Photograph of Dan Melli standing inside of a shadowy building while Everett Roeder looks in from the bright outdoors. Both are wearing U.S. Army uniforms, though Roeder also wears sunglasses and a soft cap. The caption on the reverse side declares that Melli was cooking steaks on a portable grill.

Photograph of Dan Melli standing inside of a shadowy building over a pot filled with water. Another soldier stands nearby, but both he and Melli have their torsos outside of the camera's view.

Photograph of Dan Melli leaning out of a window of a surgical truck. The truck bears the image of a cross inside of a white square.

Interview with Cleatus A. LeBow, a serviceman in the U. S. Navy during World War II. LeBow joined the navy in 1943 and went from Lubbock, Texas to San Diego for recruit training. He shipped out to Pearl Harbor aboard an LST from San Francisco. At Pearl Harbor, he was assigned to a work detail aboard the USS Oklahoma, which had just been righted. Shortly thereafter, he boarded the USS Indianapolis to serve as a range finder operator on one of the gun turrets. Upon leaving Hawaii, the Indianapolis went to Tarawa and then the Marshall Islands. LeBow witnessed Japanese civilian suicides on Saipan. He also witnessed the flag-raising on Iwo Jima from his range finder position aboard the ship. LeBow describes being hit by a kamikaze off Okinawa. He also discusses delivering atomic bomb components to Tinian and being torpedoed on the way to the Philippines. He describes abandoning the ship and spending five days in the water, including his faith in God, hallucinations, rescue, and his recovery.

Letter from a soldier named Don King to Captain Charles R. Griggs concerning his status in his current company as first sergeant but will probably be moved back once a new man is assigned. King tells Griggs that he wants him to spend time with him and his wife after the war is over and that he really would like to see him and talk to him in person.

Photograph of a smoke cloud obscuring a city along a dirt road where a tank travels. The text below the picture reads "Wiping last resistance out of Auland, Austria."

Interview with First Sergeant Lewis J. Michelony, Jr., a Marine Corps veteran, concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II and the Korean War. Michelony discusses his assignment to the 6th Marines in 1943, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, and Tinian, as well as Korea and the Chosin Reservoir.