A photograph print showing Union Pacific (UP) 9026, 4-12-2, North Platte, NE.

A photograph print showing Union Pacific (UP) 7008, 4-8-2, waiting for 2nd section of train No. 27, North Platte, NE.

A photograph print showing Union Pacific (UP) 5024, 2-10-2, North Platte, NE.

A photograph print showing Union Pacific (UP) 5031, 2-10-2, on freight train, North Platte, NE.

A photograph print showing Union Pacific (UP) 4471, 0-6-0, switch engine with slope-back tender, North Platte, NE.

A photograph postcard showing Union Pacific (UP) 4013, 4-8-8-4, North Platte, NE. (In use west of Green River now)

A photograph print showing Union Pacific (UP) 832, 4-8-4, on passenger train No. 27, "Los Angeles, San Francisco Limited", North Platte, NB.

A photograph print showing Union Pacific (UP) 832, 4-8-4, with super tender, "Caterpillar type", taking on water at North Platte, NB.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al Stevens. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1943 as a metallurgical engineer. He enlisted in the Navy in 1944 in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the Navy Electronics School at Harvard University as well as a specialized radar training program organized by MIT at the Harbor Building in Boston, Massachusetts. He received further training in radar countermeasures at Ocracoke Island, North Carolina. He served on the USS Wasatch (ACG-9). When the ship was anchored, he was assigned to deliver orders and mail. He describes the Operation Olympic portion of the plan to invade Japan. He was part of the force that occupied Wakanoura and Nagoya, Japan. He shares an anecdote about obtaining a Japanese sword as a souvenir in Nagoya. In North China he participated in the repatriation of the Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans. He wrote a book, ?Up Close and Personal,? about his World War II experiences.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al Stevens. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1943 as a metallurgical engineer. He enlisted in the Navy in 1944 in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the Navy Electronics School at Harvard University as well as a specialized radar training program organized by MIT at the Harbor Building in Boston, Massachusetts. He received further training in radar countermeasures at Ocracoke Island, North Carolina. He served on the USS Wasatch (ACG-9). When the ship was anchored, he was assigned to deliver orders and mail. He describes the Operation Olympic portion of the plan to invade Japan. He was part of the force that occupied Wakanoura and Nagoya, Japan. He shares an anecdote about obtaining a Japanese sword as a souvenir in Nagoya. In North China he participated in the repatriation of the Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans. He wrote a book, ?Up Close and Personal,? about his World War II experiences.

Interview with Lloyd A. Lawrence, a United States Navy veteran from Lincoln, Nebraska, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the battleship USS Maryland.

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing having her flight stranded in Lincoln, NE, and things she encountered there. Written on Lincoln Army Air Field Officers' Club stationary.

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing her recent flying. Written on stationary from the Lincoln Army Air Field Officers Club.

Interview with John R. Leber, a Army Air Corps WWII veteran from Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, who flew with the 317th Troop Carrier Squadron in the China-Burma-India Theater. Leber discusses enlisting in the Air Corps, training as an aircraft mechanic and becoming a crew chief, the C-46 and the C-47, deployment to India, flying over the Himalayas, living conditions, and continued service postwar. In appendix are handwritten letters of Leber from his time overseas.

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

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Nebraska coach Tom Osborne heard some unfamiliar sounds coming from the stands Saturday when the Cornhuskers trailed Missouri 6-0 at halftime."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Miami coach Howard Schnellenberger's greets Nebraska coach Tom Osborne at the Orange Bowl banquet Friday."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tom Osborne tries to draw up some offense for the Huskers."