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This collection contains photocopies and transcriptions of letters to and from Allen and family, printed emails, photographs, and documents from his service in World War II.

Scope and Contents This collection documents the career and interests of Robert Andrew Betts, professor of electrical engineering at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1926 to 1942. An avid student of Opelika and area history, Betts collected information about the early days of Lee County and its predecessors. The scrapbooks, which are the largest part of the Betts papers reflect this interest.Items related to Betts career at API are limited. His E.E. notes, "miniaturized" for the lecture are of...

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Diary contains daily diary entries from 1943, comments on current events, updates on WWII, and descriptions of medical duties. Collection also includes a letter from the granddaughter of Bidhop to her son describing Bishop and his family, a brief genealogy of P.M. Bishop's family and a copy if an article that appeared in the Memphis Press Schimitar on 11 and 12 November 1941 titled "Strolling with Eldon Roark, A Day in the Life of Mrs. Bishop."

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This collection contains correspondence, photographs and photocopies of printed material related to Captain Lester Boutte's rescue of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker in 1942. It also includes information from the 1985 Ames, Iowa reunion of Boutte and some of the men that he rescued.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of departmental records of the Center of the Arts and Humanities at Auburn University from 1984 to 1998, organizational records of Phi Betta Kappa, research notes on the Second World War and correspondence received and sent by Allen Cronenberg from 1976 to 1998. Papers include materials on annual meetings...

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Consists of correspondence written by James H. Doolittle to Scott G. Galloway from March 11, 1983 to June 28, 1988. Includes letters that mention Doolittle’s exploits during the Second World War, annual gatherings of the Tokyo Raiders and his wife’s recovery from a stroke.

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This collection consists of one homemade diary and cigarette case of James S. Edwards. Edwards wrote the diary on the back of old German postcards. The journal describes his experience as a German prisoner of war, and he mentions other P.O.W.s that he met during his imprisonment. He made the cigarette case out of tin, and it contains 14 unfiltered cigarettes.

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This collection consists of documents and items related to Dean Foy's life and career, including papers, correspondence, artifacts, and photographs.

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This collection contains correspondence from Carl Holbrook (twenty-nine letters, four postcards, and seven empty envelopes). Two of the letters are copies while the rest are originals. The letters were written to Holbrook's parents, Alline Hollbrook and C. E. Holbrook, in Fort Payne, Alabama.

Content Description This collection contains letters, postcards, birthday and holiday cards, and telegrams detailing Matson's experience in the Army Air Corps during World War II. It also contains a calendar with an etching from 1933 and three binders compiled by his mother. The letters in this collection are from Barney to his parents and sometimes his grandmother. Other letters are from Harold Matson, Barney's father, and a letter from Barney's friend, Al, all sent to his mother. These letters...