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The folder includes a letter from Thomas J. McDonough, Vice Chancellor, Diocese of St. Augustine, Florida to Rev. Father Finegan, Corpus Christi Rectory, June 29, 1943, directing him to deliver personally a message from her husband secured by the Vatican Secretariat of States regarding his status as prisoner of war. The folder also contains two letters from Mary Penner to husband, 1945, returned sender. There is also in the folder a letter from Ernie Pyle's assistant to Mrs. Perner thanking her for card, October 20, 1943.

This folder contains a roster of the First Marine Depot Company, an African American unit, dated April 8, 1943, that includes the address of next-of-kin for all officers and enlisted men There is a postwar article authored by Sgt. Michael Genovese, PAO, MCRD Parris Island on the military career of Nelson "Killer" Paige in World War II and the Korean War. The folder also contains several letters from Edward Andrusko to Austin including one on September 9, 1994 that includes an article, "Black Angels at Peleliu" that he had sent to The Leatherneck /. A copy of a letter from Austin, June 16, 1994, to the The Leatherneck /briefly recounts that the first African American Marine units to serve in the Pacific were the Marine Depot and Ammunition Companies attached to the Fourth Base Depot located on Banika, Russell Islands in 1943. The folder also includes additional correspondence from Harold Grissom to Austin recounting his military service . The folder also contains the photocopied "A History of the Seventh Service Regiment, United States Marine Corps, World War II --from December 1943 to disbandment 1946" authored by CPL Bill Carey, USMCR and CPL Jack White, USMCR.