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[Clipping: Spanish Republicans in Dire Need - UNRRA Says Its Hands Are Tied]

Description: Newspaper clipping describing the plight of the Spanish soldiers after the fall of the Spanish republic to the Nazi party in 1939. The article briefly touches upon the horrors that fell upon these captured Spanish soldiers and the possibility of escaping. Finally, the author of this clipping touches upon the Spanish resistance and the need for allied assistance.
Date: April 3, 1945
Creator: Van Devander, Charles
Partner: Private Collection of Mike Cochran

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to W. E. Stone, May 3, 1945]

Description: Letter from I. H. Kempner to W. E. Stone discussing financial discrepancies regarding a mutual friend's contract. It outlines overdrawn amounts for February, March, and April, which significantly exceeded the agreed amounts. The committee has decided to stand by their decision to terminate the contract due to these excessive withdrawals. The letter concludes with a statement that the party in question owes for services in May and is given a thirty-day notice to rectify or dispute the matter.
Date: May 3, 1945
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Extract from an Official Document of the United States Army Showing Personnel Reassignments]

Description: Extract from an official military document containing the names and ranks of men in the 8th Armored Division and their new assignments to different battalions. Captain Charles R. Griggs was assigned to the 49th Armored Infantry Battalion, and the list continues on the back side and the page attached; the subheading shows which battalion, company, platoon, etc. the men underneath will belong too.
Date: July 3, 1945
Creator: United States. Army. Armored Division, 8th.
Partner: Pioneer City County Museum

[Soldier Resting]

Description: Photograph of Lt. Col. Jean Norton resting on the steps in front of an iron door after bringing his unit on a 50-mile march. He wears a coonskin cap under his helmet. There's a typed description of the photograph on the back.
Date: February 3, 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial 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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