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[Letter from Charles Stasny to his Parents, December 13, 1943]

Description: Letter from Charles Stasny to his parents discussing life during the war. He mentions his garden is doing well, tells his parents the best way to send him mail, asks about his Christmas gifts, and discusses his difficulty getting along with his tentmate.
Date: December 13, 1943
Creator: Stasny, Charles, 1921-2014
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter from Charles Stasny to his Parents, May 16, 1944]

Description: Handwritten letter from Charles Stasny to his parents discussing life during the war. He mentions leaving the island and returning to living on aboard a ship. He also mentions returning some money his parents had lent him and the possibility that he and three other crewmates may go home. He asks his parents to have the Eagle change his address and discusses the protestant chaplain on board making him unsure when he'll be able to attend catholic mass.
Date: May 16, 1944
Creator: Stasny, Charles, 1921-2014
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter from Charles Stasny to his Parents, January 3, 1944]

Description: Letter from Charles Stasny to his parents discussing life during the war. He mentions receiving a package from Dottie, his parents going into the cutlery business, the success of the garden, and requests they have some photo prints made for him.
Date: January 3, 1944
Creator: Stasny, Charles, 1921-2014
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

The Battle of the Solomons.

Description: Lyrical quatrain poem that rhymes on the 2nd and 4th line of each stanza on the subject of the Battle of the Solomons from the American's perspective.
Date: August 7, 1942
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Our Fighting Men

Description: Five stanza rhyming poem in rhyming couplets composed as song lyrics on the subject of multiple members of branches of the army arriving on the island of Guadalcanal. A shorter poem at the bottom of the page addresses soldiers of planes flying over Guadalcanal.
Date: unknown
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Tulagi Specials.

Description: Two couplet rhyming poems composed as lyrics to the a song set to popular tunes. The first two stanzas are lyrics to a song set to the tune of "Shanty in Old Shanty Town" on the subject of horrible conditions at a foxhole on Tulaghi Isle. The second two stanzas are lyrics set to the tune of "My Gal Sal" being a comedic ode to General Douglas MacArthur.
Date: 194X
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Program for the Opening of the Camp Crocodile Mess Hall, October 1, 1943]

Description: Program for the grand opening of the Camp Crocodile mess hall. The program is decorated with small illustrations and lists the menu for the night as well as the festivities including a musical interlude, a movie short, and a showing of "The Palm Beach Story".
Date: October 1, 1943
Creator: Third Amphibious Force
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letters Regarding the Invasion of Guadalcanal, 1942]

Description: Letter titled "Guadalcanal Tourist Bureau" painting a humorous picture of Guadalcanal to allied sailors preparing their invasion in the style of a tourism promotion. Letter titled "Guadalcanal Invasion" providing a sailor's personal account of the initial allied invasion of Guadalcanal on August 7, 1942, experiencing it both from the bridge of his ship and on the beach of Tulagi.
Date: 1942~
Creator: Turner, Richmond Kelly
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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