes action at Oran, St. Cloud, Tunisia, El
Guettar, Algeria, Sicily, Normandy, Omaha Beach and Czechoslovakia.
Folder 2:  Murray, Harold.  Briefing.  (Journal of the International B-24 Liberator Club).  No. 56, Spring 1996.
Folder 3:  Murray, Harold.  Photographs of Harold B. Murray.  Letter to his mother to notify her that her son was selected for pilot training.  News release
that he was to go to Advanced School.
Folder 4:  Murray, Harold.  Aviation as a Career.  U.S. Army Aviation Cadets.
Folder 5:  Murray, Harold.  Newsclippings from Air Force Magazine.  Also, B-17 Flying Fortress "Nine-O-Nine."
Folder 6:  Murray, Harold.  Prayer of 465th Bomb Group (H).  Post card: Consolidate B-245 "Liberator."  Poem: "The 465th Remembered."  Letter:
Murray, Harold B.  Recommendations.
Folder 7:  Murray, Harold.  Fla(c)k Flimsy. Vol. 1, No. 9, 13-16, 18. Pilot's Flimsy.
Folder 8:  Nardone, Gerard.  "Rescue of the Wasmuth."
Folder 9:  Nardone, Gerard.  Photocopies of newsclippings: "Minesweeper Blown Up by Own Charges," "136 Escape Death in Epic Battle with Aleutian
Seas."
Folder 10:  Nardone, Gerard.  Historical data of the U.S.S. Ramapo (A012).
Folder 11:  Neal, Leroy.  European Theatre of Operations.  15th Air Force.  Memoir of service in Italy as radio operator and sidegunner on a B-24 bomber.
Includes a copy of photograph of Leroy Neal in uniform and a more recent photograph; copies of 2 letters to his parents and a typed copy of a service diary.
Newsclippings.
Folder 12:  Neal, Leroy.  Sortie.  (Fifteenth Air Force Assoc.) Vol. 10, no. 2.
Folder 13:  Nickell, Charles.  Photograph of Charles Nickell.  Photocopies of: photograph of 342nd Flight Sqdn, 348th Fighter Group and photograph of
Charles Nickell.
Folder 14:  Nickell, Charles.  Photocopy of photograph of 342nd Fighter Sqdn, 348th Fighter Group, March 1945, Luzon, P.I., with names listed.
Folder 15:  Nickell, Charles.  Pacific Theatre of Operations.  Fifth Air Force.  348th Fighter Group, 342nd Fighter Sqdn.  Individual Flight Record of
Charles Nickell from July 1943 - April 1945.
Folder 16:  Nickell, Charles.  Photocopies of: Nickell family genealogy, papers concerning Nickell family ancestors, wills, etc.; map of Nickell family
cemetery.
Folder 17:  Nickell, Charles.  Pilot Flight Record and Log Book March 1943 - May 1943.  Photocopies of Student Flight Log from Riddle Aeronautical
Institute, Dorr Field, Arcadia Florida and Record of Pilot's Flying Training..
Folder 18:  Nickell, Charles.  Flying, Altitude Indoctrination ... Report; Pistol Familiarization; Transition Flying Instruction Certificate; Final Assessment
Gunnery Training; Physical Exam; Relief from Flying Status; Memos; Pilot's Progress Card; Proficiency card; I.D. card; Officer's Pay Data Card;
Immunization Register; Certified Airman I.D.
Folder 19:  Nickell, Charles.  Pacific Theatre of Operations.  Fifth Air Force.  348th Fighter Group.  342nd Fighter Sqdn.  Letters from Charles Nickell,
1943-1945.  Some are written from New Guinea and the Philippines.
Folder 20:  Nickell, Charles.  Letters from Nickell Family to Charles Nickell, April 1945, returned to sender.
Folder 21:  Nickell, Charles.  Copies of papers of Charles Nickell: Enlisted Record, Physical Exam for Flying; Special Orders; Posthumous promotion to
captain.
Folder 22:  Nickell, Charles.  Copies of letters concerning death of Charles Nickell. Sympathy from: General Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, H.H. Arnold, chaplin.  Purple Heart: Henry Stimson.  Posthumous promotion: Wm. Bergin.
Folder 23:  Nickell, Charles.  Description of life and service of Charles Nickell. Photocopies of: Yearbook photo; UT report card; program for Memorial
Program for Gold Star Alumni at UT Junior College; Old Furnace Elementary School Class of 1934 photo; tributes by family members; "Taps '94" containing
names, addresses and a list of the dead.
Folder 24:  Nickell, Charles.  Copies of letter from Lt. K.W. Greever of 348th Fighter Group, 342nd Fighter Sqdn. concerning death of Charles Nickell, June 25, 1945.  Letter from Blanch Newman whose son was in the same squadron as Charles Nickell and was killed in action.
Folder 25:  Nickell, Charles.  Letters to Joe Nickel written in 1994 by members of the 342nd Fighter Squadron concerning Charles Nickell.  Letter from Frank
Timmers contains squadron roster.  Letter from Marion Iddings contains photocopy of pages containing info on "your bother's combat missions at the time of his death."
Folder 26:  Nickell, Lawrence R.  European Theatre of Operations.  Fifth Infantry Division.  "Red Devil.  Able Company.  Double Dynamite: an Old Man's
Memories of World War II."
Folder 27:  Nickell, William H.  Letters from William H. (Hugh) Nickell to his parents from January 1942 - April 1945, written aboard U.S. Ramapo.
Folder 28:  Nickell, William H.  Photograph and obituary of William H. Nickell.  Copies of Nickell family genealogy and papers, wills, etc.
Folder 29:  Odom, Charles.  "Depth Charge."
Folder 30:  Odom, Charley.  "The Marine Diesel Engine."
Folder 31:  Odom, Charley.  "Vet Recalls Duty on Wartime Sub."
Folder 32:  Odom, Charley.  "Peril at Fifty Fathoms."  By Billy Grieves.  Photocopied from Naval Affairs.
Folder 33:  Odom, Charley.  Newsclippings.
Folder 34:  Odom, Charles.  Photocopies of photographs: C.T. Odom in 1935 and in 1925 alongside torpedo shop, New London CT; Christmas card USS
S. ONE '35; Memo concerning ceremony for Charley Odom when he was being transferred; Commendation 10 October 1943; newsphoto: "Baptism of the
Billfish."
Folder 35:  O'Donnell, Joe.  100th Bomb Group (H) 350th Bomb Squadron.  Photocopies of Missing Air Crew Reports from B-17 aircraft downed near Berlin,
May 24, 1944.  Individual Casualty Questionnaire.  Report on Capture of Members of Enemy Air Forces.
Folder 36:  Olcott, William R.  "197th AA(A) AW Battalion (SP) in World War II."  By Lt. Col. C.T. McEniry.
Folder 37:  Olson, Frederick I.  "Palestine to Iran via Jericho and the Dead Sea."
Folder 38:  Olson, Frederick I.  "Guide Map of Jersualem."  (on back, Town Major's Office German Colony, "Jerusalem ... Do's and Don'ts While on Leave").
Folder 39:  Olson, Frederick I.  Stars and Stripes (Middle East) Vol. 1, no. 1 (April 16, 1943).
Folder 40:  Olson, Frederick I.  Tent City News.  Vol 1, no. 3. (September 17, 1943).
Folder 41:  Olson, Frederick I.  Yank (Middle East).  Vol. 1, no. 9.
Folder 42:  Olson, Frederick I.  Bush Weekly.  Vol. 2, no. 32.
Folder 43:  Olson, Frederick I.  Newsweek.  Vol 25, no. 21 (May 21, 1945).  Time.  Vol. 43, no. 8 (Feb. 21, 1944).
Folder 44:  Olson, Frederick I.  Short Guide to Great Britain.  Short Guide to Iraq.  Short Guide to Syria.  Pocket Guide to Egypt.  Pocket Guide to Iran.
Pocket Guide to China.
Folder 45:  Olson, Frederick I.  Hints on Life in the Persian Gulf.  Hints on Life in Egypt.
Folder 46:  Olson, Frederick I.  Soldier's Guide to Rome.  Cyrenaica: Notes on its history and ruins.
Folder 47:  Olson, Frederick I.  "Guide Map of Jerusalem."  For H.M. and Allied Forces.
Folder 48:  Olson, Frederick I.  "So You've Got a Furlough?"
Folder 49:  Olson, Frederick I.  "Going Back to Civilian Life."  War and Navy Depts.  August 1945.
Folder 50:  Olson, Frederick I.  Souvenirs: postcards: American Red Cross Service Clubs - Italy. Labels: Carlton Hotel, Cairo; Regent Hotel, Beyrouth.
American Red Cross Tour of the Holy Land itinerary.  Terminus Hotel, Officer's Mess Membership card.
Folder 51:  Olson, Frederick I.  Pacific Theatre of Operations.  8th Cavalry.  First Cavalry Division.  Troop C.  Photocopies of: Roy V. Little Jr.'s Cavalry
Biography, Honorable Discharge and Enlisted Record.  Newsclipping: "S.B. Cavalryman Helps Silence Guns and Kills 18, Pvt. Roy V. Little wounded..."; Letter from Maj. Gen. Innis P. Swift; Letter form Warren H. Atherton; Commendation from President Harry S. Truman; obituaries.
Folder 52:  Osborn, Wilton R.  "Military Career of Wilton Russell Osborn."
Folder 53:  Park, Maurice.  8th Air Force.  Memoir.  (Includes service at Poltava Base in the Ukraine).
Folder 54:  Park, Maurice.  "Now It Can Be Told: How We Lost 50 Planes at Shuttle Air Base in Russia."  By David M. Nickol.  Photocopies of photographs of
airfield.
Folder 55:  Park, Maurice.  Photocopies of pho