Camp Peary (Va.)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Paul Bilofsky Letters
Collection
Identifier: SC 00717
Scope and Contents
Letters, 1943, written to Paul Bilofsky, a soldier stationed at Camp Peary. Authors include Bilofsky's sister Mary as well as other friends and relatives. Letters include information about their personal life, rationing of food, events that they attended, wanting to be pen pals, and romantic messages, among others.
Dates:
1943
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Cyril Buzek, Sr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 00077
Scope and Contents
154 letters, 2 postcards, and a photograph, 1945–1946. The letters are from Cyril Buzek to his parents and sisters in Lane City, Texas. Buzek came to Camp Peary, near Williamsburg, Virginia, in January 1945 for basic training in the Navy. After short stints in Norfolk and Newport News, he was sent to Panama in July 1945, where he was posted at various sites. The nearly continuous stream of letters ended in late December 1945, but there were two additional ones from Panama written in May...
Dates:
1945-1946
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Edward Boulanger Letters,
Collection
Identifier: SC 00044
Scope and Contents
23 love letters written by Edward Boulanger to his wife (name unknown) in Gardner, Massachusetts, during WWII. About nine letters were written while he was at Camp Peary in Williamsburg, Va.; about fourteen letters were written while overseas in New Guinea and the Philippines. The letters indicate he was a Seabee (the construction battalions the Navy used in WWII). Of note is the Camp Peary letterhead.
Dates:
1943-1945
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center