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Collection includes letters from George D. Tidwell, an Air Force training officer at the Arctic Survival School, to his first
wife Air Force nurse Lt. Violet Jackson. Tidwell's letters describe life at the school, his varying duties, his frustrations
with those in command, and his affections towards Jackson. In addition are three photograph albums containing a total of six-hundred
and twenty photographs. The first two albums belong to Lt. Jackson and document her service in the 3700th Station Medical
Squadron at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas as well as her tour in Europe and her time at the Macon Hospital School of Nursing
in Georgia. The last photo album belongs to Lt. Jackson's second husband Clay Kemp. Kemp's album details his time at the USNAB
Agana on Guam where he worked as a Navy surgical assistant. Also included two U.S. Air Force telegrams, Lt. Jackson's U.S.
Army Medical Field Service course certificate, an Air Force Reserve inventory questionnaire, Air Force Reserve qualification
paperwork, and Stephen Tidwell Baptism certification.
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