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Doug's communique [poem]
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Poem about "Doug's Communique," a military news bulletin on the USS Essex (CV-9), circa 1943-1945.Caption on album page: "He (Winston) was transfered [sic] from Essex to the U.S.S. Franklin and was killed with hundreds of others when the Franklin was hit by a Jap kamakazi [sic]."Part of a disassembled album containing materials related to Paul J. Madden's service with the U.S. Navy during World…
Their Birdman [Poem]
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Poem, "Their Birdman," circa 1917-1919. Includes an illustration of a Salmson 2 A2 aircraft of the 24th Aero Squadron.Inscription on album page: "To 24th Squadron."Part of a scrapbook containing items related to Sidney Van Wyck Peters' service with the 24th Aero Squadron during World War I, circa 1917-1919.
Poem, "Winged Warrior" by A. M. Sullivan, October 11, 1933. Written about Lieutenant Frank Luke for Colonel Harold Evans Hartney. One typed page.
Clipping of poem "The Linked Arms," circa 1918. Includes a photograph of serviceman Charles W. Drew on a ship.
Poem, "Our hitch in hell," by "a heart-broken soldier" (no name provided), circa 1914-1918. Describes military activities and the horrors of war. One typed page with torn and folded edges.
Newspaper clipping, "Vanished" (poem), from an unidentified publication, circa 1910s-1920s. Poem about Joseph Wehner's aerial battles and death.
Poem, "The Price," by Lieutenant Ben Ray Redman, and printed magazine photograph of SPAD aircraft, circa 1918. Enclosed with two August 1918 letters from Drew to mother, postmarked September 2, 1918.