World War (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives

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This collection contains one typed three page letter written by Sgt. Wynona L. Boober, WAC to Josephine during the Second World War. Also included is one obituary of Wynona Boober Aldrich.

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This collection contains approximately 1,200 letters written by CH (Col.) Arthur J. Estes, USAR to his wife Jeane E. Estes throughout the Second World War, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Also included is one box of slides, one self-published memoir, and several personal histories and resumes. Estes served as a chaplain during all three conflicts.

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This collection contains the diaries, photographs and realia of Col. Arthur L. Hecht, USA created between 1941-1980.

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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.

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This collection contains fourty-eight carbon copies of narratives written by TSgt. Murrey Marder, USMC during the Second World War.

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This collection contains correspondence and other materials pertaining to Maj. Norman A. Moore, USA, during the Second World War.

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This collection contains correspondence from SSgt. Kent I. Powers, USAAF to his family and friends during the Second World War.

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This series contains the diaries and address books of Col. Arthur L. Hecht between 1944 and 1980. Included are 25 handwritten diaries, two address books, two travel diaries, and transcriptions for the 1944 and 1945 diaries. The diaries are kept in their original blue, linen-lined box, the transcriptions are in folder 1.

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...

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This series contains a signed copy of Arthur J. Estes' 2008 memoir, Paratrooper Chaplain: The memoirs of a lifetime of service to military personnel.

Scope and Contents This series contains one newspaper and one clipping. The clipping is a poem in English from a French paper sent to Hecht's mother, with handwritten notes. The newspaper is the Ninth Division Anniversary Edition paper from Fort Bragg August 1, 1941. Of particular note is the newspaper's neglect of the war in Europe. From the articles, it is apparent some shifting and reorganization is occuring within the military but there is no mention of the war, rather with articles glorifying...

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This collection contains correspondence and photographs from First Lieutenant Spencer W. Walker, United States Army Air Corps to his family and friends during the Second World War. Most of the correspondence is contained within two scrapbooks. Also included is one memoir, with transcriptions of the collected letters and 190 photographs, compiled by Lt. Walker circa 2000, as well as several black and white photographs with photocopies.

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This collection contains correspondence, photographs, and a diary belonging to members of the Winterscheid family. The collection spans the Philippine-American War, First World War, and Second World War.