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This folder contains a series of personnel and special orders documenting the service of Joseph F. Dunn in the Army Air Force and later U.S. Air Force.

This folder consists of the retirement order for Joseph F. Dunn along with records related to his service in the U.S. Air Force from 1964-1967. The folder includes a letter dated, December 31, 1964 requesting an overseas assignment and seeking deployment to Vietnam along with the copy of letter from Dunn to U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen protesting his assignment to a staff position at Tan Son Nhut Airfield instead of flying a C-123 aircraft with the 315th Air Commando Group.

This folder contains orders related to Joseph F. Dunn being awarded the Air Medal (Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster) in 1945. A general order issued by the Headquarters of the Sixth Bombardment Group in 1945 announced that members of the 39th Bombardment Squadron could wear the Air Offensive, Japan Campaign Star is also in this folder. General Order No. 26 issued by the 20th Air Force issued on August 8, 1945 in this folder announces the awarding of the Distinguished Flying Cross to Dunn for a bombing mission against Kobe, Japan aiding in the destruction of four and half square miles of the city.

This folder contains a photograph of Master Sergeant Thornton M. Embrey at his retirement ceremony and a certificate of appreciation for his service issued by the Department of the Army on August 31, 1969. The folder contains a copy of the radio message announcing the surrender of Germany in May 1945 and Japan in August 1945. A photocopy of the "Internal Route Slip" dated May 10, 1945 with a subject heading, "Handling of Radio Traffic for the Germans" provides a log of radio messages related to the unconditional surrender by the German government. An illustrated book, Ecole Professionnelle, Ecole Primaire Superieure, Reims is also in the folder. Another photocopied document lists the shift schedule at the Signal Center, United States Forces, European Theater. The folder has the discharge papers for Thornton M. Embrey issued on January 15, 1946. The folder includes the graduation program of the Basic Engineering Course, Army Specialized Training Program, Baylor University. This collection also contains two newspapers articles from the postwar period dealing with radio messages that announced the surrender of Germany in May 1945.

This folder contains Gentges' identification card (1918), registration certificates, records of his medals and Theatre Ribbons, records of his wounds and treatment, his honorable discharge record, a telegram to his family regarding his injury, and his social security and veteran identification cards. According to his discharge paperwork, Gentges was injured three separate times (two shell fragment wounds and one gunshot wound) between April and October of 1944.