Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This memoir constitutes a very descriptive picture of the Pacific Theater during World War II. Bobbitt begins his narrative by describing his entrance into the war and his first post in Hawaii. Following this service, his unit was sent to Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Bobbitt describes the horrors of battles fought before they landed on the Island. They were next sent to relatively peaceful New Britain, an island in the Bismarck Archipelago.Bobbitt and Company L saw heavy...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection is as much a history of the 62nd General Hospital as it is the story of Thomas Bond and Jessie Smith. Bond and Smith met while students at the University of Tennessee Junior College in Martin, Tennessee. After World War II was declared, Smith and Bond enrolled at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where both joined the Enlisted Reserve Corps. They were called to active duty in April of 1943 and sent to train at Camp Grant, Illinois. It was here that they received their...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: These letters, written between John and Helen Flynn during World War II, generally focus on the status of their children and how they long for each other. John Flynn does mention fighting in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge, but that is all he mentions of his combat experiences. Flynn includes on the top of one of his letters a stamp from the Third Reich featuring a picture of Hitler. The letters documenting John's death describe in detail how he was killed and provide consolation to...