1943-1946

United States. Army Air Forces

Object

Title: [U. S. Army 2nd Service Command Patch]

U.S. Army issue 2nd Service Command patch. Represented the second branch of the Army during World War II.

GLC09620.412.01

1943-1946

United States. Army Air Forces

Object

Title: [U. S. Army 2nd Service Command Patch]

U.S. Army issue 2nd Service Command patch. Represented the second branch of the Army during World War II.

GLC09620.412.02

1943-1946

United States. Army Air Forces

Object

Title: [U. S. Army 2nd Service Command Patch]

U.S. Army issue 2nd Service Command patch. Represented the second branch of the Army during World War II.

GLC09620.413.01

1943-1946

United States. Army Air Forces

Object

Title: [U. S. Army 2nd Service Command Patch]

U.S. Army issue 2nd Service Command patch. Represented the second branch of the Army during World War II.

GLC09620.413.02

1943-1946

United States. Army Air Forces

Object

Title: [U. S. Army 2nd Service Command Patch]

U.S. Army issue 2nd Service Command patch. Represented the second branch of the Army during World War II.

GLC09620.413.03

1943-1946

United States. Army Air Forces

Object

Title: [U. S. Army 2nd Service Command Patch]

U.S. Army issue 2nd Service Command patch. Represented the second branch of the Army during World War II.

GLC09620.413.04

1942-1946

United States. Army Air Forces

Object

Title: [Asiatic Pacific Ribbon]

Asiatic Pacific ribbon for soliders who served in combat in the Pacific theater for thirty days. Instituted in 1942.

GLC09620.414.01

1942-1946

United States. Army Air Forces

Object

Title: [Asiatic Pacific Ribbon]

Asiatic Pacific ribbon for soliders who served in combat in the Pacific theater for thirty days. Instituted in 1942.

GLC09620.414.02

1942-1946

United States. Army Air Forces

Object

Title: [American Campaign Ribbon]

World War II American Campaign Ribbon. Qualifying Dates: 11/6/1942 - 3/15/1946. Criteria: Service outside the U.S. in the American Theater for thirty days or within the continental U.S. for one year.

GLC09620.415.01

1942-1946

United States. Army Air Forces

Object

Title: [American Campaign Ribbon]

World War II American Campaign Ribbon. Qualifying Dates: 11/6/1942 - 3/15/1946. Criteria: Service outside the U.S. in the American Theater for thirty days or within the continental U.S. for one year.

GLC09620.415.02

1942-1946

United States. Army Air Forces

Object

Title: [Air Medal Ribbon]

World War II Air Medal Ribbon. Began in 1942 to be awarded to those for meritorious achievement in aerial flight.

GLC09620.416.01

1942-1946

United States. Army Air Forces

Object

Title: [Air Medal Ribbon]

World War II Air Medal Ribbon. Began in 1942 to be awarded to those for meritorious achievement in aerial flight.

GLC09620.416.02

1941-1946

United States. Army Air Forces

Object

Title: [World War II Victory Ribbon]

World War II Victory Medal Ribbon. Awarded for service in the Armed Forces of the United States between 1941-1946.

GLC09620.417.01

1941-1946

United States. Army Air Forces

Object

Title: [World War II Victory Ribbon]

World War II Victory Medal Ribbon. Awarded for service in the Armed Forces of the United States between 1941-1946.

GLC09620.417.02

1945

United States. Army Air Forces

Object

Title: [Distinguished Flying Cross Ribbon]

Distinguished Flying Cross Medal Ribbon. Awarded for heroism or extraordinary achievement while flying for the armed services. Robert L. Stone was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1945 for a mission where all of the bombs dropped hit the target area.

GLC09620.418.01

1945

United States. Army Air Forces

Object

Title: [Distinguished Flying Cross Ribbon]

Distinguished Flying Cross Medal Ribbon. Awarded for heroism or extraordinary achievement while flying for the armed services. Robert L. Stone was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1945 for a mission where all of the bombs dropped hit the target area.

GLC09620.418.02

1942-1945

Japanese Military

Object

Title: [FR-666 WW II Japanese Artillery Powder Charge Silk Bags]

A number of FR-666 Japanese artillery powder charge silk bags sewn together. Japanese characters and symbols of cross cannons are printed on the silk bags. There is a trace of black residue along the bottom half from gunpowder.

GLC09620.419

1942-1945

United States. Army Air Forces

Object

Title: [Records Jacket]

A records jacket with Robert L. Stone's name written in the top right corner. This folder contained collateral documents when the collection was donated. It originally was meant for service record and allied papers. It can also be used as a "Temporary 201 File."

GLC09620.420

December 1957

American Library Association

Newsletter

Title: Intellectual Freedom, Vol. 6, No. 4

One newsletter dated December 1957. Edited by Donald E. Strout from the Intellectual Freedom Committee of the American Library Association. Articles related to censorship and other racial insensitivities in media. Other articles include a ban lifted from Allen Ginsberg's "Howl and Other Poems," how the New York Public Library withdrew support from an aired program that promoted "modern man to rise above war in the interest of survival,"and a list of legislation related to the issue of censorship.

GLC09641.01

15 August 1945

Forrestal, James, 1892-1949

Typed document

Title: [Naval Dispatch Announcing Victory in Japan]

Typed Naval dispatch concerning the end of World War II. This message was received in the radio room of the USS Vella Gulf CVE-111, an escort carrier, at sea in the Northwest Pacific with 26th carrier division of the 7th fleet (just days before she had been anchored at Okinawa). The message reads "All hands of the United States Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard may take satisfaction in the conclusion of the war against Japan and pride in the part played by them in accomplishing that result. The demobilization of the Armed Forces of the United States and the return to conditions of peace will…

GLC09649.01

12 May 2017

Jones, Ralph N. Jr., fl. 1944-2017

Typed document

Title: [Affidavit of Ralph N. Jones Jr.]

Typed affidavit of Ralph N. Jones Jr. with a copy of his Navy ID and discharge cards. According to the discharge card he served from September 25, 1944 to June 25, 1946. According to the affidavit, Jones was serving on the USS Vella Gulf CVE III as a radio man and on duty when the ALNAV message came over the wire. This affidavit is signed and notarized.

GLC09649.02

Circa 1915

Poster

Title: Warning!

This poster warns about the effect of enemy propaganda disseminating on the home front during the war by giving examples of rumors and the truth side by side. For example "There are frequent suicides in cantonments, where men have to 'Pay for food brought in from outside' or else starve to death" the fact listed next to this example reads, "This is a German lie. THE German circulating it has been interned" There are 6 different examples, and the poster asks citizens to report anyone circulating such rumors to the National Committee of Patriotic Societies.

GLC09652

1941-1943

Various

Header Record

Title: [Group of nine World War II posters] [Decimalized .01-.08]

Group of nine posters and pictograms, 1941-1943.

GLC09653

1940-1949

Various

Header Record

Title: [Group of fifty-nine posters, circa 1940s] [Decimalized .01-.59]

Collection of fifty-nine posters, dated circa 1940s concerning World War II. Posters were printed in the United States, England and Canada. The subjects are related to buying war bonds, war stamps, rationing, salvage, recycling and possible espionage. Ten of the posters were printed by Autocar, advertising their trucks, and their part in the war effort.

GLC09654

Circa 1948

Institute for American Democracy, Inc.

Poster

Title: All Together Now - Give it the Ax!

Poster featuring hands labeled "U.S." swinging an ax labeled "public opinon" down on a sign in front of a house that reads, "For Sale or Rent only those of my race and faith may apply."

GLC09655