World War II Participants and

[Pages:177]World War II Participants and Contemporaries: Papers

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ACCETTA, DOMINICK Residence: Fort Lee, New Jersey Service: 355th Inf Regt, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers (1)(2) [record of Cannon Co., 355th Inf. Regt., 89th Inf. Div., Jan.-July 1945; Ohrdruf Concentration Camp; clippings; maps; booklet "The Story of the 89th Infantry Division;" orders; song; ship's newspaper, Jan. 1946;map with route of 89th Div.]

AENCHBACHER, A.E. "Gene" Residence: Wichita, Kansas Service: Pilot, 97th Bomber Group, Europe; flew DDE from Gibraltar to North Africa, November 1942 Volume: -1"

Papers [letters; clippings]

ALFORD, MARTIN Residence: Abilene, Kansas Service: 5th Inf Div, Europe Volume: -1"

Papers [copy of unit newspaper for 5th Inf. Div., May 8, 1945; program for memorial service; statistics on service and casualties in wars and conflicts]

ALLMON, WILLIAM B. Residence: Jefferson City, Missouri Service: historian Volume: -1"

104 Inf Div (1) (2) [after action report for November 1944, describing activities of division in southwest Holland; this is a copy of the original report at the National Archives]

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AMERICAN LEGION NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS Residence: Indianapolis, Indiana Service: Veteran's organization Volume: 13"

After the War 1943-45 [a monthly bulletin published by the Institute on Postwar Reconstruction, Aug. 1943-April 1945]

American Legion Publications (1)-(11) [civil defense; rights and benefits of veterans; home front; citizenship; universal draft; national defense and security program; Americanism; employment manual; Boy Scouts-youth program; G. I. Bill of Rights; peace and foreign relations; disaster; natural resources; law and order; UMT-universal military training; national defense; veterans' employment; 1946 survey of veterans; reprint of two pages from The National Legionnaire, June 1940; instructors manual for military drill; United Nations; junior baseball program]

Army-Navy YMCA Bulletin, 1942-44

Atlas of World Battle Fronts [1943-45]

China at War, 1939 [four issues published by the China Information Publishing Co.]

Clippings [submarine war; Alaska; U.S. enters war; defense of Philippines; Pacific war]

Defense Papers, 1940 [three booklets by American Assoc. For Adult Education]

Government Pamphlets (1)(2) [War Production Board-plant efficiency; Special Services bulletin; Armed Forces song book; Air War report, Jan. 1944; aviation cadets; Office of Price Adm.-wartime rationing; Fed. Security Agency-"Spare Time: A War Asset for War Workers"]

Miscellaneous Pamphlets & Bulletins [guide to military insignia; Ships (periodical)article on Liberty Ships; booklet of games and puzzles; four issues of Industrial Press Service, July, Sept. 1944; USO bulletin, June 1943]

Petition to FDR Sept 1941 (1)-(4) [Mothers Mobilizing Against War, April to Sept. 1941; petition forms and lists of names]

Post-War Bulletin 1943 (1)(2) [Mar.-Aug. 1943; world govt.; changes in home life; servicemen's benefits; internationalism; Britain-planned economy; rise of communism; world food problem]

Report by Supreme Commander [re operations in Europe of Allied Expeditionary Force, June 6, 1944 to May 8, 1945]

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The Scrapper (1)(2) [newsletter published by the American Industries Salvage Comm. (1942) re scrap metal and rubber drives, War Production Board, role of children, women, and press]

Stars & Stripes 18 Apr 1947 [5th birthday edition of paper]

Westinghouse Valley News 3 Sept 1942 [contains photos of all servicemen from the valley]

War in Pictures [photographs and drawings, 1940-1942]

War Report Conference of Sept 1943 [edited minutes of War Dept. Conference of industry, labor, and newspaper leaders; remarks by various military leaders on all aspects of war effort]

World War [1940 war stories]

ANDERSON, LEONARD A. Residence: Kansas City, Missouri Service: Shipfitter, US Navy, Pacific Theater; present at Pearl Harbor attack Volume: -1"

Memoirs [attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941; chronology for six years service in Navy]

ANDERSON, R.M. Residence: Dallas, Texas Service: National Commander, China-Burma-India Veterans Association, Inc. Volume: 1"

Proclamation (1)-(3) [1992 proclamation and signatures of CBI veterans]

ANONYMOUS June 8, 2004 Volume: -1"

Miscellaneous Items

Newspapers [Ocean News, undated; Ramps Aweigh, May 24, 1945, aboard USS Lejeune; Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, July 3, 1944]

Newspapers ? The Camp [Sept. 17 & 24, 1944; weekly paper published in Berlin for British POWs held in Germany]

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Newspapers ? The Oversea Kid [Aug. 13 & Nov. 26, 1944, Jan. 14 & Apr. 2, 1945; weekly paper published in Berlin for US POWs held in Germany]

ANTOLINI, LOUIS Residence: Jeannette, Pennsylvania Service: Military intelligence, North Africa & Europe Volume: -1" Memoir [work in North Africa and England; importance of knowing enemy's Order of Battle; interrogation of prisoners]

ARMSTRONG, EDNA HOLM Residence: Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania Service: Clerk in Census Bureau, Washington, DC Volume: -1" Memoirs [life in Washington, D.C. during the war; drills, rationing, housing shortage, war bonds; clipping with headline, "War is Over," Aug. 15, 1945]

ARMSTRONG, FRANK H. Residence: South Burlington, Vermont Service: 283 Light Field Arty Bn, Europe Volume: -1"

Memoirs [tower of Millen Castle in Netherlands used as observation post, Oct. 1944]

AUNE, ALLEEN M. Residence: San Antonio, Texas Service: Sister of Capt. Charles C. Johnson III, Air Corps pilot, South Pacific Volume: 7" Clippings (1)-(9) [war news, 1940-1943; some clippings relate to wartime service of Capt. Charles C. Johnson III] Correspondence [1940-43, relating to service of Charles Johnson and death in 1943; letters, telegrams, and V-mail; postcard with photo of BT-14]

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Memorabilia (1)(2) [postcards; programs; poster; speech; transcript of meeting of relatives and friends of POWs, civilian internees, and missing personnel-Mar. 1945; certificates]

Official Papers [orders; enlisted record; officer's commission; diploma]

Photographs [photos of Capt. Charles Johnson and mother; postcard photos of Randolph Field in Texas]

Printed Material [flying cadets; 1940 magazine for Randolph Field cadets; Morrison Field Air Base weekly magazine, 1941; Air Force journal, 1943]

Scrapbook (1) (2) [clippings and letters, 1937-1940; training and testing; some articles relate to Johnson]

201 File - Charles C. Johnson (1)-(3) [orders; promotions; awards; flight record; commendations; corres.]

AVERY, THELMA Residence: Creal Springs, Illinois Service: Nurse, 20th Hospital Train, Europe Volume: 4"

Memorabilia [postcard views of France, c WWI; map of Europe]

Miscellaneous Papers (1) (2) [soldier's diary, "While Waiting," Mar. 1945; Switzerland, 1945; Christmas Menu and roster for Gardiner General Hospital, 1943; FDR form letter; list of personnel in 20th Hospital Train; poem, "The Invasion;" memo re indoctrination for return to U.S. (tongue-in-cheek); 1953 Boy Scout National Jamboree; history of hospital ship, USS Haven (Korean War)]

201 File 1943-46 (1)(2) [orders; certificates; I. D. Card; pay authorization; officer's qualification record; clothing requisition; physical exam; separation papers]

201 File 1947-54 (1)(2) [orders; reports; applications; questionnaires; certificates; memorandum]

201 File 1954-66 (1)(2) [orders; reports; personnel data sheets; unit photo; certificates; memos]

201 File 1966-72 (1)(2) [orders; memoranda; data sheets; certificates; retired reserve status]

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AYERS, MINDY Residence: Chanute, Kansas Service: granddaughter of William Moore Gray III, Co K, 114 Inf Regt, 44 Div, Europe Volume: -1"

William Gray Memoir [training at Ft Benning, GA; 9th Service Command, Ft Douglas, Utah; 44 Inf Div in Europe; importance of training and leadership]

BAHNER, STAN T. Residence: Topeka, Kansas Service: 171 FA Bn, 45 Inf. Div, Sicily & Italy Donated by: Kevin Bahner, Pam Ferrell & Colleen Leiker Volume: 3"

Correspondence [WWII awards; discharge papers; post-war letters from veterans organizations]

Diary (1)-(3) [service in Sicily & Italy, June 1943-April 1944; includes original diary, electrostatic copy and typed transcript of entries]

Photos (1) (2)

Printed Material (1)-(3) [45 Inf Div newsletter July 1944; 45 Inf Div booklets; tourist literature; German & French language booklets; Stan Bahner obituary 1996]

BAKER, CAROLINE Residence: Cottonwood Falls, Kansas Service: Women's Army Corps, Africa and Europe Volume: 2"

Clippings [Stars and Stripes, Aug. 15, 1945, "Peace;" Air Transport Command; WACs]

Miscellaneous (1)(2) [WAC qualification certificate; brochure on separation center; map; information on Switzerland; directions for passengers on over water flights; information bulletin for WAC personnel on Enterprise; Glasgow Red Cross Service Club; USS Enterprise; discharge papers]

Newsletters (1)(2) [G.I. Neptune and The U.S.S. Enterprise newsletters, 1946; cartoons, news of the ships, and news from larger cities around the world (Washington, Nuremberg, London, etc)]

Orders (1)(2) [List of orders and transfers for Caroline M. (Cahoone) Baker from April 27, 1944 to May 15, 1945]

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Photos [photos of ship life, entertainment, crew members, various ships, and U.S. Military Cemetery Chamhigneul]

BALDRIDGE, ROBERT C. Residence: Lawrence, New York Service: 34th FA Bn, 9th Inf Div, Europe Volume: 1"

Memoirs (1)-(4) [draft and published copy of memoirs, Victory Road; letters regarding book; a first hand account of a young artilleryman's military background and training in the United States and England, followed by his battle experiences with the US First Army from the invasion of Normandy to the end of the war in Europe, and occupation duty in Germany]

BANKES, LINDA Residence: Abilene, Kansas Service: step-daughter-in-law of George Youker of Kansas, US Navy, Pacific, 1943-45 Volume: 2"

George Youker Papers [letters to and from home, one of the letters has a line missing which shows his letter had been censored]

George Youker Scrapbook [variety of memorabilia, such as train ticket that took sailor's wife to Detroit to see her husband for the last time before he sailed for the Pacific; various post cards, sheet music, issuing of family allowance and the discontinuance of family allowance, letter from the Commission for Relief in Belgium(relief from WWI), and photo of his regiment with a listing of names]

BARBER, CAROL J. Residence: Rapid City, South Dakota Service: Widow of Gaylord Barber, US Navy, Pacific Volume: -1"

Papers [April 20, 1945, letter from Buck Barber to his family re his travels and what he has encountered on the ship; celebration of the 4th of July; fighting-a few small skirmishes]

BARR, HOWARD E. Residence: New Orleans, Louisiana Service: Armed Guard, US Navy

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Volume: 1"

Articles [variety of articles, such as the sinking of the S.S. Black Point, the last American Flag merchant ship sunk by a German submarine, Christmas in Murmansk, the Navy's Armed Guard and their mission to protect U.S. shipping from the Germans' U-boats, some cartoons and maps, the supremacy of the Texas and the Lakehurst; eyewitness description of the sinking the of LaSalle and the killing of former Mayor Carl F. Zelder, the sinking of the U-853 and its vital statistics, and the use of kamikaze pilots in the war]

The Pointer (1) (2) [veterans magazine, Navy's Armed Guard from January 1992 to April/May 1992]

BARRETT, JOSEPH P. Residence: Havertown, Pennsylvania Service: 474th AAA Bn, Europe Volume: 1"

Memoirs [ Good Luck To Him Now, a published memoir which is based on 500 letters which Barrett sent home over a 34 month period and 60 or 70 letters that were sent to him to describe the home front in 1943; incorporated into the book are old clippings and magazine stories; story covers his time in the army from December 26, 1942 until his discharge on November 8, 1945]

Papers [clippings and stories of the European Theater of Operations and members of the Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge Organization; stories and newspaper clipping from June 3, 1992, which is a D-Day retrospective]

Unit History - 474th AAA Bn [The Maverick Outfit, a book about the 474th AAA Bn and the hardships and challenges they faced, 1942 until 1945]

BATES, CHARLES C. Residence: Green Valley, Arizona Service: weather officer, US Navy, Europe Volume: 1"

Swell Forecast Section Final Report (1) [activities and investigations of the Swell Forecast Section, Admiralty, from February to August, 1944; objects of the section were to provide sea, swell, and surf forecasts for the Allied invasion of Europe, and to test, apply, and develop the methods of wave forecasting]

Swell Forecast Section Final Report (2) [51 reporting stations situated along the south and east coasts of England transmitted three daily reports of wave height and period to the section in London; these reports provided synoptic information of existing wave

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