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Box 1

 Container

Contains 4 Results:

Publications about 79th Airborne Division, 1957-1989

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Includes four typescripts: “A Newsletter and Data Sheet Concerning Former Members of the 79th Airdrome Sq.” by Richard Wood (1957); "79th Airdrome Sq., Its History and Its Warriors" by Richard Stevenson (1983); "An Anthology of Memories of WWII" by Richard Wood (1989); and "Saga of the Seventy-Ninth, or From Savannah to Chofu" by Fred Hitchcock Jr. (1989).

Dates: 1957-1989

Pacific Theater Newspapers, 1944-1945

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Includes three issues: Guinea Gold, Southern Edition (American), from February 23, 1944; Manila Daily Mail from May 8, 1945; and Philippine Press from June 12, 1945.

Dates: 1944-1945

Military Church Bulletins and Menus, 1942-1945

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection of material from World War II veteran Richard Wood includes publications related to the 79th Airborne Division, church bulletins and menus from the war, newspapers from the Pacific Theater, and paper money from the Philippines.

Dates: 1942-1945

Philippine Currency, circa 1945

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection of material from World War II veteran Richard Wood includes publications related to the 79th Airborne Division, church bulletins and menus from the war, newspapers from the Pacific Theater, and paper money from the Philippines.

Dates: circa 1945