Miscellaneous Military Papers Private Collections, MMP PC

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Contains certificate of appointment to corporal for G. H. May, Company A, 3rd Infantry Regiment, N.C. State Guard, 1896.

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Contains reminiscences titled, "Journey to the South Pole: Operation High-jump," 2004, by Petty Officer 2/c Daniel Coolidge Sandy of Fayetteville (Cumberland County), concerning his service in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S. Yancey on an expedition to the Antarctic with Adm. Richard E. Byrd in 1946.

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Papers reflecting the service of Chief Machinist's Mate Reginald Ward Bell of Swansboro (Onslow County) in the U.S. Coast Guard, including photographs of Bell and the U.S.C.G. cutter, Seminole, at dock in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1922; rating as chief machinist's mate, 1925; honorable discharges, 1926, 1926, 1928-1932, 1934, 1936, and 1939; notice of separation, 1946; letter of sympathy to his widow from Vice Adm. E. J. Roland, 1962; and identification cards.

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Papers reflecting the service of Pvt. Samuel Ernest Fuller of Franklin County in the U.S. Army, 1930-1932, including twelve photographs of Fuller in Panama; honorable discharge, 1932; certificate of fitness for the draft and classification advise, 1944; and V-mail from Cpl. William A. Norris to S. E. Fuller of Troy, 1944.

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Papers reflecting the service of PFC Tillman Byrd Smith of Harnett County in the U.S. Army, including personal correspondence, 1951-1957 (includes letters to Tillman Smith from his brother, Lt. Loy Connell Smith, U.S. Army, in Tokyo, 1951, and from SP3 William Alfred Dula, U.S. Army, in Germany, 1957); official correspondence and orders, 1954-1960, n.d.; notice of classification, 1954; photographs, including one of William Alfred and Beulah Dula, 1955, and panoramic photograph of Service Company, 2nd Regiment, Basic Replacement Training Center, Camp Gordon, Georgia, ca. 1954 [removed and filed as MilColl.Misc.Panoramas.8]; rifle score card; World War II ration book; booklet: Welcome to the United States Army, Fort Jackson, South Carolina; souvenir program from fortieth anniversary celebration of the 81st (Wildcat) Division, Cherokee, N.C., 1957, containing a history of the division's service in World War I; souvenir napkin of the Atlantic Division, Military Air Transport Service, U.S. Air Force; and typescript, "Bits of Inspiration," from Lion's Club magazine, April 1956. Also includes undated letter from Tillman Smith's father, Cpl. Earlie Wright Smith, to "My Dear Fellow," ca. 1917, and photograph of Earlie Smith and three others on horseback "at Moon Shine Cabin," February 1918.

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Papers reflecting the service of M.Sgt. Carl Donald Stancil of Raleigh (Wake County) in the U.S. Marine Corps, 1947-1973, including personal correspondence with his parents and siblings while stationed at Parris Island, S.C., Camp Pendleton, California, Guam, Camp Lejeune, and Korea, 1947-1951; official correspondence and certificates, 1948-1987, including certificate of retirement, 1973, and certificate of appreciation, 1987; photographs (includes portrait of his brother, Pvt. Jesse Roland Stancil, who was killed in action in France, October 21, 1944, and photograph of Platoon 75, 2nd Recruit Battalion, Parris Island, 1947); bulletin, Christmas service aboard the U.S.S. George Clymer, 1947; program, Christmas dinner, 1st Provisional Marine Brigade, 1948; issue of Guam News, March 16, 1948; and issue of The Cavalier (newsletter), April 9, 1951. Also includes postcard and letter to Carl Stancil from his brother, Seaman 2/c Eric R. Stancil, U.S. Navy, 1944, 1945.

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Papers reflecting the service of Seaman 1/c Samuel Burgin Cale of Mount Holly (Gaston County) in the U.S. Coast Guard, including personal correspondence, 1936-1939, 1943, 1989, n.d.; letter to Kale from U.S. Coast Guard recruiting office, 1936; copy of "Information Relative to Enlistment and Promotion in the United State Coast Guard," 1937; ledger book used as diary, 1936-1941; autograph book with names and addresses of shipmates, 1938-1944; booklet: Directions for Restoring the Apparently Drowned, 1922; booklet: Wire Splicing, 1935; booklet: Manual for Lifeboatmen and Able Seamen, 1937 (2 copies); pamphlet: "United States Coast Guard Small Arms Training," 1935; three issues of The Squadron News, newsletter of the U.S.S. Bibb: June 12 (partial), July 6, and July 31, 1938 (2 copies); two issues of USCG Cruise Bulletin, July 5, 16, 1939; newsletter from 1992 reunion of the USCGC Bibb; program from farewell ball of the International Ice Patrol, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1937; program from Christmas dinner aboard the USCG cutter George M. Bibb, with roster of officers and crew, 1937; membership cards in the Ancient Order of the Deep, 1938, 1939; three pieces of South American currency; magazine articles: "Coast Guard Landline Communications 1873 through 1974," Coast Guard Engineer's Digest, January-March 1975; and "The Good Ship Bibb," Sea Classics, March 1952 (copy); newspaper clippings; invitation to Kale's wedding, 1941; letter to Kale from Roy A. Archbell Jr. enclosing deposition of Lowell McKay Whatley Jr. concerning old telegraph line on the Outer Banks, 1987; and photographs, including panoramic photograph of Company A, 3rd Signal Training Battalion, Fort Monmouth, N.J., May 24, 1941 [Kale, shown thirteenth from left, second row from top, served briefly in the U.S. Army in 1941 before returning to the U.S. Coast Guard; removed and filed as MilColl.Misc.Panoramas.10: missing 12-7-2012].

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Papers reflecting the service of Coxswain George Warren Lamb of Greensboro (Guilford County) in the U.S. Navy aboard the destroyer escort, U.S.S. James E. Craig, during World War II, including certificates for completion of training courses, 1944; rating description of coxswain, 1946; form letter from James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, 1946; letter of appreciation signed by President Harry S. Truman; photographs; personal correspondence with former shipmate, Albert A. Dzurinda of Sharon, Pennsylvania, 1946-1947, 1979-2003, n.d.; series of original drawings by Dzurinda illustrating the cruises of the U.S.S. James E. Craig in the South Pacific, 1943-1945; set of envelopes illustrated by Dzurinda; copies of poems by Dzurinda; copies of official correspondence and discharge papers of Dzurinda; softbound book: The Ships and Aircraft of the United States Fleet, 1944; booklet: Destroyer Escorts of World War Two, 1995; issue of The Aldis Lamp, newsletter of the League of Naval Destroyermen, December 1971-January 1972; issue of DESA [Destroyer-Escort Sailors Association] Newsletter, July-August 1979; copies of magazine articles; newspaper clippings; reunion directories, U.S.S. James E. Craig (covers illustrated by Dzurinda); and miscellaneous. Also includes honorable discharge, 1919, and summary of service, 1936, of his father, Cpl. Moody N. Lamb of Spero (Randolph County), who served in the 317th Field Artillery in World War I.

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Papers reflecting the service of Col. John Franklin Mallard of Trenton (Jones County) and Chapel Hill (Orange County) in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1935 to 1966. During World War II, he served in the Pacific Theater in the 11th Marines, 1st Marine Division, and the 14th Marines, 4th Marine Division, participating in the Guadalcanal, Marshall Islands, Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima campaigns. Colonel Mallard also served in the Korean War on the staff of the Seventh Fleet. The personal correspondence in the collection consists primarily of letters to his (future) wife, Nannie Elizabeth "Bette" Andrews of Hendersonville (they married in 1942).

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Contains nine issues of The Little Ad (Greensboro), May 12, 26, June 2, 9, 16, July 7, 14, 21, 28, 1860; issue of the Journal and Sentinel (Winston-Salem), September 3, 1939, with headline: "War is Declared"; issue of The North Carolina Whig (Charlotte), February 26, 1861, containing President Jefferson Davis's inaugural address; issue of the Richmond Enquirer, April 16, 1861; issue of The Twin-City Daily Sentinel (Winston), May 16, 1892; issue of The Western Democrat (Charlotte), July 26, 1864, including account of the sinking of the CSS Alabama; and issue of Western Sentinel (Winston), August 15, 1862.

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Papers reflecting the service of Brig. Gen. Joseph Nesbitt Tenhet Jr. of Virginia, Oxford (Granville County), and Pittsboro (Chatham County) in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1946 and from 1953 to 1978. During World War II, Captain Tenhet served in the 446th Antiaircraft Artillery, Automatic Weapons Battalion, European Theater. He graduated from Duke University School of Law in 1950 and practiced law in Oxford before returning to the army in 1953. For the remainder of his military career, he served in the Office of the Judge Advocate General and retired in 1978 as Assistant Judge Advocate General for Military Law at the rank of brigadier. Box 43 contains awards and certificates, 1943-1973, n.d.; college transcripts; commissions; courts martial records, 1945-1962, n.d.; efficiency reports, 1945-1978; efficiency reports prepared by Tenhet, 1966-1968, n.d.; legal memoranda; letters of appreciation, commendation, and congratulations, 1952-1978, n.d.; medical records; newspaper and magazine clippings; official correspondence, 1942-1946; official orders, 1943-1978; pay records; and personal correspondence, 1950-1998, n.d. Box 44 contains personnel records, 1942-1978, n.d.; photographs; panoramic photograph of personnel in Antiaircraft Artillery Officers' Candidate School, Course No. 75, Camp Davis, 1943 [removed and filed as MilColl.Misc.Panoramas.21]; published materials, including circular titled, Field Army, Corps, and Division Organizational Data (1962), summary report of congressional hearings concerning constitutional rights of military personnel (1963), and unbound booklet titled, Military Justice: Guide for Commanders (n.d.); rosters; school papers from University of Richmond Law School, Duke University School of Law (copy of thesis titled, "Compulsory Arbitration and Seizure by States"), U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and the Judge Advocate General's School; style guides; and miscellaneous.

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Contains spiralbound, soft-cover book titled, The Military of Rehoboth United Methodist Church, Henderson, NC, by Joyce Granger, 2008.

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Contains photograph of Seymour Johnson of Goldsboro (Wayne County) as a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy, ca. 1923-1927. He later served as a lieutenant and aviator in the U.S. Navy.

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Papers reflecting the service of Sgt. Maj. Ewing E. LaPorte of Missouri and Hickory (Catawba County) in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam. LaPorte was captured on Wake Island and spent the remainder of World War II in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps. Papers include photograph; first-day-of-issue stamp (National World War II Memorial) and envelope bearing photograph of LaPorte, "Wake Island Defender, World War II"; compact disk containing Power Point program concerning his service, 2006; and videocassette: "War Stories with Oliver North: The Battle for Wake Island."

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Papers reflecting the service of E-4 Kenneth Howard Smith of Raleigh (Wake County) in the U.S. Navy from 1962 to 1965, including two hardbound books: The Keel: The Story of Recruit Training in the United States Navy at Great Lakes, Illinois [Company 322, Recruit Training Command, 1962], and cruise book of the USS Wasp, Mediterranean Cruise, 1964.

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Papers reflecting the service of Col. Hugh Durwood Maxwell Jr. of Pink Hill (Lenoir County) in the U.S. (Army) Air Force from 1940 to 1969. During World War II, Captain Maxwell served as the pilot of a B-24 Liberator bomber in the 1st Antisubmarine Squadron, 480th Antisubmarine Group. While escorting a transatlantic convoy on August 17, 1943, his plane engaged two German bombers. Maxwell and his crew shot down the enemy aircraft, but their plane was also disabled and landed in the Atlantic. Maxwell was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his cool leadership and gallantry. He was posted as an intelligence officer to Japan with the 5th Air Force from 1957 to 1960. He spent the remainder of his career in Washington, D.C., and St. Louis in various intelligence and operational planning capacities. Box 46 contains personal correspondence received by his parents, Hugh D. Maxwell Sr. and Sadie May Tyndall Maxwell, 1941-1942, primarily from their son at training bases and airfields in Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, New York, and Virginia. Box 47 contains personal correspondence received by his parents, 1943-1947, primarily from Maxwell from overseas and air bases in New Mexico and Kansas. Box 48 contains personal correspondence, 1957-2006, n.d., including letters from Maxwell to his father (died 1957) and sister, Rose Watlington, while stationed in Japan, 1957-1960; exchange of letters with Frank Porter Graham, 1968; correspondence with Professor Max Schoenfeld and others concerning research on a book re. antisubmarine warfare, 1988-1999, 2006; and copies of Maxwell's correspondence with various family members and friends, mostly printouts of e-mails, 1995-2006. Box 49 contains official orders and correspondence, 1941-1969; personnel file; letters and orders of appreciation and commendation, 1942-1964; awards, certificates, and commissions; and individual flight records, 1941-1962. Box 50 contains Flying Cadet training records, 1940-1941; Air War College papers, 1956-1957, including rosters of attendees and a copy of Maxwell's thesis titled, "The Case for a General Staff"; newspapers, including (partial) issues of The Duplin Times, April 2, 1942, Kinston Daily Free Press, November 17, 1944, September 18, 1945, and the News and Observer, August 25, 1935, November 20, 1944; photographs; picture postcards, including souvenir booklets from Albuquerque, Disneyland, the Grand Canyon, San Francisco, and Vicksburg, and a miniature photo album from Muir Woods National Monument; published materials, including Army Air Forces Field Manual: Weather, 1942, and booklet: Lessons that Live as Told by A.A.F. Pilots, n.d. (2 copies); three sketches by Violet Maxwell Rogers; and miscellaneous, including identification cards, ration card, insurance policies, and program from Thanksgiving dinner at Orlando Air Base, 1941. Box 51 contains series of autobiographical sketches by Maxwell prepared for a Web site titled, "The Life and Times of Colonel Hugh D. Maxwell Jr."; printouts from Internet sources used by Maxwell in compiling the sketches; and materials removed from a scrapbook maintained by his parents during and after World War II, including newspaper clippings; photostatic copy of September 26, 1947, issue of The Duplin Times; genealogical materials concerning the Maxwell, Gray, Outlaw, and Houston families; and miscellaneous, including German epaulette; pamphlet re. the Mountain Lake Sanctuary, Lake Wells, Florida; warranty deed from H. D. Maxwell, et ux, to Charlie E. Brewer, et ux, Duplin County, 1935; and regional aeronautical chart of the northeastern United States, 1942 [removed and filed as MilColl.Misc.Maps.10].

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Contains three hardbound books: Manual of Interior Guard Duty, U.S. Army, 1914; Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry of the Army of the United States, 1917; and History of Base Hospital No. 6, United States Army, 1924 (inscribed "Harry S. Caldwell" of Davidson (Mecklenburg County), who served as a corporal in Surgical Unit O); three letters from Guy Hivert of Angers, France, and eleven letters from Shirley Checkett of Llandudno, North Wales, to Ann Camlin of Hamlet, 1944-1949, n.d.; and five photographs.

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Papers reflecting the service of Col. Richard Mahlon Ripley of Michigan and Raleigh (Wake County) in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1973, including combat duty in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. During World War II, Lieutenant Ripley commanded a company in the 22nd Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 4th Armored Division, and served with the U.S. Constabulary in occupied Germany. In Korea, he organized and commanded a guerrilla force ("Operation Wolf Pack") that operated behind enemy lines. In Vietnam, Colonel Ripley commanded the 199th Light Infantry Brigade (Separate). He concluded his military career as head of the U.S. Army Institute for Military Assistance at Fort Bragg, where special forces were trained. Box 53 contains official orders and correspondence, 1943-1971; academic records; financial records: account with Bank of America, Republic of Vietnam, 1968-1969; letters of appreciation and commendation, 1952-2005; medical records, 1943, 1950-1973; pay records, 1943-1973; personnel file, 1946-1980, n.d.; reports of survey of ordnance property, Troop C, 22nd Constabulary Squadron, 1946-1947; and travel vouchers and records of moving expenses, 1949-1969. Box 54 contains biographical sketches of Ripley; deck of playing cards, "Iraqi Most Wanted"; efficiency reports of other officers prepared by Ripley, 1969; identification cards; insignia; North Korean partisans: recognition of service in the 8240th Army Unit, Special Operations Forces, 2000-2005; "Operation Wolfpack": map and roster (Xerographic copies); retirement ceremony for Colonel Ripley at Fort Bragg, 1973: three compact disks and two videocassettes; rosters: 22nd Armored Field Artillery Battalion, n.d., casual unit, Fort Hamilton, N.Y., n.d., and unidentified, n.d.; and miscellaneous, including compact disk of ceremony at which Colonel Ripley was awarded Order of Military Merit by the Republic of Korea, 2006, and registration certificate for his Morgan stallion, 1987. Box 55 contains photographs and picture postcards. Box 56 contains published materials, including hardbound atlas of the Korean War, in Korean; two booklets: Operation Aviary: Airborne Special Operations - Korea, 1950-1953, by Douglas C. Dillard, 2003; and One Year Later . . . The Rebirth of Hue, published by Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office, Saigon, [1969]; three spiral-bound research documents: "Korean Conflict (1950-1953) 8240th Army Unit Partisans Forces Veterans Foundation," copy of working paper titled, "UN Partisan Warfare in Korea, 1951-1954," prepared by Operation Research Office, Johns Hopkins University, 1956; reference data for the Johns Hopkins report; and "Guerilla War Experience at the Time of the Korean War, by Sang Joon Park, n.d.; two unbound information briefs, Long Khanh Province, Vietnam, second and third editions, 1969; periodicals: issue of Army, November 1984; issue of The Drop, Winter 2004; and issue of Redcatcher! Yearbook, 1969; newsletters: Agent Orange Review, February 2004; The North Carolina Legion News, October-November 2006; and The North Carolina Mason, January-February 2007; articles clipped from magazines and copies from the Internet; and newspaper clippings. Box 57 contains awards, certificates, and commissions, 1943-2005, n.d.; oversized photograph of Ripley and other Green Beret officers; color plates (with descriptive sheets), Nos. 793-856 (not inclusive), from the series, "Military Uniforms in America," by The Company of Military Historians, 2002-2008; color print of "Tidball's Horse Battery," A Battery, 2nd U.S. Artillery, 1861, by The Company of Military Collectors and Historians, 1955; color print of Virginia State Artillery Regiment, 1778 (1978); map of La Gorgue sector of France, marked to show hostile battery positions, July 27, 1918 [removed and filed as MilColl.Misc.Maps.11]; 23 contour maps of Vietnam, 1965 [removed and filed as MilColl.Misc.Maps.12-34]; map of Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand, 1967 [removed and filed as MilColl.Misc.Maps.35]; vicinity map of Danang Combat Base, Republic of Vietnam, 1968 (photostatic copy) [removed and filed as MilColl.Misc.Maps.36]; population density map of South Vietnam, 1969 [removed and filed as MilColl.Misc.Maps.37]; and hamlet map of South Vietnam, 1969 [removed and filed as MilColl.Misc.Maps.38].

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Papers reflecting the service of Lt. John Leslie Snell Jr. of Columbia (Tyrrell County) in the U.S. (Army) Air Force from 1942 to 1955, and records related to his post-service career as a professor of history. Papers include hardbound book inscribed, "Military Secrets - Largely on Life in Italy," in which Snell pasted photographs, newspaper and magazine clippings, and miscellaneous items, and recorded occasional diary entries between July and October 1944; official orders and correspondence, 1944-1955; training records, 1944-1945; individual flight record, 1943-1945; personnel records, including immunization register, physical record cards, commission as first lieutenant (1946), and honorable discharges, 1944, 1945, and 1955; photographs and negatives; newspaper clippings, including obituaries for Snell, who died in 1972; and miscellaneous records, including biographical information; a eulogy for Snell; program, graduation exercises, Army Air Forces Eastern Flying Training Command, Blytheville Army Air Field, 1944; transcript from the University of North Carolina, 1949; letter and forms from New Orleans Veterans Administration hospital in New Orleans, 1964; three undated letters from his son Max, written from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, one of which mentions the Kent State shootings and similar unrest on the Pittsburgh campus; flyer for conference at Davidson College, 1960; issue of The State magazine, July 18, 1964, featuring Tyrrell County; and program from the centennial of Columbia Missionary Baptist Church, 1969.

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Papers reflecting the service of Frank Fletcher Caudill of Morganton (Burke County) in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force, including identification card; liberty card; admission card to ship's dance, USS Boise, 1945; letter from Joe Garland to Arlene Caudill, 1944; program from the National Theatre, Washington, D.C., [1945]; booklet: Where in the World, Watauga County Alumni Association, ca. 1981; and photographs, mostly of family and friends.

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Papers reflecting the service of Lt. Louis Fluellon Lawler of Virginia and Raleigh (Wake County) as a navigator in the U.S. (Army) Air Force from 1941 to ca. 1963, including official orders and correspondence, 1943-1953; academic records, 1950-1956, 1963; individual flight record, 1943-1945; medical records; personnel file, including honorable discharges, 1943, 1945, report of separation, 1951, and identification cards; photograph; program from memorial service for Lawler, 2006; seven color prints of World War II-era airplanes, tanks, and ships; seventeen maps and charts [removed and filed as MilColl.Misc.Maps.39-55]; hardback book: The Air Officer's Guide, 2d ed. (Harrisburg, Pa.: The Military Service Publishing Company, 1949) [removed and filed in Military Collection Library]; yearbook: Departure Point, Class Book of 43-17, Army Air Force Navigation School, San Marcos Army Air Field, San Marcos, Texas; and spiral-bound book: "We Aim To Hit": Saga of the 251st CA (AA), by Robert E. Carlberg.

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Contains papers reflecting the service of five soldiers from Warren County in the armed forces during the first and second world wars. The papers of Pvt. Dallas Ward Harton (WWI) of Norlina include three picture postcards and a pass, 1918. The papers of Irving Ray Hayes (WWII) of Norlina consist of a National Service Life Insurance certificate, 1945. The papers of Lt. William Roy Hayes Jr. (WWII) include a letter to his father from Camp Wolters, Texas, 1943; three pay envelopes from the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, 1942 [may be his father's]; certificate of enlistment in Army Reserve Corps, 1942; application for life insurance, 1943; personal affairs statement, n.d.; and announcement of graduation from Army Air Forces Training Command School, 1944. The papers of William Roy Hayes Sr. (WWI) include three notices from Local Board for Vance County, 1918; five photographs; certificate for purchase of tires, 1943; gasoline ration card; two permits to purchase gasoline; receipt for delivery of gasoline; and training program for auto mechanics at his garage in Norlina. The papers of William Hecht (WWII) of Ridgeway (Warren County) consist of a photograph of him in uniform. Also includes photograph of G. F. Kirton, Company B, 76th Engineers (WWI), of Aynor, S.C., at Camp Leach, D.C.; four picture postcards from Camp Leach; twenty-four photographs and postcards of World War I scenes and soldiers; twelve picture postcards from a set by C. O. Buckingham, 1917; postcard from "Meta" to Mrs. Nannie Harton, Norlina, 1939; and photograph of Tinian Island inscribed, "Down the stairway to 'Yellow Beach'" (WWII). The collection also contains miscellaneous publications, including hardback book: Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry of the Army of the United States, 1917; booklet: How to Recognize the Rank of Uncle Sam's Men Afloat and Ashore, 1918; pocket-sized The Emphasized Gospel of John (Massachusetts Bible Society); pocket-sized The Gospel According to St. John, Army and Navy Edition, 1917; booklet: Handbook of Motor Vehicles Used by the United States Armed Forces, 1944; Department of the Air Force manual: Aircraft Recognition for the Ground Observer, 1955; souvenir booklet: Messages of the President [Woodrow Wilson]; and issue of Naval Reserve Information Bulletin, May 1949; and miscellaneous, including an address book; greeting cards; Esso War Map II [removed and filed as MilColl.Misc.Maps.56]; panoramic photograph of training camp, Fort Myer, Virginia [removed and filed as MilColl.Misc.Panoramas.29]; and small poster containing the message, "Remember Pearl Harbor." Two large oval portraits - of Dallas Ward Harton and William Roy Hayes Sr. - removed and filed as MilColl.Misc.Oversized.16-17.

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Papers reflecting the service of Col. Robert Franklin DeBusk III of Rhode Island and Hendersonville (Henderson County) in the U.S. Air Force from 1970 to 1999, particularly his service as commander of the 4500th Joint STARS Squadron, Operation Joint Endeavor, Bosnia, 1995-1996. Papers include official correspondence, 1995-1996; commander's briefing: "Former Yugoslavia OPS Intel," 1995; handouts from presentation by Lt. Col. David A. Anhalt titled, "Implementing the SACEUR Strategy for Compliance Visualization - Joint STARS Issues," 1996; handouts from presentation by Col. Jim Young titled, "Joint STARS Workstation (JSWS) Air Combat Command," 1997; twelve issues of squadron newsletter, The Joint Endeavor, 1995-1996; roster of officers in squadron, 1995; copy of Defense Meritorious Service Medal citation awarded to DeBusk, 1996; biographical sketch; and articles re. Operation Joint Endeavor printed from the Internet.

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Contains softbound book, The Goldsboro Rifles, 1859-2009, by Stacey Jones. [Note: This material is copyrighted and may not be reproduced without permission from the author.]

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Contains booklet: Army Song Book, 1941; booklet: Japanese Phrase Book, War Department, 1944; training pamphlet titled, "Radio Telephone Procedure," 1943; lensatic compass training aid, n.d.; rifle marksmanship training aid, n.d.; and 1st Air Cavalry Division Christmas card, 1967.

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Papers reflecting the service of Fire Control Technician James C. Jones of Wayne County in the U.S. Navy from 1955 to 1963. Jones served aboard the U.S.S. Saint Paul (CA-73), and the papers include two hardbound publications concerning cruises of that vessel: This Really Happened! and USS Saint Paul CA-73 1956-1957. A third volume - The Keel: The Story of Initial Training in the U.S. Navy (Great Lakes, Ill.: U.S. Naval Training Center, 1955) - reflects Jones's basic training. The papers also contain copies of Jones's appointment as a recruit squad leader, certificate of completion of a training class, commission, and discharge papers; leave authorization passes; summons to appear before the "Royal High Court of the Raging Main"; photographs; and identification cards.

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Papers reflecting the service of several related Wake County soldiers, including Sgt. James Norman Finch, Medical Department, U.S. Army, during World War I; his son, Pvt. James Norman Finch Jr., who was killed in action in Europe, July 28, 1944; and Sgt. Donnie R. Smith, who served in the 127th Infantry in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Box 75 contains official documents concerning the service of Sgt. James Norman Finch, including registration certificate, 1917; order of induction, 1918; appointments to corporal and sergeant in the Medical Department, 1919; honorable discharge, 1919; and letter from U.S. Veterans Bureau, 1925. Other items relating to Finch include picture postcard of the guard mount at General Hospital No. 5, Fort Ontario, New York; invitation to the Armistice Day celebration in Raleigh, 1921; pocket-sized edition of the gospel of St. John, published by John T. Pullen of Raleigh; two hardback manuals: Description and Rules for the Management of the U.S. Magazine Rifle (1908 revised edition), and Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry of the Army of the United States (1917); and three panoramic photographs: two of General Hospital No. 5, Fort Ontario, 1918, and one of 17th Company, 15th Battalion, Camp Greenleaf, Chickamauga Park, Georgia, 1918 [removed and filed as MilColl.Misc.Panoramas.30-32]. Records relating to the service of Pvt. James Norman Finch Jr. in World War II include a special order transferring Finch to the Enlisted Reserve Corps, 1943; souvenir photograph booklet of Muskogee, Oklahoma, which he mailed to his parents from Camp Gruber; bus ticket stub, destination Muskogee; photograph of the U.S. Military Cemetery in St. Laurent, France (where Finch was buried), and cover letter from the War Department, 1947; four basic field manuals issued by the War Department: Soldier's Handbook (1941); Interior Guard Duty (1942); Military Courtesy and Discipline (1942); and First Aid for Soldiers (1943); book: The 35th Infantry Division in World War II, 1941-1945; and four New Testaments given to Finch by relatives, including one from his mother that contains the inscription, "Going into battle tonight. May I return safely," written three days before his death. Records concerning Sgt. Donnie R. Smith include his soldier's pay record; two driver's licenses; firing table for 81-millimeter mortar, 1945; booklets: "The 32nd Division: The Red Arrow Division," n.d.; "Papuan Campaign: The Buna-Sanananda Operation" (Washington: War Department, Military Intelligence Division, 1944); "Japan & Its People," Third Marine Division intelligence bulletin; and "Anglo-Japanese Conversation"; and guidebook to Kyoto, Japan. Miscellaneous publications include booklet, "Handbook of Information, Army Ground Forces Replacement Depot No. 1, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland," [1944]; booklet, "Communism Menaces Freedom," by Willard E. Givens and Belmont M. Farley, 1962; and untitled pocket-sized booklet of poetry and humor [title page missing]. Other miscellaneous items include thirteen poems clipped from newspapers; unsigned Christmas cards, "Season's Greetings! 42nd Infantry Rainbow Division" (four copies); three service flags for display in window; informational card re. military burial flag; photograph of unidentified U.S. Navy enlisted man (motor machinist), World War II; and five insignia. Box 76 contains newspapers; souvenir booklet from the sixteenth annual reunion of United Confederate Veterans, Richmond, Virginia, 1896; and maps of various Japanese cities, including Kobe, Nagasaki, Nagoya, Osaka, and Tokyo. Two maps - one of the Fukuoka sector of Japan, 1945, and a photomap of the Santa Fe sector of the Philippines, 1945 - removed and filed as MilColl.Misc.Maps.57-58. Newspapers include three issues of Army Times: June 1 (partial), August 24 [death of James Norman Finch Jr. announced on page 13], and September 21, 1946; two issues of the Durham Morning Herald: December 2, 1945, and June 6, 1954 (partial); fourteen issues of the (Raleigh) News and Observer: September 14, December 17 (partial), 1940; December 7, 1941; July 28, 29, August 20, 21, 22, October 21 (partial), 1944; May 7, 9, August 15, 1945; and September 1 (partial), 22 (partial), 1946; four issues of the Raleigh Times: November 11, 1918; December 8, 1941; May 7, 1945; and special issue titled, "History of World War II," n.d. (3 copies); and May 1945 issue of Santa Fe Express, newsletter of the 35th Division.

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Papers reflecting the service of Col. David L. Hardee of Stem (Granville County) and Durham in the U.S. Army during World War I and World War II. Hardee served in the 28th Infantry, 1st Division, during the first world war. He rose through the ranks from private to first lieutenant by war's end. Hardee received three silver stars for gallantry in action. He remained in the army after the war, serving three years in the Philippines and China (1929-1932). He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in September 1941 and assigned to assist in the organization and training of Filipino troops. Hardee served as a staff officer of the 1st Provisional Air Corps Regiment during the defense of the Philippines and was among the American forces that surrendered to the Japanese at Bataan in April 1942. He spent the next three years in various Japanese prisoner-of-war camps. After being liberated in February 1945, he was promoted to colonel. Hardee served as an instructor and adviser to the N.C. National Guard until his retirement from the military in December 1949. He later served as director of civil defense for Raleigh and Wake County during the 1950s. Hardee died on November 23, 1969. Box 79 contains personal correspondence, ca. 1918-1920, 1941-1946, n.d.; Japanese paper currency; hardbound volume of journal articles, including several written by Hardee; newspaper clippings; issues of the Army Navy Journal (March 25, 1922), featuring an article by Hardee, and The Raleigh Times (November 24, 1969), containing his obituary; Gen. John J. Pershing's report to the Secretary of War, November 20, 1918, and letter to Maj. Gen. Edward F. McGlachlin Jr., March 26, 1919, praising the service of the 1st Division; photographs of Hardee's wife and daughters and an unidentified group of soldiers; composite photograph of officers of the 31st Infantry, 1932; small scrapbook of photographs, World War I; typescript of article by Hardee, "Fifteen Days in the Meuse-Aragonne [sic]"; letter of recommendation for Elizabeth Harry [Hardee's future wife] from the superintendent of schools of Rockingham County, 1914; record of courses taken by Hardee at the Second Corps Tactical School, 1919; extract from order citing Hardee for gallantry, 1919; officer's record book, 1918-1919; A.E.F. identity card; wallet containing various identification cards; sets of dog tags; checkbook, Philippines Trust Company; copy of military record and report of separation, [1949}; and three World War I-era maps: "Map to Illustrate the Offensive of the St. Mihiel Salient," 1918; "Map to Illustrate the Meuse-Argonne Offensive," 1918; and "Meuse-Argonne Offensive: Map Showing Daily Position of Front Line," 1919 [maps removed and filed as MilColl.Misc.Maps.59-61]. Box 80 contains scrapbook of newspaper clippings concerning Hardee, 1934-1957; scrapbook kept during World War II by his daughter, Elizabeth; and folders of editorial cartoons, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, and a map removed from the latter scrapbook.

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Papers (dismounted from scrapbook) reflecting the service of Cpl. Jesse Littleton Broyles of Mississippi and Raleigh (Wake County) in the U.S. Marine Corps before and during World War II, including photographs taken in California, China, Hawaii, the Marshall Islands, and Nicaragua, and a photograph of a Marine Corps baseball team autographed by Joe E. Brown, 1934; photograph of and memorial to Col. Richard S. Hooker, 1932; picture postcards; booklet: Guide and Brief Historical Sketch of the Norfolk Navy Yard, 1776-1928; training manuals: Military Discipline, Courtesies and Customs of the Service (1934; Offensive Combat of Small Infantry Units (1934); and Topography and Surveying (1933); set of blueprints with diagrams of hand grenades, rifle grenades, .45-caliber pistol, Browning automatic rifle, gas masks, .30-caliber rifle, clothing, and equipment on bunk; program, Christmas dinner, 117th Company, Pearl Harbor, 1929, containing photograph and roster of company, and history of the Marine barracks at the Naval Operating Base; program, Christmas dinner, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, Shanghai, China, 1933; membership certificate in 2nd Battalion Enlisted Men's Club, Shanghai; newspaper clippings; and miscellaneous. Collection also includes papers reflecting the post-war career of Broyles as "The Peanut Man" at the North Carolina State Capital, including personal correspondence, 1971-1973, including letter from Justice I. Beverly Lake; photographs; and newspaper and magazine clippings.

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Papers of Ronald Sher of New York and Pittsboro (Chatham County), a historian in the Historical Division, U.S. Army Europe, concerning the integration of the U.S. Army, including official correspondence, 1951-1955; two booklets: The Negro Officer in the Armed Forces (1960); and Integration and the Negro Officer in the Armed Forces (1962); articles from Time (1954) and Coronet (1960) magazines; printed obituary from memorial service for Shur, 1999; and letter from his widow, Betty Sher, concerning the service of her husband, n.d.

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Includes commission for John Uedy of Stanly County as first lieutenant, 1845; panoramic photograph of 2nd Company, 117th Train Headquarters and Military Police, 42nd Division, Camp Mills, New York, 1917 [removed and filed as MilColl.Misc.Panoramas.38]; appointment of Fred A. Helms as corporal, Headquarters Company, 120th Infantry, 1923; yearbook, Oak Ridge Institute, Guilford County, 1926-1927; thirty-six issues of First Call, weekly newsletter of 44th Infantry Division, February-November 1941; panoramic photograph of officers of the 302nd Ordnance Regiment, 2nd Battalion, Camp Sutton, 1942; posthumous Purple Heart certificate, Sgt. Grady A. Fesperman, 1944; January 1, 1945, issue of Yank magazine; certificate in memory of Sgt. Ralph T. Cashett, who died in service, March 16, 1945; and panoramic photograph of 21st Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Regiment, North Carolina State Guard, Fort Bragg, n.d.