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This collection relates to Francis A. Mirigliano who served as a gunner crewman on a B-29 Superfortress bomber on Tinian, Marianna Islands during World War II with the 39th Squadron, 6th Bombardment Group of the 20th Air Force. The collection includes Mirigliano's dress uniform, leather bomber style jacket decorated with hand painted B-29 nickname of "Snuggle Bunny," pilot's navigation leather flight portfolio, pilot training log book, personal letters and postcards, newspaper clippings, Tinian base newspaper, flight personnel lists, war service certificates, flight records of bombing missions, files of restricted and de-classified documents, fabric navigational maps of Japan and the south China Sea, hula skirt made from a parachute, Japanese propaganda flyers, foreign language training books, war time cartoons, personal canteen and mess kit, and photographs chronicling Mirigliano's basic training, pre-aviation cadet training at Gettysburg College, social life during all of his training experiences, Tinian Island Air Field base, women stationed on base, and photographs of aerial bombing missions.

These papers relate to Helenor J. Robbins Mirigliano who was employed as a secretary/stenographer at the Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot during World War II. She worked while attending high school classes at the South Philadelphia High School For Girls and continued to work at the Quartermaster after her graduation. This collection contains papers related to her employment at the Depot.