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1941 - 1943
[Ship damaged in Pearl Harbor attack]
GLC09547.05
07 December 1941
U.S.S. Virginia & U.S.S. Tennessee
Taken during attack in 1941 and printed and released in 1942 for the one-year anniversary.
GLC09547.06
15 July 1944
Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945
to Estelle Spero
Diamond relates a lengthy conversation that he had had with officers from New Zealand.
GLC09120.457
18 July 1944
Weiner, Morris "Moe", 1909-1988
to Sylvia Weiner
Moe thinks back to how the war began. When reports of Italian and German intervention first came out, everyone cried "Propaganda." He laments the fact that if only proper steps could have been taken at the proper time, the war could have been...
GLC09414.1144
6 June 1944
Moe read in the papers that Rome has been taken. He finally managed to hook up Jack's radio. He remembers how he used to envy Sylvia because on Saturdays he still had to wake up at the usual time.
GLC09414.1108
7 June 1944
Moe comments that Sylvia has not received any mail from him in a week and Moe thinks it may been deliberately upheld because of the current situation. He feels badly about the Polish situation. He is glad she is warming to the idea of living in the...
GLC09414.1109
22 March 1782
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
to Lucy Knox
Explains that due to miscommunication with General Sir Henry Clinton, he is being detained in New Jersey. Had set out from Philadelphia toward Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a meeting of commissioners, but Clinton sent word to Philadelphia which...
GLC02437.01372
15 May 1784
Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800
to Henry Knox
Mifflin, President of Congress, encloses an Act of Congress directing Knox to ascertain from the British Commander in Chief of North America precisely when the British will leave their posts within the boundaries of the United States (possibly refers...
GLC02437.02998
9 May 1785
Barbé-Marbois, François, marquis de, 1745-1837
Barbé-Marbois, a French diplomat, writes that he is "anxious of laying before [Knox] some matters concerning french officers..."
GLC02437.03142
19 February 1783
McDougall, Alexander, 1732-1786
Written by General McDougall to Major General Knox. Says that Colonel Brooks has no doubt reached him before this letter, but hopes to give an update to events in Congress since. Says "Nothing has since been done by Congress on the Subject of our...
GLC02437.01933
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