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Box 2

Contains 23 Results:

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 14

Scope and Contents: Photocopies of: "Stationed in Holland," 12/7/44, Rockaway Record. Reprint of a 10/8/44 letter to his mother. "Army Captain Writes Mother of Nazi Brutalities," 2/19/45, Lakeland News. Reprint of a letter to his...
 File — Box: 2, Folder: 15

Scope and Contents: An 82-page scrapbook chronicling Saks service in the US Army from his induction in June 1945 to his discharge in July 1946. The book, dedicated to his friend, Don Frasier, an MIA, includes original orders, postcards, letters, military passes and cards, publications, clippings, photographs, maps, programs, holiday cards and other pieces of ephemera. Saks provides some annotation throughout the work. The first ten pages of...
 File — Box: 2, Folder: 17

Scope and Contents:

Includes shipping tickets dated from 6/24/44-11/19/44; training flight records, including flight hours and type of aircraft, for July 1944 through November 1944; handwritten notes on the Saint-Helaire Method used in celestial navigation, dated 7/12/44.

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 19

Scope and Contents:

Includes correspondence regarding his officer's commission, celestial navigation and requirements for Army Air Force navigators. Most letters are from the period of March 1944 to December 1945, but some date from the late 1940s and relate to his service in the Air Force Reserves. Also included here is a celestial navigation training aid entitled, "Sky Diagrams 1944 May-August."