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[Memorandum to the USS Monitor, May 8, 1945]

Description: Memorandum to all hands aboard the USS Monitor (LSV-5) providing information about San Francisco, California. The memorandum provides information on naval bases, transportation, landmarks, shopping and dining, entertainment and newspapers, and a warning on jay walking.
Date: May 8, 1945
Creator: Hewitt, J. V., Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter from William Halsey, Jr., to the Third Fleet, September 5, 1945]

Description: Letter from Admiral William Halsey, Jr., to the Third Fleet informing them that US currency will not be legal tender in Japan and that US forces going ashore will need to use US military Yen, available for exchange at a rate of 15 to 1, or Bank of Taiwan and Bank of Chosen notes. However, US currency is legal tender in vessels in Japanese ports.
Date: September 5, 1945
Creator: Halsey, William, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Group Photo at The Troc]

Description: Photograph of a group at The Troc in San Francisco. The group consist of five men wearing suits and two women wearing long sleeved dresses. They are all sat around a table covered with a white tablecloth. The table has several plates and glasses scattered around it.
Date: June 3, 1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Room 0202

Description: Pencil drawing made of the interior of a room on the USS Monitor by Edgar Jones. On the left side of the room is a wall mounted sink with a mirror and shelves above it. Next to it is a rack of hanging clothes. A bunk bed is in the back middle of the room, with chains supporting the top bunk and lights and a vent on the ceiling above it. On the right side of the room is a chair at a folding desk, with upper shelves containing what appear to be hard hats. Toward the back right of the room, next t… more
Date: January 21, 1945
Creator: Jones, Edgar, 1915-2009
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Washington Athletic Club Membership Card, July 1945]

Description: Membership card issued from the Washington Athletic Club and signed by manager of the club Kenneth Meisnest given to Lieutenant junior grade Edgar Jones. The back of the card contains club rules and Washington state liquor laws.
Date: 1945-07~
Creator: Washington Athletic Club
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Diary Entry: "So the War's Over" and Other Entries, May 9, 1945]

Description: Diary entry by Edgar Jones about his experience aboard the USS Monitor LSV-5. He discusses the end of the war in the European theater and how the news of Victory in Europe Day was received by the servicemen in the Pacific, types of people one might encounter at the Officer's Club, and his feelings towards his country during the colors ceremony.
Date: May 9, 1945
Creator: Jones, Edgar, 1915-2009
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Diary Entry: The End of the Road, August 1945]

Description: Diary entry by Edgar Jones about his experience aboard the USS Monitor (LSV-5). He discusses preparations to receive released prisoners of war, meeting with officers who helped develop the atomic bomb, transferring men between an LCVP and the USS Wisconsin BB-64 and USS Iowa (BB-61), landing at various places in Japan to receive the prisoners, and stories of the prisoners' treatment in Japan.
Date: 1945-08-04~
Creator: Jones, Edgar, 1915-2009
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Diary Entry: "Guadalcanal" and Other Entries, April 16, 1945]

Description: Diary entry by Edgar Jones about his experience onboard the USS Monitor (LSV-5). He discusses his feelings of visiting historic sites, Guadalcanal and Savo Island, the beautiful view in the Iron Bottom Bay Officers' Club restroom, having marines onboard, sailing through a typhoon, and what servicemen do before big battles.
Date: April 16, 1945
Creator: Jones, Edgar, 1915-2009
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Location: -9.228638 159.955034
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Diary Entry: This Is About a Man, January 30, 1945]

Description: Diary entry by Edgar Jones about his experience onboard the USS Monitor (LSV-5). He discusses meeting an Army sergeant who was a Japanese prisoner of war and escaped duringthe invasion of Leyte, taking refuge with Filipino guerrilla forces.
Date: January 30, 1945
Creator: Jones, Edgar, 1915-2009
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Location: 10.738134 125.302723
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Diary Entry: In the Philippines, January 18, 1945]

Description: Diary entry by Edgar Jones about his experience onboard the USS Monitor (LSV-5). He discusses his first time on shore in the Philippines in order to get some film from aircraft guns developed and the things he saw along the way.
Date: January 18, 1945
Creator: Jones, Edgar, 1915-2009
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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