World War, 1939-1945.

Letter from "Pete" to his mother, 1945-03-23

Item

Identifier: 2010.023.1.26

Scope and Contents "...The censors let down and so now I can tell you where I've been but I can't tell you where I am now, and some of the things I've seen but I can't mention dates...I may as well start at the beginninig--way back in New Orleans, LA. From OGU (out going unit) in Camp Peary, VA I was sent to the naval station ['Algeria'] Naval Repair Base across the muddy Mississippi River and three miles from the heart of the city, there I picked up this ship--LST 713. We shoved off from these and sailed on...

Dates: 1945-03-23

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Ben Byrnes collection of Joshua Randolph Abell WW II letters

Margaret Monsour gift of Japanese Instrument of Surrender, 2 September 1945

Unprocessed Material

Identifier: 2017-046

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Margaret Monsour gift of Japanese Instrument of Surrender, 1942-1945

Item — Box 2017.046 OVRSZ: [Barcode: 000023239500]

Identifier: 2017-046

Scope and Contents

Reproduction of the official Instrument of Surrender, translation, proclamation, and 4 offical Navy photographs of the Doolittle Raid and Surrender.

Dates: Event: 1942-04-18 - 1945-09-02

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

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

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Maurice G. Duncan collection of WWII-era newspapers and magazines, 1939-1945.

Collection

Identifier: 2017-019

Scope and Contents

Tulsa Tribune and Tulsa World newspaper segments; individual issues (New York World-Telegrah, Pittsburgh Press, Chicago Sun, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Kansas City Star, Kansas City Times, Atlanta Journal, Oklahoma City Times) all dating from 1939-1945, and featuring the top news stories regarding the war. Also inlcuded are WWII pages excised from Life Magazine.

Dates: 1939 - 1945

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Patti Johnson World War II memoir

Unprocessed Material

Identifier: 2010-011

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

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

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

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

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives