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 letters from Ted S. Faulkner to Frances S. Faulkner, his mother, and Helen Yearden, his aunt, while serving in the U.S. Army Air Force. It also contains letters from his wife Fern Faulkner to her mother-in-law. The letters discussed Ted Faulkner's training, life during basic training and while serving in the army, information on areas he was stationed at, and matters at home in Seattle or where his family was living at the time.

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."