Box 4
Contains 49 Results:
Raymond V. Seaman from Paul H. Fuller, 11 Aug 1942
Fuller describes basic training at Fort Knox, KY.
Beulah K. Yewell from Cpl. Paul E. Villeminot Jr., 1943
Multiple letters from Cpl. Villeminot while serving with the US Army Air Corps "somewhere in North Africa" to Mrs. Yewell talking about visiting Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden. He also mentions malaria, mosquito netting, camels, and things back home that he misses.
Viola Cripe from LeRoy Templeton McNanama Jr., 06 Feb 1943
McNanama was stationed at Camp Breckinridge at the time he wrote this letter to his aunt. He tells her the many things he doesn't like about Kentucky. He also tells her that he has changed jobs and has began working for the Military Intelligence Service, so she would need to address her next letter accordingly.
Charles W. McCann from Sen. Alben W. Barkley, 05 Apr 1943
Barkley declines to support McCann's candidacy for Lieutenant governor because Barkley had a life-long friend from Paducah who had also announced his candidacy for that position.
Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics Questionaire, 14 Aug 1943
A note from the Logan County Extension Office which asks farmers to fill out a questionnaire about what tractors and power equipment they have available to them in order to see what crops people in the county are planting and harvesting for the next year.
PFC Joseph F. Coleman from Lt. Howard R. Smith, 1944, 1946
He talks about Marine girls at Camp Lejeune, a Communications course he is taking, and his job assignments, including a postwar assignment in the Philippines. He also talks about a possible trip around the world when he gets discharged.
"An Introduction to the Governor of Kentucky", 1944
An introduction to the forty-ninth governor of Kentucky, Republican Simeon S. Willis.
Murray State Teachers College Bulletin, 1943-1944
Sidney Logan Sams and Family from Sidney Wallace Sams, 1943-1944
V-mail letters from Wallace to his mother and father. The letters tell them how he is doing and that he has received the things they have sent to him.