REFERENCE CODE: AkAMH

REPOSITORY NAME:
Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center
Bob and Evangeline Atwood Alaska Resource Center
625 C Street
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: 907-929-9235
Fax: 907-929-9233
Email: resourcecenter@anchoragemuseum.org

Guide prepared by: Sara Piasecki, Photo Archivist

TITLE: William R. Gore Collection

COLLECTION NUMBER: B2014.031

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Dates: 1941-1945

Extent: 1 box; 0.4 linear feet

Language and Scripts: The collection is in English.

Name of creator(s): William R. Gore

Administrative/Biographical History:
William “Billy” R. Gore was born in 1915 in Tacoma Park, Maryland. Gore enlisted with the U.S.
Army in January 1941 and was assigned to the Medical Detachment, 39th Infantry, 9th
Division. From September to November 1942 he attended the Medical Army Corps Officer
Candidate Course at Carlisle Barracks in Pennsylvania. He served as administrative officer with
the 179th Station Hospital on Adak from January 1943 through February 1944. He was then
transferred to the 42nd Station Hospital on Amchitka, and served primarily as Mess Officer. He
was discharged from the service in December 1945. Gore worked as a professional musician in
Florida after the war. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1995.

Scope and Content Description:
The collection consists of 258 letters from Gore to his relatives written during his tours of duty
in World War II, as well as five photographs and four pieces of ephemera pertaining to his
service. Letter frequency is generally sporadic, though daily during March-April 1943 and
January-March 1945. There is a large gap in correspondence between April and September
1943; apparently the letters have been lost. The last letter is dated May 13, 1945. Some of the

letters have had sections physically excised by Army censors. For more information, see
Detailed Description of Collection.

Arrangement: Arranged by format and chronologically.

CONDITIONS GOVERNING ACCESS AND USE

Restrictions on Access: The collection is open for research use.

Physical Access: Original items in fair to good condition. Some paper very brittle, with minor
loss of text.

Technical Access: No special equipment is needed to access the materials.

Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use:
The Anchorage Museum is the owner of the materials and makes available reproductions for
research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the
Anchorage Museum before any reproduction use. The Anchorage Museum does not
necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission
for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.

Preferred Citation:
William R. Gore Collection, Anchorage Museum, B2014.031

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Acquisition and Appraisal Information
Donated by Nat Ward in September 2014. Ward received them from his aunt, who had been
executrix of Gore’s will.

Processing Note
Collection received without envelopes. Two empty envelopes with no corresponding letters
retained. A few unrelated letters from the 1960s not retained.

Separated Materials
Copy of a long obituary for Gore filed in accession folder. Two DVDs containing documentaries
on the Aleutian Campaign also filed in accession folder.

Note
Undated letters generally retained in original order.

RELATED MATERIALS
Charles Ireland Collection, B2004.005
Carlton F. Rinck Collection, B2014.021


SUBJECTS
Gore, William R., 1915-1995
United States. Army. Medical Corps
United States. Army Alaskan Dept. -- Military life – Sources
Medical Field Service School (U.S.)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Alaska -- Aleutian Islands -- Sources
Soldiers -- Alaska -- Aleutian Islands -- History – Sources
Cooking for military personnel
Carlisle Barracks (Pa.)
Adak Island (Alaska) -- History, Military -- 20th century – Sources
Amchitka Island (Alaska) -- History, Military -- 20th century – Sources
Aleutian Islands (Alaska) -- History, Military -- 20th century -- Sources

Detailed Description of the Collection

Series 1: Correspondence
F1
Correspondence, 1941-1942, stateside service (55)
- Postcard. To Mother, January 22, 1941. Arrival at Fort Dix
- Postcard. To Folks, January 29, 1941. Arrival at Fort Bragg
- Postcard. To Folks, January 30, 1941. Activities at Fort Bragg
- Postcard. To [mother], postmarked April 23, 1941. Hospitalization, possibly following
bus accident
- Letter. To Folks, April 26, 1941. Duty as recreation room orderly, party, musical lineup
on WQXR
- Letter. To Everybody, May 4, 1941. Services in Fayetteville, comments on Selective
Service soldiers, upcoming weekend pass
- Letter. To Everybody, May 15, 1941. Discipline for use of profanity on duty, week’s
activity schedule, summer kit, artillery practice
- Letter. To Everybody, May 24, 1941. Memorial Day pass, pay, company aid man duty in
defense maneuver exercise (with map)
- Letter. To Folks, June 17, 1941. Military readiness, trip to beach, head cold, rumors
about transfers
- Letter. To Everybody, June 28, 1941. Politics, military censorship, reading Plato
- Letter. To Folks, undated. Divisional exercise, activities of Medical Detachment, lost
weight
- Letter. To [everyone], undated. North Carolina agriculture, activities of company aid
men on exercises, family visit to base, Fayetteville services
- Letter. To Everybody, July 18 and July 26, 1941. Hospitalization for influenza, plan to
attend Officer Training School, weather
- Letter. To Folks, July 31, 1941. Weather, Organization Day, politics
- Letter. To [everyone], August 10, 1941. Divisional exercise, pests, foot care, “new”
versus “old” soldiers

- Letter. To Folks, August 30, 1941. Upcoming furlough, Regimental Intelligence School,
pay
- Letter. To Mother, undated. Trip home
- Letter. To Dad, undated. Trip to Decatur and home
- Letter. To Folks, September 17, 1941. New pen, artillery demonstration, health,
quitting smoking
- Letter. To Everybody, September 24, 1941. Changes in company aid men duties,
services in Rock Hill, South Carolina
- Letter. To Winifred, October 11, 1941. Rock Hill, 11th Division maneuvers, Wesley
Nesbitt
- Letter. To [everyone?], undated. Copperhead snakes, snakebite treatment
- Letter. To Everyone, November 1, 1941. Southern hospitality, 11th Division motorized,
maneuvers, reserve officers
- Postcard. To Folks, November 20, 1941. Christmas furlough
- Letter. To Folks, December 1, 1941. 9-week maneuvers with B Company, Warren G.
Swain, Fred Greene, Christmas furlough
- Postcard. To Folks, December 31, 1941. Visit to Walter Reed
- Letter. To Folks, January 4, 1942. Subscription to Time magazine, possible transfer to
Air Corps, Fred Greene
- Letter. To Folks, January 4, 1942. Thanks for trip, transfer possibilities
- Letter. To Everyone, January 11, 1942. Medical Detachment duties, Blitzkrieg tactics,
Herman C. Smith, medical training, 9th Division mechanized
- Letter. To People, August 16, 1942. Review of Mrs. Miniver, interview for Officer
Candidate School
- Letter. To Folks, August 19, 1942. Replacements from Camp Grant, upcoming leave
- Letter. To Folks, August 24, 1942. Accepted to Officer Candidate School. On verso:
Manuscript letter from Grace to Winifred
- Letter. To Folks, September 1, 1942. Transfer to Carlisle Barracks, Rabon Gore
- Letter. To Folks, undated. Arrival at Carlisle Barracks, treatment of candidates, musical
activities
- Letter. To Folks, September 9, 1942. Start of Officers Candidate Class
- Postcard. To Folks, postmarked September 16, 1942. Settling into routine [postcard
image: “26. Noncommissioned Officers Quarters, Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, Pa. Photo
by U.S. Army Signal Corps, E-5684”]
- Postcard. To Folks, postmarked September 21, 1942. Tailoring uniforms [postcard
image: “170. Tunnel through Tuscarora Mountain of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Penn.
Turnpike Comm. Photo, E-5795”]
- Letter. To Winifred, September 27, 1942. Reasons for attention to details of military
dress, Sibelius’ Sixth Symphony, exams
- Letter. To Folks, September 27, 1942. Exams, weather, food, new wristwatch
- Letter. To Folks, October 5, 1942. Postage due on mail
- Letter. To Folks, November 15, 1942. Packages, weather, Veronica Lake, impending
graduation
- Letter. To Folks, November 20, 1942. Assignment to Alaskan Command

- Letter. To Folks, November 25, 1942. Assignment to Alaska, building of highway,
discharge from enlisted duty, baggage, transportation to Seattle. At end: Manuscript
letter from P.T.G. to D., A., and Peg
- Letter. To Folks, December 8, 1942. Embarking on train to Seattle
- Letter. To Folks, December 9, 1942. Train ride, trip to Field Museum
- Letter. To Folks. December 10, 1942. From train en route to Seattle
- Letter. To Folks, December 11, 1942. Arrival at Seattle, weather, city transportation,
train trip
- Christmas card. From the Gores, [1942?]
- Christmas card. To Winifred, December 14, 1942. Arrival at Seattle, weather
- Letter. To Folks, December 14, 1942. Pay, baggage, insurance, image of Alaska
- Telegram. To Mrs. Pamela Gore, December 15, 1942. Received travel reimbursement
- Letter. To Folks, December 19, 1942. Parents’ trip to Florida, clothing issued
- Letter. To Folks, December 22, 1942. Mail, wristwatch
- Letter. To Folks, December 26, 1942. Inventory of Post Exchange run by civilian blacks,
parents’ trip to Florida
- Telegram. To Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Gore, December 31, 1942. Parents’ trip to Florida

F2
Correspondence, 1943 January-April, 179th Station Hospital (52)
- Letter. To Rich, January 21, 1943. Address excised by censor. Attack on Berlin, lack of
music or radio, second anniversary of military service, taking Vimms. Note on verso
about censor mark on envelope, indicating Gore was censor
- Letter. To Folks, February 2, 1943. Parents’ trip to Florida, reading matter, war in
Europe, watched two tooth extractions
- Letter. To Folks, undated. Mail service, starting a journal, censoring mail
- Letter. To Folks, undated. Reading matter, changing address
- Letter. To Winifred, February 11, 1942. Sending money orders, pay, reading matter.
Note on verso to Mother from Peg
- Letter. [To folks? undated, page 2 only]. Censorship
- Letter. To Richard, March 8, 1943. Recreation, pay, education
- Letter. To Rich, March 14, 1943. Vitamins, butter, music, “reconstruction workers”
- Letter. To Folks, March 19, 1943. Sending packages, mail
- Letter. To Winifred, March 20, 1943. Pay, serving as assistant mess officer and S₂
- Letter. To Folks, March 20, 1943. Radio, music, pay
- Letter. To Folks, March 21, 1943. Assisting mail censor, writing in journal
- Letter. To Folks, March 22, 1943. Winston Churchill’s address on post-war planning
- Letter. To John, March 22, 1943. Thanks for greeting card
- Letter. To People, March 23, 1943. Pay, labor strikes
- Letter. To Harriet, March 24, 1942. Madrigals, mail
- Letter. To Mother and Dad, March 24, 1943. Asks for addresses for other people
- Letter. To Mother and Dad et al., March 25, 1943. Received Bible and Shakespeare
- Letter. To Folks, March 26, 1943. Returned letters
- Letter. To Mother and Dad, March 27, 1943. Metropolitan Opera

- Letter. To Folks, March 28, 1943. Radio programs, mail
- Letter. To [folks], March 29, 1943. Indians in movies, Jean Arthur, air attacks on Berlin
- Letter. To All, March 30, 1943. With newspaper clipping, “Westbrook Pegler.” Journal
writing
- Letter. To Folks, March 31, 1943. Taking over duties of injured Mess Officer George
Power, reading material
- Letter. To Everybody, April 1, 1943. George Power, Time magazine
- Letter. To [folks], April 3, 1943 [i.e. April 2]. Food, parsnips, radio programs
- Letter. To Folks, April 3, 1943. Rutabagas for dinner
- Letter. To Winifred, April 4, 1943. Pay, mail service
- Letter. To Folks, April 5, 1943. Mess Officer duties, plan to open restaurant on Alcan
after the war
- Letter. To Folks, April 6, 1943. Mail
- Letter. To Folks, April 8, 1943. Mess Officer duties
- Letter. To Folks, April 8, 1943. Censorship, Christmas package arrived, food
- Letter. To Folks, April 9, 1943. Word excised by censor. Censorship, Mr. Such
- Letter. To Folks, April 10, 1943. Parents’ trip to Florida, radio program
- Letter. To Folks, April 11, 1943. Word excised by censor. V-mail, handkerchiefs,
receiving packages
- Letter. To People, April 12, 1943. Music, mail
- Letter. To People, April 13, 1943. Radio program, Richard Gore
- Letter. To Folks, April 14, 1943. Review of Walter Scott’s Rob Roy
- Letter. To Folks, April 15, 1943. Persis Edmonds, bombing of Stuttgart
- Letter. To Folks, April 16, 1943. Mess Officer duties, meals, menus
- Letter. To People, April 17, 1943. Bible, radio program
- Letter. To People, April 18, 1943. Pay, friends at home
- Letter. To Folks, April 19, 1943. Mail, items allowed on base
- Letter. To Folks, April 20, 1943. Flowers, dentist William J. Ferber
- Letter. To Mother, April 21, 1943. Richard Weber, radio program, new Mess Hall
- Letter. To Folks, April 22, 1943. Food rations and meals
- Letter. To [folks], April 23, 1943. Review of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida
- Letter. To Mother, April 24, 1943. Judaism, Gulfport, review of Random Harvest
- Letter. To Mother, April 25, 1943. Interest on money in account
- Letter. To Mother, April 26, 1943. Mr. Such, radio program
- Letter. To [folks], April 27, 1943. Ship journey to Alaska
- Letter. To Folks, April 28, 1943. Radio programs
- Envelope. Postmarked August 23, 1943. Note of letter dated May 1
- Envelope. Postmarked August 23, 1943. Note of letter dated May 4

F3
Correspondence, 1943 September-1944 February, 179th Station Hospital (14)
- Letter. To Mother and Dad, September 1, 1943. Review of letters from March and
April, finding shells on beach, bought crab for officers’ mess

- Letter. To Folks, September 23, 1943. George Power, Mess Officer duties, Blucher
boots, Arthur C. Reedie, playing organ at base chapel. Note at end from P.T.G. to D.
and A.
- Letter. To Folks, September 24, 1943. Starting singing group at hospital chapel
- Letter. To Mother, October 24, 1943. Hymn selection at chapel, field organ, beef for
mess, Sgt. Russell
- Letter. To Mother and Dad, October 25, 1943. Ration-drawing day, base bakery, Sgt.
Puccetti
- Letter. To Mother and Dad, October 26, 1943. Butchering meat, Halloween party
planning, playing string bass for organizational dance band called “The Ravens”
- Letter. To Folks, October 27, 1943. Fresh vegetables on base, Halloween party planning
- Letter. To Mother, October 28, 1943. Review of letters received
- Letter. To Folks, October 29, 1943. Ninth Division deployments
- Letter. To Folks, October 30 and 31, 1943. Review of letters, pay. Notes at end from
Harriet to Dick, and from Adaline to Peg
- Letter. To Folks, December 12, 1943. Climate, assigned duties
- Letter. To Mother and Dad, December 26, 1943. With mimeographed Christmas menu
signed by personnel including Eleanor Burns, James Marsh, John Jacobs, E.L. Sherrer,
Erma Krebsbach and others. Letter stamped by censor. Christmas packages received,
uses term “Aleutian area”
- Letter. To Mother, February 9, 1944. Improvement in availability of foodstuffs, climate,
description of enclosed photos of enlisted men’s mess hall and Arthur C. Reedie
- Letter. To Dad, February 10, 1944. With stamp of censor. Coffee, dehydrated
vegetables, request for vegetable dyes

F4
Correspondence, 1944 March-August, 42nd Station Hospital (30)
- Letter. To Winifred, March 5, 1944. Change of station, Officers’ Club, progress of war,
review of Watch on the Rhine
- Letter. To Mother and Dad, March 10, 1945. Packages received
- Letter. To Folks, March 11, 1944. Family news, pay
- Letter. To Folks, March 14, 1944. Film Report on the Aleutians, Reader’s Digest,
packages received, review of German
- Letter. To Folks, March 15, 1944. Avocados, “Aleutian gait,” V-mail. Note at end from
P.T.G. to Peg
- Letter. To Mother, May 1, 1944. New job as Detachment Commander, radio program
“Personal Album”
- Letter. To Folks, May 3, 1944. National politics, family news
- Letter. To Dad, May 7, 1944. Financial investments, Jeeps
- Letter. To Mother, May 9, 1944. Hut mates, pet dog “Bête Noir,” move into new
hospital
- Letter. To Folks, May 15, 1944. Weather, dehydrated vegetables, Aleutian geology
- Letter. To Mother and Dad, May 19, 1944. Rotations
- Letter. To People, May 25, 1944. Bands on the island, upcoming furlough

- Letter. To folks, May 26 and June 1, 1944. Spring flora and fauna, mail service,
entertainer Gracie Fields
- Letter. To Winifred, June 2, 1944. Pet dogs, weather, growing flowers, reading
materials, financial investments
- Letter. To People, June 7, 1944. Sending booklet “The Battle of the Aleutians,” progress
of war, national politics
- Letter. To Folks, June 15, 1944. European invasion, review of Joseph Conrad
- Letter. To Mother and Dad, June 16, 1944. Pay, bombing raid on Japan
- Letter. To Folks, June 18 and June 20, 1944. Word excised by censors. Weather, arrival
of nurses
- Letter. To Winifred, June 20, 1944. Sending photograph, review of film The Battle of
China
- Letter. To Folks, June 30, 1944. Family news, gambling
- Letter. To Mother and Dad, July 11, 1944. Reading materials, pet dog
- Letter. To Winifred, July 11, 1944. Weather, promotion to 1^st
Lieutenant
- Letter. To Folks, July 16, 1944. Weather, tundra, review of Alaska Cavalcade
- Letter. To Mother and Dad, July 17, 1944. Sending photographs, availability of produce,
upcoming furlough, financial investments
- Letter. To Richard, Adaline, and Peter, July 29, 1944. Mail service, Handel, American
educational system
- Letter. To Folks, July 30, 1944. Col. Harper, death of family friend
- Letter. To Miss Anderson, July 30, 1944. New York State war ballot, national politics
- Letter. To Winifred, July 30, 1944. Comparison of Adak and Amchitka climates
- Letter. To Folks, August 22, 1944. Absentee ballots, national politics
- Letter. To Folks, August 28, 1944. Upcoming furlough, G.I. Bill, review of Somerset
Maugham’s Razor’s Edge


F5
Correspondence, 1944 October-1945 February, 42nd Station Hospital (73)
- Letter. To Folks, October 8, 1944. From Empire Builder train en route to Seattle
- Letter. To People, undated. Written from train, thanks for visit
- Letter. To Folks, October 13, 1944. At point of embarkation
- Letter. To Mother and Dad, October 25, 1944. Ship voyage to station, Merchant
Marines
- Letter. To Folks, November 1, 1944. Reviews of Aldous Huxley’s Time Must Have a Stop
and Joseph Grew’s Ten Years in Japan
- Letter. To Folks, November 7, 1944. National elections, Plato on politics, censorship
- Letter. To Mom and Pop, November 12, 1944. Ship voyage to station, review of Charles
Dickens’ Old Curiosity Shop
- Letter. To Mother and Dad, November 30, 1944. Review of letters, package received
- Letter. To Folks, December 8, 1944. Mail service, climate, Time magazine, witnessed
autopsy of heart attack victim

- Letter. To Winifred, December 9, 1944. Democracy, discussion group question “What
Future for Germany,” National Conference of Christians and Jews, review of Latin
- Letter. To Folks, December 27, 1944. Looking forward to end of war, Aleutian winds.
Notes at end from Louise to Sister, and from P.T.G. to Dick
- Letter. To Folks, December 28, 1944. Weather, food, review of Latin
- Letter. To Mother, December 29, 1944. Press coverage of Army activities, Army-Navy
chorus
- Letter. To Mom and Pop, January 1, 1945. Second anniversary of foreign service,
recalling arrival in Aleutians
- Letter. To Folks, January 2, 1945. Progress of the war, politics
- Letter. To Mother and Dad, January 3, 1945. Sailing on ships
- Letter. To Mother and Dad, January 4, 1945. Discussion group on W.L. White on the
Soviet Union
- Letter. To Mom and Pop, January 5, 1943. Newspaper subscriptions for foreign service
- Letter. To People, January 6, 1943. National politics, weather, now has four jobs
(transportation, unit supply, mess, hospital fund custodian)
- Letter. To Winifred, January 7, 1945. American singers, Capt. Samuel C. Kain
- Letter. To Folks, January 7, 1945. Possible reassignment or rotation, Rebecca West,
avocado
- Letter. To People, January 8, 1945. Progress of war, review of Alfred Noyes’ Edge of the
Abyss, Major Charles A. Leib
- Letter. To Pa and Ma, January 9, 1945. Duties in mess, transportation, unit supply,
censoring, hospital fund custodianship, availability of water
- Letter. To Mother and Dad, January 10, 1945. Weather, Alaska Native ivory carvings
available for purchase on base
- Letter. To Mother and Dad, January 11, 1945. Cribbage, Capt. Jesse Ehrenhaus, Jewish
officers
- Letter. To Folks, January 12, 1945. Review of Irwin Edman’s Philosopher’s Holiday,
radio show “Information Please”
- Letter. To Folks, January 13, 1945. George Burns and Gracie Allen
- Letter. To People, January 14, 1945. Weather, V-mail, censorship, radio
- Letter. To Mom and Pop, January 15, 1945. Beer, base theaters, need for gymnasia,
attending course in mess management
- Letter. To Mother, January 16, 1945. Weather, classes in mess management and motor
maintenance
- Letter. To Folks, January 17, 1945. Mess management class, quitting smoking
- Letter. To Ma and Pa, January 18, 1945. Mess duties, Soviet offensive
- Letter. To Folks, January 19, 1945. Mess management class
- Letter. To Folks, January 20, 1945. Capt. Van Horne
- Letter. To Parents, January 21, 1945. National politics, letters received
- Letter. To Folks, January 22, 1945. Soviet offensive, Officers’ Club, Spanish Civil War
- Letter. To People, January 23, 1945. Mess management class, weather
- Letter. To Family, January 24, 1945. Family news
- Letter. To People, January 25, 1945. Slowly lengthening days

- Letter. To Mother, January 26, 1945. Letters received, Sage Chapel
- Letter. To Folks, January 27, 1945. Sending love
- Letter. To Folks, January 28, 1945. Soviet offensive, review of John Roy Carlson’s Under
Cover, Catholic Church in the war
- Letter. To People, January 29, 1945. Bought dates at Post Exchange
- Letter. To Mother and Dad, January 30, 1945. Literary criticism
- Letter. To Mom and Pop, January 31, 1945. Letters received
- Letter. To Folks, February 1, 1945. Progress of war, fresh milk for patients, Avoset,
Carlson’s Under Cover
- Letter. To Mom and Pop, February 2, 1945. Keeping busy, definition of “Aleutianitis,”
censorship
- Letter. To Folks, February 3, 1945. Request for mailing supplies, carrot pie, new mess
hall, food storage
- Letter. To Mother, February 4, 1945. Hospital food, Miss Nelson
- Letter. To Mother and Dad, February 5, 1945. Review of singers and voice coaching
- Letter. To Folks, February 6, 1945. Sending along Aleutian photos
- Letter. To People, February 7, 1945. Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944
- Letter. To Folks, February 8, 1945. Chaplain Hogan, Archibald MacLeish
- Letter. To Mom and Pop, February 9, 1945. Review of Pierre van Paassen’s Days of Our
Years
- Letter. To Parents and Relations, February 10, 1945. Review of Days of Our Years
- Letter. To Folks. February 11, 1945. Letter writing
- Letter. To Everyone, February 12, 1945. Hospital administration
- Letter. To People, February 13, 1945. Westclox alarm clock
- Letter. To Mother, February 14, 1945. Soviet offensive, mess management class
- Letter. To Folks, February 15, 1945. Review of Under Cover, national politics
- Letter. To Mother, February 16, 1945. Rachmaninoff
- Letter. To Dad, February 17, 1945. Fresh frozen produce, mess management class
- Letter. To Folks, February 18, 1945. Review of Hervey Allen’s Forest and the Fort, early
education
- Letter. To Folks, February 19, 1945. Carrot pie, received certificate of proficiency
- Letter. To Folks, February 20, 1945. Weather, Medical Corps quarters
- Letter. To Mother, February 21, 1945. Review of Browning
- Letter. To Ma, February 22, 1945. Review of Forest and the Fort
- Letter. To Folks, February 23, 1945. Peter Dykema
- Letter. To Mother, February 24, 1945. Singers, censorship
- Letter. To Folks, February 25, 1945. Officers’ Club, reading Kipling
- Letter. To Mother, February 26, 1945. Post Exchange inventory, weather
- Letter. To People, February 27, 1945. Weather, review of Conrad’s Typhoon
- Letter. To Ma and Pa, February 28, 1945. Waiting for replacement, review of Romain’s
Verdun
- Letter. To Winifred, February 28, 1945. Reviews of literature, music, and film, Walter
Lippmann


F6
Correspondence, 1945 March-May, 42nd Station Hospital (34)
- Letter. To Folks, March 1, 1945. Pay day, rotation
- Letter. To Folks, March 2, 1945. Monthly reports
- Letter. To Mom and Pop, March 3, 1945. Reviews of Lang’s Music in Western
Civilization and Reese’s Music in the Middle Ages
- Letter. To Folks, March 4, 1945. Aleutian wind
- Letter. To Mom and Pop, March 5, 1945. Censorship, review of film For Whom the Bell
Tolls, Irish Americans
- Letter. To Folks, March 6, 1945. Letter writing
- Letter. To Dad, March 7, 1945. Lakeland Terrace Hotel
- Letter. To Dad, March 8, 1945. Film Holy Matrimony, book Fitting Habitation
- Letter. To Folks, March 9, 1945. Worcester State Hospital, Elijah B. Romanoff
- Letter. To Folks, March 10, 1945. Literary criticism of Kipling
- Letter. To Mom and Pop, March 11, 1945. Bout with pneumonia in November 1944
- Letter. To Mother, March 12, 1945. Radio program “Hit Parade,” American Firsters
- Letter. To Folks, March 13, 1945. Human evolution, Capt. Samuel C. Kain
- Letter. To Folks, March 14, 1945. Sidney Smith’s Andy Gump
- Letter. To Folks, March 15, 1945. Review of Kipling, Capt. Samuel C. Kain
- Letter. To Mother, March 16, 1945. Streetcars, Chopin, Capt. Schwartz of New York
- Letter. To Folks, March 17, 1945. Review of Forest and the Fort, progress of war
- Letter. To Folks, March 18, 1945. Review of Forest and the Fort, fixing the chapel organ
- Letter. To Mother, March 19, 1945. Review of Forest and the Fort, Capt. Schwartz of
New York, availability of fresh fish
- Letter. To Folks, March 20, 1945. Heavily excised by censors. Cooking “accident” by
baker using molasses instead of syrup
- Letter. To Dad, March 21, 1945. Weather
- Letter. To M. and D., March 22, 1945. Rotation back to states, progress of war
- Letter. To Mother and Dad, March 23, 1945. Possible rotation to tropics
- Letter. To Folks, March 24, 1945. Weather, progress of war
- Letter. To M. and D., March 25, 1945. Availability of pork, Major Hyman Fisher
- Letter. To Folks, March 26, 1945. Preparing mess hall for inspection
- Letter. To People, March 27, 1945. Mail service, upcoming furlough
- Letter. To Mom and Pop, March 28, 1945. Officers’ Club, Army & Navy hymnal, review
of Strecker and Appel’s Discovering Ourselves, radio program “It Pays to Be Ignorant”
- Letter. To Mom and Pop, April 8, 1945. New equipment for the Mess Hall
- Letter. To Folks, April 9, 1945. Availability of chicken, radio program “Amos ‘n’ Andy,”
African American officers, segregation
- Letter. To Mother and Dad, April 24, 1945. Apology for not writing
- Letter. To Dad, May 9, 1945. Possibly rotation in June
- Letter. To Mother, May 9, 1945. Preparation for rotation
- Letter. To Mother, May 13, 1945. First page only. Weather, rotation, Richard’s
reclassification


Ephemera
F7
- Yearbook. The Medical Field Service School, Carlisle Barracks, Pa. With photographic
portrait of William Gore tipped in to leaf 2.
- Program. Graduation exercises, Tenth Officer Candidate Class, November 28, 1942.
- Certificate. “United States Army Quartermaster Corps School for Bakers and Cooks,
Certificate of Proficiency.”
- Pamphlet. A new view of the history of the Aleutians / W.S. Laughlin and G.H. Marsh.
Reprinted from Arctic: Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America, vol. 4, no. 2,
September 1951.

Photographs
F8

	1 —	4th Platoon 10th O.C.C., Carlisle Barracks, Pa., Oct. 10th, 1942 [group portrait, with names penciled on verso]
	2 —	[group portrait of officers seated inside Quonset hut, with stamp of Base 1727 Army Examiner]
	3 —	[American flag and banner, possibly Navy, probably at cemetery, Army censor stamp on verso]
	4 —	[Russian Orthodox graves in cemetery, Army censor stamp 15832 on verso]
	5 —	[Russian Orthodox grave and Christian grave of Anna Zaochney in cemetery, Army censor stamp 15832 on verso] Guide written: October 15, 2014