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[Japanese Military Equipment]

Description: Request from Justin L. Bible to release Japanese military equipment as his personal property. It reads: "SUBJECT: Japanese Military Equipment. AC/S A-2, Fifth Air Force, APO 710. 1. Request that the following items of Japanese military equipment now in my possession be cleared by War Department Agents and if released, be declared my personal property. 2. I hereby certify that these articles were secured on the field of battle and not secured on the Japanese mainland by looting. No ammunition or… more
Date: October 10, 1945
Creator: Bible, Justin L.
Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

[Letter from Corporal Park B. Fielder to his family, August 12, 1945]

Description: Letter from Corporal Park B. Fielder to his family, on August 12, 1945, relating his reaction and that of the soldiers in his outfit to the news that Japan has surrendered and the war is over. He is delighted at the thought of coming home and starting a family.
Date: August 12, 1945
Creator: Fielder, Park B.
Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

[Letter from Beal S. Powell to Lena Lawson, April 3, 1945]

Description: Letter from Beal S. Powell to Lena Lawson, April 3, 1945, discussing the mail he had received in the last few weeks and that he is keeping a lookout for his friends Bob and Raymond, who are in different stations. Powell writes that he thinks the war will be over soon.
Date: April 3, 1945
Creator: Powell, Beal S.
Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum
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