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This folder contains letters from George's parents about the home front and family business, H.L. Nehls Investment Company, including photographs.

This folder contains letters from George at Camp Barkeley, Texas and Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Arkansas.

This folder contains letters from George at Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Arkansas and McCloskey General Hospital.

In this folder, there are letters Blunk sent to other members of his family, such as his son, Donald, and his mother. The October 27th letter to his mother includes family photos that were sent to him, as well as a newspaper clipping from the Sentinel or the County News about his work in England repairing a damaged B-17 for the 8th Air Force. The picture used for the newspaper article was sent to his wife and referenced in his April 30, 1945 letter. In the letter, he questions her about his brother Chester and his progress in the Army Air Forces as he had not heard from him or his wife in a while. Blunk also sent his mother a V-mail cartoon wishing her a merry Christmas. To Donald, he sent a birthday letter with a large picture of a bulldog head wearing a pilot's cap with the words "Fight'n Fifth above it, and a V-mail telling him he misses him very much.

This folder contains personal letters from Blunk to his wife, Ruby, as he begins his training. They primarily contain questions about his family's activities and wellbeing, as well as repeated proclamations of his love for her. In his first letters from December 1942, he details his arrival to Sheppard Field, Texas where he received mental and physical testing to determine his placement in a technical school of his choice. Shortly after, he is placed in the 5th Air Depot Group as an industrial engineer and is moved to camps in Atlantic City, New Jersey and then Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia. In his January 15, 1943 letter, he is no longer stateside as he remarks that he is "somewhere in England" at that point. While in England, he frequently asks her to write to him and complains that the lack of mail makes him incredibly homesick. He asks for pictures of her and their children and in return sends home his 8th Air Force shoulder patch for safekeeping.

This folder contains letters from Harold Kritzer to Sheldon F. Berlow discussing Kritzer's CNS courses and his deployment to England.

The first letter is to Ruth Durrance of Brewster, FL, and talks about the shopping and her life in Washington, D.C. While in India, she sent a letter to a man named John, likely a friend from home as she thanks him for passing on gossip and discusses conditions in India and around the world. The third letter is to Allen "A.C." Middleton who was living in San Francisco, CA, at the time. The fourth letter is to Mr. and Mrs. H.S. Mayhall and Esther Mayhall of Lakeland, FL. She talks about music, her family, and people they know. Her fifth letter is addressed to John; she discusses issues in getting a club for GIs and politics. The sixth letter is to Mrs. N.H. Booth and Mrs. R. Black of Brewster, FL; she thanks them for a Christmas gift and briefly discusses the war.

This folder contains letters to R.T. "Bob" Bowman, Hazel Bowman's brother. In her first letter she writes about a trip of hers. In the second letter, she chastises him from drinking too much and what it will do to her family. Her third letter thanks him for a gift he got her, and she says she is sorry he was denied from a position in the Navy because of his eyes.

This folder contains handwritten letters from Betty to Herbert.

This folder contains handwritten letters from every day in April from Herbert to Betty and a photocopy of an advertisement for a Camp Forsyth concert.