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Neill, Powers and Rhodes Family Collection
Paul Overall WWII Collection
The collection consists of the photographs taken by Overall from the liberation of a World War II concentration camp and his honorable discharge certificate.
Pitts Family Collection
This collection contains documents ranging from German and U.S. newspaper clippings and newspapers to photographs of historic Nacogdoches landmarks such as the Stone Fort.
Public Relations Committee
This collection covers files on students who were involved with World War II. It includes correspondence with a number of students getting updated addresses and personnel information cards and lists of students receiving the Pine Log.
R. B. Martin World War II Letters
The bulk of the collection are letters that Roy Martin wrote to Pat Justice (Salena Justice) in 1943.
R. C. McCrary WWII Collection
This collection includes service documents, personal papers, and a diary in which McCrary kept details of bombing missions in Europe which he took part in from May to September, 1944. There are also aerial photographs from bombing raids into Germany.
Ralph Adam Smith Manuscripts
Richard and Ruth Muckelroy Collection
Letters, photographs, postcards, military manuals, masonic booklets, cookbooks, and other ephemera.
Robert Anderson Booklet
World War II booklet about the 5th Bomber Command during the move from Owi Airfield to the Island of Leyte.
Ross Fountain Family Collection
Ruth Terry Preston Collection
Genealogical research on the Terry family
Stockwell Collection
There are two ration booklets, a partial sheet of ration stamps and two newsletters in this World War 2 collection. Researchers may find the newsletters of particular interest. One pertains to a training class of the Women's Army Corps in Nacogdoches, Texas. The second newsletter is that of an Army Air Corps base unit stationed at Myitkyina in Burma. It is unlikely that these newsletters are widely circulated.
Swank Family World War II Collection
Materials relating to the military careers of Lufkin residents Harry F. Swank, Marine Corps (1941-1945) and his wife, Mary Addie Foster, Marine Corps Women's Reservists (1943-1945). Includes a Bible issued to service personnel and a war ration book.
Thomas E. Broughton Collection
The collection consists of one specialty made leather bound album. The title page is inscribed with “Dedicated to our Dear Commander 1st Ltn. Thomas E. Broughton in kind remembrance. Officers and guards of the 8599 Lab. Serv. Co.” Pins inside the album include a Kotwica and other Polish military pins.
Travis Benjamin Whitaker Collection
The newsletters contain items of interest to the Navy troops, news about the war abroad, and events in the Pacific. The third issue is dated two days after the United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, August 14, 1945. Of particular interest are the columns entitled “Hirihito’s Last Imperial Words,” “Dramatic News Comes After Three Days of Tense Waiting” and “War Timetable.”
Travis Price Collection
U.S.S. Stephen F. Austin Merchant Marine Ship Collection
This collection consists of photocopies of the U.S.S. Stephen F. Austin's logbooks as well as newspaper articles, photographs and correspondence pertaining to the vessel.
William D. Murdy World War II Collection
This collection consists of photocopies of the journals Murdy numbered 4-6. He said the other journals were destroyed over the years following the war. Some of the original pictures of the Dachau Concentration Camp were given to the department and are cataloged in the Photograph Collection.