Special Collections -- Scrapbooks -- World War II
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
George Akira Doi WWII archive, 1941-1990
Collection
Identifier: 2011-042
Scope and Contents
The military records, service medals and insignia, photo albums, scrapbook and personal ephemera of George Akira Doi, who served during WWII in the 100th Infantry Division, an otherwise all-white unit. He saw combat in Europe and was decorated as “unquestionably the company’s best soldier.” George Akira Doi was the maternal grandfather of Kristi Yamaguchi (Olympic Gold Medalist figure skater).
Dates:
1941 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1941 - 1946
Mary Rose Schueller W.A.V.E.S.-US Navy service archive, 1944-1947
Collection
Identifier: 2014-010
Scope and Contents
Schueller's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) service archive consisting of a scrapbook, uniform cap and pin, WAVES patch, pin-on tie, black leather equipment bag, two flight log books, several editions of Honolulu Air News, personal correspondence, and b/w snapshots. The scrapbook includes greeting cards & postcards, intratextual images in newspaper clippings and other memorabilia. Also included are 3 monographs: Angel of the Navy, Radio Navigation for Pilots,...
Dates:
1944 - 1947; Majority of material found within 1944 - 1945
Richard Kenneth Lee WWII photograph album, 1942-1944
Collection
Identifier: 2014-062
Scope and Contents
U.S. Army, World War II photo album documenting Richard Kenneth Lee's activities from Fort McClellan, Alabama to India (India-Burma Air Service Command, Karachi Air Base), 1942-1945. Richard Lee was with the US Air Force 479th Bomb Squadron. The album consists of 170 b/w photographs mounted in album with paper photo corners in a commercial photograph album with black cloth boards, patriotic emblem embossed and gilt stamped to cover, stating "My Photo-Memories of Service in the U.S. Army"...
Dates:
1942 - 1944