Collections

This collection relates to Charles F. Myers Sr. who served as a pilot with the Army Air Corps in the U.S., Panama, and Europe during World War II. The collection includes personal, medical, and financial records, appreciation letters, shipping tickets, a photograph of the 41-D graduating class of Gunter Field in Montgomery, Alabama, special orders and assignments, an original personnel file, an original flight records file, modern records and information, and a briefcase used for dead reckoning navigational records and equipment.

This collection consists of items related to Charles F. Pfeifer who served as a United States Marine Corps Private First Class with Company A, 1st Battalion, 26th Regiment, 5th Marine Division during World War II. The collection contains documents, photographs, postwar memorabilia, veteran memorabilia, Marine Corps memorabilia, and Iwo Jima Honor Flight materials.

Charles F. Philips served in the Army in the 102nd Division in the European Theater (ETO). The collection consists of Philips' World War II memoir, which was edited by his son, Charles Philips, Jr. In 1942, Philips lived in West Palm Beach, FL, and he finished high school and attended college for one semester at Palm Beach Junior College before enlisting in 1943 in the Army. He did his basic training out of Camp Campbell, KY, and later did Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) training out of Ohio State University and Muskingum College (also located in Ohio). He finished training at Camp Swift, TX. Philips fought in Europe in 1944 and 1945 at the Siegfried Line with the 102nd Division. Phillips became sick with an infection on his feet and finished the war in US hospitals. The collection has many personal photos and reprinted documents (especially V-Mails), as well as maps. It also contains postwar family info. Also included are many extensive historiographical footnotes and a bibliography. 119 pages

Charles R. Remsburg served in D Company, 405th Infantry, 102nd Division of the US Army in the European Theater (ETO). He served from September 1943 until March 1946. Remsburg was born in Detroit, MI in 1925. He was inducted at the age of 18 at Fort Custer, MI in September 1943. He was stationed at Fort Benning, GA; Fort Dix, NJ; and Camp Swift, TX. He served as an 81mm mortar crewman in Germany from October 1943(?) to January 1945 and as a forward observer lineman from January to March 1945. The collection includes a manuscript. In it, Remsburg includes letters that he wrote home during his time in Europe. He details his division's movements through stories and maps, as well as his own history prior to the war.

This collection relates to Corporal Charles F. Silzer who served with the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, during World War II in the Pacific Theater. He participated in the battles of Cape Gloucester, New Britian, Peleliu, and Okinawa and occupation of China. The collection contains letters Silzer wrote to his fiance, later wife, Florence Erickson, photographs of Silzer, and a framed discharge document.

This letter is a power of attorney in manuscript signed by Charles Haire of Tallahassee, Florida, to Leslie A. Thompson, also of Tallahassee, dated 1836, and empowering Thompson to act for in "in all premises."

First Sergeant Charles H. Martin Served with the 3848th Quartermaster Truck Company in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater for 16 months as a clerk. The collection includes Martin's three honorable discharge certificates, Enlisted Reserve Corps Qualification and Availability Questionnaire, and Separation Qualification Record. Also within this collection is Martin's personal copy of photograph album "A Yank's Memories of Calcutta" by Clyde Waddell.

The Charles H. Turner Collection consists principally of scores and personal effects donated by David Brinson and Turner's mother, Norma Turner. The scores are primarily copies of handwritten arrangements of jazz standards made for Sinatra's band, but there are also some published scores, including a few brass arrangements of Baroque pieces like the six-part from The Musical Offering, BWV 1079 by J.S. Bach.

The collection consists of a photograph of the first doctorate awarded by Florida State University, as well as an issue of the Florida Flambeau.

This collection relates to Technical Sergeant Charles Jackson Gantt who served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a Weather Forecaster with the 12th Weather Squadron during the North African Campaign and Italian Campaign during World War II. The collection contains original letters written by Gantt to family, transcripts of his letters, a manuscript memoir, photographs, and military personnel records.