Interview with William Crow, U.S. Navy veteran, concerning his experiences at the Submarine Base during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with Rudolph Zalman, U.S. Navy veteran, concerning his experiences while ashore at home in Honolulu during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Zalman was attached to the repair ship USS Medusa.

Interview with Wilburn Ray, U.S. Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the destroyer USS Worden during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with James Kerns, U.S. Navy veteran, concerning his experiences while aboard a motor launch in Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941.

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing taking a train with other Red Cross workers from Chicago to Seattle, the Seattle area, traveling by ship to Oahu, and impressions of the island. Written on Burlington Hotel (Washington DC) stationary.

Copy of a letter from M. H. Knowles to Plosser and Prince discussing the possibility of an alternative lumber source since the original lumber company, Feather River Pine Mills, experienced damages to their supply.

Interview with Hubert Kotrla regarding his experiences while stationed aboard the destroyer USS Begley during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and other installations on the island on December 7th, 1941.

Interview with Jamie R. ("J. R.") Murphy regarding his experiences while stationed at Kaneohe Naval Air Station during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and other installations on the island on December 7th, 1941.

Invoice for services billed to Dan Moody, an attorney from Austin, Texas by Irby & Dineen, shorthand reporters for the Northern District of Texas Federal Courts, including a transcript and a few extra copies.

Letter from Colonel W. F. Volandt to British Flying Training School #7 discussing publicity in connection with training activities. There is a hand-written note in the top left corner from Joe B. Plosser.

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis, Sr. on May 15, 1943. He asks them to send him V-mail stationery and his old camera.

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis, Sr. on May 15, 1944. He laments celebrating another birthday overseas, and wishes he could be home for his birthday as well as Mother's Day. He got a letter from a friend in the Pacific who gets to go home when his 18 month service is up, and Willis wishes he could say the same. He expresses regret at one of his father's calves drowning when Waco got a lot of rain, and tells his mother he will buy her and his Aunt Lucile cameos the next time he goes into town.

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to John T. Willis Sr. on July 2, 1943. He sends foreign money, asks about finding workers for the farm, and mentions that they will be playing two baseball games for the fourth of July.

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis Sr. on May 15, 1943. He asks for a 35 mm camera and film for the camera he currently has, and he promises to send money home within the next week.

Photograph of soldiers, who were members of the company volleyball team, standing by a net in front of barracks in Augsburg, Germany. Lt. Albert Gaynes is the second man from the left.

Photograph of eight soldiers, some of whom were prisoners of war, posing in London a month after getting out.

Interview with Robert D. Haines, an American prisoner of war during World War II. He discusses the attack on Clark Field in the Philippines on December 8, 1941, as well as his experiences on the Bataan Death March. He also tells of his time spent as a prisoner of war under the Japanese at Camp O'Donnell, Cabanatuan and Bilibid prison in Manila. He encountered his brother, who was a civilian internee, at Bilibid. From there, he rode on a hell ship for 39 days to a POW camp in Formosa (Taiwan). When the Americans began bombing Formosa, Haines was moved via another hell ship to Tokyo, Japan. Not long after, he was liberated and returned to San Francisco, then Denver.

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Air war, Eastern front, China, Burma-India, Italy, Pacific. Maps: China-Burma; Sevastopol; Insets: Crimea. Includes 8 photographs. Back: Moscow to Berlin. Map.