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Lieutenant Cory C. McClelland papers

 Collection — Box: 2
Identifier: MSS 1602 AV
Scope and Contents This collection includes various papers relating primarily to the military service of Lieutenant Cory C. McClelland during World War I. Included are a journal in which McClelland recorded friends names and addresses, portraits found inside the journal, insurance and war purchase paperwork, membership cards, newspaper clippings, a paper "school square" for measurements, and a report by the 56th Engineers on a captured German Sound Ranging Instrument. Also included are various rolled certificates...
Dates: 1917-1921

Sumner Leroy Martin papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 695 AV
Scope and Contents This collection includes papers, photographs, and postcards documenting the military service of Chaplain Sumner Leroy Martin during World War I. Included are papers and photographs documenting the creation of a Social Center for the 7th Ohio Regiment, correspondence, documentation of casualties, newspaper clippings concerning World War I, a diary written by Martin, and postcards collected during Martin's service. It is possible that certain items in this collection were once possessions of the...
Dates: 1917-1936

Willard Lee Heckman collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 1666 AV
Scope and Contents This collection primarily includes items from the military service of Willard Lee Heckman during World War II. This includes a scrapbook, letters, photographs, published and non-published memoirs, and commemorative Prisoner of War (POW) materials. Many of the letters in this collection are from families of allied fliers and citizens of the United States who notified the Heckmans of their son's capture and internment after hearing his name on German radio broadcasts. Also included are letters...
Dates: 1941-2004