Stalag XVIIB Certificates of Merit

The Carolina Broaddus Tipton Papers center upon James R. Tipton, who served in the US Army Air Corp during World War II. The collection consists of two folders and a scrapbook. The first folder contains certificates of merit earned by Tipton while a prisoner of war in Germany. The second is composed of correspondence, souvenir items, and an almanac. The correspondence includes letters from Tipton to his family while he was a POW at Stalag XVIIB. The scrapbook was compiled by James' mother so that he would know what was happening on the homefront while he was in Europe fighting. It contains mostly newspaper items regarding local soldiers, the war effort, local news, and pictures. There is a Naval graduation class photo including Tipton, some correspondence, and a few postcards. Most of the material within the collection ranges from 1943-1945 with a few items from the early 1970s.