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The materials represent two time periods: The late 1920s through the beginning of the Second World War, and the early Cold War period of the 1950s through the 1970s. The former consists of naval covers from ships assigned to the U.S. Asiatic Fleet. While the ships may have served with other fleets and stations over their service lives, only their time in this specific fleet is represented here. The latter portion of the collection represents communications to or from shipyards and submarine bases. While some communication is directed to or from a specific boat (the proper term for a submarine), the cachet on the cover is the focus of the collection.

Records, 1944-1991, of George W. Macauley. Records consist of ship logs, date books, newsletters, and military publications pertaining to various military vessels. Also contains magazines and periodicals dealing with the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm.

Weekly AFROTC Cadet Bulletin

This collection pertains to Laura Mae Jackson DuFore who served with the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps during World War II. The collection contains four letters that she wrote to her sister and family while she was overseas, two letters from friends, a collection of black and white photographs mainly from New Guinea and the Philippines, foreign currency, various military documents, artwork created by DuFore, a metal bracelet with the name "Laura" etched in, a cigarette lighter made from a .50 caliber round, a Japanese fan, a Japanese cigarette, an Enlisted Infantry collar pin, photocopies of two scrapbooks, and various newsletters from air fields, ships, or other posts. The collection also contains a copy of DuFore's autobiography A Life So Full.

The materials in this collection reflect the personal aspect of being a college president. This includes scrapbooks, which contain news clippings and photos of the subject's career as well as that which was deemed to be of personal or professional interest. Awards represent the esteem of colleagues in academia, the business commiunity, as well as the broader Miami communuty. Financial and contractural documents related to the presidency are also included.

The World War II Collection consists of material from throughout the war, as well as the two decades preceeding and the immediate postwar period of the 1940s. Materials include oral histories, correspondences, diaries, ephemera, memoirs, and photographs.

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.