World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American

Abstract The Henry Ikemoto collection includes materials on the Japanese American soldiers of the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team, as well as Japanese-American evacuation and incarceration in camps during WWII. The materials are in the forms of correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, booklets, programs, newspaper and magazine clippings, photobooks, books, essays, and newsletters. Of special note are letters from American Red Cross volunteer Shirley Cobb to soldier...

Abstract This collection contains 313 letters sent from George Schneider to his future wife, Virginia Webb; as well as few other letters, notes, and clippings. A majority of the letters were sent during Schneider’s time in the United States Army as a Corporal. The letters begin in 1944, when Schneider was at Camp Campbell in Kentucky, and continue through his travels across the Atlantic and into France, Germany, and Austria in 1945; his return to the United States and time while at Camp Cooke in...