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U. S. Navy Photographs
Collection
Identifier: CSWS-0233
Overview
This collection includes 51 photographs from the U. S. Navy between the 1920s and 1940s. Included are photographs of the construction and use of the USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) in 1925. Also included are two sets of photographs from the U. S. Navy during World War II, one labeled “Borneo and New Guinea Action” and the other labeled “Carriers in Action.” Included with the “Borneo and New Guinea Action” set is a pamphlet that includes an index of all photograph sets available...
Dates:
circa 1925-1945
Walter Goolsby Collection
Collection
Identifier: CSWS-0158
Abstract
The Walter Goolsby Collection includes correspondence to family and other officers, newspapers, photographs, and military and veteran documents from the 1940s and the late 1980s.
Dates:
1943-1945, circa 1957, 1968, 1986-1988, undated
William E. Bobbitt Memoir
Collection
Identifier: MS-3223
Abstract
This memoir, written in 1996, is William Bobbitt's account of his time fighting in the Pacific Theater during World War II. The manuscript traces his military career from his training with a National Guard Unit in 1941 to his discharge in 1945. During his service, Bobbitt was stationed on many Pacific islands and faced combat in the Philippines.
Dates:
1996
William Hunt Scrapbooks and Other Materials
Collection
Identifier: MS-3455
Abstract
This collection consists primarily of two scrapbooks documenting William H. Hunt's service in the Army Corps of Engineers between 1942 and 1946. The larger scrapbook contains three professional portraits of Hunt in uniform, snapshots, magazine and newspaper clippings dating from 1945 and 1984, a telegraph that Hunt sent to his parents, a copy of a letter of commendation, and a propaganda leaflet that the Japanese dropped while he as stationed on Leyte. Two photographs of Hunt at a military...
Dates:
1942-2008 (Bulk 1942-1946)
World War II Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-3023
Abstract
This collection houses military newspapers, veterans' newsletters, articles, letters, and official military documents showing the life of the enlisted Army soldier serving in the Pacific theater during World War II. The 106th Infantry Regiment is particularly well represented.
Dates:
1943-1948, 1978-1992
World War II Division Newspapers
Collection
Identifier: MS-3344
Abstract
This collection consists primarily of newspapers and brief announcements published by various American front-line units stationed in the European and Pacific Theaters during World War II. These publications relate news about the unit's movement, deployment status, military successes, and camp life in addition to recounting stories about local battles and conflicts. The vast majority of the items document the later years of the war with a particular focus on the end of the war in the Pacific...
Dates:
1941-1960
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- World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- United States. 27
- United States. Army. 13
- United States. Navy. 13
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Tennessee. 10
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Europe. 6
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American. 6
- World War, 1939-1945 -- United States. 6
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Correspondence. 5
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Photography. 5
- World War, 1939-1945. 5
- United States. Army Air Forces. 4
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan. 3
- Louisiana -- History. 2
- United States. Air Force. 2
- United States. Army. Air Corps. 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan. 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Philippines. 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American. 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Philippines. 2
- Atomic bomb -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi. 1
- Baptists -- Missions -- Africa. 1
- Great Depression. 1
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945. 1
- Knoxville (Tenn.) -- History. 1
- Lawyers -- Tennessee. 1
- Leyte Gulf, Battle of, Philippines, 1944. 1
- Liberty ships. 1
- Missionaries -- Africa, Sub-Saharan. 1
- Morgan County (Tenn.) 1
- Oral history -- United States. 1
- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941. 1
- Rationing -- United States -- History. 1
- United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. 1
- United States. Army. Division, 40th. 1
- United States. Army. Parachute Infantry Regiment, 511th. 1
- United States. Marine Corps. 1
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville -- Faculty. 1
- Veterans -- United States. 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975. 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- United States. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Burma. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Saipan. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Casualties -- United States. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- East Asia -- Periodicals. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- New Caledonia. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Periodicals. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Pictorial works. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, American. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Propaganda. 1 ∧ less
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- English 45
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