Photographs

[Lewis Sandler in uniform], June 29, 1944; [Lewis Sandler at USARS], March 14, 1945; [Charles Sandler in Navy uniform], n.d. Photographs. Charles Sandler Collection, Veterans History Project (1-3)

"War Weary USS Clarendon," 1945; [Robert G. Fickle and friend], 1944; [Decommissioning Party], 1946; [Robert G. Fickle with buddies aboard USS Clarendon], 1946; [Gun Crew], 1946 Photographs. Robert G. Fickle Collection, Veterans History Project (12-16)

[Erwin R. Steele standing in front of General "Ike"], 1942-1945; [Extra Special], 1942-1945; [Wee Willie], 1942-1945; [Dame Satan II], 1942-1945 Photographs. Erwin R. Steele Collection, Veterans History Project (4-7)

[Walter Morris], November 21, 2002; Compact disc; [555th Smokejumpers], August 1945; [Walter Morris preparing to jump], February 1944 Photographs and compact disc. Walter Morris Collection, Veterans History Project (8-11)

[Troops preparing to disembark], November 1945; [Restifo with camera], Fall 1945 (17); [Charles Restifo ID], June 1942; [Admiral Wilkinson and Major General Oscar Grinwald], January 9, 1945; [Combat in Philippines], October 1944; [Fijians performing Kava Ceremony], 1943; "The Autobiography of Charles R. Restifo" August 1942-September 1945 Photographs and book. Charles Restifo Collection, Veterans History Project (17-23)

Bunkhouse, Augusta Arsenal Training School, ca. 1917. Photo album. John C. Wister Collection, Veterans History Project (44)

[Martin Lorenz and South Korean soldier], ca. 1953; "Me and my bunker on Pork Chop Hill before all hell broke loose,"1953; [Martin Lorenz in camp], 1952; [Martin Lorenz and soldier], 1953 Photographs. Martin Lorenz Collection, Veterans History Project (24-27)

[Korean Prisoners of War], ca. 1952; [Two buddies standing in front of tents], ca. 1952; [Chow time], ca.1952; [Getting a haircut], ca. 1952. Photographs. Wilbur Brock, Jr. Collection, Veterans History Project (28-31)

[Relief workers visit U.S. troops], ca. 1969; [Village infiltrated by Viet Cong], ca.1969; [U.S. Army helicopter], 1968 Photographs. James Price Collection, Veterans History Project (32-34)

[Patricia Seawalt with Arab woman], ca. 1991; [Showers], ca. 1991; [Soldiers in quarters], 1990; [Patricia Seawalt standing by 102nd Headquarters sign], ca. 1991; [Tent city], ca. 1991; [Bed], ca. 1991 Photographs. Patricia Seawalt Collection, Veterans History Project (38-43)

[Brian and Jeanne Markle] August 1966. Jeanne Markle Collection; [Clare Marie Crane and Lieutenant Herbert G. Johns] May 29, 1943. Clare Marie Crane Collection [Helen DaCosta and Antonio DaCosta] February 27, 1965. Antonio DaCosta Collection Photographs. Veterans History Project (35, 99, 147)

[Norma Stearns and Carroll A. Stearns, Jr.], October 8, 1943; [Norma Stearns and Carroll A. Stearns, Jr.], 2001. Carroll A. Stearns, Jr,. Collection ; [Corporal Reginald A. Stowe and bride], May 6, 1941. Reginald A. Stowe Collection. Photographs. Veterans History Project (100-102)

Diaries, Bound Collections, and Albums

Page from diary of Vincent Cornelius Reed, ca. 1918; "Recollections of a Doughboy,"Rural Electric Missourian, 1975. Vincent Cornelius Reed Collection, Veterans History Project (47-48)

"Keller stands on a truck wearing full flight gear, smoking a cigarette." Photograph. Page 2 - Page 3 Joe Thompson, Jr., Collection, Veterans History Project (49)

"165 Days, 25th Division on Luzon." Bound drawings with inscriptions. Page 2 George Rhea Collection, Veterans History Project (50)

Memoirs of Samuel Boylston. Typed manuscript. Samuel Boylston Collection, Veterans History Project (51)

[Photograph of Samuel Boylston in uniform] Samuel Boylston Collection, Veterans History Project (65.1)

"Viet Nam Log: A Story of the Air War in Viet Nam, by Capt. R.E. Pierson." Bound diary; Flight log. Bound volume; "Early Vietnam War Air Commando Operations, A Veteran's Record by Lt. Col. Richard E. Pierson, USAF Retired." Bound memoir. Richard Earl Pierson Collection, Veterans History Project (52-54)

"Nine Lives: The Journal of American Soldier." Typed manuscript. Page 1 - Page 47 Joseph Steinbacher Collection, Veterans History Project (116)

Harry B. Smith, U.S. Army. 1918-1919 Diary, bound volume Page 2 Harry B. Smith Collection, Veterans History Project (148)

Harry B. Smith, U.S. Army. 1918-1919 Letter from Carol J. Albertson to Jason Lee, June 2003. Page 2 Holograph letter. Harry B. Smith Collection, Veterans History Project (149)

Scrapbook with copies of photos, letters and narrative. Cover - Letter Larry Mart Collection, Veterans History Project (93, 93a)

"We Live Among Heroes: A Commemorative of Wicomico County's World War Two Veterans." Westside Historical Society, Inc. Collection Veterans History Project (97)

"The Mighty A" and The Men Who Made Her Mighty. Bound memoir. Edward J. Suchy, Sr. Collection Veterans History Project (98)

"743rd Police Detachment of the 743rd Military Police Battalion." Page 1 - Page 2 - Photograph Bound yearbook. Bertran F. Wallace Collection, Veterans History Project (141, 141A)

"German Cemetery" ; "19 May 1944--Hospital Ship Shamrock Leaving Bizerte," May 19, 1945. Virginia F. Higgins. Photographs. Virginia F. Higgins Collection, Veterans History Project (94, 96)

Correspondence

Letters from Ralph Emerson Jones to Josephine Jones, December 9, 1918 and January 21, 1919 [Envelope] Ralph Emerson Jones Collection, Veterans History Project (55a-56)

Letter from Charles S. Lamb to his father, Charles Y. Lamb December 8, 1918. Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4 - Page 5 Typed letter. Charles S. Lamb Collection, Veterans History Project (57)

"Looks like I'm the one to get the dickens for not writing." James P. McNally to neighbor Mrs. James Wallace, July 30, 1945. Page 2 - Page 3 Holograph letter. Caroline Wallace Collection, Veterans History Project (58)

Typed and bound correspondence with photographs. Maosao Yamada Collection, Veterans History Project (59)

"Sweetheart," V-Mail from Norma Brenner to Joseph Brenner, October 21, 1945 Page 2; "This one's printed, this one's homemade," letter with lipstick kiss, Norma Brenner to Joseph Brenner, June 10, 1944 Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4 - Page 5; "Dearest Darling Sweetheart," letter from Joseph Brenner to Norma Brenner, Paris, October 23, 1945. Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4 - Page 5 - Page 6. Jerry Brenner Collection, Veterans History Project (60-62)

Letters from Sergeant G.W. Duquette to Mrs. Gerald W. Duquette, July 28, 1944, August 23, 1944, and June 26, 1944. Decorated envelopes. Samuel Boylston Collection, Veterans History Project (63-65)

The Goofein Journal, August 1944, July 1944, January 1944, and February 1944. Colored note cards. Marion Gurfein Collection, Veterans History Project (66-69)

Maps and Flags

[Rescue flag], ca. 1944; [Background on Rescue Flag], ca. 1944. Helen McGuirk Collection, Veterans History Project (88-89)

"Window Banner," 1942-1944. Flag. Clare Marie Crane Collection, Veterans History Project (87)

[Letter that explains making of flag], June 3, 1945; [Handmade flag], 1945; [M. Gertrude Hawkey presenting flag], 2003; Flag, manuscript, photograph. M. Gertrude Hawkey Collection, Veterans History Project (90-92)

"The Blue Ridge Path," May 22, 1945. Map. LeRoy Paul Baker Collection, Veterans History Project (78)

"Raids," July 1942. Map. Benjamin Witten Collection, Veterans History Project (79)

"Cologne Area," May 1945; "Frankfurt Area," May 1945; "Mannheim-Ludwigshafen Area," May 1945. Maps. Horace Stafford Collection, Veterans History Project (80a-c)

Drawing: Traffic circulation at Dinant Bridge (Belgium). Drawings traced and reproduced by 164th Engineer Combat Battalion, 1st Army, 1944; Report on Dinant Bridge, Dinant, Belgium. Built by 164th Engineer Combat Battalion, ca. 1944; Drawing: Timber Bridge-Meuse River, Dinant Belgium, Headquarters, U.S. Army 164th Engineer Battalion, Corp of Engineers, First Army Drawings, ca. 1944. John Manger Collection, Veterans History Project (82-84)

"The Route of The Ninth Division Thru The NATOUSA & ETOUSA," November 8, 1942-August 1945. Map. Alfred R. Benoit Collection, Veterans History Project (81)

"Air Commando Close Air Support Mission for Special Forces," August 17,1963. Map. Richard Pierson Collection, Veterans History Project (85)

Military Papers

[Appointment to Captain], June 29, 1948. Manuscript. Virginia F. Higgins Collection, Veterans History Project (75)

"USS Langley: Plan of the Day for Friday, February 16, 1945." Military papers. Reuben Brinton Collection, Veterans History Project (73)

"Victory Air Flight," May 1, 1945. Manuscript. Horace Stafford Collection, Veterans History Project (74)

"Ration Card," ca. 1969. Page 2 James Price Collection, Veterans History Project (77)

"Croix de Guerre," January 3, 1919; "Chemical Warfare Agents: Reference and Training Chart," ca. 1918; "War Service Certificate," ca. 1918; "Columbia Gives to Her Son the Accolade of the New Chivalry of Humanity," ca. 1918; "Citation a L'Ordre de L'Armee," ca. 1918. Certificates and poster. William F. Nice Collection, Veterans History Project (70-72, 114-115)

Other Items

Civilian Items

War Ration Book Four, issued to Rosalind Sandler; War Ration Book Three, issued to Florence Sandler; War ration stamps; War mileage ration stamp ID folder. Charles Sandler Collection, Veterans History Project (103-106)

Civilian Photo ID of Clare Marie Johns, June 23,1943. ID card. Clare Marie Crane Collection, Veterans History Project (107)

USO record from Private Joseph C. Hecht to Mom and Dad. Joseph C. Hecht Collection, Veterans History Project (108)

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"We Want Roosevelt," ca. 1944; [FDR Death Announcement from Navy], April 13, 1945; "Roosevelt Dead," PM Daily, April 13, 1945. Handkerchief, manuscript, newspaper. Charles Sandler Collection, Veterans History Project (109-111)

[Roosevelt is Dead], April 12, 1945. Photograph. Charles Restifo Collection, Veterans History Project (146)

"War Ends," The Stars and Stripes, August 15, 1945. Newspaper. LeRoy Paul Baker Collection, Veterans History Project (112)

[Honorable discharge for Yank magazine], December 28, 1945. Magazine. Charles Sandler Collection, Veterans History Project (113)

Miscellaneous

"Short Snorter." International currency. Hugh Carnahan Collection, Veterans History Project (140)

"Battleship X" poster. William L. Thomas Collection, Veterans History Project (142)

William Morris Whitehead. ETA 1828 and Buckshot 0611. Watercolors. William Morris Whitehead Collection, Veterans History Project (143-144)

Special Collections

"The Marchals' back yard in Le Mans. . . ," 1944. Photograph. James Donald Meeks Collection, Veterans History Project (136)

"I believe this must be in Normandy. . . ," 1944. Photograph. James Donald Meeks Collection, Veterans History Project (137)

"Schwab, C.J., Perley, Meeks, Mme. Marchal," 1944. Photograph. James Donald Meeks Collection, Veterans History Project (138)

"LeMans, the courtyard of the home of Berengenia. . . ," 1944. Photograph. James Donald Meeks Collection, Veterans History Project (139)

James Donald Meeks to Mary Meeks, December 24, 1944. Page 2 Typed note. James Donald Meeks Collection, Veterans History Project (131)

"To each officer and soldier in the Third United States Army. . . ." Printed Christmas card from George S. Patton, Jr., Lieutenant General, Commanding Third United States Army, 1944. Page 2 James Donald Meeks Collection, Veterans History Project (132)

James Donald Meeks to Mary Meeks. "The Paper blue is for you, to make your Xmas Merry. . . ." December 2, 1944, France. Page 2 Holograph Christmas card. James Donald Meeks Collection, Veterans History Project (133)

James Donald Meeks to Mary Meeks, July 22, 1944. Typed letter. James Donald Meeks Collection, Veterans History Project (127)

"Merry Xmas." Paris, 1944. Card. James Donald Meeks Collection, Veterans History Project (150)

Safe conduct order, ca. 1945. Page 2 James Donald Meeks Collection, Veterans History Project (135)

James Donald Meeks to Mary Meeks, May 6, 1945. Typed letter. James Donald Meeks Collection, Veterans History Project (130)

"British Drive Is Biggest since D-day; Americans Clean up Pockets in St. Lo." The Stars and Stripes. Continental edition, July 20, 1944. James Donald Meeks Collection, Veterans History Project (134)

James Donald Meeks to Mary Meeks, 1945. Typed letter - Page 2 and shoe diagram - Page 2 - Page 3 James Donald Meeks Collection, Veterans History Project (128-129)

William Joseph O'Keefe, Jr., to Mary Jane O'Keefe, ca. 1943. Page 2 Letter. William Joseph O'Keefe Collection, Veterans History Project (118)

Dog tags, ca. 1943. William Joseph O'Keefe Collection, Veterans History Project (120)

Military patches, ca. 1944. One - Two - Three William Joseph O'Keefe Collection, Veterans History Project (121a-c)

Pilot rating book, ca. 1943. William Joseph O'Keefe Collection, Veterans History Project (124)

Christmas card, December 25, 1943. William Joseph O'Keefe Collection, Veterans History Project (125)

Duffle bag, ca. 1943. William Joseph O'Keefe Collection, Veterans History Project (126)

William Joseph O'Keefe, Jr., to Mary Jane O'Keefe, April 29, 1945. Page 2 Telegram. William Joseph O'Keefe Collection, Veterans History Project (117)

William Joseph O'Keefe, Jr., to Maggie O'Keefe, April 20, 1945. Letter. William Joseph O'Keefe Collection, Veterans History Project (119a)

[O'Keefe with daughter, Maggie], December 31, 1944. William Joseph O'Keefe Collection, Veterans History Project (119b)

[G.I. Bill of Rights booklet], ca. 1945. William Joseph O'Keefe Collection, Veterans History Project (122)

Going Back to Civilian Life, ca. 1945. William Joseph O'Keefe Collection, Veterans History Project (123)