World War, 1939-1945 -- Correspondence.
Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:
Richard Kenneth Lee WWII photograph album, 1942-1944
Shofner family ephemera, 1930s-1973
Tarleton Leo Deverell WWII-era photographs and documents, 1943-1945
Documents and photographs relating to Tarleton Leo Deverell, a Military Police Escort Guard, during WWII. Deverell served as a guard for Prisoner of War Camps in Camp Bowie, Texas and Camp Tonkowa, Oklahoma during WWII.
V-mail from "Pete" to his mother, 1944-12-11
"Season's Greetings. My love, Pete."
V-mail from "Pete" to his mother, 1944-12-11
"Merry Christmas from...the blue Pacific."
V-mail from "Pete" to his mother, 1945-03-21
"2 Mar 1945. I now have some more V-mail stationery so from now on, for awhile at least, you can expect to receive them from me. That is I'll write you every chance I get, but goodness knows when you will receive them...."
V-mail from "Pete" to his mother, 1945-03-21
"3 Mar 1945. This morning I washed my tables off real good then cleaned and swabbed the starboard troop galley as captain's inspection of the ship was held at 9.30 AM...."
V-mail from "Pete" to his mother, 1945-03-21
"4 Mar 1945...I started reading a pocket size edition of Mrs. Miniver. It is entirely unlike the movie. In the movie a Nazi paratrooper lands in her garden and forces her into the house. The book doesn't hardly mention anything about the war...."