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Samuel Goodrich Proctor served in the US Airforce from 1942-1946. He trained in Florida (boot camp) and spent time at other camps before shipping out to Britain and then Germany, where he sent about four years. Collection includes postcards (unsent) from Key West, Florida; Manchester, England, and Berlin, Germany; photographs, artifacts (including German Iron Cross), German money, a postcard from a buddy in the Pacific, a program from the New Hampshire Veteran's Association, and a service diary produced by the military with descriptions and pictures of planes and fields on the Front. Proctor made entries from September 1943 to January 1944, beginning soon after he shipped out. Included detailed description of life aboard ship, and then barracks life and duties in England.

Photostats of letters by Samuel House, Co. L. Artillery Corps, dated from 1862 to 1865, written from army camps near Cornish, Columbus and Vicksburg, Mississippi, and from Castle William, Governors Island, New York Harbor, to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. House, Knoxville, Tennessee.

This collection centers around Samuel Kurlandsky, a soldier in the 12th and 15th Army Air Corps units in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations. The collection includes a violin case painted with city and country names and a photograph depicting a soldier assigned to surveying and weather tracking equipment.

This collection relates to Samuel L. Bray and his service in the U.S. Army. Samuel L. Bray served in the Army before, during, and after World War II. During World War II, then Lieutenant Samuel L. Bray served in Europe with the Signal Corps, fighting at the Battle of Metz in the United States Third Army. While in Europe, Samuel L. Bray served in France and Germany, then moving to Japan during the United States occupation post World War II. This collection contains photographs, post cards, documents, and artifacts relating to the life, service, and death of Samuel L. Bray.

1st Sgt. 4th signal detachment ship type A(USS Ancon) 1943-1945 in U.S. Army Signal Corp. Attending Amherst in 1942-joined V7 program and had problem with Albumen studying cryptography and cryptanalysis ("a study of the logical and philisophical principles involved in this construction and analysis of ciphers and codes. Military usage emphasized") 1-23-43 to 5-19-43 Induction and boarding to USS Anacon. Assigned to 2nd Siganl Corps Batallion, Washington, D.C. (Warrenton) Schedule for day in detail/assigned to USS Anacon which was a Navy ship but in January 1942 was taken over by the U.S. Army transportation services and in 1943 converted into combined HR and Communication comand ship, the first of the Navy's amphibious flagships. 5-20-43 to 12-28-43 the USS Anacon, Mediterranean, invasions of Sicily and Italy. Much of life on the ship in his job are censored and so quite a bit in secret. Meals on board served in 7 different "Navy Caste" System-explanation of how Army and Navy cooperated and restricted doing the coding and decoding. There were 43 decoders on the Ancon. Mentions Hitler, Mussolini, Kesserling, Eisenhower, Alex Ander and Montgomery/ Battle of Sicily 7-5-43/ Armada of ships and planes in fighter patrol formation/ bombardment and german airplane raid/Port of Algiers/Part of invasion of Salerno with Lt Gen. Clark in command and Vice Admiral Henry K. Hewitt, director of Naval operations aboard the USS Anacon/landed in Italy with U.S. 5th Army and big battle/ship under German warfare attack of 40 planes. Given job of acting first Sgt for the Signal Corps detachment with entails being a go between officers and men as well as Navy Vs. Army and many petty jobs as well. Arrived in Devonshire, England at Plymouth. England and invasion of Normandy Dec.5, 1943-Oct11,1944. Visiting London/sight seeing/strict sensoring of mail continues. Promoting into officer ranks became harder to receive in late 1943 because so many men had been submissioned, the armed forces didn�t need any more, many OCS facilities closed. He had tea with a relative in London. Met other family friends. English are friendly and entertain U.S. forces- Blitz, Red Crossraids and all clears-raid stations(whole families) and tubes(subways), House of Commons, Westminister-Churchill-Christopher Wren-Fleet Street, St.Paul's Cathedral, London Bridge, Tower, Guildhall, Cheapstreet, Hay Market Theater, Lawcourts in Old Bailer(Saw a trial). Visited Lady MountBahan(at her invitation)/english small fishing vessels impossible to transfer from Army to Navy for any reason-he tried. 6/6/44 Ancon(his ship) in Armada at Normandy(5 british and U.S. assault forces). Good desccription of assault and dodging a mine by 40 feet. German plane (Ju 88) shot down after passing low over ship trying to envade radar. Ancon was off Omaha Beach, had aboard U.S. 29th Inf.Div., 5th Corp with Commander Major Gen. Gerow. Gen. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander allied Expeditionary Force-King George II of England visited the USS Ancon as did Gen. Montgomery. Promoted to 1st Sgt.(CPO). The Pacific: Okinawa 12/26/44 Ancon left Charleston, SC-to Panama Canal (Dec. 31)-San Diego, CA 1-9-45-Hawaiin Islands-Eniwetok,Saipan,Okinawa(Kamakazi attacks) Kamakazi="Devine Wind" in English. Germany has surrendered (May 45) Death of President F.D. Roosevelt 4/25/45 Mussolini captured and executed 4/28/45 Iwo Jima conquered 3/26/45 Point System-85 needed for discharge Birth of United Nations(May Early '45) East Indies: 8/6/45 Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima 8/8/44 Bombed Nagasaki 8/14/45 Japan Surrendered Aug.16,1945 Home in San Fransisco Discharged 9/27/45 after hospital stay in Camp Edwards, Buzzards Bay Graduated from Yale Law School in Fall of 1947.

The Sam Wimberly Photographs consist of 2 images of the Wimberlys in Broward County, Florida. One photograph is of Mable Wimberly and her father during 1911, and the other is from 1916 and shows Sam Wimberly and his friends in front of his house in Davie, Florida.

This collection is comprised primarily of typescripts and carbon copies of correspondence, legal documents, and other papers from the files of Tampa lawyer Martin Caraballo, receiver of the Sanchez and Haya Real Estate Company and trustee for the Sanchez estate. The papers relate primarily to management of rental properties, real estate, and other assets belonging to the Company and the Sanchez estate. It includes a small number of documents relating to the Sanchez y Haya Cigar Company and its acquisition by Gradiaz-Annis Company in 1930. Also present are documents relating to several lawsuits involving the Sanchez estate. The bulk of the papers date from the period 1923 to 1942 and chronicle the declining fortunes of the Sanchez estate (due to the economic distress generated by the collapse of the Florida land boom in 1925-1926 and the subsequent  economic depression of the 1930s).

This collection relates to Sander Buchman who served as an Electronic Technician's Mate Third Class in the U.S. Navy aboard U.S.S. AMC(V)2 Minesweeper on the East Coast of the U.S. during World War II. The collection consists of a U.S. Navy winter jacket and military personnel documents.