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This collection consists of published material, newspaper clippings, interviews, and published unit histories, collected by the Gordy brothers about their wartime experience. Both brothers served in the U.S. Army Air Corps and as POWs in German camps.

The Paul and Mary Rosen Collection contains 65 objects including masks, currency, figures, and other objects from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Mali, Gabon, Zaire, Tanzania, Cameroon, Angola, Ivory Coast, and Liberia dating to the 20th century.

The Paul Curtis Koerner Collection was donated by his daughter Judy Davis. The collection contains a variety of items, papers, and correspondence from Koerner's career as an Army Engineer in WWII. The collection contains his copy of the New Testament that he recieved while training at Camp Blanding, to his death certificate. Overall, the documents and letters provide a rough outline of the experience of army service, during and after the war.  This collection also contains a group photo, stop watch, and medals including Purple Heart, Bronze Star, Armed Forces Service and United Nations Medal, Korean Service Meadal, National Defense Medal, a screw driver, slide ruller, and German back pack.

Documents, records, photographs, and illustrations related to Paul F. Kisak Sr., especially with regard to his service with the United State Army Air Forces during World War II.

The papers of Dr. Paul J. Piccard contain correspondence between Dr. Paul J. Piccard and Dr. Marian D. Irish. Most of the correspondence was written between February 1959 and May 1959, while he was a visiting faculty member of UCLA. Dr. Elke Frank, who was a faculty member in the Department of Political Science, Florida State University, is frequently cited in the correspondence.

The Paul K. Dougherty Collection includes photographs, documents, and various artifacts Dougherty obtained while in Germany. His collection contains rare original German propaganda publications such as Deutschland Erwach and Adolf Hitler. Also included in the collection is a personal photograph album that belonged to Nazi official and founder of the anti-Semitic newspaper Der Stürmer, Julius Streicher. Other items included are Nazi Party flags/fabrics, Paul K. Dougherty's camera, and camera accessories.

This collection contains papers from Paul W. Danahy, Jr.'s extensive career in public service, covering his legislative career (1966-1974), his service as Executive Director of the Local Government Study Commission (1963-1964), as attorney for the local legislative delegation (1959; 1964-1965), and as a judge both in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit (1975-1977) and the Second District Court of Appeals (1977-1990). The collection was donated to USF with the intention of complementing the collections of T. Terrell Sessums and Louis de la Parte, and covers the period in Florida history where political power began to shift from its rural to its urban areas. It documents the attempts to reform and improve the structure and services of Hillsborough County's local governments during urbanization, as well as the effects stemming from the constitutional changes Florida underwent during this same time.