Photograph of MSgt. Manskie kneeling while using an aiming circle at artillery school in New Guinea.

Photograph of MSgt. Manskie looking out towards the sea on the coast of New Guinea.

Photograph of Tony and Alice Waitkowicz posing together on their first wedding anniversary.

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Copy photo of T&P train #635 in Mineola, Texas with a large water tank and building in the background. Written underneath the image are "July 5 1944 at Mineola" and "[sic] H. E. Chelf R. S. Plummer Photo."

Worksheet completed by Suzette Van Daell. The worksheet contains twenty questions about reading coordinates, and all questions are answered.

A letter written to Mr. Thomas N. Carswell, Clerical Audit Supervisor, Austin 17, Texas from L. M. Fellbaum, Major, Q. M. C. Chief, Field Division, State Headquarters for Selective Service, Austin 17, Texas dated July 4, 1944. Fellbaum offers his congratulations to Carswell on his promotion to CAF-7.

A Notification of Personnel Action form for Thomas N. Carswell from the Texas State Headquarters, Selective Service System from H. J. Weiler, Lt. Colonel, QMC, Personnel Officer. Within-Grade Promotion dated July 1, 1944. The reverse side includes instructions by the Selective Service System pertaining to new appointees, employees and War Service appointments.

A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas, from William D. Hassett, Secretary to the President, The White House, Washington, dated July 12, 1944. Hassett expresses appreciation from the President for the letter from Carswell, for "this frank and thoughtful expression of your views". The envelope into which the letter was placed is also included in the record. Postmarked envelope addressed to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas with a forwarding address to Selective Service, Local Board No. 1, Victoria, Texas from The White House, Official Business, postmarked Washington, DC, July 13, 1944. The reverse side includes a second postmark of Abilene, Texas, July 17, 1944.

A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas, from Grover Sellers, Attorney General of Texas, Austin, dated July 15, 1944. Sellers expresses his appreciation for the letter from Carswell dated July 7th. Sellers advises that he had previously received copies of the enclosure and confirms that the letter is entirely false noting that such tactics are often employed by a certain type of politician.

An itinerary for Thomas N. Carswell, Clerical Audit Supervisor, Travel Order No. 4 for work in District 7-A performed from July 1-31, 1944.

A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas, from R. P. Sibley, Assistant Dean, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, dated July 21, 1944. Sibley acknowledges the receipt of Carswell's letters and agrees that probation was hardly the appropriate action but advises that Peggy must pass her registration in Latin to graduate at the end of the term. Handwritten at the bottom of the page and continued on the reverse side is correspondence to Daddy [T. N. Carswell] from Mother [Byrdie Carswell] requesting that Carswell return these copies as she intended for Don Sibley to clear the Cornell record of that first term as he said "as if it had never been". She discusses Peggy's health, faults the advisor for having allowed Peggy's overload of hours and deems the term as worthless.

A letter written to Dean R. P. Sibley, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York from T. N. Carswell, dated July 18, 1944. Carswell acknowledges his receipt of Sibley's letter addressed to Peggy A. Carswell having placed her on probation. He advises of the fact that Peggy, having entered Cornell as a Junior, could not therefore have fulfilled any requirements by the end of the sophomore year and because she is now a senior applying probation, literally, is impossible. He requests that his daughter's probation status be reconsidered advising of the timing of this action as unnecessarily disturbing and that he must depend on Sibley to explore the matter thoroughly and to reply.

A letter written to Daddy [T. N. Carswell] from Peg [Peggy Carswell]. She advises that Mother talked with the Dean, all is straightened out and they "were sorry". She advises of the change of her faculty advisor and that she will be taking different courses including Public Speaking.

Weekly newspaper from Coleman, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Coleman, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Coleman, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.