Collections

This collection contains a published volume titled Dearest Moosie by David H. Mickey who served as the Chair of the Department of History at Nebraska Wesleyan University. His letters written during World War II when Mickey served in the U.S. Army.

This collection relates to John J. Ingersoll who served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was assigned to England until shortly after D-Day. He provided non-combat support to the invading allied forces into Paris. This collection contains books, handbooks, pamphlets, and maps from the U.S. Army, British Information Services, and the German Wehrmacht in German and English.

The John Johnson Collection contains two photographs of a Jungle cruise vessel docked on the banks of the New River.

This collection relates to John L. Haynes, who was a U.S. Marine from Jacksonville, Florida. He served in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater during World War II and also in the Korean War.

This collection relates to John L. McQuigg (Lieutenant Colonel with the US Army Air Force) who served with the 8th Air Force in Photographic Reconnaissance in the European and Mediterranean Theaters and participated in the North African and the Italian Allied Photo Reconnaissance Wing, including surveillance for the Anzio Landing. The collection contains military papers, ephemera, photographs, artifacts, and maps covering John L. McQuigg's communication with his wife and children, surveillance operations during the war, and documents from the Air Force reserves following the war.

The John Love Walker Collection contains handwritten and typed poems from John "Jack" Love Walker. It also includes personal materials documenting his life, such as World War I military papers, newspaper clippings, materials related to his work for the United States Postal Service, and items related to his participation in various churches. The materials date from roughly 1918 to 1977.

John Maiorca enlisted in 1940 in Fort Denens, MA and the commanding officer was the son of Theodore Roosevelt. By August 1943 he and his mates were shipped to England where they would form the 388th Bomb Group. On 5 November 1943 during a bombing run on Gelsenkirchen, Germany their B-17 was damaged by anti-aircraft fire and was shot down by a German fighter. He and his crew parachuted into Belgium, and were helped by several Belgian underground resistance members. He managed to take a train to Paris where the French Resistance took him in and helped him reach Spain. Once in Spain he and other "evaders" reached the British colony of Gibraltar from which he was transported back to England. Once in England he was able to take the trip back to the USA where he went on to become a flight instructor. He then goes on to recount his reunions with ex-comrades and his 1988 trip to Belgium. Numerous pictures of the people he met and places he visited are included.