Browse Items (83 total)
Sort by:
Order to Report for Induction
Order for Clinton O'Connell to report for active service in the Army during WW II. O'Connell ended up serving in the Navy.
Officers' Mess 2 October 1945
Lt. Tillman J. Gressitt attendance to Officer's Mess Receipt, Tickets, and Calendar from Officer's Mess Rosecrans Field, St. Joseph, MO 2 October 1945.
Navy Fire Controlman First Class (FC-1) Theodore Boyce
FC-1 Boyce served in the US Navy aboard the USS Savannah during World War II. The ship was struck by a German Fritz-X radio controlled bomb off the coast of Algiers on September 11, 1943
Mount Sirubachi on the Island of Iwo Jima, Japan
Picture taken by Albert Buff of US Marine Air Warning Squadron-1 in 1945.
Military Uniform of Robert Ranger
This was Robert Ranger's uniform. It is decorated with various ribbons and medals showing where Ranger had served. The bottom row of ribbons on the left side of uniform represent an American Defense medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign medal, and a…
Michael (Mihael) Gantman at Vladivostok
Photograph of four Officers and a soldier. The photograph was taken after the Japanese surrendered in 1945. Michael Gantman stands 5th from the left. He was a Senior Lieutenant in the Artillery Unit, who joined the army at 14 in 1931 by lying about…
Marines Doing Laundry in the Pacific - Okinawa Japan, 1945
Corporal William J Batterton (US Marine Corps) doing laundry. Our laundry was made of a 55 gallon drum and a bicycle. When we peddled the bike, the drum would go around to clean the cloths. To rinse the cloths, we emptied the drum, refilled the drum,…
Letter: Wednesday 18 Apr.
letter
Letter: Tillman J. Gressitt to Walter and Maud Gressitt, St. Joseph, Missouri, October 2, 1945.
Handwritten letter home from Tillman to his parents about what he would like to do in the future and what universities that he is interested in going to upon his return.