This collection consists of official military reports created by the 46th Service Squadron of the United States Army Air Corp from April 1943 to May of 1945 while stationed in North Africa and Italy. Collection includes operational history, daily journals of activities and events, and miscellaneous reports received or issued by the unit during the Second World War.

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.

This collection contains interviews, notes, sources, and correspondence related to James Noles's research for his book "Mighty by Sacrifice: The Destruction of an American Bomder Squadron."