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World War, 1939-1945

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 109 Collections and/or Records:

Carpenter family collection

 Collection
Identifier: L501
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, telegrams, receipts, family photographs and newspaper clippings from Walter N. and Lizzie D. Carpenter in Indianapolis and Muncie, Indiana as well as Miami, Dade County, Florida ranging from 1887 to the 1980s.

Also included are U.S. Department of Health publications regarding the control of infectious diseases and the role of women during World War I.
Dates: 1887-1980s

Civil Air Patrol collection

 Collection
Identifier: L380
Scope and Contents This collection documents the activities of the Indiana Civil Air Patrol and Robert and Martha Houge. The personal and military papers date from 1942 to 1955. Civil Air Patrol papers in the collection, dated 1943-1953, are communications between the office of the Indiana Wing and individual squadrons throughout Indiana. These papers include correspondence and memoranda relating to announced inspections, orders, reports of inspection, instruction concerning the training of personnel, and...
Dates: 1943-1953

Clyde W. Lamb cartoons

 Collection — Folder S2560
Identifier: S2560
Scope and Contents This collection includes several cartoons drawn by Clyde W. Lamb. Three cartoons feature soldiers and one mentions "Kokomo Slim" and Indiana, so it is assumed they were drawn while incarcerated at Indiana's state prison in the 1940s. The collection also has a copy of a four-panel comic strip with Lamb's typical male character drawn with a bulbous nose.
Dates: circa 1940

Connie Beck papers

 Collection
Identifier: L436
Scope and Contents This collection includes war ration books, genealogies, correspondence, guest and funeral books, greeting cards, photographs from the Rock, Beck and Sherrer families in Indiana, Missouri and elsewhere ranging from 1908 to 1962, regarding family genealogy, finances and business, correspondence with friends, World War II life, the Philippines, and Stephens College.
Dates: 1908-1962

Dan Ewing collection

 Collection — Folder S2179
Identifier: S2179
Scope and Contents This collection includes a copy of "71 Years after Enlisting - Still Assisting; Indiana State Library Volunteer on Honor Flight," an article written by Georgean C. Johnson-Coffey about Dan Ewing and printed in the May 17, 2017 edition of the Indiana State Library weekly Wednesday Word e-newsletter. The article relates information about his volunteer work with the Talking Book Repair Program and his participation in the 23rd Honor Flight to Washington,...
Dates: 2017

Daniel Lake collection

 Collection — Folder S2455
Identifier: S2455
Scope and Contents This collection includes two V-mail letters sent by Daniel Lake to his family while serving in Europe during World War II. The first letter is dated July 21, 1944 and was sent to his wife, Bonnie, while she was living in Winchester, Indiana. The second letter was also written in July 1944 and sent to his mother, Mrs. J. B. McCowan, and his stepfather at Somerset, Kentucky. The collection also includes a circa 1944 photograph of Daniel and Bonnie and a newspaper clipping from the October 24,...
Dates: 1944

Darwin Kelley papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0765
Scope and Contents This collection includes poems, letters, documents from Darwin Kelley and others in the United States and Germany ranging from 1917 to 1990 regarding the Civil War, World War II, and personal matters.
Dates: 1864-1990

David Drummond letters

 Collection — Folder S383
Identifier: S0383
Scope and Contents These five letters were written to David P. Drummond in the army during World War II. The authors were: Bernice (last name unknown), a girlfriend (unknown), his grandmother, and his father, David J. Drummond. The two 1944 letters were typed on stationery with the imprint: Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service, Indianapolis, Ind., Office of the Collector, District of Indiana. The lower left corner imprint is: For Victory, Buy United States War Bonds and Stamps. The letters...
Dates: 1944-1945

Disney-themed war bond certificate

 Collection — Folder S2527
Identifier: S2527
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a blank war bond issued by the United States War Finance Committee circa 1942. Its border is lined with Walt Disney characters.
Dates: circa 1942

Don Howard collection

 Collection — Folder S0687
Identifier: S0687
Scope and Contents This collection contains photocopies of clippings of articles regarding accounts from World War II, Don Howard and his family, and Santa Clara High School (California) sports ranging from 1944 to 1953. The articles were clipped from the Evansville Press (Indiana) and the Oxnard Press-Courier (California) newspapers. Included in the collection are six articles written by Ernie Pyle from Okinawa, Japan in April, 1945; a copy of the...
Dates: 1944-1953