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1 Title:   Travis M. Rhodes World War II letters  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Rhodes, Travis M.  
  Dates:   1943-1947  
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The collection consists of correspondence from Travis M. Rhodes to his sweetheart, "Margie," in Valdosta, Georgia, from 1943-1947. Rhodes writes from the Air Corp Technical School in Kessler Field, Mississippi; Chanute Field, Illinois; Salina, Kansas; and Riverside, California. Letters regard family and friends in Valdosta, Georgia, activities at Rhodes' base, and travels.
  
  Identifier:   ms3658  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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2 Title:   Milford Taylor fuel ration coupons  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Taylor, Milford J.  
  Dates:   1942-1943  
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The collection consists of the cover of one basic gasoline ration coupon book and a fuel oil ration coupon for Mr. and Mrs. Milford J. Taylor of Yalesville, Connecticut.
  
  Identifier:   ms3742  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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3 Title:   Charles Jameson One more time (photocopy)  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Jameson, Charles H.  
  Dates:   1987  
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The collection consists of a photocopy of a typescript by Charles H. Jameson entitled One more time, they wouldn't do that to you. Jameson writes about his experiences as a soldier during World War II, including listening to Japanese transmissions, reporting the transmissions, and being promoted to Corporal at Bomb Disposal School.
  
  Identifier:   ms2555  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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4 Title:   Kirk Kerkorian collection  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Kerkorian, Kerkor , 1917-2015  
  Dates:   1942-1951  
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The collection consists of papers and artifacts from Kirk Kerkorian's service during World War II. A personal photograph album and several issues of the Gosport, a publication of the Morton Air Academy, are also included.
  
  Identifier:   ms3962  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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5 Title:   Soldier's erotica ephemera  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Unknown  
  Dates:   circa 1940s  
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This collection contains handwritten and typed ribald anecdotes, poems, sketches, drawings, and cards collected by an unknown soldier during World War II.
  
  Identifier:   ms4281  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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6 Title:   Green family World War II letters  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Green, William Walter, Jr. , 1907-1970  
  Dates:   1931-1945  
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Collection consists mostly of letters from William Walter Green to his mother, Ruby Green, of Albany, Georgia. The letters cover William Walter Green's time serving in the United States Navy during World War II, from 1943-1945. Also includes photographs, newspaper clippings, and one copy of the South Pacific Daily News from 1944.
  
  Identifier:   ms4222  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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7 Title:   Aaron Cohn Papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Cohn, Aaron  
  Dates:   1931-2012  
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Aaron Cohn (1916-2012) served as a juvenile court judge in Columbus, Georgia (1965-2011). His papers include correspondence, clippings, reports, programs, awards, scrapbooks and photographs.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL321AC  
  Repository:   Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies  
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8 Title:   Walter S. Brown scrapbook related to World War II  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Brown, Walter Scott, 1889-1965  
  Dates:   1942-1945  
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In 1942 during the early stages of World War II, Walter S. Brown, Director of the Georgia Cooperative Extension at the University of Georgia, sent out a letter stating "we are anxious to keep in close touch with all Extension Workers in the armed forces... I am asking you to send me your present address... [and] I would apprreciate your writing us a few paragraphs telling us of your particular duties and anything you think the other Extension men in the service and at home would like to hear about you.. We plan to send a letter regularly to every man in the service telling him something of what we are trying to do back home and of what all of your are doing for Victory in the armed forces." The Walter S. Brown Scrapbook of World War II containes a compilation of the newsletters sent out by Brown and the responses he received from the servicemen and women during the course of the war. Brown's newsletters are dated October 6, 1942 to November 29, 1944 and the letters sent to Mr. Brown date from 1942 to 1945. The newsletters detail activities taking place here at UGA while the letters make reference to the various countries where the servicemen were stationed as well as observations of personal activites and,in some instances, the countries' agricultural land, products and methods.
  
  Identifier:   UA0024  
  Repository:   University of Georgia Archives  
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9 Title:   Carson family letter  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Unknown  
  Dates:   1943 July 7  
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The collection consists of one letter typewritten on United States Marine Corps, Southern Recruiting Division letterhead: dated Macon, Georgia, July 7, 1943, "Dear "Kit," containing gossip related to the military. "Kit" is possbily Clyde Carson.
  
  Identifier:   ms2255  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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10 Title:   Leslie D. Hedges letters  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Hedges, Leslie D., -1944  
  Dates:   1943-1944  
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The collection consists of correspondence written by and concerning Leslie D. Hedges. Two postcards and one letter are from Leslie D. Hedges to his wife, written while Hedges was in training in Alabama and Shaw Field, South Carolina. Two letters are addressed to Pearl Hedges, Leslie's wife, and regard Leslie's flying career in the military and his death.
  
  Identifier:   ms2318  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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11 Title:   Edward E. Dougherty papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Dougherty, Edward E., 1917-  
  Dates:   1941-1976  
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The collection consists of correspondence, written jokes and poems, records relating to Dougherty's army service during World War II and reserve duties after the war, printed material, and photographs.
  
  Identifier:   ms2332  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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12 Title:   Paul A. Camp papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Camp, Paul A.  
  Dates:   1943-1945  
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The collection consists of papers of Paul A. Camp from 1943-1945. The papers include correspondence, printed U.S. Army official materials, photographs, and copies of the Stars and Stripes and Yank.
  
  Identifier:   ms2333  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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13 Title:   Robert R. Martin papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Martin, Robert R.  
  Dates:   1944-1945  
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The collection consists of correspondence from Colonel Robert R. Martin during his service in World War II, 1944-1945. Correspondences are written mainly to his wife, Mary Belle Martin, and a few are addressed to Jane Martin and Robert N. Martin. Written from France, Germany, and Austria, letters contain detailed descriptions of Martin's surroundings, local people, administrative or military duties, and condition of his unit. Letters also detail the problems of raising a family while separated.
  
  Identifier:   ms2474  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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14 Title:   World War II photographs  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Puckett, John R.  
  Dates:   1939-1945  
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The collection consists of twenty three black-and-white photographs taken by John R. Puckett during World War II. Photographs include sites in England, France, and Germany.
  
  Identifier:   ms2754  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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15 Title:   Carl White letters  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   White, Carl  
  Dates:   1945 September-October  
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The collection consists of six letters from Carl White to his mother discussing activities in Okinawa during World War II, mentioning a cyclone hitting the bay, ships that were hit, and discharge possibilities.
  
  Identifier:   ms2755  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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16 Title:   Veterans of Foreign Wars, Rainbow Post 2681, collection  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. Rainbow Post No. 2681  
  Dates:   1918-1986  
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The collection consists mainly of photographs, many with captions, from World War II, dating 1938, 1943-1945. Photographs depict Navy Officers, local people, and prisoners of war in New Guinea, Remagen Bridge, a Liberty Ship being unloaded off the shores of Goodenough Island, and temporary quarters on Luzon Island, in the Philippines. Also included is a war ration book issued to Edna J. Eaton, wife of Harold A. Eaton, Haverhill, Massachusetts; United States War-Savings Certificate issued to Callie Sheppard, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1918; and an explanatory letter addressed to the University of Georgia Library, dated May 20, 1986, from Sgt. Joseph W. Reid.
  
  Identifier:   ms2996  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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17 Title:   Sidney Samuel Thomas letters  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Thomas, Sidney Samuel, 1923-2012  
  Dates:   1943-1946  
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The collection consists of correspondence to Sidney Samuel Thomas from 1943 to 1946, while he lived in Athens, Georgia, and worked as a military cryptographer in St. Petersburg, Miami, and West Palm Beach, Florida; Pawling, New York; and Greensboro, North Carolina. Correspondents include P.F.C. John Lomax, Cpl. Marian Talmadge, Cpl. Pope Hill, Sgt. Carl Cox, Cpl. Cecil Bentz, Cpl. M.K. Smith, Merritt Whelchel, and Cpl. James Swan. Correspondence concerns a plethora of topics, including duties, respective lives in the Army, and daily routines; and there is discussion of religion and philosophy, as well as many references to the popular culture of the era, i.e. books, actors and movies. Included with some of the letters are clippings from newspapers and magazines.
  
  Identifier:   ms3030  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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18 Title:   United States Navy landing papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   United States. Navy  
  Dates:   1945  
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The collection consists of operation orders for the USS Cecil landing attack dated February 1945. Also included are United States Naval Training School lessons and notes from Camp Macdonough in Plattsburgh, New York, and five intelligence maps of Western Okinawa Beaches labeled "Top Secret."
  
  Identifier:   ms3039  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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19 Title:   VanDerKloot Films collection  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Vanderkloot, William  
  Dates:   1940s-2012  
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This collection consists of research and production files created by VanDerKloot Films for a number of documentaries including Flying the Secret Sky: The Story of the RAF Ferry Commandy, World of Audobon, Iron Horse, and Cumberland: Island in Time.
  
  Identifier:   ms3840  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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20 Title:   World War II ration coupon scrapbook  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Sherman, David  
  Dates:   1942-1945  
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This collection contains a scrapbook of World War II ration coupons for gasoline, oil, food, shoes, and stoves; applications for supplemental ration books; and rent control regulation forms and applications for various people in Georgia between 1942 and 1945.
  
  Identifier:   ms4311  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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