World War, 1939-1945

Clarence J. Adams Second World War correspondence

Collection — Box WWII 87, Folder: 23, Folder: 1

Identifier: 2019-077-w-r

Overview This collection contains two letters from CCM Clarence Joseph Adams, USN to his family during the Second World War.

Dates: 1945 May 2 - 1945 July 9

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Clarence J. Adams Second World War correspondence

Noel Adams Second World War correspondence

Collection — Box WWII 1, Folder: 1

Identifier: 2014-036-w-r

Overview This collection consists of letters written by Noel Adams, USMM, to his wife, November 1945.

Dates: 1945 November 7-1945 November 16

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Noel Adams Second World War correspondence

Irving Adler Second World War correspondence

Collection — Document-box Resource Copies 1

Identifier: 2019-035-wc-r

Overview This collection contains two copies of one letter, handwritten and typed transcription, from Cpl. Irving Adler, USA to his parents during the Second World War discussing his experience of liberating the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.

Dates: 1945 April 17

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Irving Adler Second World War correspondence

Roland W. Alderman Second World War correspondence

Collection — Box WWII 19, Folder: 1

Identifier: 2017-165-w-r

Overview This collection contains correspondence from F/O Roland W. Alderman, USAAF, to his brother Clarence and his mother during and shortly after the Second World War.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1944 August 31-1945 June 11

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Roland W. Alderman Second World War correspondence

Ivan Robert Alford Second World War correspondence

Collection — Box WWII 5, Folder: 10

Identifier: 2017-562-w-r

Overview This collection contains letters from Cpl. Ivan Robert Alford, USAAF, to his parents, Orville Leland Alford and Alwena (Plagmann) Alford, during the Second World War. Alford belonged to Company B, 845th Aviation Engineers Battalion.

Dates: 1943 August 15-1944 November 7

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Ivan Robert Alford Second World War correspondence

Alfred McLean Smith Second World War correspondence digital files

Unprocessed — Folder 2019-194-w_Smith, Alfred McLean

Identifier: 2019-194-w

Dates: 1943-05-31 - 1945-08-01

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives

Ann Volk Second World War correspondence

Digital Collection

Identifier: https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/avolk_correspondence/

Dates: 1943

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives

Armed Services Edition book collection

Collection — Object All

Identifier: 2015-012-r

Overview This collection consists of several small Armed Services Edition books printed for distribution to American military servicemen/women overseas during World War II from 1943 to 1946. The books feature an array of non-fiction titles as well as classics, poetry, cartoons, biographies and fiction titles of various genres. The published books are complete works and not merely digests.

Dates: 1943-1946

Found in: Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives, Leatherby Libraries / Armed Services Edition book collection

Roberta Armor Second World War correspondence

Collection — Box WWII 1, Folder: 4-11

Identifier: 2014-039-w-r

Overview This collection consists of letters written to Roberta Armor, by friends and family, from 1943 to 1945.

Dates: 1943 April 12-1945 August 12

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Roberta Armor Second World War correspondence

Ruth B. Arnold Post Second World War correspondence

Collection — Box WWII 18, Folder: 7

Identifier: 2017-323-w-rd

Overview This collection contains one letter from Mrs. Ruth B. Arnold to Capt. Kenneth D. Hill after the Second World War.

Dates: 1948 January 8

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Ruth B. Arnold Post Second World War correspondence

Arthur Corder collection

Collection

Identifier: 2019-007-h-r

Overview This collection encompasses items from Arthur Corder’s service in the Second World War. He was assigned as an aide to one of the officers who were among the first Allied military into Mauthausen Concentration Camp on May 5, 1945. Corder had the clearance to take seized items back to the United States, these includes watches, documents, photographs, a camera, and Third Reich relics.

Dates: 1945 - 1945

Found in: Oskar Schindler Archives / Arthur Corder collection

Theodore Babbitt Second World War correspondence

Collection — Box WWII 111, Folder: 11, Folder: 1

Identifier: 2019-195-w-r

Overview This collection contains eight letters from LtCol. Theodore Babbitt, USA to his sister Eleanor Babbitt during the Second World War. Also included is one photocopied obituary for Babbitt.

Dates: 1943 April 18 - 1946 May 09

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Theodore Babbitt Second World War correspondence

Jay L. Baggett Second World War correspondence

Collection — Box WWII 69, Folder: 1-9, Folder: 1-9

Identifier: 2015-040-w-r

Overview This collection contains correspondence written by CPL Jay L. Baggett, USA to his mother, Mrs. Sidney Baggett, and family during the Second World War. Also included are a photograph, a yearbook, and a Christmas menu.

Dates: 1941-03 - 1945-08

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Jay L. Baggett Second World War correspondence

Ellis J. Bagley Tuskegee Airmen Second World War correspondence

Collection — Document-box Resource Copies 1

Identifier: 2019-042-wc-r

Overview This collection contains scans of two letters from A/C Ellis J. Bagley, USAAF to his cousin Mary Harrison while training with the Tuskegee Airmen during the Second World War. Also included is one scan of a letter signed by twenty of the Tuskegee Airmen on the subject of racial discrimination and violation of expressed war department policies, original located at the National Archives.

Dates: 1944 March 22 - 1944 September 24

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Ellis J. Bagley Tuskegee Airmen Second World War correspondence

Joseph Balk Second World War correspondence

Collection — Box WWII 14, Folder: 4

Identifier: 2017-210-w-r

Overview This collection contains one correspondence and one blank postcard from Pvt.Joseph Balk, USA, to Ruth Greene during the Second World War.

Dates: 1942 December 30

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Joseph Balk Second World War correspondence

Joseph P. Bayerl Second World War correspondence

Collection — Box WWII 19, Folder: 11

Identifier: 2017-279-w-r

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

Dates: 1943 August 10-1944 July 10

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Joseph P. Bayerl Second World War correspondence

Maurice Edwin Becker Second World War correspondence

Collection — Box WWII 7, Folder: 3-5

Identifier: 2014-161-w-r

Overview This collection contains the correspondence of PFC. Maurice Edwin Becker, USA, to his mother and father during the Second World War.

Dates: 1944 April 6-1945 February 11

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Maurice Edwin Becker Second World War correspondence

Charles T. Bedell Second World War correspondence

Collection — Box WWII 19, Folder: 2

Identifier: 2017-207-w-r

Overview This collection contains correspondence from Ens. Charles T. Bedell, USNR, to his friends John and Kay Miller during the Second World War.

Dates: 1944 October 20-1945 March 27

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Charles T. Bedell Second World War correspondence

Jack P. Bell Second World War correspondence

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 2014-160-w-rd

Overview This collection contains 600 correspondence between Pvt. Jack P. Bell and Evabel Bell during World War Two. Jack P. Bell served with the 78th Signal Company, 78th Infantry Division of the United States Army, drafted in late 1942 and discharged March 1946. Also in the collection are V-mail, postcards, greeting cards, newspaper clippings, and other documents. There is also one letter written by Jack's sister and another letter with an unknown author.

Dates: 1936 September 11-1946 February 22

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Jack P. Bell Second World War correspondence

Kermit Washington Bender Post-Second World War correspondence

Collection — Box WWII 14, Folder: 8

Identifier: 2017-245-w-r

Overview This collection contains postcards sent to and from Pvt. Kermit Washington Bender, USA, after the Second World War.

Dates: 1946 March 25-1946 December 17

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Kermit Washington Bender Post-Second World War correspondence

Harry A. Berger Second World War correspondence

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 2014-006-w-r

Overview This collection consists of letters written to T Sgt. Harry A. Berger, USAAF, by friends and family, from 1938 to 1947. Also included in this collection is one a small photograph of Harry A. Berger, some miscellaneous ephemera and one copy of Yank magazine, from May of 1945.

Dates: 1938 July 20-1947 February 7

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Harry A. Berger Second World War correspondence

Betty Sara Goetz emigration form collection

Item

Identifier: 2019-003-h-r

Overview This item is an addendum to a German emigration form vouching that the person has no unpaid taxes. Betty Sara Goetz completed the form on December 2, 1940; the form provides Goetz tax number, an indication of her identification card, and that Nazi Germany did not have a concern for her taxes.

Dates: 12-2-1940

Found in: Oskar Schindler Archives / Betty Sara Goetz emigration form collection

Michele Bifulco Second World War correspondence

Collection — Box WWII 14, Folder: 3

Identifier: 2017-183-w-r

Overview PFC Michele Bifulco, USA, writes to his fiancee Margaret Tornee about his training and life in France during the Second World War. The collection includes five letters and a copy of Bifulco's honorable discharge form.

Dates: 1943 February 18-1944 August 4

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Michele Bifulco Second World War correspondence

Jeanne Blackburn Second World War correspondence

Collection — Box WWII 7, Folder: 17

Identifier: 2014-079-w-r

Overview This collection contains correspondence written by Jeanne Blackburn to her boyfriend, Paul Gunnison (branch of service unknown), during the Second World War.

Dates: 1944 May 8-1945 January 11

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Jeanne Blackburn Second World War correspondence

Walter Blaser Second World War correspondence

Collection — Box WWII 11, Folder: 17

Identifier: 2016-097-w-r

Overview This collection contains one undated Christmas card from serviceman Walter Blaser (rank and branch of service unknown) to his sister Mildred during the WWII era.

Dates: 1942-1945

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Walter Blaser Second World War correspondence

"Bob" Second World War correspondence

Collection — Box WWII 1, Folder: 2

Identifier: 2014-008-w-r

Overview This collection consists of 1 carbon copy letter from Bob [no last name] USMM to his family, during World War II.

Dates: 1944 September 11-1944 September 11

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / "Bob" Second World War correspondence

Charles Ernest Boewe Second World War correspondence

Collection — Box WWII 59, Folder: 1-9, Folder: 1-9

Identifier: 2017-309-w-r

Overview This collection contains letters, photographs, and realia from Private Charles Ernest Boewe during the Second World War.

Dates: 1942 November 20-1946 April 25

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Charles Ernest Boewe Second World War correspondence

Wynona L. Boober Second World War correspondence

Collection — Box WWII 111, Folder: 7, Folder: 1

Identifier: 2019-106-w-r

Overview 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.

Dates: 1944 October 3

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Wynona L. Boober Second World War correspondence

Allen M. Boyden Second World War correspondence

Series — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 2015-101-w-r

Overview This collection contains correspondence written by MAJ Allen M. Boyden, USA and his family members during the Second World War.

Dates: 1942 January 02 - 1945 June 25

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Allen M. Boyden Second World War correspondence

Vincent R. Bradley Second World War correspondence

Collection — Document-box WWII Box 112, Folder: 6, Folder: 1

Identifier: 2020-012-w-r

Overview This collection contains five correspondence from SSgt. Vincent R. Bradley, USA to his family during the Second World War. Also included are one clipping, four photographs, and one unit history, both photocopy and transcribed.

Dates: 1944 April 15 - 1945 September 28

Found in: Center for American War Letters Archives / Vincent R. Bradley Second World War correspondence

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