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Bobbe Johnson Memories of Pearl Harbor
Collection
Identifier: CSWS-0328
Overview
This collection contains a 12-page typescript memoir by Bobbe Johnson in which Johnson describes the days before, during, and after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Johnson was living with her husband, a lieutenant with the U.S. Navy, in Oahu, Hawaii at the time. Johnson’s husband survived the attack, but many of their friends and coworkers did not. Johnson goes into detail regarding their fear of a Japanese invasion as well as everyone stepping up to take care of each other in the aftermath of...
Dates:
circa 1991
Grace E. Farley Collection
Collection
Identifier: CSWS-0338
Overview
This collection contains papers documenting the World War II service of nurse Grace E. Farley. Included are Farley's handwritten memoirs (approximately 20 pages) of her wartime service. Also included are 12 photographs; these photographs are photocopies but do included captions and handwritten notes by Farley.
Dates:
circa 1944, 1987
James Vernon Thompson Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-2137
Abstract
This collection consists of World War II letters and military pass connected with James Vernon Thompson, Pfc.
Dates:
1944-1945
Roslyn Balcombe Memoir
Collection
Identifier: CSWS-0116
Abstract
This collection includes Roslyn Balcombe's 58-page handwritten memoir about her World War II experiences.
Dates:
1995 March 22