Letter from John to Catherine discussing flying with a third phase crew, Peggy going to Wyoming and bringing Denny back with her, being lonely, and looking forward to visiting Catherine and her husband, Joe.

Letter from Joe to his wife Catherine discussing drinking beer with Williams, Holquin, and Graves at the Snake Ranch, mailing Catherine his watch to be fixed, and getting along well with the other men in his squadron.

Transcript of an interview with James Hudson, Army veteran (3rd Platoon, 36th/83rd Quartermaster Trucking Company, 470th Quartermaster Regiment), concerning his experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Hudson discusses his youth in segregated Yalobusha County, Mississippi; his reaction to being drafted, December, 1942; basic training, Camp McCain, Grenada, Mississippi, 1942-43; segregated training facilities; maneuvers at Camp Polk, Louisiana, 1943; training in truck maintenance and operation; relations between white officers and black enlisted men; entertainment on and off base for black soldiers; illiteracy among black troops; voyage to Europe, February, 1944; pre-invasion training around Cardigan, Wales; transfer of the unit to Swansea for further pre-invasion training; his observations of the Normandy landings, June 6, 1944; the landing of his unit on June 7 at Omaha Beach; establishment of beach supply depots; his participation in the activities of the "Red Ball Express," August-September, 1944; his description of war damage in German towns and cities; postwar adjustments to segregated society in Mississippi. Appendix consists of photocopy of "Honorable Discharge" (1 page).

Interview conducted in Grand Prairie, Texas with John O. Burch, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the destroyer tender USS Whitney during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Newspaper clipping from the LA Times discussing the life of WASP Marie Michell Robinson, her family, and the finding of artifacts at the crash site where she died.

Memo from the United States Army Air Force illustrating a time table with an hour broken down into tenths to be used for reporting trip duration.

Postcard with text that says "Greetings from Washington D.C." A handwritten note on the back of the postcard, addressed to Miss Helen H. Aten in PA, says "I am in Washington and can say I am practically lost for I know very little about this city compared with New York. The temperature is sizzling for the first in a long time. I saw the Wash. Monument and White House today- (this evening) we arrived here about 6:30. So long. Woodrow."

Photograph of two women standing between two men on a dirt road. Handwritten notes on the photo say "Sgt. Baker, Louise King, Ray Hubert, Sgt. Arnold," "Went to Sweetwater 5-30-41," and "Camp Barkley - Abilene, Texas."

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis, Sr. on May 30, 1944. He says that Wilbur Crawford is getting better, and you can't even tell that his leg was ever injured. He urges his mother to get well, saying that he hopes he will be home that year. He dwells on the weather for a while, and tells them not to send him his bathing suit as he already has one.

Photograph of Lt. Albert Gaynes standing amid the wreckage of a harbor at Le Havre, France. A ship is visible in the background.

Photograph of Lt. Albert Gaynes standing at a bombed out pier in Le Havre, France. Buildings and the ocean are visible in the background.

Photograph of uniformed American soldiers named Joseph Kiker and George Hatt standing in front of a building. Plants and a shuttered window are located behind the two helmeted men.