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[Souvenir Card from Charles Stasny to his Parents, September 24, 1944]

Description: Souvenir card from Charles Stasny to his parents with a handwritten message discussing Amphibious Group Three's occupation of Northern Japan. The card has a map of Amphibious Group 3's path through Northern Japan beginning in Aomori and travelling to Otaru. Envelope from Charles Stasny to his parents with text celebrating Amphibious Group Three and the USS Appalachian's (AGC-1) occupation of Northern Japan.
Date: 1944-09-24/1944-09-25
Creator: Stasny, Charles, 1921-2014
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter from Charles Stasny to his Parents, August 1, 1944]

Description: Letter from Charles Stasny to his parents discussing his participation in the bombardment and landings on Guam. He also discusses several people from back home, the possibility of calling his parents, and the possibility of getting leave, and sends his parents some money orders. This letter is written on United States Navy stationery.
Date: August 1, 1944
Creator: Stasny, Charles, 1921-2014
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter from Charles Stasny to his Parents, October 4, 1944]

Description: Letter from Charles Stasny to his parents discussing life during the war. He mentions receiving letters from his parents and Dottie, the possibility of being home for Christmas, locating someone from back home, losing his watch, the ship's heat and reading his magazines.
Date: October 4, 1943
Creator: Stasny, Charles, 1921-2014
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letters from William Halsey, Jr., and Frank Knox, December 1943]

Description: Letter from Admiral William Halsey, Jr., to all ships and bases of the South Pacific Area wishing them a Merry Christmas and thanking them for their good work. Letter from Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox, to ALNAV wishing them a Merry Christmas and encouraging them to keep fighting so that their efforts may sooner lead to peace on Earth.
Date: 1943-12~
Creator: Halsey, William, Jr. & Knox, Frank
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Location: None
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Staff Memorandum from W. E. Moore to the USS Appalachian, September 26, 1945]

Description: Staff memorandum from W. E. Moore to the staff of the USS Appalachian (AGC-1) giving them the plans for their next movements and dissolution of staff. He mentions that they will be able to sightsee in Yokohama and possibly Otaru, and that there will be transports for return to the United States in Aomori.
Date: September 26, 1945
Creator: Moore, W. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Location: 21.351196 -157.980152
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

The Transports.

Description: Cinquain poem composed as lyrics to a song with the beginning stanza containing 8 lines, ending stanza containing 6 lines and the middle stanzas having 4 lines, each rhyming on the second, fourth and sixth line. The lyrics discuss conditions at war and the American's confidence in the fight against dictators.
Date: [1941..1945]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Poem
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

SNAFU

Description: Six stanza poem in rhymed verse, with four lines per stanza and eight lines on the third stanza, composed as lyrics to a song on the subject of the military's response to Pearl Harbor and lackluster conditions.
Date: [1941..1945]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Poem
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Christmas Card from the USS Appalachian, 1944]

Description: Christmas card issued by the USS Appalachian (AGC-1) for those aboard to send to family and friends back home. The front of the card features an illustration of a sailor sitting on a pier near the shore. The shore is covered in palm trees and other flora. Above the sailor is a thought bubble containing images of a fireplace with a wreath and stockings hung above it and a cabin covered in snow with trees and a shining star in the distance behind it. In the upper left corner of the front is text … more
Date: 1944~
Creator: USS Appalachian (AGC-1)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Post-War News, September 26, 1945]

Description: News from around the world following the end of the war including the expansion of the United States occupation of Japan, Navy Day observances, the dismantling of German industrial plants, and Greek ratification of the United Nations Charter.
Date: September 26, 1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Location: -9.101583 160.147069
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Important Dates in Charles Stasny's Naval Service, 1942-1945]

Description: List of important dates in Charles Stasny's Naval service from July 9, 1942 to February 6, 1945. The list includes departure and arrival dates from various locations as well as station transfers, rate changes, and other major events.
Date: February 6, 1945
Creator: Stasny, Charles, 1921-2014
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Location: -8.783195 -124.508523
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[USS Appalachian Plan of the Day, October 5, 1945]

Description: Two copies of the USS Appalachian's (AGC-1) plan of the day listing all the activities including reveille, port routine, pay day, inspection, Jewish religious service, evening colors, and movies. There is also a message from AlNav and information regarding the current operation in Hokkaido, Japan.
Date: October 5, 1945
Creator: USS Appalachian (AGC-1)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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