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[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, February 27, 1944]

Description: Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis, Sr. on February 27, 1944. He explains that each soldier is allotted three Cokes a week starting March 1, and realizes that he's forgotten the taste. He went to see a movie and enjoyed it, and plans on going to a church service that night.
Date: February 27, 1944
Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Photograph of People Beside Automobiles Outside Brick Building]

Description: Photograph of a group of men and women standing with two cars on the grassy lawn in front of a tall brick building with a circular-arch entrance. The women are wearing dresses or skirts and blouses, and the men are wearing light-colored dress shirts with slacks (some are also wearing hats). The cars, which are old and dusty, are parked facing the building, and one of them has a wheel on the back. There is a note on the back of the photo that says, "Hightower Baptist Church."
Date: 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Photograph of People with Automobiles Outside Brick Building]

Description: Wide-angle photograph of a group of men and women standing on the grassy lawn in front of a tall brick building with a circular-arch entrance and three windows. The women are wearing dresses or skirts and blouses, and the men are wearing light-colored dress shirts with slacks (some are also wearing hats). There are four cars surrounding them, which are old, dusty, and parked facing the building. In the background on the left is a clump of large trees. There is a decorative border around the edg… more
Date: 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 1, December, 1944

Description: The first issue of "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, explaining the purpose of the Tidings to be communication with the troops of World War II; sending individual holiday greetings from the men of the congregation; and containing a sermon that encourages an "All Out" commitment of both the troops and the congregation to "restore God's peace on earth" and to "win the spiritual conflicts between right and wrong on the battlefields of the soul."
Date: December 1944
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Newspaper
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Hutments at Camp Barkeley]

Description: Photograph of a line of hutments, including the building Thomas White was bunked in, at Camp Barkeley in Abilene, Texas. A car is parked behind the hutment on the far right, and a church building is visible in the background.
Date: 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Street Scene in Geneva, Switzerland]

Description: Photograph of a row of tall buildings alongside a heavily populated street in Geneva, Switzerland. A building with a steeple has the words "Felio Chapel" under the windows of its top side. Behind the chapel is a taller building with the words "Hotel de Geneve."
Date: [1944..1945]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Photograph of Soldiers at a Church Service]

Description: Photograph of soldiers standing in their pews while attending a church service. On the far left there is a statue of a religious figure, the priest is standing with his back turned in the center of the photo, and another religious statue is placed on the far right of the image; there are trees in the front and garland attached to the edges of the pews.
Date: [1944..1945]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Pioneer City County Museum

[Photographs in France]

Description: Two photographs taken in France. The top photo shows German positions on a hilltop at Bining, France. A building with a steeple is also visible to the right. The bottom photo shows a command post of the Division Artillery in Bettviller, France, with a French flag flying from the building to the left.
Date: December 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Postcard of Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's Church]

Description: Postcard of St. Margaret's Church, with Westminster Abbey in the background, seen from across Parliament Square in London. A police officer stands on in the Square, with several statues behind him. Typed text on the front of the postcard says "London - Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's."
Date: [1944..1945]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 51.499976 -0.126860
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum
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