Gary Alonzo Barranger
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
W. A. Fountain Letters to Evelyn Lanphere
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS 00220
Content Description
This collection consists of over 85 handwritten letters and 3 photographs. It documents the final year of World War II (1945) from the perspective of a United States Navy parachute rigger stationed at U.S.N.A.S. Klamath Falls in Oregon. W.A. (Wilfred Allen or Al) Fountain wrote to Evelyn Ruth Lanphere, who lived in Coupeville, on Whidbey Island, in Washington State. Few letters are dated; envelope postmarks detail the letters’ chronology. The end of World War II is often...
Dates:
Other: 1945 February - July
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Paul A. Carpenter Letters
Collection
Identifier: MS 00228
Content Description
The Paul A. Carpenter Letters consists of incoming correspondence and Vmail from family and friends. The letters date from 1942-1945, with the bulk written in 1945. Much of the content discusses the home front: the change of seasons, canning berries and peas, poetry, movies, and new novels such as “Forever Amber”. Paul Carpenter’s parents, J.E. and Albina Carpenter, sent local newspaper clippings with their letters, sharing news of other Kenton, Ohio soldiers and sailors and announcements...
Dates:
1942-1945
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Maurice Shimmiok Letter
Collection
Identifier: SC 01517
Scope and Contents
Letter to Lewis Fraust Jr. about going to hospital corps school and the weather in Idaho.
Dates:
1942-1945
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center