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World War, 1939-1945 -- Military life

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Bingham McHale LLP collection

 Collection
Identifier: L166
Scope and Contents This collection includes miscellaneous brochures, photographs, histories, correspondnece, speeches, and ephemera from the law firm of Bingham McHale LLP, formerly Bingham Summers Welsh and Spilman, in Indianapolis, Indiana, ranging from from 1912 to 2011, regarding the firm and its lawyers, particularly Matthew E. Welsh, a partner in the firm and former governor of Indiana. Some of the photographs depict the lawyers involved in the creation of Victory Field in 1991.
Dates: 1912-2011

Camp Atterbury World War II photograph collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: P003
Scope and Contents The collection consists of 291 black and white, 3 x 5-inch photographic prints depicting life at Camp Atterbury, Indiana in the midst of World War II. Three of the images have copies. The photographs were taken by William J. Moriarty, Sr., a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, as part of his duties for the U.S. Signal Corps while he was stationed there in 1943. The images demonstrate the daily activities of camp life and training, as well as social events, and depict racial...
Dates: 1943

Charles Owen Tullis letters

 Collection — Folder S1931
Identifier: S1931
Scope and Contents The collection is made up of World War II letters written between 1941 and 1945. All but one are written to Charles Owen Tullis by former students at Washington High School. The letters discuss recollections of classmates and family in East Chicago (Indiana), matters of military training and military life, and impressions of Europe and North Africa. Tullis wrote one letter in the collection. There is also one photograph and one lire in Italian currency.
Dates: 1941-1945

Gilbert Hutton collection

 Collection
Identifier: L452
Scope and Contents This collection includes newspapers, photographs, letters, certificate, and map from Gilbert Hutton in the Pacific front during World War II ranging from 1944 to 1953 regarding military life. Three copies of the "Instrument of Surrender of the Japanese Government and the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters" to the United States Army and Allied Forces in Tokyo, Japan and the Philippines on September 2-3, 1945 are included in the collection. There are also six 16 mm film reels he made or...
Dates: 1944-1953, undated

Henry E. Wahl collection

 Collection
Identifier: L172
Scope and Contents The collection largely consists of letters to and from Henry E. Wahl, Jr. and his family in Bloomington, Indiana, California, Hawaii, the Philippines, and the Pacific theatre, ranging from 1936 to circa 1953, regarding family life, work after college, and experiences during and after World War II in the Pacific. There are also many letters from other family members to his parents, Maude and Henry Ethan Wahl, Sr., including those of his brother Donald Wahl, who was also serving in the U.S....
Dates: 1865-1945

Joseph Albert Corsi papers

 Collection — Folder S3027
Identifier: S3027
Scope and Contents This collection includes photostats of letters, clippings, and copies of photographs of Joseph Albert Corsi and Commander Lorenzo Sherwood Sabin ranging from 1941 to 1955, concering their naval service during and after World War II.
Dates: 1941-1955

Marvin E. Coffman, World War II photograph album

 Collection — Folder SP160
Identifier: SP160
Scope and Contents This collection includes a photograph with black-and-white snapshot photographs taken by Marvin E. Coffman in Japan during Fall 1945 after the Japanese surrendered at the end of World War II. The photographs concern scenes and people in Japan where Coffman was stationed, including American soldiers and military police, Japanese civilians, buildings, local sights, army checkpoints and sites, and destruction from the war. There are also a few pages of Japanese and American stamps.
Dates: 1945

Paul E. Taylor clippings

 Collection — Folder S1285
Identifier: S1285
Scope and Contents This collection comprises an October 17, 1943 newspaper article from the Indianapolis Star containing a reprint of entries from Paul E. Taylor's World War II diary, ranging from December 28, 1941 to December 5, 1942, regarding his experiences in the military, travel to Camp Roberts in California, and Australia.
Dates: 1941-1942

Raymond Banta World War II collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2512
Scope and Contents This collection comprises photographs and publications from Raymond Banta before and during World War II ranging from circa 1938 to 1945. The photographs comprise numerous portraits of a young Raymond Banta, in casual army dress and in formal attire, as well as a scene with Banta and two other soldiers working in an office. There are also publications and documents such as a small booklet entitled "Tips on Train Travel" with cartoon illustrations by Gluyas Williams; the July and...
Dates: circa 1938-1945

Robert S. Allen papers

 Collection — Folder S3236
Identifier: S3236
Scope and Contents This collection includes a photocopy of a carbon copy, or transcript, of a typed letter from Robert S. Allen in Tokosuka, Kyushu, Japan on November 20, 1945/11/20 regarding damage from bombardments and atomic bomb and how the Japanese people lived and behaved towards Americans at the conclusion of World War II.
Dates: 1945 November 20