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Items from Box One, Folder 5 of the Lewis Paul Bowers World War II Collection, circa 1943-1945. Folder contains assorted military documents related to Bowers' service with the U.S. Army Air Forces, such as an officers' club membership card,…

Items from Box One, Folder 6 of the Lewis Paul Bowers World War II Collection, circa 1943-1945. Folder contains assorted military documents related to Bowers' service with the U.S. Army Air Forces, including immunization and health records,…

Items from Box One, Folder 9 of the Lewis Paul Bowers World War II Collection, January 1943 to June 1943. Folder contains 14 letters written by Bowers to his mother Ora E. Bowers and his sister Claradee Bowers during his military service, and one…

Presidential letter of appreciation for military service, addressed to Captain Lewis P. Bowers and signed by President Harry S. Truman, circa 1945.

Photograph of a serviceman working on the engine of "Rude Nude," a Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft, at a Pacific Island airfield, circa 1944-1945. The aircraft's nose art depicts a naked or partially naked woman. Inscription on verso: "Paul…

Photographic group portrait of U.S. Army Air Forces servicemen posing on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft, circa 1944-1945. Many of the men are waving or giving the middle finger.

Aerial photograph of a smoke plume rising from a coastal facility, likely somewhere in the South Pacific, circa 1944-1945.

Aerial photograph of an unidentified city and surrounding terrain, likely somewhere in the South Pacific, 1944-1945.

Outline of instruction, "Air Forces Pre-flight School (Bombardier-Navigator), Ellington Field, Texas," produced by the U.S. Army Air Corps, circa 1942. Includes Lewis Paul Bowers' name signed on the front cover and various handwritten notes on the…