World War, 1939-1945
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85148273
Found in 173 Collections and/or Records:
Air Service Command Supply School portrait, 1942 October
Item — Box 28: [1006235698], Folder: 2011.004.002856
Identifier: 2011.004.002856
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting farm fields; construction site; men working with farm equipment and other machinery; geological map of Lake Guntersville, Alabama, area; map of soy bean storage in Guntersville, Alabama; drill tower; Walter Jones; University of Alabama football game; hunting; and Walter Jones’s pipe collection.
Dates:
1942 October
American forces headquarters in Darwin, 1944 April 26
Item — Box 5939: [1006235675], Folder: 7
Identifier: 2011.004.005453
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
112 photographs depicting geological reports; portraits of Walter Jones; airport and aerial views of New Guinea; boats in New Guinea; World War II; military campsite in New Guinea; construction work in New Guinea; landscape, vegetation, and huts in New Guinea; houses and headquarters in Darwin, Australia; flying boats at Port Darwin; quarry and rocks in Darwin; vegetation and landscape of Darwin, Australia; and Manton Dam and reservoir near Darwin.
Dates:
1944 April 26
An airplane with people in the distance in New Guinea, circa 1942
Item — Box 8: [1006235696], Folder: 2011.004.000800
Identifier: 2011.004.000800
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting Civilian Conservation Corps Camp; Walter Jones’s family; Jones family camping; Quad and Denny Chimes at The University of Alabama; Great Smoky Mountains at Newfound Gap; John Edward Jenkins in uniform in Panama Canal Zone; fishing in Alabama; Walter Jones at March Field; Gandrud family; Mobile Delta; boating; Camp Livingston, Louisiana; snow at Pyramid Mountain, Alaska; and New Guinea.
Dates:
circa 1942
Andrew William Johnson Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2356
Overview
Correspondence, photographs, diary, books, stationery set, newspaper clippings, and dog tags of Andrew William Johnson Jr. of Louisville, Kentucky, during the 1940s, before and after he was in the Army.
Dates:
1940-1949
Armed Forces pocket guides
Collection
Identifier: PM-018
Overview
Contains foreign language and travel pocket guides for the United States Armed Forces.
Dates:
1946-1967
Army Specialized Training Program papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3602
Overview
Panoramic photo and files of an Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) group
Dates:
Between 1942 and 1944
William Jason Ashenfelter World War II Artifacts and Photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4007
Overview
World War II memorabilia collected and photographs taken during Ashenfelter's tour of duty in Europe .
Dates:
1942-1945
Beach at Nightcliff in Darwin, Northern Territory, 1944 April 22
Item — Box 5939: [1006235675], Folder: 6
Identifier: 2011.004.005429
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
112 photographs depicting geological reports; portraits of Walter Jones; airport and aerial views of New Guinea; boats in New Guinea; World War II; military campsite in New Guinea; construction work in New Guinea; landscape, vegetation, and huts in New Guinea; houses and headquarters in Darwin, Australia; flying boats at Port Darwin; quarry and rocks in Darwin; vegetation and landscape of Darwin, Australia; and Manton Dam and reservoir near Darwin.
Dates:
1944 April 22
Berman Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2329
Overview
Contains material created and kept by the Berman family of St. Louis, Missouri. Letters written by Dr. William (Bill) Berman and his wife Marian make up the bulk of the collection. These are primarily letters written, often in Hebrew, by Bill and Marian from Ft. Riley, Kansas, where Bill served as an Army doctor during World War Two.
Dates:
1927-1957
Blue Star Salute Foundation Materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4051
Overview
United States Blue Star Service Flag (roughly 8.5" x 14"), membership brochures, and announcements of upcoming events honoring U. S. veterans in the Jefferson and Shelby Counties, Alabama.
Dates:
2014
Bluffs at Nightcliff in Darwin, Northern Territory, 1944 April 22
Item — Box 5939: [1006235675], Folder: 6
Identifier: 2011.004.005428
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
112 photographs depicting geological reports; portraits of Walter Jones; airport and aerial views of New Guinea; boats in New Guinea; World War II; military campsite in New Guinea; construction work in New Guinea; landscape, vegetation, and huts in New Guinea; houses and headquarters in Darwin, Australia; flying boats at Port Darwin; quarry and rocks in Darwin; vegetation and landscape of Darwin, Australia; and Manton Dam and reservoir near Darwin.
Dates:
1944 April 22
Bulldozer excavating site for oil storage tanks in Darwin, 1944 April 26
Item — Box 5939: [1006235675], Folder: 7
Identifier: 2011.004.005451
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
112 photographs depicting geological reports; portraits of Walter Jones; airport and aerial views of New Guinea; boats in New Guinea; World War II; military campsite in New Guinea; construction work in New Guinea; landscape, vegetation, and huts in New Guinea; houses and headquarters in Darwin, Australia; flying boats at Port Darwin; quarry and rocks in Darwin; vegetation and landscape of Darwin, Australia; and Manton Dam and reservoir near Darwin.
Dates:
1944 April 26
Jack S. Butler papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2485
Overview
Letters written to and from Lt. Jack S. Butler and his wife, Maxine, in 1945, while he was stationed in Italy, and she was in Notasulga and Auburn, AL
Dates:
1945
Carl S. Auerbach World War II letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4202
Overview
Letters from this WWII sailor to his wife and family.
Dates:
1936-1945
Carl T. Jones and others on a boat pulling up nets in Alaska, 1943 October 3
Item — Box 10: [1006241594], Folder: 2011.004.001041
Identifier: 2011.004.001041
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting the Jones and Phelps families; Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; fishing in Grand Bay, Alabama; cave near Elko, Madison County, Alabama; and Jones family at the Cedars Farm in Huntsville, Alabama.
Dates:
1943 October 3
Carl T. Jones in his National Guard uniform, 1943 August
Item — Box 10: [1006241594], Folder: 2011.004.001040
Identifier: 2011.004.001040
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting the Jones and Phelps families; Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; fishing in Grand Bay, Alabama; cave near Elko, Madison County, Alabama; and Jones family at the Cedars Farm in Huntsville, Alabama.
Dates:
1943 August
Cartoon reproduction of World War II scene, 1944 March 15
Item — Box 10: [1006241594], Folder: 2011.004.001050
Identifier: 2011.004.001050
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting the Jones and Phelps families; Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; fishing in Grand Bay, Alabama; cave near Elko, Madison County, Alabama; and Jones family at the Cedars Farm in Huntsville, Alabama.
Dates:
1944 March 15
China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II : typescript
Collection
Identifier: W-0120
Overview
Unbound typescript of China Marine, written by Eugene Bondurant Sledge. The manuscript is 107 pages long and contains typed publisher's notations about formatting.
Dates:
2002
Cleared area in Darwin, 1944 April 24
Item — Box 5939: [1006235675], Folder: 7
Identifier: 2011.004.005442
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
112 photographs depicting geological reports; portraits of Walter Jones; airport and aerial views of New Guinea; boats in New Guinea; World War II; military campsite in New Guinea; construction work in New Guinea; landscape, vegetation, and huts in New Guinea; houses and headquarters in Darwin, Australia; flying boats at Port Darwin; quarry and rocks in Darwin; vegetation and landscape of Darwin, Australia; and Manton Dam and reservoir near Darwin.
Dates:
1944 April 24
Cleared area with building in the distance in Darwin, 1944 April 24
Item — Box 5939: [1006235675], Folder: 7
Identifier: 2011.004.005443
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
112 photographs depicting geological reports; portraits of Walter Jones; airport and aerial views of New Guinea; boats in New Guinea; World War II; military campsite in New Guinea; construction work in New Guinea; landscape, vegetation, and huts in New Guinea; houses and headquarters in Darwin, Australia; flying boats at Port Darwin; quarry and rocks in Darwin; vegetation and landscape of Darwin, Australia; and Manton Dam and reservoir near Darwin.
Dates:
1944 April 24
Collective Protection documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0344
Abstract
Documents on Collective Protection probably produced by authorities in Birmingham, Alabama, and Montgomery, Alabama, shortly after the United States entered World War II. They cover all areas of collective protection such as home protection, lighting restrictions, espionage and sabotage, war gases and shelters.
Dates:
1941-1945
Colonel Carl T. Jones and Captain Emerson, 1943 August
Item — Box 10: [1006241594], Folder: 2011.004.001039
Identifier: 2011.004.001039
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting the Jones and Phelps families; Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; fishing in Grand Bay, Alabama; cave near Elko, Madison County, Alabama; and Jones family at the Cedars Farm in Huntsville, Alabama.
Dates:
1943 August
Colonel E. L. Hubbard at Manton Dam near Darwin, 1944 April 24
Item — Box 5939: [1006235675], Folder: 7
Identifier: 2011.004.005446
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
112 photographs depicting geological reports; portraits of Walter Jones; airport and aerial views of New Guinea; boats in New Guinea; World War II; military campsite in New Guinea; construction work in New Guinea; landscape, vegetation, and huts in New Guinea; houses and headquarters in Darwin, Australia; flying boats at Port Darwin; quarry and rocks in Darwin; vegetation and landscape of Darwin, Australia; and Manton Dam and reservoir near Darwin.
Dates:
1944 April 24
Colonel E. S. Bres and Lieutenant Colonel Walter Grimes, photo 1, 1944 April 26
Item — Box 28: [1006235698], Folder: 2011.004.002860
Identifier: 2011.004.002860
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting farm fields; construction site; men working with farm equipment and other machinery; geological map of Lake Guntersville, Alabama, area; map of soy bean storage in Guntersville, Alabama; drill tower; Walter Jones; University of Alabama football game; hunting; and Walter Jones’s pipe collection.
Dates:
1944 April 26
Colonel E. S. Bres and Lieutenant Colonel Walter Grimes, photo 2, 1944 April 26
Item — Box 5939: [1006235675], Folder: 7
Identifier: 2011.004.005456
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
112 photographs depicting geological reports; portraits of Walter Jones; airport and aerial views of New Guinea; boats in New Guinea; World War II; military campsite in New Guinea; construction work in New Guinea; landscape, vegetation, and huts in New Guinea; houses and headquarters in Darwin, Australia; flying boats at Port Darwin; quarry and rocks in Darwin; vegetation and landscape of Darwin, Australia; and Manton Dam and reservoir near Darwin.
Dates:
1944 April 26
Colonel E. S. Bres by the commandant's house in Darwin, photo 1, 1944 April 22
Item — Box 28: [1006235698], Folder: 2011.004.002858
Identifier: 2011.004.002858
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting farm fields; construction site; men working with farm equipment and other machinery; geological map of Lake Guntersville, Alabama, area; map of soy bean storage in Guntersville, Alabama; drill tower; Walter Jones; University of Alabama football game; hunting; and Walter Jones’s pipe collection.
Dates:
1944 April 22
Colonel E. S. Bres by the commandant's house in Darwin, photo 2, 1944 April 22
Item — Box 5939: [1006235675], Folder: 6
Identifier: 2011.004.005439
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
112 photographs depicting geological reports; portraits of Walter Jones; airport and aerial views of New Guinea; boats in New Guinea; World War II; military campsite in New Guinea; construction work in New Guinea; landscape, vegetation, and huts in New Guinea; houses and headquarters in Darwin, Australia; flying boats at Port Darwin; quarry and rocks in Darwin; vegetation and landscape of Darwin, Australia; and Manton Dam and reservoir near Darwin.
Dates:
1944 April 22
Colonel E. S. Bres in tall grasses in Dawin, photo 1, 1944 April 24
Item — Box 28: [1006235698], Folder: 2011.004.002859
Identifier: 2011.004.002859
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting farm fields; construction site; men working with farm equipment and other machinery; geological map of Lake Guntersville, Alabama, area; map of soy bean storage in Guntersville, Alabama; drill tower; Walter Jones; University of Alabama football game; hunting; and Walter Jones’s pipe collection.
Dates:
1944 April 24
Colonel E. S. Bres in tall grasses in Dawin, photo 2, 1944 April 24
Item — Box 5939: [1006235675], Folder: 7
Identifier: 2011.004.005441
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
112 photographs depicting geological reports; portraits of Walter Jones; airport and aerial views of New Guinea; boats in New Guinea; World War II; military campsite in New Guinea; construction work in New Guinea; landscape, vegetation, and huts in New Guinea; houses and headquarters in Darwin, Australia; flying boats at Port Darwin; quarry and rocks in Darwin; vegetation and landscape of Darwin, Australia; and Manton Dam and reservoir near Darwin.
Dates:
1944 April 24
Colonel E. S. Bres's house in Darwin, Australia, 1944 April 16
Item — Box 5939: [1006235675], Folder: 6
Identifier: 2011.004.005412
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
112 photographs depicting geological reports; portraits of Walter Jones; airport and aerial views of New Guinea; boats in New Guinea; World War II; military campsite in New Guinea; construction work in New Guinea; landscape, vegetation, and huts in New Guinea; houses and headquarters in Darwin, Australia; flying boats at Port Darwin; quarry and rocks in Darwin; vegetation and landscape of Darwin, Australia; and Manton Dam and reservoir near Darwin.
Dates:
1944 April 16
Mrs. Arthur Comstock WWII Air Warning Service Certificates
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4061
Overview
Two World War II U. S. Army Air Forces Air Warning Service certificates awarded to Mrs. Arthur Comstock (Mae) for serving in the Ground Observer Corps.
Dates:
1943-1944
Corporal J. M. Hall at the Howard Springs Creek, 1944 April 20
Item — Box 5939: [1006235675], Folder: 6
Identifier: 2011.004.005422
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
112 photographs depicting geological reports; portraits of Walter Jones; airport and aerial views of New Guinea; boats in New Guinea; World War II; military campsite in New Guinea; construction work in New Guinea; landscape, vegetation, and huts in New Guinea; houses and headquarters in Darwin, Australia; flying boats at Port Darwin; quarry and rocks in Darwin; vegetation and landscape of Darwin, Australia; and Manton Dam and reservoir near Darwin.
Dates:
1944 April 20
Corporal J. M. Hall by a large ant colony, 1944 April 18
Item — Box 5939: [1006235675], Folder: 6
Identifier: 2011.004.005416
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
112 photographs depicting geological reports; portraits of Walter Jones; airport and aerial views of New Guinea; boats in New Guinea; World War II; military campsite in New Guinea; construction work in New Guinea; landscape, vegetation, and huts in New Guinea; houses and headquarters in Darwin, Australia; flying boats at Port Darwin; quarry and rocks in Darwin; vegetation and landscape of Darwin, Australia; and Manton Dam and reservoir near Darwin.
Dates:
1944 April 18
Dam at a water point near Darwin, 1944 April 22
Item — Box 5939: [1006235675], Folder: 6
Identifier: 2011.004.005432
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
112 photographs depicting geological reports; portraits of Walter Jones; airport and aerial views of New Guinea; boats in New Guinea; World War II; military campsite in New Guinea; construction work in New Guinea; landscape, vegetation, and huts in New Guinea; houses and headquarters in Darwin, Australia; flying boats at Port Darwin; quarry and rocks in Darwin; vegetation and landscape of Darwin, Australia; and Manton Dam and reservoir near Darwin.
Dates:
1944 April 22
Jefferson Carroll Davis Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4232
Overview
World War II letters, scrapbook, and genealogical materials
Dates:
1884-1945
Dewey and Almeda Stewart Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2158
Abstract
This collection consists mainly of correspondence between a young married couple during World War Two. It also includes various miscellaneous World War Two-era items and service-related materials.
Dates:
1944 - 1945
Diesel water pump by the Adelaide River, 1944 April 19
Item — Box 5939: [1006235675], Folder: 6
Identifier: 2011.004.005419
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
112 photographs depicting geological reports; portraits of Walter Jones; airport and aerial views of New Guinea; boats in New Guinea; World War II; military campsite in New Guinea; construction work in New Guinea; landscape, vegetation, and huts in New Guinea; houses and headquarters in Darwin, Australia; flying boats at Port Darwin; quarry and rocks in Darwin; vegetation and landscape of Darwin, Australia; and Manton Dam and reservoir near Darwin.
Dates:
1944 April 19
Charles M. Dragoo Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4115
Overview
Letters from Dragoo to his wife Lois and daughter Sandra Sue in Muncie, Indiana, telling of his arrival and attempts to find housing for the three of them at Fort McClellan Infantry Replacement Training Center in Alabama.
Dates:
1944 March 12-26
Dalton Lee Driver World War II Photographs and Postcards
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4019
Overview
Photographs (including rolled unit photograph), postcards, German marks, French francs, and Special TDY Orders of this west Alabama native.
Dates:
1944-1945
John C. Duckworth papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1395
Abstract
Signed copies of the 35th Japanese Army's declaration of surrender to US Amry forces in the southern Philippines at the end of World War II.
Dates:
1945 September 8
Arthur Duncan Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4153
Overview
A copy of the first issue of The Open Post (v. 1, no. 1), the news organ of the 57th College Training Detachment of the Army Air Corps, based on the University of Alabama campus during World War II. Also included is a souvenir folder of the University in 1943.
Dates:
1943
East shore of Darwin taken from the harbor, photo 1, 1944 April 23
Item — Box 5939: [1006235675], Folder: 6
Identifier: 2011.004.005436
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
112 photographs depicting geological reports; portraits of Walter Jones; airport and aerial views of New Guinea; boats in New Guinea; World War II; military campsite in New Guinea; construction work in New Guinea; landscape, vegetation, and huts in New Guinea; houses and headquarters in Darwin, Australia; flying boats at Port Darwin; quarry and rocks in Darwin; vegetation and landscape of Darwin, Australia; and Manton Dam and reservoir near Darwin.
Dates:
1944 April 23
East shore of Darwin taken from the harbor, photo 2, 1944 April 23
Item — Box 5939: [1006235675], Folder: 6
Identifier: 2011.004.005437
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
112 photographs depicting geological reports; portraits of Walter Jones; airport and aerial views of New Guinea; boats in New Guinea; World War II; military campsite in New Guinea; construction work in New Guinea; landscape, vegetation, and huts in New Guinea; houses and headquarters in Darwin, Australia; flying boats at Port Darwin; quarry and rocks in Darwin; vegetation and landscape of Darwin, Australia; and Manton Dam and reservoir near Darwin.
Dates:
1944 April 23
East shore of Darwin taken from the harbor, photo 3, 1944 April 23
Item — Box 5939: [1006235675], Folder: 6
Identifier: 2011.004.005438
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
112 photographs depicting geological reports; portraits of Walter Jones; airport and aerial views of New Guinea; boats in New Guinea; World War II; military campsite in New Guinea; construction work in New Guinea; landscape, vegetation, and huts in New Guinea; houses and headquarters in Darwin, Australia; flying boats at Port Darwin; quarry and rocks in Darwin; vegetation and landscape of Darwin, Australia; and Manton Dam and reservoir near Darwin.
Dates:
1944 April 23
Edwin W. Jones and Alaskan natives by a U.S. military plane, 1943 May
Item — Box 10: [1006241594], Folder: 2011.004.001025
Identifier: 2011.004.001025
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting the Jones and Phelps families; Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; fishing in Grand Bay, Alabama; cave near Elko, Madison County, Alabama; and Jones family at the Cedars Farm in Huntsville, Alabama.
Dates:
1943 May
Eleanor Drenth Dodson Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4165
Overview
Letters written in the 1940s to Eleanor ("Ellie" or "Elly") Drenth Dodson of Portland, Oregon, and San Diego, California, from her mother, Mabel Anderson Drenth, who lived in Fresno, California.
Dates:
1942 - 1946
Elise Ayers Sanguinetti Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0098
Abstract
This collection consists of the correspondence, manuscripts, and galley proofs, as well as reviews and notices of Elise Ayers Sanguinetti, the Alabama author of The Last of the Whitfields (1962), The New Girl (1964), The Dowager (1968), and McBee's Station (1972).
Dates:
1929 - 2003
Elizabeth Harwood Katz Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3661
Overview
A collection of letters sent to Elizabeth Harwood from friends, family, and others from 1934 to 1984. They deal primarily with personal lives of Elizabeth, her sister, her friends, and her first husband Richard. For more letters, see Donald and Betty Katz letters, mss_3666.
Dates:
1934 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1939 - 1942
Emmett A. Parrish Photographic Album of Panama and Native Populations in World War II
Collection
Identifier: 2020-008
Overview
One photographic album containing 137 black-and-white photographs depicting Emmett A. Parrish's life in Panama working as military radar technician.
Dates:
1943 - 1944
Emmett Dendy World War II Air Mission Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3922
Overview
World War II air mission diary used by a ball turret gunner with the Eighth Air Force's 467th Bomb Group flying B-24s, to record his 22 air missions, from 24 February to 25 April 1945. Each entry includes information about the target, bomb load, bomb run, flak, time, gas, and altitude. He also included remarks concerning each mission.
Dates:
1943-2010; Majority of material found in 1945 - 1945