World War, 1939-1945

Elisha Cockefair collection

Collection

Identifier: L035

Scope and Contents The collection includes letters of the Cockefair family in Everton, Indiana principally to Alice Keltner in Anderson, Madison County (1895-1911); papers of Charles Masters of Connersville, Fayette County, including his cancelled checks (1917-1939) and his papers relating to his work raising money in Fayette County for the Indiana University Memorial Fund (1922); and letters of Mary Alice Masters from Connersville (1922), Washington D.C. (1938), and California while she was serving in the...

Dates: 1851-1959

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Elisha Cockefair collection

Elmer Davis letters

Collection — Folder S0337

Identifier: S0337

Scope and Contents This collection comprises two letters from Elmer Davis in Washington, D.C. ranging from 1944 to 1945, regarding the Office of War Information (OWI), of which Davis was director during World War II. The first letter was sent to California Congressman Will Rogers, Jr. on April 29, 1944 informing him about the work of the Overseas Branch of OWI. The second letter was written to Harold F. Brigham at the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis on January 29, 1945, in response to his letter to...

Dates: 1944-1945

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Elmer Davis letters

Elmer G. Young, World War II letters

Collection — Folder S2541

Identifier: S2541

Scope and Contents This collection contains photocopies of four letters written by Elmer G. Young and sent to his family in Oakland City, Indiana while he served in the Army during World War II. The first letter was written on December 8, 1941 from Fort Knox, Kentucky following President Roosevelt's declaration of war against Japan. The other three letters were written while he served overseas: September 3, 1943 (no location given), September 4, 1943 from Northwest Africa, and October 18, 1943 from Italy.

Dates: 1941-1943

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Elmer G. Young, World War II letters

Ernie Pyle home photographs

Collection — Folder SP086

Identifier: SP086

Scope and Contents This collection includes photographic reproductions from Mayhill Publications's Indianapolis Monthly in Indianapolis, Indiana in October 1982 regarding images of Hoosier journalist Ernie Pyle and his childhood home in Dana, Indiana.

Dates: circa 1945; 1982

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Ernie Pyle home photographs

Ernie Pyle Monument, Japan dedication photographs

Collection — Folder SP117

Identifier: SP117

Scope and Contents This collection includes 6 black-and-white photographs taken at the Ernie Pyle memorial and cemetery in Ie Shima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan in 1945. Five of the photographs were taken during a ceremony for the erection of the new concrete memorial in Juy 1945.

Dates: 1945 July, undated

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Ernie Pyle Monument, Japan dedication photographs

Ethel Bossom diaries

Collection

Identifier: L338

Scope and Contents The collection consists of 16 diaries written by Ethel Bossom in Terre Haute, Indiana detailing her daily activities, ranging from 1945 to 1959.

Dates: 1945-1959

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Ethel Bossom diaries

Everette R. Johnson, World War II Navy memoir

Collection — Folder S2478

Identifier: S2478

Scope and Contents This collection includes Everette R. Johnson's World War II Navy memoirs, consisting of typed descriptions of his Navy experiences during the war, the history of the USS Mizar, and several photographs of himself, shipmates, and the USS Mizar ranging from 1941 to 1945. Also included are copies of "USS Mizar and 17th Division USNR (Indianapolis)," his two-page typed history, signed and dated August 1, 1998 and his...

Dates: 1941-1945, 1998-2001

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Everette R. Johnson, World War II Navy memoir

F. Faith Hatch manuscript

Collection — Folder S608

Identifier: S0608

Scope and Contents This collection includes an eight-page, typed account of American missionary F. Faith Hatch's experiences regarding her evacuation from Burma in 1942 due to the Japanese invasion during World War II.

Dates: 1942

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / F. Faith Hatch manuscript

Florence Doty collection

Collection — Folder S2164

Identifier: S2164

Scope and Contents This collection contains a copy of the April 23, 1942 issue of The Pellet Press (Vol. 2, no. 15), a weekly paper published by the Kingsbury Ordnance Plant that was located in LaPorte County, Indiana. The front page of the newspaper has an article regarding a “Slogan Contest” and includes a photograph of Florence Doty as one of the four winners. The collection also includes a 1939 newspaper clipping of an obituary for Mrs. A. J. (Jennie) Douglas, the mother of...

Dates: 1939-1942

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Florence Doty collection

Frank L. Hiatt "We Who Served" manuscript

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: S1282

Scope and Contents This collection includes two copies of Frank L. Hiatt's manuscript, "We Who Served", in print and on a CD-R sound disc. Compiled in 2008, the family military history was created to honor and remember those of Hiatt's extended family who served the United States in all the branches of the military during the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Iraq War, and during peace time. Hiatt's manuscript contains copies of certificates, correspondence, military documents, news articles, personal...

Dates: 2008

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Frank L. Hiatt "We Who Served" manuscript

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