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World War, 1939-1945 -- Correspondence.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

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

Shofner family ephemera, 1930s-1973

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 000022814661]
Identifier: 2014-075
Scope and Contents Correspondence between Harry Morey and his family during WWII; early school photographs featuring Harry Morey and fellow classmates; press cuttings and photo-reproduction regarding his death while a prisoner of war; Wilson High School yearbooks and other ephemera related to James E. Shofner; group photograph of the Spartan AAFTTD civilian instructors; group photograph of the Accounting Department of the Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp., 1935; handwritten school report (house in an illustrated...
Dates: 1930 - 1973

Tarleton Leo Deverell WWII-era photographs and documents, 1943-1945

 Item
Identifier: 2019-021
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1943 - 1945

V-mail from "Pete" to his mother, 1945-03-21

 Item
Identifier: 2010.023.1.27
Scope and Contents

"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...."

Dates: 1945-03-21

V-mail from "Pete" to his mother, 1945-03-21

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Identifier: 2010.023.1.27
Scope and Contents

"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...."

Dates: 1945-03-21

V-mail from "Pete" to his mother, 1945-03-21

 Item
Identifier: 2010.023.1.27
Scope and Contents

"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...."

Dates: 1945-03-21