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This collection contains Franklin Merle Peterson's personal correspondence, newspapers, ephemera, and photographs from Peterson's lifetime. Peterson was a veteran of the First World War in France and the Second World War in the U.S. Army Air Corps.

This collection consists of an oral history interview transcript of Joseph Jennings, who was enlisted in the U.S. Navy and worked as an aircraft radio operator during World War II and served in the South Atlantic guarding the Brazilian coastline near Rio do Janeiro. The interview covers his duties and anecdotes, like his training in Norfolk, VA, his emergency appendectomy, and his time in Dutch Guyana. The interview also describes his early years during the Great Depression in Oklahoma.