The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Arwin Bowden. He begins by discussing his training in San Diego and New Zealand before the Battle of Tarawa. He describes being wounded in the battle, the casualties he saw and being shipped back to Pearl Harbor for treatment, then joining the battle of Saipan. He ancedotes about Japanese killing themselves rather than surrendering, eating food from a garden watered from rainwater running down from outhouses, the wages he made and the time he had leave.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Letter from I. H. Kempner to Max Cramer discussing visiting Cramer, but informing Cramer that he would have to bring all his children and grandchildren if he were to stay in Seattle.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Just love my canister set," Mrs. James A. Seeley said."

Letter from Grmia Potjes to Mr. and Mrs. Turney discussing a bad experience her husband had with a school, the weather in Dallas, Texas vs. Seattle, Washington, and how much she and her husband dislike Seattle.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "USS Oklahoma BB-37 at the Puget Sound Navy Yard Sept. 26, 1940"

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Texas making a play for the Washington Senators franchise and a Dallas Cowboys trade.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of supreme court justice who is arriving at Seattle, Washington after a 3-week vacation in Japan and was rushed from then airport.

Photocopy of a news script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about George McGovern campaigning across the Pacific Northwest.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Senator George McGovern continuing his 11-day presidential campaign in Washington by visiting a food distribution warehouse to feed the unemployed.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Owen Scott from Miami, Florida; who has been traveling from the Seattle World's Fair in 1962 on a burro named Sam.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Sgt. Lewis Copeland (second from right"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jack Howard is a 34-year-old IBM executive who has easily disposed of Lew Alcindor and Arthur Ashe in his favorite sport."

Photograph of four people taken during the 1990 reunion of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). Pictured from left to right: Marty Wyall (WASP), Instructor Marvin A. Krieger, Joy Krieger, and an unidentified man. Written on the back: WASP Reunion, Sept 1990, Seattle."

Postcard of a white dock on a placid lake with a snow capped mountain in the distance, described as "Lake Washington Boulevard and Mount Rainier, Seattle, Washington." The message on the back is illegible. The postcard is addressed to "Mr. Carroll E. Ward Texas Ice Co. Beaumont, Texas."

Postcard of a multistory pale yellow building near a busy street, described as "The Olympic Hotel, Seattle, Wash." The message on the back is illegible. The postcard is addressed to "Mrs. Carroll E. Ward Texas Ice Co. Beaumont, Texas."

Photograph of large group of women, including Charlyne Creger (center) posing in front of a B17 plane at the Aviation Museum on Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington; seven of the women in the center are wearing WASP uniforms and several other women are wearing name tags.

Photograph of a large group of women posing in front of a large airplane; several of the women (front, center) are wearing WASP uniforms and many others are wearing name tags.