This collection consists of the correspondence, records, memorabilia, and photographs documenting the life and death of Robert L. Forrester Jr., a pilot in the Army Air Corps during World War II. Correspondence includes both letters to and from Forrester as well as letters and cards to and from his family in the aftermath of his plane crash. Memorabilia includes two sports letters from high school, homework assignments from college, certificates from training, and various documents from his time in the military. There is also a folder recording the efforts of the people in Watertown to raise money to buy a bomber and have it named in his memory. There are many photographs from his time at home in Tennessee, at training in Texas, and at war in Ecuador. Very few of these photographs have any identifying information.