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Oral History Interview with Vernon Oates, October 21, 1942

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Vernon Oates. He discusses his childhood, education and growing up during the great depression. He talks about joining the US Army Air Corps, now called the Air Force, and the experiences he had at various different training camps around the country.
Date: October 21, 1942
Creator: Oates, Vernon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Elizabeth M. Moxley Diary]

Description: A diary kept by Elizabeth Moxley during her time at the Manzanar War Relocation Camp. The diary includes logs from 7 October 1942 to 16 December 16, 1942, prayers, poems, songs, and a list of issued saving bonds.
Date: 1942-10-07/1942-12-16
Creator: Moxley, Elizabeth M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Doolittle Raid Operation Log, April 18, 1942]

Description: Operation Log from the Doolittle Raid taken from the USS Hornet by then SN Leo R. Cantrell. Written in pencil, the document gives minute by minute detail of the launch, with exact times, and includes launch times for each take-off by plane number
Date: April 18, 1942
Creator: Cantrell, Leo R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Anderson Scrapbook 1]

Description: Scrapbook featuring images from Lieutenant Richard A. Anderson's time in the Navy aboard the USS Skirmish during World War II, along with military correspondence and clippings. Included is a booklet entitled "Navy Day 1945: U.S.S. Skirmish" featuring photographs and a written history of the U.S.S. Skirmish's activities during WWII and a listing of personnel.
Date: [1942..1945]
Creator: Anderson, Richard Alan
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Anderson Scrapbook 2]

Description: Scrapbook of collected items including photographs, clippings, letters, and other documents from Lieutenant Richard A. Anderson's time in the Navy aboard the USS Skirmish.
Date: [1942..1945]
Creator: Anderson, Richard Alan
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Anderson Scrapbook 3]

Description: Scrapbook of collected items including photographs, clippings, letters, and other documents from Lieutenant Richard A. Anderson's time in the Navy aboard the USS Skirmish.
Date: [1942..1945]
Creator: Anderson, Richard Alan
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Better Business Bureau Conversation Series, No. 21, 1942

Description: Newsletter prepared by the Consumer - Business Relations Committee of the Better Business Bureau in cooperation with the Office of Price Administration providing tips to make electrical appliances last longer to aid the war effort. Appliances discussed include toasters, coffee makers, mixers, waffle irons, and flat irons. The newsletter advises against unsafe wiring and electricity usage and encourages proper cleaning and maintenance of appliances.
Date: 1942
Creator: Better Business Bureau Educational Division
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Better Business Bureau Conversation Series, No. 20, 1942

Description: Newsletter prepared by the Consumer - Business Relations Committee of the Better Business Bureau in cooperation with the Office of Price Administration providing tips to make rubber articles last longer to aid the war effort. Articles discussed include overshoes, clothing, hot water bottles, and garden hoses. The newsletter advises against leaving rubber in heat or sunlight or damaging them with tension or substances like paint or oil and encourages proper cleaning and maintenance of rubber ite… more
Date: 1942
Creator: Better Business Bureau Educational Division
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Better Business Bureau Conversation Series, No. 13, 1942

Description: Newsletter prepared by the Consumer - Business Relations Committee of the Better Business Bureau in cooperation with the Office of Price Administration providing tips to make shoes last longer to aid the war effort. The newsletter provides instructions for the proper selection, care, and repair of shoes. Special instruction is given for suede, satin, white leather, and work shoes.
Date: 1942
Creator: Better Business Bureau Educational Division
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[A Handbook for Air Raid Wardens]

Description: Booklet titled "A Handbook for Air Raid Wardens," which was one of a series of handbooks published by the United States Office of Civilian Defense instructing civil defense workers in their duties. The handbook includes information regarding the chain of command and equipment for air raid wardens, duties prior to an air attack, reporting procedure, coordination of services, home preparation and response to an air raid, and how to handle specific types of attacks (magnesium bombs, gases, etc.). … more
Date: April 1942
Creator: Hooker, S. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Dogs for Defense]

Description: Brochure from the American Kennel Club's Dogs for Defense program informing the American public of the importance of a properly trained dog army in assisting the war effort.
Date: 1942~
Creator: American Kennel Club
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[N.A.M. "E" Award Luncheon Program]

Description: Program for a luncheon honoring winners of the Army, Navy, and Maritime Commission Production Awards that took place on December 4, 1942 at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, N.Y. The program includes passages written by President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Under Secretary of War, Robert P. Patterson; and Under Secretary of the Navy, James V. Forrestal, and a list of the companies being represented and honored at the luncheon. The event was organized by the National Association of Manufacturers.
Date: December 4, 1942
Creator: Hooker, S. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter from Mr. Huddle to Cordell Hull, February 4, 1942]

Description: Letter from Chargé D’Affaires Huddle to Secretary of State Cordell Hull informing him that the Japanese Government intends on observing the Geneva Red Cross Convention as a signatory state and will apply mutatis mutandis provisions of the Geneva Prisoners of War Convention despite not being bound by it.
Date: February 4, 1942
Creator: Huddle, Mr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
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

[Squadron 17 Cadet Employment Schedules, 1942]

Description: Employment schedules for aviation cadets in Squadron 17 at the United States Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas. The schedules contain instructions from Lieutenant junior grade H. E. Robinson and handwritten and hand-drawn work done by B. W. Huntington.
Date: 1942~
Creator: Squadron 17
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Poem
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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