Record Group 17:
WWII on the Homefront
Finding Aid
Entry
1: Pamphlets
Automotive Users
Guide with Wartime Suggestions
Instructions and
Advice for Newly Commissioned Naval Reserve Officers (Acc #91.84.34L).
Leadership and
Exercise of Command, Civil Air Patrol (Acc # 90.52.6L)
Organizing and
Training Messengers for Civilian Defense
How to Knit for
Victory (Acc # 91.27.17L)
(2) A Handbook for
Messengers, Office of Civilian Defense
Duties, Command
and Staff Officers, June 1942, (Acc # 90.52.5L)
Plant a Garden for
Defense
The Smith’s and
Their Wartime Budgets, 1944
Entry
2: Handbooks
Air Raid Warden
Handbook (Acc # 80.86.40L)
Prices of Food
Products, Office of Price Administration (Acc # 94.87.33)
Entry
3: Correspondence, Letters and Memos
Letter, January
12, 1942, from Chief of Police re: Auxiliary Policeman
Letter, May 1,
1942, To All Agents-Central District from Price Administration (w/ attachments)
Notice to Detroit
Edison Customers, January 26, 1945, re: Prohibited Uses of Electricity
(w/attachments)
Citation for
Valor, April 5, 1944, to Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. Lawson (carbon copy)
Citation for
Valor, April 5, 1944, to Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Hunter (carbon copy)
Citation for
Valor, November 7, 1945, to Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Myers (carbon copy)
Citation for
Valor, December 5, 1945, to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Christiansen (carbon copy)
Citation for
Valor, April 5, 1945, to Mr. and Mrs. D’ Haene
(carbon copy)
Citation for
Valor, November 7, 1945, to Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Hadley (carbon copy)
Citation for
Valor, May 9, 1944, to Mr. and Mrs. Allen M. Giles (carbon copy)
Letter, July 1,
1942, to Ruth Huston-Mayor of Plymouth Michigan from Chairmen of Wayne County
Salvage Committee
Preliminary
Household Survey, March 20, 1942, Air Raid Service
Memo, September 1,
1942, Boy Scouts of America,
Zone and Troop Senior Messengers of Area XII re: Demonstration of Messenger
Institute Students
Letter, November
10, 1942, Wayne County Council of Defense to Mrs. Russell Powell re: Promoting
31 clubs (Acc #95.14.2)
Letter, May 24th
1942, Wm. C. Hartmann, Commission Agent for Sinclair Refining Co. to Mr. Charles
Thumme, Chief of Police, Plymouth, Michigan
Memo, July 1942, Plymouth Salvage Committee
to Block Salvage Committee Aids
Newsletter,
November 13, 1942, War Reaches Bottom of Barrel Stage
Correspondence re:
Cesar Romero in Coast Guard Task Force 58-U.S.
Newsletter,
November 24, 1942, International Statistical Bureau Foreign Letter
Newsletter,
Victory News Letter, August 24, 1942
Newsletter,
Victory News Letter, October 19, 1942
Entry
4: Forms and Stationary
Air Raid Damage
Report Form, City of Detroit,
Dept. of Civilian Defense (various colored copies)
Volunteer
Registration Form, Civilian Defense Volunteer office, Detroit, MI.
Stationary-Armed
Service Forces, Signal Corps General Development Laboratory
Stationary- Armed
Service Forces, Signal Corps Ground Signal Agency
Forms- V Mail
(2) Message discs,
Special Services, U.S. Marine Corps.
Message disc,
Special Services, U.S. Marine Corps., (Acc # 90.15L)
Stationary
book-Ruth Wellman- U.S.
Coast Guard- 1943
Entry
5: Periodicals
Work to Win,
December 20, 1944
Dieselogue, August 1945
Entry
6: Scratch Off Cards
Scratch Off Cards-
5”X8” Yellow, Donating Fat for War Effort
Entry 7: Sheet Music/ Song Lyrics
Sheet Music- “Comin’ in on a Wing and a Prayer”
Song Lyrics-
Liberty Song Parade (Acc # 99.150.28)
Song Lyrics-
Liberty Song Parade (Acc # 99.150.22)
Entry
8: Miscellaneous
Program of Police
Civilian Defense
United States
Treasury- Victory Fund Committee, September 14, 1942, “Tax Saving Notes”
Cartoon- Still the
best provider in the world!
Cartoon- Victory
Numbers
Ad- Army/Navy
Insignia Calendar
Photo- Blunk & Thatcher Furniture store window during WWII
(4) Carboard flyers- invitation- Farming for Victory meeting
Info sheet-Your
Family and Civilian Defense
Flyer-Victory
Thanksgiving Jubilee for October 3, 1945
Recipe- wartime
cake
Photos-track
removal from Plymouth
streets December 1942
Advertising
leatherette pads for Peter Bain
Albums (2) -
Saving stamps
Patches (2) -
Citizens Service Corps
Entry
9: Ration Books
Ration Book Wallet
(red leather) w/ ration books and coupons for Lisle and Clara Alexander (Acc #
77.119.5)
Ration Book 3-
Maude Cooper
Ration Books 3 and
4- Vera Cousino
Ration Book 1-
Alma Freeland
Ration Book 4-
Minnie Gates (Acc # 77.117.40)
Ration Books 1, 3
& 4- Alice Gebhardt
Ration Book 3-
Margaret Govier
Ration Book 1-
Elizabeth H. Groth
Ration Books 1, 2
& 3- Anna M. Henderson
Ration Books 1 &
2- John R. Henderson
Ration Book Wallet
(tan) containing War Ration Books 1, 3 & 4- Alyce
F. Henderson (Acc # 76.132)
Ration Books 1, 2
& 3- Frank E. Henderson
Ration Books 2 &
3- Clarence Lichtenfelt
Ration Books 1, 2,
3 &4-Ida C. Lichtenfelt
Ration Book 4-
Bernard S. Hone (Acc # 93.92.1)
Ration Books 3 &
4- Sybil Hone (Acc # 93.92.1)
Ration Book 3-
Mina Means (Acc # 2004, 278.01)
Ration Book 4- Myrtie Murray
Ration Book 3-
David Nairn (Acc # 91.70.L)
Ration Book 4-
C.C. Pershing
Ration Book Wallet
(black leatherette), (Acc # 91.84.39) containing;
-
Ration Book 3- Barney J. Platt
(Acc # 91.84.39b)
-
Ration Book 4-Barney J. Platt (Acc # 91.84.39c)
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Ration Book 3- Anna J. Platt (Acc # 91.84.39a)
-
Ration Book 4- Anna J. Platt (Acc # 91.84.39d)
Ration Book 1-
Christine Polley (Acc # 92.121.6)
Ration Book Wallet
(black leather) containing;
-
Ration Book 2- Alice
Rathbun
-
Ration Books 2, 3 & 4- Corinne
Rathbun
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Ration Book 1- George H.
Rathbun
-
Ration Books 1, 2 3 & 4-Oral B.
Rathbun
Ration Book wallet
(green leatherette) containing;
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Ration Books 1, 2, 3 & 4-Irving J. Ray
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Ration Books 1, 2, 3 & 4- Minnie Ray
Ration Book
Envelope (paper) (Acc # 73.621) containing;
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Ration Book 3-Charles Root Jr. (Acc # 73.621.1)
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Ration Book 3- Doris J. Root (Acc # 73.621.2)
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Ration Book 3- Richard Root (Acc# 73.621.3)
Ration Books 3 &
4- Mary Sackett
Ration Book Wallet
(black leatherette) containing;
-
Ration Books 1, 2, 3 & 4-Elizabeth Showalter
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Ration Books 2, 3 & 4- Hugh B. Showalter
-
Ration Books 1 & 3- Virginia Showalter
Ration Books 1, 2
& 4- Grace Stowe
Ration Book 1-
Charlotte L. Walkir (Acc # 1814a)
Ration Book 2-
Charlotte L. Walkir (Acc # 1814b)
Ration Book 3-
Charlotte L. Walkir (Acc # 1814c)
Ration Book 4-
Charlotte L. Walkir (Acc # 1814d)
Ration Book Wallet
(black leatherette) (Acc # 91.84.38) containing;
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Ration Book 1- David D. Wood (Acc # 91.84.38a)
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Ration Book 1- Mrs. David Wood (Acc # 91.84.38b)
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Ration Book 3- David Wood (Acc # 91.84.38c)
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Ration Book 3- Mrs. David Wood (Acc # 91.84.38d)
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Ration Book 3- Dorothy Wood (Acc # 91.84.38e)
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Ration Book 4- David Wood (Acc # 91.83.38f)
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Ration Book 4- Dorothy Wood (Acc # 91.84.38g)
Ration Book 4- unreadable (Acc # 90.9.6b)
Entry
10: Rationing Miscellaneous
Loose ration
stamps and tokens
Michigan Liquor
Control Commission punch cards
Gas rationing
cards & highway stamps
Entry
11: Newsreels
News Parade of the
New Year – 1944
News Thrills-
1994- Invasion, Vol.2
Entry
12: Pamphlet Books
Psychology for the
Returning Serviceman
Psychology for the
Fighting Man
New Testament
(presented to Robert Uhl by Grandmother Uhl)
Survival Under Atomic Attack (Michigan
Office of Civil Defense)
Survival Under Atomic Attack (for employees of Detroit Edison Company)
Entry
13: Manuals and Guides
Guide to U.S. Navy
Insignia
Guide to U.S. Army
Insignia
Technical Manual-
Airship Dynamics, February 11, 1941
Technical Manual-
Aircraft Engines
Technical Manual-
Aerostatics
(2) Pocket
Reference Guides to Army/Navy/Marine Corps
Insignia
Fun En Route for Our
Armed Forces
Entry
14: Miscellaneous Media
Souvenir Photos of
Pearl Harbor
Pilot Chart of the
North Pacific Ocean (Acc # 90.52.10L)
Entry
15: Newspapers
1939 – 1944
Detroit News- September 11, 1939 (night edition)
Plymouth Mail- November 1, 1940
Times Herald- July 7, 1941 (Acc#
2001.084.07)
Detroit Free Press- December 8, 1941 (city
edition extra)
Detroit News (two copies)-
December 6, 1942
Detroit Free Press- November 29, 1942 (Sunday
graphic) (Acc # 2001.081.01)
Philadelphia Enquirer- December 6, 1942
Washington Post- June 6, 1943
Detroit News- September 15, 1943 (blue streak
edition)
Detroit Free Press- February 21, 1944
New York Times- June 5, 1944 (Acc #
2001.090.01)
Detroit News (two copies)- June 6, 1944 (blue streak edition)
Detroit News- June 6, 1944 (night edition)
Detroit News (two copies)-
June 6, 1944 (extra)
Detroit Times- June 6, 1944 (red line) (Acc #
2001.083.01)
Detroit Times (two copies)-
June 6, 1944 (extra)
Plymouth Mail- June 6, 1944
Detroit Free Press- June 7, 1944 (Acc #
2001.081.02)
Detroit Free Press- June 7, 1944 (metro final)
(Acc # 2001.081.03)
Detroit News- June 7, 1944
Detroit Free Press- June 7, 1944 (Acc #
2001.081.04)
Detroit Free Press- June 8, 1944 (Acc #
2001.081.05)
Detroit Times- June 8, 1944 (Acc # 2001.083.02)
Detroit News-June 8, 1944
Detroit News- June 9, 1944 (war page only)
Detroit Free Press- June 9, 1944 (Acc #
2001.083.03)
Detroit Times- June 9, 1944
Seattle Post Intelligencer- September 11, 1944
(Acc # 2001.088.01)
Seattle Post Intelligencer- September 14, 1944
(Acc # 2001.088.02)
Chicago Daily Tribune- September 15, 1944
1945 only
Detroit Free Press- April 6, 1945
Detroit Times- April 13, 1945
Detroit News- April 13, 1945 (war page only)
Detroit News- April 14, 1945 (extra)
Detroit News- April 14, 1945 (third edition)
Detroit News- April 15, 1945
Detroit News- April 16, 1945
Detroit Times- April 16, 1945
Detroit Free Press- May 3, 1945 (headline only)
Detroit Times- May 7, 1945
Citizen Advertiser- May 8, 1945
Detroit News- May 7, 1945
Detroit News- May 8, 1945 (V.E. extra)
Detroit News- May 9, 1945
Detroit Free Press- May 10, 1945 (Acc #
2001.081.06)
New York Herald Tribune- June 26, 1945 (Acc #
2001.090.01)
Detroit Times- May 7, 1945
Citizen Advertiser- August 15, 1945
Detroit Free Press (three copies)- August 15, 1945
Detroit Free Press- August 25, 1945
Detroit Free Press- August 29, 1945 (Acc #
2001.081.07)
Entry
16: Newspaper Articles
Plymouth Mail- 2/27/42 - “Fate of
Plymouth Lads on Bataan Unknown”.
Plymouth Mail- 1942- various articles on local
military personnel, (ACC#91.33.11L).
Plymouth Mail- 1942- various articles on local
military personnel, (ACC#91.33.10L).
Plymouth Mail- 1943- “News of Our Boys” column,
w/ two small photos (ACC#91.14.L)
Plymouth Mail- June/July 1943- “News of
Our Boys” columns, Re: Ruth Wellman, Elsmer W. Kreeger, Helen Schomberger, Earl
Oliphant and others (ACC# 91.33.2-).
Plymouth Mail- July 1943 - “News of Our Boys”
column, Re: Cass Hough “Sets World Record for Speed Flight”, others
(ACC#91.33.12L).
Plymouth Mail- 1943/1944 – “News
of Our Boys” columns and related articles (ACC# 91.33.15L).
Plymouth Mail- 1943- various articles on local
servicemen/women, large photo of U.S. Coast Guard vessel (ACC# 91.33.12).
Plymouth Mail- December 1943 /
January 1944- various articles on local serviceman/women (ACC# 91.33.16L).
Plymouth Mail-1943- “News of Our Boys” columns,
(ACC # 91.33.7L).
Plymouth Mail-1943- “News of Our Boys” column,
(ACC # 91.33.8L).
Plymouth Mail-1943- “News of Our Boys” column,
(ACC # 91.33.6L).
Plymouth Mail-1943- “News of Our Boys” column,
(ACC # 91.33.4L).
Plymouth Mail-1943- “News of Our Boys” column,
(ACC # 91.33.3L).
Plymouth Mail-1943/1944- articles on local military personnel, RE: Hill, Mulrey, Vanderveen, Trick,
Russell, McKinney,
Owens and Mettetal (ACC # 91.33.9L).
Plymouth Mail- Feb.14, 1944 - Col. Cass Hough,
“Fifteen Seconds to Live”.
Plymouth Mail- March/April 1944-
scrapbook page w/ “News of Our Boys” columns and “Battle Weary”, (ACC #
91.33.5L).
Plymouth Mail- 6/25/44- “Lieut. Tonkovich Killed in Action”.
Plymouth Mail- 1944- scrapbook page, assorted
local news items & “New of Our Boys” column.
Plymouth Mail- July, 1944- “Three Plymouth
Families (Spitz, Parsons & Laurian)
Sacrifice Sons for Victory”, photocopies.
Plymouth Mail- 8/25/44- “Ensign “Jim” Sexton
Killed in Air Crash”.
Plymouth Mail- 9/13/44 - “Pound
Base on Way to Philippines”.
Plymouth Mail- 9/8/44 – “Ronald D. Tobey Killed in
Action in Saipan
Area”.
Plymouth Mail- 10/6/44- “Mathew Spitz Reported
Missing Now Listed Killed”.
Plymouth Mail- 10/13/44- “Arthur Lockwood Killed
in Action”.
Plymouth Mail- 10/27/44- “David
Estep Dies at Texas
Camp”.
Plymouth Mail- 12/29/44- “Lieut.
Gary Tubergen Missing”.
Plymouth Mail- 1/12/45- “Willaim Swadling Prisoner of War in Germany, Family Advised”.
Plymouth Mail- 1/12/45- “Lieut. Gary Tubergen Was Killed in Action Over
Germany,
Nov.26”.
Plymouth Mail- 1/19/45- “Reported Missing in
Action”, Irvin Prough.
Plymouth Mail- 1/26/45-
“Dressmaker’s Son Missing in Action”, Pvt. Edwin McNeill.
Plymouth Mail- 2/9/45- “Missing in
Action in Belgium”,
Pvt. Harold Petraszewsky.
Plymouth Mail- 2/16/45- “Husband Killed in
Pacific Action Wife Advised”, Thomas L. Armstrong.
Plymouth Mail- 2/23/45- “Missing Flyer, Tonkovich, is Reported Killed”.
Plymouth Mail- 4/5/45- “Two More Give Lives in
Action”, Pfc. George D’Hane, James Sheppard.
Plymouth Mail- 4/6/45- “Clyde Ruehle Dies in Germany
From Wounds”.
Plymouth Mail- 5/11/45- “Plymouth Marine is No.
42 on Casualty List”, Pvt. Richard L. Beardsley.
Plymouth Mail- 6/3/45- “No Hope Offered for Sgt.
Wood”.
Plymouth Mail- two undated articles Re: Ralph
Lorenz & Cass Hough.
Plymouth Mail- 1945- “Wild Celebration Marks End
of War”.
Plymouth Mail- no date- “Lieut. John Christensen
Killed, War Department Wires Parents”.
Plymouth Mail- no date- “Ronald Tobey Killed on Tinian”.
Plymouth Mail- no date- “ Pfc.
Anna Showner Takes Special Typing Course in Spare
Time”.
Plymouth Mail- no date- “More Plymouth Boys Leave
for Armed Service”.
Plymouth Mail- 1944-1945- listings
of Plymouth dead & POWs’ “Plymouth’s Growing Sacrifice to America”.
Plymouth Mail- no date- “Lieut,
Parsons Killed in Action”.
Detroit Times- 12/8/41- Sports
Section- “The Police Rounding up Soldiers and Sailors on Leave in Detroit”.
Detroit Free Press- Sept. 19- “Leathernecks Storm Beach
at Peleliu”.
Detroit Free Press- 3/19/45- “1,700 Planes Deal
a 1-2 Blow at Japs”.
Detroit News- 3/20/45- map cutout- “Yanks Invade
Panay Island”.
Detroit Free Press- 4/8/45-
Sunday Graphic Section.
Detroit News- 4/8/45- Pictorial
Section.
Detroit News- 4/13/45- Pictorial Review Re:
Death of President Roosevelt.
Detroit Times- no date- “Garden Guide: When and How to Plant in Michigan”, (Acc #
2005.077.021).
Detroit Free Press- no date- “U.S. Planes in Range of Phillipines”.
Detroit News- no date- cut out map-“The Road Back-How Victories Pave Way to
Philippines”.
Unidentified source- “Air Blows Rock 1,000 Mile Front”.
Unidentified
source- map cut out- “Battle
for Luzon Begins”.
Unidentified source- no date- “Marines are Touched by Beauty of
Okinawa” by Ernie Pyle.
Post
War News Articles
Akron Beacon- 8/6/46- “Beaten Japan Through
a Camera”.
New York Times- 6/6/49- “D-Day
Observance: On The Shores of Normandy in 1944 and Now”.
Observer & Eccentric-10/24/91- “Exhibit
to Focus on War’s Home Front Impact”.
Observer & Eccentric- 11/4/91- “Army
Airmen Rests in Peace after 47 Years”, Sgt. Wesley Hoffman.
Community Cries- 11/6/91- “Vet Honored at
Arlington 50 Years Late…”.
Eagle & Enterprise (Belleville, MI.) 12/1/91-
“Dec. 7, 1941- Day of Infamy”.
Detroit News- 12/2/91- Special
Section- “Day of Infamy”.
Observer & Eccentric-
12/2/91- Pearl Harbor Tragedy Remembered by
Vets”.
Detroit News- 12/8/91- “A Nation Remembers”.
Detroit Free Press-12/11/91- Bob Talbert column-
“When the Good Stuff of Life was Rationed”.
Detroit Free Press- 12/12/91- Bob Talbert
column- “ Wartime Rumors Got Confused with Facts”.
Observer & Eccentric- 12/19/91- “Close to
Home: Exhibit Tells Story of War’s Local Impact”.
Observer & Eccentric- 1/23/92- “Wartime
Exhibit Has Local Focus”.
Detroit Free Press- 11/14/92- “Iowa
Hometown Finally Honors the Fighting Sullivan Brothers”.
Community Cries- 7/3/93-
“The Road to Pearl Harbor”.
Detroit News- 8/14/95- “Four
Freedoms 50 Years Later”.
Detroit Free Press- no date- Bob
Talbert column- “Pearl Harbor, Lassie Memories
Are Vivid”.
Detroit Free Press- no date- “WWII Offers
Collectors Golden Opportunities”.
Entry
17: Newspapers and Maps
Detroit Times – Sept. 1, 1939, “Britain Warns Hitler”.
Detroit Times – Sept. 17, 1939,
“Arena of New World Conflict”.
Detroit Free Press – June 7, 1944, “Beachheads
Are Revisited”.
Los Angeles Times – April 13, 1945, “President Roosevelt Dies”.
Detroit Times – April 13, 1945,
“Truman President”.
Los Angeles Examiner – April 13, 1945, “President
Dies”.
Detroit Free Press – August 7, 1945, “U.S.
Turns Terrible Power of Atom Bomb on Japan”.
Detroit News – August 14, 1945, “Japs Quit”.
Detroit News – August 14, 1945, “Downtown
Detroit’s Celebration”.
Detroit Times – August 14, 1945, “Truman
Announces: War Ends”.
Detroit Free Press – August 15, 1945, “Peace”.
The News and Observer – August 15, 1945,
“Peace”.
Newsmap for the
Armed Forces - 84th Week of U.S. Participation.
Newsmap for the
Armed Forces – 91st Week of
U.S.
Participation.
Newsmap for the Armed Forces – 113th Week…
Newsmap for the Armed Forces – 136th Week…
Newsmap for the Armed Forces – 138th Week…
Newsmap for the Armed Forces - 140th Week…
Newsmap for the Armed Forces – 143rd Week…
Newsmap for the Armed Forces – 144th Week…
Newsmap for the Armed Forces – 145th Week…
Newsmap for the Armed Forces – 149th Week…
World War II – Europe and North Africa
– National Geographic.
Entry
18: Books and Periodicals
Leventhal, Albert R.,
“War” The Camera’s Battlefield View of Man’s Most Terrible Adventure from the
Crimea to Vietnam.
The Ridge Press, Inc./Playboy Press, 1973. (Acc#
2003.145.01)
Sulzberger, C.L.
and the Editors of American Heritage, The American Heritage
Picture History of World War II. American Heritage Press Publishing Inc.,
1966. (Acc # 2001.095.01)
U.S. Military Officers Guide 9th
Edition. The Military Service Publishing Co., 1942. (Acc # 78.97.8)
Mosley, Leonard
and the Editors of Time-Life Books, Battle
of Britain.
Time- Life Books,1977.
(Acc # 2001.097.01)
Wernick, Robert
and the Editors of Time-Life Books, Blitzkreig. Time-Life Books, 1976. Acc # 2001.098.01
Elson, Robert T.
and the Editors of Time-Life Books,
Prelude to War. Time-Life Books, 1976. (Acc # 2001.099.01)
Bickers, Richard Townshend, The
Battle
of Britain.
Salamander Books Ltd., 1997.
Braverman, Jordan, To Hasten the Homecoming,
How Americans Fought World War II Through the Media. Madison Books, 1996.
War Department of the United States of America, “General
Marshall’s Victory Report”.
New York Herald Tribune, Front Page History of the Second World War.
New York Tribune, Inc., 1946
Entry
19: Posters of World War II
“I Want You,” Uncle Sam
pointing at you, by James Montgomery Flagg (repro).
“Ring It Again,”
“Buy U.S.
Savings Bonds,” #8A, Sackett & Wilhelms Corp., N.Y. (Acc# 91.49.10L)
“Wings Over America,” Air Corps U.S. Army, by Tom B. Woodburne, 1940 (repro).
“7th
War Loan,” “Now All Together,” by C.C. Beall, National
Archives reproduction.
“Buy War Bonds,”
Uncle Sam w/flag, National Archives reproduction.
“Remember Dec. 7th!”
tattered flag, National Archives reproduction. 2 copies.
“We Can Do It!”
National Archives reproduction.
“Mine Eyes Have
Seen the Glory,” Womens’ Army Corps. By Women in
Military Service for America Memorial Foundation, Inc. (repro)
Entry 20: Miscellaneous Material
Photos, magazine
articles, souvenirs & items of interest (mostly post-war).
Prepared by Dan Packer,
26 July 2006
