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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
Herbert J. Satchwell papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 00397
Content Description
This collection contains manuscript diaries and related ephemera of Pvt. Herbert J. Satchwell, U.S.M.C., of the U.S.S. Kearsarge, recounting several cruises of the ship along the Eastern Seaboard of the United Staes, the Gulf of Mexico, and the West Indies.
Dates:
1900-1903
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center