World War, 1939-1945 -- Casualties

Overview This collection consists of correspondence and clippings for SSgt. Joseph P. Bayerl during the Second World War.

Overview This collection contains correspondence from Sgt. David B. Biddle, USA to his wife Kathleen H. Biddle during the Second World War.

Overview This collection contains photocopied photographs, a transcribed newspaper clipping and a photocopied letter with a donor made transcription from Staff Sergeant Warren Lester Brandt, USAAF, during the Second World War.

Overview This collectin contains eight correspondence from Anne Kallas to her fiancee SSgt O.V. "Jack" Burgman, USAAF, and eone return letter during the Second World War.

Overview This collection contains articles, photographs and documents from the service of CCM A. John F. Kelley, USN during the Interwar and Second World War periods, from 1928 to 1945. Included are personal accounts of travelling the Pacific in peace time and fighting in the Pacific during the Second World War, as well as documents pertaining to the USS Macon.

Overview This collection contains letters from 2nd Lt. Walter A. Kozlowski to his friend and colleague Joseph Weyres during the Second World War. Kozlowski and 13 people on the aircraft named “Bastard” were lost at sea on October 29, 1943 when the plane crashed over Puerto Rico.

Overview This collection contains correspondence and other materials pertaining to the accidental death of PFC Leon Bruce Kravik, USAAF, during training in 1942 during the Second World War.

Overview This collection contains seven V-Mail from Pvt. Calvin C. Lungren, USA to his brother and parents during the Second World War. Also included is one Western Union Telegram informing his parents of his injuries in France.

Overview This collection contains two correspondence written to Mary Rook Lyerly during the Second World War.

Overview This collection contains correspondence from PFC Tony Mantuano, USMCR to his mother during the Second World War. Also included are several clippings relating to Marines in the war.

Overview This collection contains correspondence, photographs and other materials from the service of LtCol. T.H. Pritchett, USA, during the Second World War, Korean War, and the remainder of his service until retirement in 1962. Included in the collection are correspondence from the Korean War, photographs, medals and ribbons, award certificates, maps, and military documents, as well as various memorabilia.

Overview This collection contains one typed, two page, volume of poetry including three poems written by Lt. "Chick" Rainear during the Second World War.

Overview This collection contains correspondence from PFC Myron O. Sappington, USA, and PFC Raul Labardini, USA, during the Second World War. The collection also includes one original and three copies of photographs.

Scope and Contents This series contains correspondence from or concerning Capt. Gretchen H. Yoffa during the Second World War to her family. In October 1944, she wrote her family from Belgium and described the day to day of her time in Europe, adding a photograph with a young Belgian soldier. In December 1944, she wrote her sister and mentioned Paris being boring, and maybe visiting GI's in the hospital "for some excitement." In September 1945, a telegram was sent from the American Red Cross to her mother...

Scope and Contents This series contains two letters and one gold cross given to Joyce Smith by Pvt. Ray E. McClure, USA during the Second World War. The cross was given to her for her 16th birthday. The first letter was written after landing in France, June 6, 1944. The top of the letter says "Somewhere in France," though he begins the letter with "another long, long English day, and I do mean long." There is no mention of the invasion or what he has done, likely due to censors, but it appears to be...

Overview This collection contains letters and a funeral card from SSGT. Philip Langerholc and Sgt. Larry Langerholc to their sister Ann Volk during the Second World War.