Box 4253.003
Container
Contains 4 Collections and/or Records:
Lewis P. Schindler Letters, 1943 - 1944
File — Box: 4253.003, Folder: 001
Scope and Contents
All letters are written to a Mr. Lanier Merritt of Nashville, Tennessee, a friend of Mr. Schindler. The letters discuss the landscape near Camp Cooke, California, including the Sierra Nevada and Catalina Island. He discusses daily exercises, playing music, and his travel from Camp Cooke, California to Clerical school in Toledo, Ohio. He discusses the possibility of returning home and what he misses. He is on special duty at Camp Bowie, in charge of a depot of weapons. Some letters are written...
Dates:
1943 - 1944
Howard Robinson Letters, 1944 - 1945
File — Box: 4253.003, Folder: 005
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of four letters to Professor Howard Robinson, Oberlin, Ohio, three of which are from Corporal Leonard L. Beal, North Africa and two are from First Lieutenant Donald (“Don”) Balassa, Corsica. The letter dated 6 November 1943, from First Lieutenant Donald (“Don”) Balassa mentions farming methods and vegetables. He also mentions he, “bumped into…an officer” in the British Army, “who was a communist.” The next letter from Donald (“Don”) Balassa is dated 22 April 1944. This...
Dates:
1944 - 1945
Jolley Family Letters, 1943 - 1945
File — Box: 4253.003, Folder: 012
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 12 letters written by Amy, William Jr., and Jack while William and Jack were in the Armed Services during World War II – William with the 363rd Infantry, 91st Division in Italy and Jack with the 642nd Engineer Company in New Guinea. Amy’s two letters, dated July 12 and July 29, 1944, to William were returned as he was initially declared missing in action and then confirmed dead on July 24, 1944. His last letter, dated July 17, 1944, was written to Amy and her family...
Dates:
1943 - 1945
F. W. Gleason Jr. Letters, 1943 - 1945
File — Box: 4253.003, Folder: 014
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of eleven letters, one being a Christmas card, and one being a Mother’s Day card from Lt. F. W. (Wesley) Gleason Jr., U.S.C.G.R. (United States Coast Guard Reserve), aboard the USS Arthur Middleton, out of San Francisco, California, to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Gleason, New Orleans, Louisiana. These letters are dated from December 1943 to February 1945. In the June 9, 1944 letter, he states, “Yesterday made nine months since I...
Dates:
1943 - 1945